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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.

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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 normal

wanted to

of what three years had done to me. And

him to look at me and see

wasn't

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of me to be from before

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got back to normal-if I got back to normal-we could make

But not now.

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eyes for a moment, letting the silence settle over me like a

It didn't last.

The door creaked open.

first, I didn't turn my head, assuming it was just another

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sound filled the

to see a familiar figure

Jess.

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

shook against mine, and I felt the warm, damp press

say something-to tell her I'm okay, I'm here-but nothing would come out,

I squeezed her back as hard as my frail body

pulled back, swiping furiously at her tears, then sniffed and turned

was stiff, his face unreadable, his body half-turned like he wasn't sure if he should even be here. Jess

give her a

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crossing

as Jess's. It wasn't desperate

But it was real.

breathing them in, letting them hold me

This was home.

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