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4. 4.

Josh was apologizing for things I didn't understand, but I let him.

His voice was raw, cracking under the weight of something I couldn't quite grasp, and yet-his words barely made sense to me. If it had been three years... how could I blame him for anything?

If I could have spoken, if I had known what was happening to me, I would have told him to be happy.

He couldn't have known I would wake up.

Hell, I defied all logic by being here right now. The way my body felt-the sheer weakness, the heaviness in my limbs, the foreign weight of tubes and wires attached to me-was proof that my survival wasn't something anyone had expected. Whatever Josh had done, whatever choices he had made, I'd already forgiven him.

I knew I had.

Because if I had been in his place, I didn't know if I would have been strong enough to hold on, either.

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had apparently gained over the years.

I hated it.

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I hated the way I felt-like I wasn't even a person anymore but a project they had to fix, a problem to solve.

wanted to

to be me

years had

him to look at me and see

this wasn't who I

www.

of me to be from before all

www

once I got back to normal-if I got back

But not now.

www

my eyes for a moment, letting the silence

It didn't last.

The door creaked open.

assuming it was just another nurse coming to poke and prod at me some

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choked, muffled sound filled

to see a familiar figure peeking

Jess.

just

a few hurried steps, dropped down, and pulled

body shook against mine, and I felt the warm,

her I'm okay, I'm here-but nothing would come out, the damn tube in my

squeezed her back as hard as my

back, swiping furiously at her tears, then sniffed and turned her head toward the

his body half-turned like he wasn't sure if he should even be here. Jess glared at him, her eyes still

a

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face, muttering something under his breath. But he moved, crossing the room, hesitating only for a second before

tight as Jess's. It

But it was real.

closed my eyes, breathing them in, letting them hold me up because I couldn't do

This was home.

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