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Tucker
I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. My sister was curled up in her bed convulsing what was happening to her?
“Where’s your mom Tucker?”
“She said she had to go into work for a few hours.”
“Call the ambulance the. Call her.”
“Okay.” I said breathing heavily, my heart raging with concern for my sister wondering what the hell had happened to her.
I quickly dialled 999, for an ambulance as Bryce walked cautiously over to my sister sitting on the corner of the bed next to my sister's shaking body. My words came out all stuttered as I tried to conceal how much her lying there all huddled and shaking was affecting me. They told me an ambulance would be on the way. I disconnected the call. ‘They’re on their way.’
Bryce nodded, placing his hand on her he’d. “She’s burning up Tucker.”
“I’ll get her a cold compress and call mom.”
“Tell other guys to head to Ash’s”
“I will.”
I headed out of the bedroom grabbing a face towel making sure it was covered in cold water bumping into Jesse. “Hey man why’s taking you do long? You and Bryce are up next.”
“Sorry dude we’re going to have to cancel so can you all head off to Ash’s.”
“Is everything okay?”
“My sister doesn’t feel too good.”
“Sure, tell her hope she gets better soon.”
“Will do.”
We parted company and I made a call I was dreading to my mom about Courtney at least he was in shift at the hospital.
Once I’d finished the call to mom the guys had gone and the ambulance was here. I let them in explaining how we’d saw her and they checked her over and put her onto the stretcher me and Bryce got in when i explained he was my twin brother, yeah teh I know I lied but I could see the worry on his face I could tell he truly cared about her welfare he was a good friend to both of us one of the best actually.
We arrived at the hospital and they took Courtney to have one test. She was still out of it and shaking they’d given her a mild sedative to calm her whilst they did what they had to do. Mom had come rushing to us. “What happened?”
“We don’t know mom. Bryce went to get her to play on the ps4 and I went up cause he was taking forever she wasn’t answering us so we decided just to go in then we found her like that. ‘You boys did the right thing to call for an ambulance.”
She’s my sister despite how we’ve grown apart I’d promised I’d always be there for and I will no matter what the circumstances. I knew that we could never get back what we had our bond was strong before we moved here, now it was severed and I wasn’t sure if we’d ever get that back.
We all sat down waiting for someone to tell us what the hell was going on.
Two hours later a doctor finally walked up to us. “How’s my Daughter?”
“She’s good Marie, she's finally stabilised.”
“What happened to her?”
“There’s no easy way to say this Marie but she has a anxiety attack, an extremely bad one. She was lucky that she had her brothers with her or things could’ve been worse.”
Mom looked at me and Bryce with a ‘what the hell did you do? Wait till I get home you’ve got a hell of a lot of explaining to do young man?’
I gulped. Then she looked back at the doctor. “Are you sure it’s anxiety Malcolm?”
“We’re positive Marie we had to sedate Courtney so we could do all of the tests and she is suffering from anxiety she has a full blown panic attack. Have you got any idea what could’ve possibly happened to trigger it?”
We all shook our heads.
“You’re saying this panic attack was triggered, Malcolm?”
“Yes most panic attacks are something that happens and suppresses and when something else counteracts with that suppression it campuses an attack it could be many things or arguments past or present.” I gulped. I hoped I hadn’t caused this. Bryce looked at me wondering the same thing.
“What has Courtney been doing the past few days?”
“Do you think what she was doing over the weekend has something to do with it?”
“It could’ve triggered it yes, if someone had upset her in any way.”
“She spends her weekends with her friends. She was with a boy named Issac yesterday and today she was going shopping with her girlfriends. We moved here a month ago and she made some good friends. You don’t think they have anything to do with this?”
“Maybe someone said or did something to upset her over the past month or few days. It could be the stress of moving from one city to the next and starting a fresh making new friends and it all comes crashing down.”
“Can she come home?”
“Sorry Marie we need her to stay here for a few days until she’s fully recovered.”
“Thanks Malcolm. Can we see her?”
“Sure one at a time.”
“Thanks.”
We all followed this malcom guy to where Courtney was hooked up to machines. I swallowed. I hoped I didn’t cause this. ‘Bryce squeezed my shoulder and nodded mom went in to her and we stayed outside. “This isn’t your fault Tucker.”
“What if it is?”
“‘It’s not.”
“If it’s not mine then whose is it?”
“I’m not sure but what I do know is she's been spending a lot of time with Issac and his brother is hanging around and that's bad news, real bad news, when Brendon is around Isaac doesn't think with his Brian he just shoots his mouth.”
“If he’s said or done anything to make my sister like this I’ll kill him!”
“Calm down dude well get to the bottom of this I promise.”
He nodded. “Thanks for being here Bryce. I don’t know what I would’ve done if you a weren’t there.”
“What are friends for if we can’t be there for one another.’’
- Writer
