What a Drag
Chapter 21
Gabriella's POV
When people grow up they loose memories of their childhood, but when your families' friends come over and your parents tell stories of when you were little something in your brain triggers so that you remember that memory. And somehow you remember it better than your parents, here it was different. You just lost a small fun memory and then you remembered it by a story. Here Chad lost his whole memory. We asked him questions that we knew fro high school and grammar school. She sat upright in his bed with Catherine on his lap just saying I don't know. We all had pulled up chairs to sit in and looked at each other in worried expressions. "Troy what would have done this?" Taylor asked. She was on the verge of a break down.
"I don't know." Troy said shrugging his shoulders.
"You're the brain surgeon here." Taylor argued.
"Tay…" Sharpay started, but Taylor stood up.
"You fix him! Fix him." Taylor yelled as her tears poured down. We all looked down at the ground, but I glanced up and looked at Troy. I would see he didn't like the attention and he didn't know what to do.
"Tay, we have to give Chad some time…" I started.
"Time? He doesn't know who we are!" Taylor yelled and stormed out of the room. The room fell silent as Catherine just hit Chad's knees.
"Did I do something wrong to her?" Chad asked holding Catherine just under her arms so she wouldn't fall.
"No, she's just your-." Kelsi started off, but Sharpay cut her off.
"Friend…we're all like siblings." Sharpay said nodding her head and putting on her best smile.
We all knew what she meant by cutting off Kelsi. Give him time. "Um…so this is Catherine…who's kid is she?" Chad asked looking at her.
"Um, mine and Gabriella's." Troy said. I nodded my head as he said my name.
"And I'm Chad…what do I work as?" he asked looking at us.
"You're a medical student. We all are." Ryan said.
"So I'm smart?" Chad asked once again.
"Well…that's what we never get. You can be so serious at times, but you just…your slow at getting things which makes us laugh a lot. You know how to cheer us up all the time." Zeke said.
"You love basketball…" I said trailing off hopping that would trigger something like just a faded away memory.
Catherine giggled and looked up at us all. "ahhh." She grr-ed from her lungs. We all laughed including Chad.
"I'm her uncle?" Chad asked as he faced my daughter towards him.
Catherine looked up at Chad. "Yeah." I whispered from my spot next to Troy.
"She reminds me of Michelle Tanner form Full house." Chad said suddenly.
"That's your favorite show!" Sharpay smiled.
"You see, your memory will come back slowly." Kelsi said.
The door opened and everyone stood up except for me. It was Taylor and she looked really upset. "Can I talk to you guys please? Gabi, I'll talk to you later." I nodded my head as everyone piled out of the room. Once the door closed I looked at Chad.
"Think there taking about me?" Chad asked I smiled and looked at him.
"No doubt."
"So…mind telling me why you're in a cast?" he asked. We both looked down at my pink cast.
"We were in a car crash…before this. We were coming home from seeing Harry Potter the fifth movie when a car hit us. Sharpay the blonde one knows I hate pink, but she told Troy to put it on me when I was knocked out. Pain meds do that. I said nodded my head and giving out a laugh.
"Yeah, I kind of like it, I can't really feel any part of my legs." Chad said smiling. My eyes grew wide.
"TROY! TAYLOR! SHARPAY! RYAN! KELSI! ZEKE! SOMEBODY GET IN HERE!!" I yelled standing up and ordering Chad to lift up Catherine.
Meanwhile…
Sharpay's POV
We all stood outside of Chad's room and waited for the door to close. Behind Taylor was Dr. Weiner. Ha-ha…sorry I just couldn't stop laughing at his name, I know not nice. "Mr. Danforth has amnesia, but we expect it to be temporary. Other then that his heart rate is perfect and everything else seems to be healing fine. For now I would expect you all to comfort him in his time of need, but these are my orders, do not force him to remember anything. I want no stress on his brain and just don't mention anything big to him. like…that he's oh let's say engaged." The doctor said. We all looked at Taylor who was looking at the ground.
"His test results should be back tomorrow morning and as far as I'm concerned he can be released tomorrow afternoon." Dr. Wiener stated. He looked proud at his information and we all just stood there till there was yelling from Chad's room.
"TROY! TAYLOR! SHARPAY! RYAN! KELSI! ZEKE! SOMEBODY GET IN HERE!!" we all heard Gabriella yell. We all rushed to the door and opened it as we saw Chad holding Catherine up and her pulling the blanket off his legs. She hit them.
"What's going on here?" Dr. Wiener asked.
Gabriella looked up frightened. "He said he can't feel his legs. He can't feel them." Gabriella said taking Catherine from Chad.
"What?" Chad asked looking confused.
"Is he paralyzed?" Taylor asked in complete shock.
"You never mentioned he was paralyzed." I yelled.
"I need you all out, Dr. Bolton come in here now." Dr. Weiner ordered us as he pushed the nurses' button.
Gabriella's POV
I looked at Taylor who held her arms out for Catherine. "You sure?" I asked.
"Yeah, I need to do something with my hands" she whispered. I nodded my head and handed her over. I got my crutches and went out the door with everyone else. I looked at Troy and gave him a small smile.
"The car never hit his legs did it?" Ryan asked.
"The doctor never told us…the police said he was stuck in there, but they got him out." Kelsi said.
"No, but remember when one of the nurses said his legs were covered in blood." Sharpay said as they paced around. I said in one of the chairs leaning against the wall.
"But they did a cat scan, everything was fine." Taylor whispered as she held Catherine.
"Cat scans miss things." I said.
"Do you think he has a blood clot in his leg?" Zeke asked.
"But they would've ran a test for that, Zeke. Someone didn't do their job here. Someone just dismissed this case…Chad might never remember us or his life and guess what, he might be in a wheelchair." Ryan said.
"Guys, can we not fight." Taylor said just as Catherine started to get fussy.
"Chad will be ok…he has a niece, friends, family, and a fiancée waiting for him. He'll remember us and he will walk." Sharpay said sitting down next to me.
"I'm going to the church, is it okay if I take Catherine?" Taylor asked me.
I smiled at her. She was going through hell…we all were, but she…this was hitting her like a building falling on her. "Yeah, but if she gets fussy just beep one of us." I said. I watched as Taylor walked down the hallway with Catherine in arms.
"We're gonna get through this." Kelsi said.
We watched as three nurses walked into Chad's room. Inside we could hear troy and Dr. Weiner talking loudly, but as soon as the doors closed their voices disappeared.
Sometimes people make mistakes. We're aloud to do that, but when you're a doctor or nurse you can't afford mistakes. If you do there's bound to be a lawsuit waiting for you or your boss in their office. But blood clots are always small things and are hard to find, our only problem is Chad never had any problem with blood clots, nor have his doctors worried about it.
A doctor made a mistake and now Chad was paying the price…he couldn't walk.
A/N OK so school si strating on the 7th and I ahven't done ANY homework which is bad, so this will be my last update for a week. Thank you and if I don't reply to your last review, im REALLY sorry, but agh this is all last minute, sorry!