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The Life of a Blonde
Chapter 7: Blood in the Bathroom
By yllom21
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh (If I did, I wouldn't be taking exams right now!)
Perhaps if she had waited, she could have caught the bus. Unfortunately though, Alex wasn't the type of person to sit and watch the roses grow. In fact, she had no patience whatsoever.
"Slow down! The hospital is on the other side of town! Couldn't we have caught the bus?" Paige yelled as she suddenly stopped running and grabbed a stitch on her side.
"That takes to long!" Alex hollered back and instead of stopping, she increased her pace.
"We would have gotten there faster!" Evan pointed out as he altogether stopped and waited for Paige to catch up, "It's way to hot for running. Do you want to faint like Joey did?"
"This way at least I feel like I'm doing something," Alex said as she ran around the corner leaving Evan and Paige behind. Toby looked back and shrugged before increasing his pace to try and catch up with Alex.
"Here," Evan said as he handed Paige his water bottle which she greedily drank from. If it was possible, and neither of them thought it was, it seemed to have gotten even hotter than it was before. Let's wait for the bus," Evan said to Paige as they sat down on a bench, "We'll get there faster than they will and then we can laugh in their faces,"
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"Slow down Alex!" Toby hollered as they ran around bikes, strollers and other annoyances. Alex showed no signs of stopping, in fact she was increasing her pace even more. They seemed to have left Evan and Paige far beyond, in fact Toby wouldn't have been surprised if they were waiting for the bus that they should have taken earlier.
"I need to get there as soon as possible!" she called over his shoulder as she turned the corner and headed down the last block to the Wadesville Hospital. Finally, they were there!
For all those concerned, Evan and Paige did make it to the hospital. They did manage to beat Toby and Alex and they did manage to laugh in there faces. Alex ignored them since, overall; she did feel better because this way she felt like she did something to help Joey.
Before an argument could break out, Paige the sensible one, called them all in and they followed her, wanting to see Joey as soon as possible.
All though they were worried over Joey's health, they didn't think this was too big of a problem. In fact, all four of them thought Joey would be awake and drinking a soda or watching T.V. They thought he would be asking them what took them so long with a much too large smile on his face. That was what they expected, what they found was much worse.
"What do you mean he's still out?" Alex demanded as her face turned red with anger. Alex with her sugar highs was almost never mad, but when she was it was best to run away as fast as they possibly can, before she could erupt like Mt. Vesuvius.
"Joey Wheeler is in more critical condition than just a heat stroke," the nurse said promptly, unaffected by Alex's dagger-like eyes.
"What do you mean, critical?" Evan asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Family members only," the nurse said, more strictly this time. Before any of them could argue (or fume when it came to Alex) the nurse walked out, extremely fast for someone with such high heels.
"Well that was just great," Toby muttered, ignoring the curses coming from Alex's mouth. None of them were happy and they felt like repeating the words Alex was uttering. But they didn't want to be kicked out so they kept quiet.
"What do you think is wrong?" Paige asked, loudly enough that it blocked out Alex's profanity. All of them shrugged except for Alex, who stopped her cussing for a moment to say, "He probably knew he was sick and didn't want to bother anybody."
"She's probably right," Toby said as he leaned back into his chair and grabbed a sport magazine from of the table, "Let's just relax,"
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The doctors did know a lot more than the teens in the waiting room did. After Joey was dropped in by the ambulance staff, the doctors cooled him down a bit, and examined him.
The first thing they noticed was the bandages wrapped around his limbs. A few of them were torn, others were wet with blood. Besides the bandages they noticed the scars practically all over his body. They engraved his skinny limbs and made him look half-dead. After examining him a bit more they noted that some of his injuries were fresh while others were older. It didn't take them long to find the broken ankle.
It didn't take a genius to figure it out; in fact, a man's whose head was full of fluff could have probably even figured it out. The head doctor was neither, but it wasn't long before he ordered his secretary to inform the police about the boy's condition. It was more than obvious the situation the boy was in. He had been abused a lot, but who abused him was a more difficult story.
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"I am so bored!" Evan whined for like the thousandth time. They had been there for several hours. The first hour was spent playing Rummy, B.S., Spit and Speed. (1) The next was spent doing there homework (In which only Paige did willing), the third was spent pacing and twiddling there thumbs, and now half-way through the fourth hour, Evan was stating what the rest felt.
