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One Moment Chapter 14 By early July it was time for Dr. Marshall to start looking for another place for Matt to go. “It’s absolutely appalling they won’t let you take him,” he said shaking his head as he looked at Mark who was sitting across the desk from him. Mark shrugged his shoulders; though he was more than a little upset about it himself, he was used to the world’s shit by now. “He doesn’t have to live with me for me to be able to still see him
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One Moment Chapter 13 On his Friday session with Dr. Marshall, exactly one week before Christmas, Matt sat in his usual chair and handed over his journal. Even though the doctor kept saying it wasn’t serving any purpose to do one, he still, for some reason, had to do it. Dr. Marshall read through the few paragraphs and handed the book back. “There’s going to be an announcement this afternoon. Next week is Christmas, as I’m sure you know and the boys here, if they
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One Moment Chapter 12 A couple of weeks went by with Matt writing in his Danny notebook every day between classes and chores and sessions with Dr. Marshall. Slowly he began to feel not quite so miserable though he still had the feeling he’d never be truly happy again. He just couldn’t comprehend that would be possible without Danny. After the breakfast dishes were cleared on Friday morning, the last Friday in October, Mary, as she did every Friday morning stood at the head
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One Moment Chapter 11 Matt hadn’t been back at the facility for more than fifteen minutes the next day before he was taken to Dr. Marshall’s office. It had been Mark to pick him up from the hospital so he hadn’t seen the doctor since the afternoon before. He wasn’t looking forward to seeing him, his words from the day before about the two of them having a long talk were still ringing in his head. He did not want to have a long talk, but he knew he owed the man something. Afte
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One Moment Chapter 10 After three days of throwing up nearly every thing he ate, Matt grew weaker and weaker, making it even a chore to get to the bathroom, let alone take a shower. He was in bed, as he had been for over 72 hours, when Dr. Marshall and Mark both walked into the bedroom at just after 10 am Thursday morning. Both men looked down at the boy, who was lying on his back, his lips cracked and dried from dehydration parted slightly, his flushed face not loo
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One Moment Chapter 9 Matt refused to go to bed once they got back to the facility, and even though the police had said they would not show for at least a couple of hours, Dr. Marshall was inclined to let Matt stay up. It didn’t take long however for the exhausted boy to pass out on the sofa in his office. He looked at Mark and nodded for him to follow him into the hallway, closing the door gently behind them. They stood near the door, not wanting to be too far away
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One Moment Chapter 8 Mark Elgers had just walked in his front door on Saturday afternoon after getting home from work when the phone in his house started to ring. Quickly kicking the door closed with his foot, he walked over to the phone and picked it up. “Hello?” “Mark?” “Yes?” He said recognizing Dr. Marshall’s voice. “I hate to ask this, but can you come back here?” “Well sure, is something wrong?”
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One Moment Chapter 7 At two o’clock Mark walked up to Matt’s desk where he was working on a collage, the whole room scattered with cut up magazines as each boy worked on their self portrayal collages. “It’s time for your visit with Dr. Marshall.” The annoyed look on Matt’s face was unmistakable but he did not argue, something Mark had come to realize that Matt really did very little of considering he was in a place he obviously, from his escape attempts, did not want to be.
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One Moment Chapter 6 Matt was more than a little dismayed that evening right before dinner when he was led to Dr. Marshall’s office, even more dismayed when he realized Andy was heading there too and giving him several dirty looks, as they walked, not that he was very surprised about that. Once they were in the office Andy sat down heavily in a chair looking plenty pissed off making Matt even more nervous about what was going on, though he was sure it had something t
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One Moment Chapter 5 Matt did not know how long he stayed in the small room but it was dark outside by the time he was able to leave. He was still shaky and exhausted but instead of going to bed like he wanted he was led back down to the main hall and right into a room he hated as badly as the room he was just in, Dr. Marshall’s office. He was surprised when the door was opened for him and he walked in to see the man still there. He wondered if the doctor ever to
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One Moment Chapter 4 Within minutes of finishing his dinner, an exhausted Matt asked Mark if he could go to bed. He’d had his most active day in what seemed like months though he knew it was really only just a couple weeks. Between the tests and following Mark all over the place and learning chores and doing laundry and making his bed, he had all he could do to keep his eyes open. “That’s no problem; do you want to take your shower tonight or in the morning?”
