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Chapter 3: The phone call...

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Kirsten, Sandy, and Seth had been sitting beside the sleeping Ryan for about three hours now. They were awaiting the call from the doctor's office. All of a sudden the phone rang, and the three looked at it. "I'll get it." Seth replied. He got up and walked over to the reciever, then picked up the phone, "Cohen residence, Seth speaking." He said. "No grandpa, we can't come over tonight, Ryan's sick, allright, I'll tell him, bye." Seth walked back over to his chair and sat down.

"Who was that?" Sandy asked. "Grandpa, he wanted to know if we could come over tonight, I told him about Ryan, so he asked if you could come over, he had a important issue to discuss with you about." Seth shrugged. "Who, me?" Sandy asked. "Yep." Seth replied. "Wonder what that's all about." Sandy asked himself and got up. He grabbed his breifcase and headed for the door. "Be back as soon as I can...," Sandy said, "Call me if anything come's up." he replied. "I will." Kirsten said and watched her husband leave.

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Ryan woke up with the same pain in his head, except he hurt worse. "Hey sweetie, how you feeling." Kirsten said. "Mmmmm...," Ryan moaned. "Shhh, I'll take that as a 'bad'." Kirsten replied. "Do you feel like eating something?" She picked up a bowl of chicken broth.. Ryan shrugged. Kirsten helped Ryan eat atleast a few bites of the broth, then Ryan felt sick and he didn't want anymore. Just then the phone rang, "Seth can you get that?" Kirsten asked. She went to go get another blanket for Ryan.

"Yeah mom." Seth replied, and grabbed the phone. "Hello, Okay, hold on just one moment." "Mom, it's Dr. Micheals." Seth called and put the phone down. Kirsten rushed into the room and handed the blanket to Seth, "Hello, Okay, yeah, you found something else too, you don't, Okay, I'll tell him, okay, thanks, bye." Kirsten hung the phone up and her face was drawed down. "What's wrong Mom?" Seth asked and covered Ryan up. "Um, he has the flu, but there is something else too...," Kirsten replied. "What is it?" Seth asked. Ryan and Seth both looked at their mom in horror. "Um, they don't know...," Kirsten looked down at Ryan. The look in his face, she never wanted to see that look again.

"Is there something, terribly wrong with him?" Seth asked. "They don't know what's wrong with him, Seth, they just don't know...," Kirsten kept her eyes on Ryan. He had the facial expression of complete horror. "I'm sure it's nothing though, so don't worry sweetie." Kirsten replied. Ryan could tell that she wasn't really meaning what she said. "You two should watch some T.V., I'm going to go and clean the kitchen up a little, call me if you need me." Kirsten left and headed into the kitchen.

"I'm sure it's nothing dude, what do you want to watch?" Seth asked and started flipping throughtthe channels. "It don't matter." Ryan replied, he had his mind on what 'else' was wrong with him. "What could it be?" he thought, and watched Seth put it on a basketball game.

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"Sandy?" Kirsten asked. "Yeah, what's wrong? Is something wrong with Ryan?" he asked worriedly. "Yeah, he has the flu and something 'else'." She replied. "What is the 'something else' that we're dealing with here?" Sandy asked. "I don't know, they don't know, they said that they would call as soon as they found out." Kirsten replied. "I'm worried Sandy, he's freezing cold, but he has a fever of now, 102.3, I just checked a few minutes ago." Kirsten said.

"I'm on my way...," Sandy said and hung up the phone. Kirsten walked back into the living room to see Ryan had fallen asleep again. The phone rang again and Kirsten grabbed it, "Hello?" she asked. "Um, Mrs. Cohen, I need you to get a 'Ryan Atwood' to the hosital immeadiately." the voice said. "What's wrong?" Kirsten asked. "Just get him here mam, do you need us to come get him?" She asked. "No, we'll be there soon." Kirsten said and hung up the phone. "Seth call your father, tell him to meet us at the hospital." Kirsten said. "Why?" Seth asked getting up to get the phone. "Just do it!" Kirsten replied. "Ryan, sweetie, wake up." Kirsten lightly shook Ryan. No response. "Ryan?" she asked. Ryan had slipt off into the realm of unconciousness. "Seth, help me get him to the mini-van." she replied.

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Seth had done called his dad, now he worriedly started to help his mom. He grabbed Ryan, with the help of his mom. Kiirsten jumped in the back of the 'mini-van' and sat down and put Ryan's head on her lap, she handed Seth the keys. Seth knew this had to be bad, if his mom was letting him drive. Seth got in the driver's seat of the car and started it up. "You ready?" he asked, while getting buckled. "Yeah." Kirsten said and covered Ryan up with two blankets. The three drove to the hospital.

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Sandy walked into the hospital and walked to the Reception's desk. "Room for a 'Ryan Atwood' please." Ryan said. The receptionist quickly typed on her computer then turned to Sandy, "Room 306." she said. Sandy quickly ran to the elevator and pushed number three.