"I can quiz you," Paige offered although she would have preferred a nice book and a cup of hot chocolate, "We have a Spanish test tomorrow,"
"Don't remind me!" he moaned, as he turned around to look at the other two, who both took French and said in a whining voice, "You are so lucky that you don't have Spanish!"
Alex shrugged, her previous bad mood evaporated and her sugar level was back up, or at least as high it could get in a hospital, "We have our French orals on Friday,"
"We do?" Toby said as he sat up startled, "But that's tomorrow!"
"How many times has she told us?" Alex said as she began to count her fingers, and then her toes, and then starting on her curls, "It must have been over fifty!"
"Oops?" Toby said as he shrugged and went back to find his place in the magazine. "I'll quiz you then!" Paige said as she turned around and grabbed Toby's book out of his backpack before he could stop her. "What's the word for… servant?"
It was like that for a while, Alex pacing, Evan moaning, Paige quizzing and Toby guessing, in which he got more than half wrong. Evan, who decided the seat was way too hard for his comfort, stood up and said, "I'm going to the cafeteria, do you want anything?"
"I'll take a Pepsi," Paige said looking up from the book.
"I'll take a coke," Alex said as she stopped on her 111th pace.
"I'm going with you!" Toby said as he practically ran away from Paige who kept reminding him how horrible he was in French. The two boys were gone in a flash.
"Do you want me to quiz you?" Paige said with a little disappointment that her pupil had left so suddenly.
"Sure," Alex shrugged before she continued onto her next pace.
"Is something wrong?" Paige asked as she flipped the French book open to another page, "You're just not as hyper as you usually are."
"Is it that noticeable?" Alex sighed before adding, "I'm worried about Joey, I guess. So I suppose that ruins my sugar highs,"
Deciding to ignore the fact that for some reason Alex wasn't her normal hyper self, Paige decided to quiz her, "What's the word for… pizza?"
After about five minutes of being quizzed by Paige, Alex told the brunette that she had to use the bathroom. And in fact she actually did, it wasn't a made-up excuse to get away from Paige.
It didn't take her long to find the bathroom, after asking a dude in a wheelchair and a boy who had bronchitis. She made sure that she was entering the ladies', there were a few times that some boys had changed the signs.
It took her a bit longer than usual since she had a few female necessities to take care of. The bathroom wasn't in the best condition, and with disgust Alex noted that there wasn't any soap. The redhead walked by every single sink and checked for soap. Alex was just about to wash her hands and complain to the rude lady nurse when the door opened and the redhead found to her surprise and disgust that it was a guy.
For the first time in the history of Wadesville, Alex was speechless. It took a few minutes to clear her throat and another to think about what she was going to say.
"Dude, this is the ladies room," Alex said as she turned around and began to wash her hands, deciding to pretend he wasn't there. She was positive that it was the ladies room. She had checked the sign twice and there were special garbage cans in the stalls.
"Are you Alexandra O'Neil?" the man asked instead of leaving like a civilized man would have done. He didn't seem fazed at all that he had entered the wrong bathroom, for Alex it was a different story. How did the guy know her name? She had never seen him before, and she most certainly would have never conversed with him. He was a dirty old man that smelled like booze.
She turned around and glared at the man, "This is the ladies room, get out!" He didn't move an inch. "Scat! Move it! Bye-bye! See You Later!" she said and he still didn't move. She was thinking about screaming. Although it was a very feminine thing to do, it would get the man out of there and fast. She was just about to open her mouth and do a very girlish thing when the man interrupted her, "So, you are Alexandra O'Neil?"
"Yes!" she said frustrated, "Get out before I scream and you get into trouble!" The man before her had stuttered and mixed together all of his words. He was high and needed help immediately, but most important he had to get out!
"Don't move a muscle!" the man said and he whipped a thing out of his pocket.
"I can move and do…" she started before breaking off after noticing that the object in his hand was a gun. The man in question held up the very real gun and pointed it right at her.
"Where's my son?" the man asked as he began to walk towards the frighten girl. The girl in question backed up before she crashed into the sinks, bruising her side. She gripped the sink before she managed to say, "I don't know you or your son! Leave me alone!"
"Where's my son!" the man yelled so angrily that someone was bound to hear.
"I don't know!" she said but it was the wrong answer. The man in question grounded his teeth furiously before pressing the gun against her chest.
"Tell me!" the man demanded and before the redhead could remind the old man that she had no idea, he pulled the trigger and shot her as he stumbled away.
Almost in slow motion Alexandra fell to the floor but somehow managed to let loose a high-pitched scream.
