Chapter 11
3rd person POV: Doctor
The cardiac specialist; Dr. Shizune was paged at the hospital by the receptionist in the ER at 11:30pm and they brought to her two teens that had attempted suicide together. Oxygen masks were immediately put over the mouths and noses of Neji and Tenten.
"Somebody stop the bleeding! We're going to have to do a blood transfusion," ordered Shizune.
"We're losing them," said the nurse monitoring their heart rates.
The head of cardio barked her orders to the other doctors on staff, "Okay, we're going to start CPR now while the paddles charge."
The other cardio surgeon took his place over Tenten while Shizune took her place over Neji to charge the paddles.
The nurses applied CPR to both teens. "Okay, we're charged," said the nurse.
Shizune and the other cardio specialists took hold of the paddles and together said, "Clear!"
Neji and Tenten's bodies both jerked upward at the strength of the shock.
"He's back," said the nurse as the monitor hooked up to Neji started to beep again.
"Charge to 200," said the doctor over Tenten, "clear!"
The paddles zapped Tenten once more and her body jerked upward once again.
"She's back," said the other nurse.
"How's the bleeding?" asked Shizune.
"It's still going but I'm going to go ahead and stitch the wounds closed."
"Okay, hurry," said Shizune, "we're going to need to do a blood transfusion as quickly as possible."
"Understood."
While the plastics surgeon stitched up Neji and Tenten's wounds, Shizune made her way to the waiting rooms to talk to their families.
In the waiting room their families were waiting quietly with who she assumed to be their friends.
The three teenaged girls were crying along with the boy with the bowl cut hair while the remaining boys looked to be in shock.
"Are you the family and friends of Neji and Tenten?" asked Shizune.
"Yes," said the adult man, "I'm Neji's uncle Hiashi, please tell me everything's okay."
"Everything is fine, both of their heart rates dropped but we brought them back. They are currently being given a blood transfusion and the cuts in their wrists are being stitched up. We're going to keep them overnight until there wounds can heal and they can be sent to the psych ward."
"Psych ward!?" said the blonde girl, "but they're not crazy!"
"No, but there suicidal, they need to be kept on an at least 72 hour hold and if we see improvement in those three days we'll send them home. But they might need to stay longer. Both of them are also battling addiction, so they will need to stay much longer."
"How much longer?" asked the lavender eyed girl.
"The average rehabilitation time is a month."
"What about school?" asked Hiashi?
"The rehab center has tutors to keep the patients that haven't graduated yet up to speed."
"What are they addicted to?" asked who must have been Tenten's little sister.
"We found traces of mostly marijuana and alcohol, but we also found traces of ecstasy."
"When can we see them?" asked the boy with the bowl cut.
"You can come with me and I'll show you to there rooms, but you must be quiet, they haven't woken up yet."
Tenten POV
I was surrounded by blackness for what seemed like forever. I felt my body jerk upward. I wanted to wake up from the shock but I couldn't open my eyes.
My mind drifted. I was laying on something soft. I ran my fingers across the comfortable object. But it didn't feel soft and warm like it did moments before. It was warm, wet and sticky.
My eyes shot open. I looked down at my hands but saw nothing there. I let my eyes adjust to the darkness of the room around me.
My sister and two brothers were asleep on the chair in the corner of the room while my mother watched me from the side of my bed. She looked tired.
"M-mom," I croaked.
Her head shot up to look me in the eyes, "Tenten, are you okay? What do you remember?"
"W-water," I croaked again.
"Oh sure," she said standing up and making her way over to the sink.
I looked down at my wrists. They were covered in white bandages. I had an IV in one hands and another needle in my other hand that was slowly delivering blood back into my body. I must have lost a lot.
"Here," said my mom handing me the glass of water.
"Thanks," I took a long drink.
"I'm going to go tell the nurse your awake, okay? I'll be right back."
I nodded.
I sat in silence while my mom talked to the nurse. Then in hit me. Neji. Where is he? Is he okay? Did they save him too? Or did he…? No I couldn't think like that. He had to be okay. He just had to be.
My mom came back into the room followed by the nurse.
"Hello Tenten," said the nurse, "how are you feeling? Do you feel any pain at all? Can I get you anything?"
"N-no…I'm okay," I turned to look at my mother, "Mom, where's Neji?"
She smiled, "he's okay. He's still asleep though."
I let out a relived sigh, "thank god…When can I see him?"
"I'm sorry sweetie," said the nurse, "but we can't let you see him."
"Why not!?" I shot at her.
"Well, because the both of you attempted to kill yourselves together we just can't let you see each other until we know nothing drastic is going to happen again."
"But he's my boyfriend! I want to know if he's okay!"
"I know, and we will keep you posted about him while you recover and we'll keep him posted about you while he recovers. But we just can't allow you to have any contact for a while."
"But there are things that he'll tell me and not you!"
"It doesn't matter. We can't let you see each other."
"B-but…" I was all out of arguments. I knew that no matter what I'd say that the doctors would never let us see each other, "Okay…"
A/N: well another chapter done! Also…as you may remember from the note in the beginning I mentioned how 2 girls in my school had killed themselves. Well, this past Wednesday another person in my class killed themselves. So please keep him and his family in your thoughts and prayers this week. Thank You.
