He makes a good impression of genuine confusion when he lays eyes on me. Even if he didn’t know she would ask me to bring the bag, he had to know I’d find out.
He turns disturbingly pale and then a sick shade of red, trying to keep his breathing steady. I can only imagine the pain, and I don’t try to.
I can’t manage sympathy today - can’t even cry - don’t even want to.
I think the fury is the only thing keeping me standing.
Tossing his backpack into the seat by the window, I cross my arms over my chest, glaring at the pretty idiot in the white gown.
“Why didn’t you tell me you were rehospitalized?”
He glares back at me, despite the pain, with a steadiness that’s almost impressive, “You were busy.”
“I was busy-”
I can’t even - this close to going off on one of my demented little tirades - I probably would, if there weren’t other patients. I force my voice to remain steady, and quiet, but hiss venomously, “You don’t think I could take time to visit my best friend when he’s in the hospital?”
“You couldn’t when I wasn’t,” he says flatly, and that strikes the wrong chord. Though it’s not like I didn’t want to.
I’m not about to go back to apologizing, to surrendering to his moods - not today-
Push back. the shadow-
When I don’t budge, he looks down at the blankets, running his hand over the cotton ocean.
“It’s not that big a deal,” he mumbles under his breath, like a pouty child. There’s a brief silence, only disturbed by the rustle of the blankets. When he speaks again his tone makes my stomach churn with delicate horror:
“They’ve been telling me since the accident that I’d probably end up paralyzed from the waist down, anyway. They’re planning to do a surgery but they’ve already warned me it’s not expected to work. I guess they’re scared I'll sue if it leaves me completely…”
He can’t finish the sentence, and maybe it’s better that way. Saying it out loud would feel too much like pronouncing a curse. Just the silence knocks the wind out of me.
Since the whole chapter is one scene if I don't stop myself i would just post the whole thing