The elevator ride seemed like an eternity, and Sandy finally got off on the third floor. He quickly walked down the hall-way until he reached room 306. He walked in to see his son, Kirsten, and his other son Ryan sleeping. He had an Iv in his arm, and was in a hospital gown. "What's wrong with him Kirsten?" he asked and sat down beside Ryan."I don't know, the doctors are running more tests." Kirsten said.

"Well then why is he here, if they don't know what's wrong with him?" Sandy asked. "I don't know, they told me that it was an emergency, and that we needed to get him down here as soon as we could...," Kirsten said. "So I did." she finished. Ryan groaned and the three looked down at him.

Ryan felt like he did earlier in the day, except for worse. Ryan opened his eyes to see a white room. "What has happened to me?" he thought and started to panick. "Ryan, Ryan, calm down, it's okay." Kirsten said. "Mom?" he asked. "Yes sweetie, I'm here." she replied. "What happened?" he asked. He did not know why he was in the hospital in the first place. "We don't know, the doctors said that we needed to get you down here immeadiately, they said that there was an emergency." Kirsten said. "What's wrong with me?" Ryan asked. He was starting to get jumpy, and shaky. "I don't know son, I don't know, but it will be okay, allright?" Sandy asked. "Yeah." Ryan replied, his voice sounded a little shaky, and doubtful. "How could it be nothing if the doctors said that it was and emergency? I feel like all I have is the flu? What could it be?"

A knock on the door interrupted Ryan's thoughts. "Come in." Sandy yelled. "Was you doing anything exciting, Mr. Atwood?" a nurse asked. "He was a little frightened when he woke up, he didn't know where he was, or what was wrong with him." Kirsten said, and shot an aggrivated look toward the nurse. "Well, I noticed that his heart rate went up, so I just wanted to check on him." the nurse said then left. Ryan shot Kirsten and Sandy a questioning look. "We are as clue-less as you are." Sandy replied. Ryan nodded. "Ryan, how are you feeling?" Seth asked. "Like I got the flu, and nothing else." Ryan replied and grabbed the remote, when there was another knock on the door. "You have got to be kidding me, I just grabbed a remote!" Ryan exclaimed. "Come in." Sandy said.

In walked Caleb, Julie, Marrissa, and Summer. "Hey Ryan, how you feeling?" Caleb asked. "Like I have the flu." Ryan replied. Caleb patted his grandson on the shoulder. "Hey." Marrissa said and walked over to Ryan. "Hey." he replied, and lightly smiled. "So why are you here?" Summer asked. "They don't know." Kirsten replied. "Oh, okay, I'm sorry." she looked over at Marrissa. Ryan looked down at his hands. He wished that he knew why he was here, but he didn't. There was a knock on the door and everyone turned around to see a doctor. "Hello, I'm Dr. Kirk Strong, um, I need to speak to a Mr. or Mrs. Cohen." he replied and looked at the faces. "Be right back." Sandy replied, and him and Kirsten left the hospital room.

Everyone had went silent and was now staring at Ryan, except for Ryan who whas staring at the closed door. "What's wrong with me? Is it so bad where they have to take my parents out of the room to tell them? Am I going to die?" Ryan thought and continued to stare at the door. Seth saw Ryan's jumpiness in his eyes, "I'm sure it's nothing Ryan." Ryan obviously didn't hear him, he continued to stare silently at the door. "Ryan, did you hear me?" Seth approached Ryan. "Ryan?" Marrissa asked. Ryan started to shake, he was going into convulsions. "Ryan, calm down, calm down son, everything is going to be okay." Caleb said trying to keep Ryan still. "Grandpa, what's happening to me?" he asked. "Calm down, Julie go get a nurse!" Caleb yelled.

"We need a nurse in here!" Just then a nurse ran in, she immeadiately grabbed a siringe out of the cabinet and filled it with something out of a bottle. "What's happening to him?" Marrissa screamed, tears running down her face. She didn't like seeing Ryan this way. The nurse ignored her then ran over to Ryan, she immeadiately put the sirenge in his arm. "Calm down, calm down, everything will be allright, it's okay." the nurse soothed. Ryan was taking quick, sharp breaths. "Shh, calm down." she said again. Ryan soon started to take deep, shallow breaths again, and he soon fell asleep. "What was happening to him?" Marrissa screamed again, tears still running down her face. "He was going into shock, which causes convulsions, I gave him something to calm him down and put him to sleep, he'll be out of it for a few hours." the nurse said then left.

Kirsten and Sandy walked in, "Any news?" Seth asked. "No, they said they know there's something, they just can't find it yet." Sandy said and re-took his seat beside Ryan. "What happened in here?" Sandy asked, he noticed Marrissa crying and that everyone was a little edgy. "He went into shock, he started to have convulsions, the nurse gave him something to calm him down, and put him to sleep." Caleb replied, his voice sounding full of worry and fright. Kirsten resumed her seat on the other side of Ryan, and held his hand.

"What could be wrong with my son?" She thought and stared at Ryan, she hoped that nothing bad was wrong with Ryan. She also hoped that the doctors could find out about it very soon.

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