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It only took a few minutes before one of them employees decided to investigate.
"I heard a yell and a scream and I was…" the women started out as she opened the door and spotted the body on the floor. The body was a girl around sixteen with short boyish red hair and sporting blue shorts and a black top. The horrible thing was that blood was seeping out of her and her shirt had a large hole in it.
The women opened her mouth wide in horror before she screamed and ran out of the room her hair whirling around her. "Someone come quick!" she yelled. "A girl has been shot!"
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Paige was beginning to worry.
It was her nature to worry. If someone had a cold, she worried, if someone broke an ankle, she worried, if someone was sent to the hospital, she really worried. So naturally she was beginning to worry about her friend.
Paige wasn't worried much about Evan and Toby. She knew the cafeteria was at the opposite end of the hospital. The two boys would have to find it and then wait in line and then find there way back. No, she was beginning to worry about Alex.
Alex wasn't someone she would normally worry about. With her high spirits she was never emotionally down. Since she could never sit still or be quiet, she was usually always in hearing distance. Alex should have been able to go to the ladies room and back by now. She could have gone to the ladies room and back twice, perhaps three times and that was why Paige was beginning to worry.
And of course, there was Joey. He was injured and something was wrong with him and she had no idea what. The blonde was innocent, and friendly as well as hyper, although not as hyper as Alex. She always won in that department. He didn't deserve whatever was wrong with him. Joey was sick with whatever and Alex was missing. Things weren't going so well today. All Paige really wanted to do was to chug down some aspirin and rent a D.V.D from Blockbuster.
She couldn't, unless she wanted to leave the hospital while Joey was ill and Alex was off in some random place. Perhaps she had left to find the boys, or maybe she tried to sneak into Joey's hospital room and try to see what was wrong with him.
It was stupid, but yet it sounded like something Alex would do. Yes, it was definitely something Alex would do. She really needed an aspirin.
"Where's Alex?" a voice suddenly said. Paige looked up with a start and saw Toby and Evan, the latter was the one who had spoken. They had flopped onto the chairs next to her. "She's in the bathroom," was her response. No point in telling the boys her fears. They never listened until it was too late.
"That's good," Toby smirked, "That way I can have her ice cream," It was then that she noted the various amounts of junk food on both of the boys laps.
"Wait a second!" Paige gasped, "You only went for pop!"
"Uh… oops?" Evan said as he broke open the wrapper concealing an ice cream bar. It was obvious that it wasn't an accident caused Paige to laugh, her fears momentarily forgotten.
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Something really odd was happening here.
When the cops had arrived, it was only a few moments later that they heard a lady shout, "Someone come quick! A girls been shot!"
It wasn't every day that an attempted murder took place in a hospital, in fact, it had never happened before.
The head cop was seriously confused about this, but it ended when he heard the doctors' reports. A boy, whose case was the one that they had actually come for, had been abused. The girl that had been shot was his friend. Both cases intertwined with each other. All they had to do was wait for the boy to wake up and then they would figure out who had abused the boy and shot the girl. It was simple really, but yet, so much worse. Like the key to the puzzle was missing.
"What's the girl's name?" the cop asked as he whipped out a notebook and began to take notes. He had to notify her parents.
"Alexandra O'Neil," a doctor said as he nervously twiddled with a ring. He had never been questioned by a cop before.
"And the boy?" the cop asked as he scribbled down the girl's name.
"Joey Wheeler," the doctor said as he dropped his ring with nervousness, he was about to pick it up when the cop suddenly said, "Wait a second, Joey Wheeler, the Joey Wheeler? The famous duel monster pro?"
"I don't know," the doctor said as he picked up his ring and shoved it back onto his finger. He wasn't the type of person who watched T.V. or followed the most popular game in the world. He was more like the type of person to go hike in the woods and play a nice perfectly safe game of chess.
The cop, however, had a teenage boy who always told his father about the upcoming events in his favorite game. Joey Wheeler must have been mentioned plenty of times, and his name was frequently on the news. So he knew about the kid's fame.
The only thing he could think about was that the case had just gotten more serious. A celebrity was involved.
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Two hours had gone by.
And the three teens were incredibly bored, as well as terribly worried.
Paige hadn't expressed her concerns until a half hour had gone by. The two boys did not take her seriously. It wasn't until an hour and a half went by that the two boys began to worry. Now, after two hours were gone, the three teens were pretty sure that something was wrong.
