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The next morning was a typical morning at the ward. Dawn found herself sleeping on the couch in the lounge, she wasn't going to let Chris scare her away that easily, no matter how uncomfortable he tried to make her stay. This morning Dawn would be doing rounds with Chef and observing whoever she wanted.
"So, you decided to stay after all." Chef smirked. "You can help me pass out medication."
"I'm looking forward to it." Dawn rolled her eyes. "Shall I bring my clipboard?"
"You can do whatever you want." Chef told her. "I don't even know why you bothered showing up."
"I'm looking out for everyone." Dawn told him. "It's apparent that I'm the only one."
"I care and so does Chris." Chef told her. "If we didn't care they would have been dead by now."
"They'd be better off." Dawn smirked at him. "You're just lucky they don't know any better."
"What do you expect from them?" Dawn asked him. "I'm predicting that this isn't going to go well."
"It's better than you would think." Chef laughed. "So, who do you want to see first?"
"Do we have much time?" Dawn asked him. "How long does this usually take you."
"Maybe 20 minutes." Chef told her. "Try Trent. He'll make you laugh."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Dawn shook her head as Chef opened the door to reveal Owen sobbing and Trent laying on his bed, humming a song.
"Time to get up!" Chef yelled at them. "This is Dawn and she's going to be assisting Chris for a few days! Why are you crying, Owen?"
"My granola bars are gone." Owen sobbed. "I don't know who would do such a thing! I think it's the granola ghost!"
"The granola ghost?" Dawn smirked at the two of them as Trent sat up in his bed.
"Yeah, the granola ghost." Trent said seriously "Ya know? He comes around on the 9th hour of the night on the 9th day every month! On the 9th month of the year however he appears every hour for 9 minutes and rumor has it, if you leave him granola he won't kill you."
"Well the granola ghost could have shared." Owen sobbed. "He left all the wrappers too! What kind of mean ghost would eat someone's granola and not even clean up after themselves?"
"I never said the granola ghost was a tidy person." Trent rolled his eyes. "The granola ghost was most likely hungry from having sex and missed breakfast. It's a rookie mistake."
"Ya'll gotta go meet up for the meeting soon." Chef sighed. "So, get over this crap already!"
"I'm actually scared of the granola ghost." Owen admitted. "Luckily for me that Trent has told me all about him and how to make him not kill me."
"Owen?" Dawn asked "Why are you here?"
"I ate my friends." Owen sighed. "It was really sad and I guess I learned a lesson from it. If you eat your friends then you won't have any."
"That's a really great lesson." Trent agreed. "It's nice to meet you, I'm Trent and no matter what anyone here says, I'm not crazy! I'm just a misunderstood artist who is banned from playing his guitar."
"I'll make note of that." Dawn took a step back and glanced at Chef who threw two cups of medication at Trent and Owen.
"So, would anyone like to tell me what's going to happen at this meeting?" Dawn asked.
"We all talk about stuff." Trent told her.
"Like what?" Dawn asked.
"Like how are week is going." Trent told her. "Usually it's depressing because everyone here is predictable and nobody ever wants to talk about anything! Gwen and Duncan are fighting and I'm pretty sure Izzy is here for something too! Oh, and then there is Sierra who thinks this is a school or something like that and she's in love with Cody but Cody loves Noah who has no feelings or remorse at all and is just an asshole and gets really mad when you rip out pages from his books to use as tissues when you have a cold. I did that to him once and he told me if I did it again he would dump bleach down my throat."
"Great." Dawn awkwardly laughed. "I guess we're going to the meeting."
Trent led the way down the hallway as Owen walked beside him looking around for a ghost that was obviously not there. Dawn had no reaction to this at all, she wasn't expecting to hear all of this from Trent. Dawn glared at Chef as he watched Trent and Owen walk ahead with a smile on his face.
"You, me and Chris." Dawn told him. "We need to talk in private after this meeting."
