I know this is warped but please stick with it!
The ducks meet in a psychiatric ward rather than at hockey.
Life in a Loony Bin
Adam's POV
I sighed heavily I did not want to be here; I tapped my feet on the floor and rapped my fingers on the armrest. My head hung heavy as I tried not to make eye contact with anyone especially my father I could feel the rays of disappointment beaming down on me. He was probably more ashamed than I was; he was probably worried about what his colleagues would say now that his 'perfect' son was in a psych ward.
I looked around this place wasn't so bad, they'd tried to make it look less like a hospital and more like a hotel, it hadn't really worked. The walls were still white but they had a green border around the middle, all around were pictures of ducks I didn't understand why there were so many ducks. Finally there was big sign on the wall saying 'Welcome to Eden Hall' underneath was written psych ward – no pets allowed – tickets at entrance – Have a nice stay. I smirked at least they had a sense of humour.
"We've not even been open a week and already the patients are defacing property," I saw a doctor walk into the waiting room he was smiling so I guessed that he actually wasn't mad. He walked over smiling at us.
"Hello I am Dr Bombay I will be you psychiatrist it's really nice to meet you," he paused, "Right I'm aware of your situation so I've organised an easy way for you to communicate around the hospital I'll give it to you at group therapy this afternoon, ok now this is sister Heather she will be showing you around, Mr Banks please could you come with me and after I've spoken to you we can put Adam's belongings in his room." He smiled walking off with my father following him.
"Hello I'm sister Heather and I'll be your tour guide this afternoon," she had a really unnerving smile she seemed way too happy.
We followed through to the main corridor it divided into two; she dragged me down the corridor on the left. She showed me into the rec room where there were two rather large guys sat watching TV, I swear all they were was muscle.
"Hey," they waved without looking up.
She dragged me out to show me the art room, music room, group therapy, individual therapy, the offices, work room, studio and kitchen. I followed her into the garden it was beautiful. There was the lawn and a tree in the back corner a couple of picnic benches and some normal benches and at the back was a tall fence beautifully engraved.
She then went on to show me the bedrooms, there were 5 male rooms and a bathroom and threw a door at the back there was the girls room and a bathroom. As I entered my bedroom I saw 2 boys one had long curly blonde hair he was very thin and his clothes were extremely baggy. The other was a cowboy they both looked really friendly.
"Hi I'm Guy," the blonde one introduced smiling, "And this is Dwayne, I guess we'll be you roommates for the next god knows how long," I nodded I looked around there was a bunk bed and a single bed the bottom bunk one didn't look in use. I pointed to it to ask if it was mine. Guy nodded,
"Yeah it's yours and the draws next to it are too," He answered I nodded my thanks I hoped someone had told him that I was mute so that he didn't think that I was being rude.
"Dr Bombay told me to tell you that he's spoken to me about you and that your father had to leave in a hurry something to do with work and not worry he'll be back next weekend as this weekend's off so that we can all get to know each other… or something." Guy told me, it was almost like he could read my mind.
I hadn't noticed that Sister Heather had left till I turned around after I had finished un packing.
"Yeah about 10 minutes ago," Guy informed me. I nodded.
"Come on lets go to group therapy then or we'll be late," Dwayne explained as he got up we followed him out.
Bombay's POV
I ran round my office trying to find where I had left my stuff I didn't have a clue. Crap. I was so disorganised. The last member of the group had arrived today and this was the first group session, we had such a wide variety of different disorders here I was amazed that we had two narcissists that were bad enough to be an in-patient. I glanced down at my list.
Lester Averman – paranoid schizophrenia
Adam Banks – Depression, Self Injury, selective mutism
Charlie Conway – narcissism, satyriasis
Julie Gaffney – OCD
Guy Germane – Anorexia, Bulimia, self-harm
Greg Goldberg – Over eating (rich parents)
Luis Mendoza – narcissism
Connie Moreau – Nymphomania
Dean Portman – Split personality
Fulton Reed – Depression, anxiety
Dwayne Robertson – Pyromania, catatonic schizophrenia
Russ Tylor – Violent tendencies drug related problems
Ken Wu – tourettes.
It was an interesting bunch and a lot of them had a great sense of humour, which you really needed to get through this sort of thing, I really hope that they would learn to rely on each other and become good friends. As I entered the group therapy room with a pile of belongings in hand I was glad to see that some of them were already friends, Guy, Dwayne and Adam seemed quite close as did Fulton and Portman. Portman could be a barrel of laughs both of his personalities were quite funny in different ways. It was Portman who had written the sign in the entrance in hope of making people smile it worked and no one wanted it removed so it was staying.
"Hello I am Dr Bombay and I will the doctor in charge of group therapy and a few of you individual I know most of you have met so bare with me. In a few weeks you will start school as it is almost the end of summer, Your tutor will be Miss McKay – be nice" I emphasised the nice as I knew some of them would not be. "Ok rules for group sessions you can make them up. And we'll write them down they'll be up in here permanently"
By the end of group we had a couple of rules about what leaves the room and be nice to others, the longest argument had been about swearing and whether they were allowed to swear in the end the decision was that you couldn't swear at someone but you could swear about something I couldn't wait to see how this was going to work.
Dex
Ok that's it tell me what you think. Constructive criticism welcome. Chapter 2 coming soon.