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“Where are you, Wendy?” Phoebe softly whispered. She hasn’t called, she didn’t show up for lunch and she doesn’t answer her phone. She was getting scared about now. She tried her cell phone again, but she got the voicemail again. “This is Wendy’s voicemail. Either I’m at work, shopping, sleeping or forgot to turn on the volume on this thing. You know what to do, and if the message is interesting enough I’ll get back to you..” Damn, now what am I gonna do. Wendy didn’t have any relatives she could contact, and her best friend Suzie lived in Australia. She decided not to call her, because she would just get upset and couldn’t do anything else. She could call the boys, but.. not just yet, maybe they’d think that she was too overprotective...She would try the cellphone again. “This is Wendy’s...”

~~Meanwhile~~

Brian was just staring out of the window. “Why didn’t Leighanne join us, Rok? Was it because of Baylee?”
Brian nodded; “He has a cold and she’d rather take care of him herself then, so that the babysitter won’t catch it and because she is his mom and all. D., what if she doesn’t wake up?”
Howie pretended that he got the question wrong. “Well, the doc said it could take a while.”
“I mean, if she never wakes up.”
“I don’t know, Rok, I don’t know. Let’s just take it a day at a time and see how she’s doing today,” he replied as he parked the car. Brian got out of the car and just froze. “Earth to Frick, do you hear me?!”
“D., did anyone call Phoebe?”
“Sh*t, I don’t think so. I’ll do that, allright, you just go in see how she’s doing,” he said while he took his cell out of his pocket.

“Phoebe, is that you?”
“It’s me allright. And who is on the..” then it hit her. “Howie! You called at just the right time. Look, Wendy didn’t show up our weekly lunchdate today and I’m getting kind of worried about now.”
“I know why she didn’t show up, Phoebe. I really hate to tell you this over the phone, but she’s in the hospital.”
Phoebe gasped. “What’s wrong? What happened? What hospital?”
“Listen, do you have plans for the rest of the day? I’ll take you to her than and fill you in on the way over here.”
“Not anymore, I don’t. I’ll wait outside.”
“Wait! I won’t be there for about 20 minutes, so just come down around 11.30 allright?”
“See you then, but please hurry.”
“I will.” Howie went into the hospital to tell the other guys that he was going to get Phoebe.

~~At the information desk~~

Kevin just asked Katie if he could have a word with Dr. Greene, so he was waiting for him at the information desk. “I saw you sleeping in there last night. I didn’t want to wake you, I hope I did the right thing.”
“You did, I didn’t have to be anywhere or something.”
“Good, but ehm.. next time, could you try not to snore so much?” she giggled.
“Owh great, it’s Pick-on-Kevin-because-of-his-snoring-day!” Kevin replied while he put his hands in the air.
“What kind of day is it?” Dr. Greene asked with a puzzled look on his face as he walked up to him. “Erm, Saturday?” Kevin tried to figure a way out of this without him having to mention the snoring. “I guess it is.” Dr. Greene replied, but he still didn’t quite understand what just happened out there. “Follow me into my office, Kevin.”

“Please sit down. I read her chart and I saw that she went into epileptic shock last night. But the team managed to quickly stabilize her. I guess you want to know how she’s doing right now. Well, nothing changed since she was stabilized. The stabwounds are starting to heal, which ofcourse is a good thing. But other than that, no changes. I’m sorry, Kevin, but she shows no signs of waking up anytime soon. But on the bright side, if you could call it that, it gives her body the opportunity to heal without having to use energy on other things, like moving her muscles.
And then there’s something else I need to tell you. We had to call the police. I figured you didn’t do that yet, probably because of the shock you all were in. But we have to report any beatings and stabbings like these to the police. I told them that she was in a coma, but they will need a statement from you guys, since you found her. This brings me to something I wanted to discuss with you. Did you tell Brian about the rape yet?”
Kevin shook his head. “We also haven’t told him about the epileptic shock yet. He should arrive any moment now.”
“Good. But you will have to tell him this morning, because the police will probably mention it when they get here in the afternoon. I didn’t mention his condition to them, cause I figured that you didn’t want all the world to know. Have you thought about how you are going to tell him?”
Kevin explained their plan.
“That sounds like a good plan. Listen, I don’t want to intrude or anything, but maybe it would be a good idea to have me there when you tell him. If he needs medical attention, I can immediately give that to him.”
“We’d really appreciate it, Dr. Greene. That was the other reason why I wanted to talk to you, we were planning on asking you this.”
“Then that’s settled. Now tell me, what day did you say it was.. something about snoring?”
Owh great, this just won’t stop, will it, Kevin thought while he chuckled.

~~~~

She was freezing outside. Yesterday the weather was great and now it felt like someone up in heaven decided to make it storm, just for fun. She looked at her watch again. Hurry, Howie. Just hurry. Thirty seconds later, she looked at her watch again. When she looked up again, she saw Howie’s blue car and jumped in. “Hi Howie, now tell me what happened.” Howie began her to tell the story. He just finished when he parked the car for the second time that day. “Owh my God, Howie, I’m scared.”
”We are all, Pheebs. But don’t tell Brian about the rape, allright. The guys and me will do that later today.” Howie replied as he tried to give her a hug inside the car. “I won’t, I just wanna see her,” she replied as she jumped out of the car. “Wait for me! You don’t even know what room she’s in.” Phoebe looked back and decided to wait for Howie. He put his arm around her and looked at her. She’s nervous, and quite frankly, so am I, he quietly thought to himself.

After Brian, Howie and Phoebe got in to see Wendy, Nick told the other guys he would go out for a little walk. A.J. went along with him. “I don’t like the fact that Leighanne doesn’t know yet, Alex. What if something happens when we tell Rok?”
“I don’t know Nick, but we can’t tell her over the phone. Let’s just pray that Brian won’t get hurt, physically I mean. There’s nothing else we can do right now. If we told her before we told him, he would instantly know something was wrong and get it out of her. If something would happen then, the doctors might not be in time, so this is for the best. I hope.”

~~Back at the hospital~~

“Cuz, what’s wrong?”
“Nothing Bri, I’m just tired. I didn’t get much sleep last night.”
“Neither did I. Just look at her. It’s like I don’t even know the person in that bed. All the machines, and the bruises,” he began to feel the tears coming once again. Kevin saw it too and hoped that his cousin could take the other news. “Come here, Rok,” he said with open arms and Brian just cried his heart out, again. Then, he collapsed. Kevin could hardly keep him from falling on the ground. He noticed that there was no-one else in the room except for him, Bri, and Wendy. Kevin scooped up his cousin and placed him onto the empty bed next to Wendy’s, then he hit the red button. “Don’t do this to me man, not again,” he gasped.