The meeting was one that Dawn wasn't exactly looking forward to. Chris grabbed her a chair and placed it next to his own and offered the seat in the center of the circle to her. Dawn sat down and Chris said nothing to her at all as they watched Owen and Trent sit down on complete opposite sides of the room. A few minutes later Heather walked in and sat down followed by Duncan and Noah who also sat away from each other, Noah sat by Owen and Duncan sat as far away from Trent as humanly possible even though Trent 'saved him a seat' Harold came in the room and sat down next to Owen and Cody came in the room with Staci and Sierra both at his side talking about stupid crap. Izzy came in from a vent somewhere and laughed. Scott sat there and stared at them all and Zoey was the last one to come in and was really angry about it due to the fact she had no clue where she was going or that there was a meeting.
"I hate this place!" Zoey yelled in front of the group. "This place is so small and yet it's so easy to get lost in this place and nobody here is helpful at all! Who the hell is in charge?"
Everyone pointed to Chris who waved at her.
"That would be me." Chris told her. "I'm Chris and this is my group session which I'm assuming you'll be taking part in?"
"I saved you a seat." Duncan winked at Zoey.
"Pig." Zoey rolled her eyes. "So, can I talk to someone about getting out of here or what?"
"No, not really." Chris sighed. "You can however share your story if you'd like, ya know? since you're standing in the center of my circle, making a spectacle of yourself."
"I'm not sharing my story with anyone." Zoey sat down as far away from Duncan as humanly possible.
"That's fine." Chris told her. "So, everyone this is Dawn who hopefully won't be staying here too long! She wants to write things down about you and stuff."
"Oh! Can I please start this meeting?" Harold asked. "I never get to start the meeting."
"Fine." Chris rolled his eyes "Everyone tell Dawn what you accomplished this week...Harold you're first."
"Yes!" Harold jumped out of his seat. "So, this week I used my special computer privilege and I sent my fair Leshawna a facebook message! She didn't respond but she didn't block me either! I'd say that's a win and I'm becoming closer to winning her love."
"I created a really awesome band!" Trent happily told everyone.
"I got forced into joining a really stupid band..." Duncan rolled his eyes.
"I got locked up and nobody here wants to help me get out." Zoey glared at everyone in the room.
"Hey, I offered Princess." Duncan winked at her. "Offer still stands."
"I admitted myself in here to be closer to Noah and it didn't go well." Cody sighed. "On the plus side, I'm now fully able to help Sierra with her new position as class president or whatever...It kills time."
"Heather lied to me and destroyed our friendship." Sierra glared at Heather. "Last night Heather tried to steal Cody away from me and my new leadership role by telling me that I was locked up and not in school. She's just jealous because she didn't get to be homecoming queen."
"I told her the truth." Heather smirked. "So, I've been here for awhile now and based on the issues that everyone else is dealing with I would say that what I did wasn't nearly as bad, so hooray for me!"
"I've been trying really hard to have sex with the new girl." Duncan sighed "It hasn't been going well...Like at all. I mean my options here are limited, It's either Heather who shot me down, Gwen who I'm related to, Izzy who I've already slept with, Sierra who only loves Cody or that new girl who hasn't stopped talking since she got here. So, I'm sure you can see why picking the new girl would be my best option and vice versa."
"Can you openly say that during a meeting?" Zoey asked Chris "Are you really going to allow that?"
"He kinda has a point." Chef pointed out. "I don't blame him."
Chris looked around the room.
"Yeah, I can kinda see his point." Chris agreed. "I'm going to allow it!"
"What the hell has this become?" Noah smirked. "Court? Are you some kind of judge now?"
"Do you have to be such a downer all the time?" Cody asked him.
"Do you have to be such a creep?" Noah rolled his eyes. "You moved in to my mental hospital, who does that?"
"It's not a mental hospital, it's a school!" Sierra yelled at Noah. "As class president, I'm banning you from yelling at my future husband!"
"This is going downhill quickly..." Chris looked around the room. "Gwen? How's life?"
"The new guy Scott, he's really fucked up." Gwen smirked. "Last night he was talking to mirrors about how he was going to vote me off and I have no clue what that even means but can you say nutcase?"
"Oh, Gwen has other news too!" Trent happily told everyone.
"Trent and I are going to be parents." Gwen happily told everyone.
"So, you're pregnant?" Noah rolled his eyes. "This is why we should invest in board games, Chris! If we had a game of monopoly around here this wouldn't have happened."
