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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.

The doctors had to pull him away eventually, muttering about assessments, checking my line for feeds, and ordering imaging to see if they could reverse the stoma and other attachments I 0.00%

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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 be

wanted to be me

three years had

want him to look at

this wasn't who I

www.

to be from before all of

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normal-if I got back to

But not now.

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letting the

It didn't last.

The door creaked open.

turn my head, assuming it was just another nurse coming to poke and

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choked, muffled sound

blinked, shifting slightly, just enough to see a familiar figure peeking her

Jess.

were red-rimmed, her lips trembling, and for a moment, she just stood there, staring at me like she wasn't sure

without a word, she crossed the room in a few hurried steps, dropped down, and pulled me into the longest, tightest

and I felt the warm, damp press

something-to tell her I'm okay, I'm here-but nothing

as hard as my frail body

later, she pulled back, swiping furiously at her tears,

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

give her a damn

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But he moved, crossing the room, hesitating only for a second

wasn't as tight as Jess's. It wasn't desperate or

But it was real.

letting them hold me up because I

This was home.