No girl took two hours in a bathroom. Not even a preppy one and Alex for sure was not preppy.
"Perhaps we should ask somebody?" Evan suggested. He was going to get in trouble when he got home. He was supposed to be home hours ago. In fact, if he stayed much longer he would break his curfew. He was also hungry. The only dinner he had was a few ice cream bars and he had shared them with Paige.
"And meet that nasty lady again?" Toby shuddered, "I think we should search the building,"
"And get lost?" Paige said. She had always been the sensible one and now she was putting her sense to good use. "I'm going to check the bathroom."
Evan blinked, "Wait a sec; nobody checked the bathroom yet?"
The girl glared at him, "I don't think she'll be in there. But it's better than sitting in this hard uncomfortable chair," and so they headed towards the bathrooms.
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He wasn't the type of person to visit hospitals, but he had just done something horrible. Although he could be quite cranky at times and sometimes just plain unbearable, he wasn't a bad guy at heart. When he realized what he had done, he decided to apologize and ask for forgiveness.
He felt really bad about the situation and he decided that he wanted to explain what happened first and let the blonde know. The kid probably didn't know yet, and it would be better coming from his mouth. Determined, the creeping shadow flicked his black bangs out of his eyes and headed towards the duelist's room. There was only one thing on his mind, how could he have been so stupid?"
In fact he was so furious with himself that he muttered curses as he headed down the hallway towards the room. He was almost there, and when he made it in, he didn't know what to say. He just wanted to apologize and after that he would probably never speak with the blonde again.
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"What do you mean, she's in critical danger?" Paige practically yelled, her eyes almost bright red. The boys had never seen her this mad before and they made silent vows to never piss her off, "What happened to her and what's wrong with Joey?"
"Nothing critical," the nurse said hastily as she swept her papers into her arms.
"Not critical!" Paige yelled, "You just said it was!"
"Uh… well you see," the nurse stuttered, trying to explain the situation without doing something stupid.
"Spit it out already!" Paige said as she glared.
"It's a police matter now, I can't tell you anything," the nurse said as she swept her spectacles off. It was the wrong thing to say.
"What!" Paige yelled breaking her two fellows teen's eardrums. Out of the million things that could happen, she did not expect this.
"You must leave before I call the police and you become a suspect," the nurse said as she patted her faint grey hair. Her many years of experience never taught her how to react when teenager's hormones went haywire. Perhaps she should take a course that was starting up in the nearby college.
The two boys obviously agreed.
"Paige…" Toby whispered but it was ignored by Paige who shrieked out, "Suspects? We have no idea what's going on and you threaten us away by daring to call us suspects!"
"Uh…" the nurse whispered before deciding to turn away. Not only was this girl experiencing hormonal problems, but she was also very clever as well. The best decision would be to walk away quietly.
Paige raced after her.
The nurse got away and Paige was extremely pissed.
The boys decided to buy a few ice creams and let Paige cool down, before she turned her anger on them.
It was going to be a very long day or night as it was already past nine.
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Joey was beginning to wake up!
After sleeping the day away and getting plenty of treatments for his injuries, he was beginning to wake up. He was slightly upset, perhaps because he had a slight suspicion that the doctors had saw the injuries and pieced the clues together. They probably had come to the conclusion that Joey was a victim of abuse. If his father found out that someone else knew, well let's just say that Joey was screwed… and in more ways then one.
Perhaps his father would get arrested, but that didn't exclude him from Joey's life forever. Eventually his father would get out and when that time came Joey would pay. Joey knew that meant death. Not the pill-eating painless death, one that was going to hurt a lot. Joey was hurting enough already, he didn't need any more bruises.
Perhaps he could run away, perhaps he could do something stupid or perhaps… a light bulb lit up in Joey's head. He had an idea, one that would work!
But before Joey could think up the details to his wondrous plan, the door creaked open. Joey collapsed onto his bed, pretending to be asleep.
"Wheeler, Joey Wheeler, are you up?" The blonde was about to give a fake snore when he suddenly recognized the voice.
"Shawn?" and sure enough it was the brunette. He had the familiar spiked hair and startling eyes. The surprising thing was that he seemed nervous and if you knew anything about Shawn you knew he was never nervous. Something weird was going on.
"There's something I have to tell you," he said.
Yes, definitely something freaky.
Hint 1: Let's see, Rummy, B.S., Speed and Spit are all card games that I play with my friends during lunch or study hall. All you need to know is that they are card games.
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