At school the next day
Rachel, Kim and Chris were in the office that the management team would hold their meeting every morning. They were all sat round their little round table near the door.
"Morning. How is everyone?" Chris asked as he was the last one to sit down at the table.
"Great thanks." Both of the other teachers replied in this way.
"Max and Pandora are doing well. They both loved the card so well done." Rachel looked to Kim who then smiled as she put down her cup of coffee.
"I'm going to update Pandora's case file, just to explain why she's been absent. Any idea when she's discharged?" Chris put forward.
"Max said it'll be a few days before she is discharged but then two weeks on top of that before she comes back in school. Max has already said he won't be back until Pandora's fit to be in school."
"Good on him. I think we would all do the same." Kim responded to the good news. She just wanted Pandora to be okay as she had already gone through enough since starting at the school.
"Is there anything else to discuss?" Chris asked, he was always the one to ask this but, this morning at least, he did have something to attend to straight away.
"No I think that's it. I'll let you know if I get any news from Max." Kim and Chris then left the office to return to their rooms to get on with whatever tasks they had assigned themselves. Rachel was now in her office thinking about what duties she also had to be doing.
A while later
Chris was in his science lab looking at Pandora's case file (after he had filled in about her being in hospital) when something didn't seem right. Rather conveniently, Kim had just walked past his room. Chris decided it might be an idea for Kim to look over Pandora's case file too. She might be able to help him piece something together.
"Kim!" She then turned around and started walking towards him.
"What is it?"
"It's Pandora's case file. Something doesn't make sense." She then looked intrigued and followed him into his classroom and saw Pandora's case file on his desk.
"You know how we have records of who parents are of pupils? On Pandora's it says Max as her father but it doesn't say who her mother is."
"There must be a name mentioned somewhere. Even if the parent doesn't actually look after her, there should be a name there."
"Except there isn't. Look. Everything else is in order but the space where her mother's name should be is blank."
"Leave it for now and I'll ask Max when he's back in school. If anyone will know anything, it's got to be him."
Chris then packed up the case file and locked it in one of his cabinets. Tutors were responsible for case files that were about members of their tutor groups. He was thinking about asking Rachel about this but decided to just leave it until Max had returned to school.
Meanwhile at the hospital
"Is there anything I can do? I'm so bored." I complained to Max who was sat at my bedside. The only time he wasn't sat beside me was during the night, when I was asleep.
"I'll go and ask if you have to stay in bed. There's a game room up at the end of the ward so I'm sure there's something in there we could do." He stood up and went to ask the doctor who he had seen a lot of whilst he had been here. He came back and said, "They've said you can move about as long as you stay on the ward. Come on." I got out of the bed, with a little bit of help, from my dad before we walked to the end of the ward. I was a bit uneasy on my feet so it took longer than normal to get there.
In the room, there were mainly things like games consoles, books and stuff like board games. I noticed that there was a Nintendo 64 with Mario Party already inside. No one was sat there so I sat on the sofa and grabbed a controller. There was two controllers so I gave the other one to my dad.
"Only one rule. I get to play as Yoshi!" I jokingly said as we were on character selection. Dad didn't seem to be bothered by this as he just came back with, "Fine! I'll just be the plumber then." as he put his hands up in defeat.
We then must have spent a good few hours playing Mario with all the different rules and things. I won, of course, but, to be honest, I think he let me win a few times. It was still the most fun I've had in a long time. Even though I was recovering from an operation and everything else, I was playing a video game with my father. The feeling of finally having fun with him was something I hadn't felt for a long time. By the time I would have to go back to school, we would both be completely different people and the best thing about it was that it would be a good change.
Author's Note: Thanks to I-Wish-Upon-Falling-Stars, pinkpiglett1996, grangehillover, CSI Encyclopedia & StellaPriceFan for reviewing the last chapter as well as the rest of you for reading! I've decided to do the author's note at the end of the chapter. Don't ask why I just have XD
Danni x