"Monopoly pieces taste good." Izzy smiled at everyone and Noah glared at her.
"Really?" Noah asked her. "That's all you're going to say to contribute to this conversation?"
"Uno cards taste like colors." Izzy added in. "The wild ones taste weird though. The one time Harold and I played Uno and he stuck the cards down his pants and then I ate them."
"That is fact." Harold agreed. "Just don't tell Leshawna."
"Okay, I'm going to put an end to all of this now!" Chris smiled. "Gwen and Trent come with me to my office and this meeting is officially over."
"I thought the three of us were going to talk." Dawn glared at Chris.
"Uh...Later?" Chris suggested. "Go around and talk to people. I need to have a chat with Trent and Gwen now."
Heather went straight to her room and tried to go to sleep. She was feeling pretty upset lately, she kept thinking back to the night that Alejandro died and felt she should have handled it way better than she did. If she could take it all back she would do it in a heartbeat. The more she thought about it the more she felt like she deserved to be in prison. What she wouldn't do for a chance to see him again...
Back in Chris's office with Gwen and Trent, Chris was ready to smack them both in the face. Never in a million years did he think that this would happen and that it would ever come down to this.
"Trent? Gwen?" Chris glared at them. "What am I supposed to do about this? Were you two even thinking? Gwen, are you sure you're pregnant?"
"We've been trying a lot." Gwen smiled at Trent "So, I'm pretty sure that I am."
"I'm going to get you one of those test things." Chris sighed. "This is one test you'll be taking without me."
"So, are you going to let us keep it?" Trent asked. "Duncan said you can't raise a baby here but I think that we can do it and I think that you should let us."
"Do either of you two remember what happened to the hamster we had?" Chris reminded them. "If I recall, Gwen forgot to feed it and it chewed off its own foot."
"I planned the funeral for it." Trent told him. "That was responsible."
"You flushed it down the toilet and I had to call a plumber." Chris sighed. "Why on earth would I let you have a baby?"
"Because babies can't fit down toilets unless you try really hard?" Gwen smiled at him. "C'mon! This is going to be the only way I'm ever going to get my relationship with Duncan back."
"Okay, I'll make you a deal." Chris sighed. "I'm going to allow you to go through with this pregnancy, assuming that you are, Okay? If you can manage to not screw up and do stupid stuff in 9 months then you can keep it and if you can't then I'm going to put it up for adoption, sound fair?"
"Deal." Gwen agreed.
Dawn was sitting down in the lounge watching Izzy attempt to interact with Cody and it wasn't going well at all. Scott walked in and sat down next to her.
"So, you're a councilor?" Scott asked her.
"Yes." Dawn smiled at him.
"Everything we say stays private?" Scott asked her.
"Yes." Dawn told him.
"Okay, so everyone is judging me and they think I'm a weirdo and that I'm nuts." Scott sighed. "It's so confusing, I think this is like some huge joke! I'm pretty sure you're in on it too and so is Gwen and Heather and everyone else."
"What do you think is happening?" Dawn asked him "You can tell me."
"Do you know of a show called Total Drama?" Scott asked her. "You see, I know Heather from the show and I know Gwen from the show and Izzy and all of these people including you! We were all playing it and then one night I went to sleep in my bed at the playa des losers, it's the place we all go when we get voted off and when I woke up I was confused and I found myself strapped into a wheelchair and heavily sedated."
That's where I'm leaving you guys. ;) Major cliffhanger it's a simple yes or no question really, however I'm sure it's not going to get anyone much further and I like leaving you guys at these points, one of the most frequent things I get asked about is Scott and Dawn, so they finally meet for the first time. Chris is letting Gwen and Trent keep the baby and everyone hates each other at group meetings apparently. I made the granola ghost up on the spot and I rolled with it. My thought process on that one was "Oh yeah, Trent stole granola last chapter and Trent already is borderline crazy and obsessed with the number 9 and killed someone...so, pathological liar too? Yup!" Also, the major twist should be coming up soon and as I said before it's going to be the biggest WTF moment. So, start guessing and I guarantee you'll all fail. I knew where I was going to go with this since chapter 11ish?