Vincent finsished off the first wall, going to work on the next wall when Ali's words registered in his head. He looked over at the kid, who was picking at his bandages. "Stop messing with your bandages, Ali." He told the teenage boy, more as a soft request than an order. He'd been the kid with no friends, the gay OCD freak doomed for bullying in highschool. Sometimes he would be mad because the bully didn't make the bruises symmetrical enough, not even caring that they were bruises. Vincent spent all his time perfect schoolwork and thus the tiny amount of social life he
did have deteriorated. Once his parents finally called a therapist, he recovred enough to take his full ride to Harvard and attained a Master's Degree in Pyschology. He was hired at the Ward a month after he turned twenty-one since he started college at seventeen. He took his mind from his thoughts, looking at Ali to try to find a small slither of hope.
"Ali, you can get better." Vincent told him, scrubbing off the next wall. Thinking helped him clean at a faster pace, and soon enough the walls were sparkling clean. He left the room to get a clipboard, and before he left a nurse grabbed his shoulder. His beautiful boyfriend and colleague
Samuel Wiles looked at him with a worried glance. "Vince, don't go back in there." Sam stated, caressing his boyfriend's face. Vincent kissed his fingers, giving him an assuring smile to calm his nerves. he walked back into the room, reviewing the other session histories while he watched Ali in his peripherial vision. He wrote ALI in big letter at the stop of the notepad clipped to the clipboard in black Sharpie, writing down many observations. None of the other doctors wrote in Sharpie, so which patient had Vincent was obvious to other doctors. He felt his phone vibrate, and it was
Natasha telling him his twin daughters
Lillian and Alexandria were missing him. "Ali, what's your family like?" Vincent asked, thinking of his own jumbled family. He only included Natasha, the mother of his accidental children, Sam, his amazing and understanding boyfriend, and Lilly and Alex, the two loves of his life and best friends.