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One Moment Chapter 3 Dr. Marshall looked up and smiled at Matt as the boy stiffly walked into the room, he could easily read from Matt’s facial expression and body language that he would rather be anywhere but his office at that moment. “How are you feeling?” He asked deciding not to comment on it for the moment as he motioned to one of the chairs in front of his desk, the same one Matt had sat in before. He watched him sit down not surprised his body stayed rigid and his ha
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One Moment Chapter 2 “Is he sleeping?” Mary Rancourt asked Mark, as she walked up to where he was sitting in a chair between Matt’s bed and the empty one beside it, with a tray of food. Mark looked up from the book he was reading and smiled at her. “Yeah he’s been asleep since the moment he laid down.” He turned and looked at the clock on the wall near the door, stretching out his body as he did so. “Nearly four hours now. He hasn’t even stirred. I don’t believe
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One Moment Chapter 1 Matt looked at the building before him. It didn’t look like a prison, in fact it just looked a little like a one story schoolhouse except with a lot less windows. There wasn’t a big chain link fence topped off with barbed wire, nor any armed guards at a gate, no this place certainly didn’t look like a place one couldn’t run away from he thought hopefully. His social worker, who was babbling on as usual from the front seat of her car had said it wasn’t a
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Matt Creighton finds himself in a locked juvenile facility at the worst possible time. He is desperate to escape but cannot explain why without breaking a promise. Hoping that it is not too late, wishing he could return to that one moment when things went wrong.
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Unbreakable Faith Chapter 17 After being poked and prodded for three hours in the hospital on Monday morning, Ian, still drowsy from the sedation wasn’t up to going back to school. Greta didn’t argue, in fact she probably would have argued if he had wanted to go back as she could see just by his eyes how very sleepy he was. Once they got back home Ian went straight to his bedroom and was asleep within minutes. It was nearly two o’clock when Greta saw him wandering back down
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Unbreakable Faith Chapter 16 Ian and Greta got into the car at 8:30 on Friday morning for the trip to the doctor’s. “Does my doctor know I’m going to see someone else?” Ian asked not wanting his doctor to have hurt feelings that he wasn’t going to see him anymore. “He wasn’t your regular doctor Ian, just an on call doctor at the hospital. See there’s a whole staff of them at the hospital. Just because you had a certain doctor there, doesn’t make him your regular d
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Unbreakable Faith Chapter 15 On the Wednesday after his second weekend stay at the Delmar’s, Ian was a little nervous to see Mr. Delmar standing in the entryway to the group home when he got home from school. He stopped just in front of the man and looked up at him. “Is something wrong?” Ron smiled and shook his head. “Nope,” he said cheerfully. “I just came to help you pack up your stuff. You are going to stay with us from now on.” His mouth falling o
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Ian had never looked as forward to church as he did Sunday morning. He couldn’t wait to see Nathan. He got up at his usual time took a long hot shower then walked downstairs to where both Greta and Ron were seated at the breakfast table. “Good morning.” They both said in unison as they smiled up at him. “Morning.” he smiled right back. Ron couldn’t help but grin. Ian’s excitement was written all over his face and could be read in his body language. He k
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Unbreakable Faith Chapter 13 After kissing her husband Mrs. Delmar rose off the sofa. Knowing Matt was difficult to wake she leaned over him first. “Honey, movie’s over, it’s time for bed.” After a lot of shaking and talking to him his eyes finally fluttered open. Ian stirred as soon as Matt started to move his legs. He sat up groggily propping himself up with his hand as he rubbed his eyes with the finger tips that were sticking out of his cast. “Is the movie o
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Unbreakable Faith Chapter 12 Walking into home ec Ian was very happy to see Nathan already there. “You did it!” he said as he sat down next to him at a table for two. Nathan grinned at him. “Yeah it was simple. I actually got a congratulatory speech for broadening my horizons.” He stopped and smiled a little bigger. “Mark told me your email address. I love it.” Ian blushed. “I hope it comes true.” “What do you mean?” “That
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Unbreakable Faith Chapter 11 After services the next morning Ian followed Reverend Delmar into his office. He took the seat he’d sat in the week before while the man sat behind his desk. “So how did this week go?” Ian shrugged; it had gone real well up until the night before. “It was good.” “Mind if I ask what happened to your face?” Ian put his hand up to his nose, which he knew from looking in the mirror that morning was br
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Unbreakable Faith Chapter 10 Ian was still glowing by the time he walked into the library at 2:30. Raymond was already there, notebook open in front of him at the table. He walked over and sat down across from him. Raymond looked up at him and smiled. “Wow, you look uncharacteristically happy.” Blushing Ian pulled his chair in closer to the table. “I’ve had a good day,” he said shyly. “Did you come up with some questions?” he asked to change the sub
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Unbreakable Faith Chapter 9 After dinner and finishing his chore on Wednesday night Ian went upstairs to change for Youth group. He was just pulling his clothes out of the bureau when another knock came on the door. He turned and looked at it wondering again why anyone would be knocking. “Ian?” he heard Mr. Harvey’s voice say. “Yeah?” “Can I come in?” “Yes sir,” Kyle shook his head outside the door then turned the knob a
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Unbreakable Faith Chapter 8 If it hadn’t been for Nathan being there, Ian would not have wanted to go back to school at all. He was still scared of the teachers whom he knew didn’t like him. Was scared he’d have to face the cafeteria at lunch, he’d never stepped foot in the room and wasn’t looking at all forward to being in a room crammed with people. As they left the house Monday morning, they all got into a large passenger van. It was a deep red. Inside there wer
