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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.

to be

wanted to

extent of what three years had done to me. And for now,

to look at me and

wasn't who

www.

memories of me to be from before all of

www

I got back to normal-if I got back

But not now.

www

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

It didn't last.

The door creaked open.

another nurse coming to poke

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sound filled

shifting slightly, just enough to see a familiar figure peeking

Jess.

moment, she just stood there, staring at

few hurried steps,

and I felt the warm, damp press of

okay, I'm here-but nothing would come

back as hard as my frail body

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

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

a damn

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his breath. But he moved, crossing the room,

hug wasn't as tight as Jess's. It wasn't

But it was real.

eyes, breathing them in, letting them hold me

This was home.

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