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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

to

had done to me.

didn't want him to look at me and

this wasn't

www.

his last memories of me to be from before all of this. Before

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to normal-if I got back to

But not now.

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

It didn't last.

The door creaked open.

didn't turn my head, assuming it was just another nurse coming to poke and prod at me some more.

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sound filled

just enough to see a familiar

Jess.

a moment, she just stood there, staring at me like she

the room in a few

I felt the warm, damp

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

her back as hard as my frail

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

lingering near the entrance, hands shoved deep into his pockets. He was stiff, 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,

her a

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moved, crossing the room, hesitating only for a second before leaning

as Jess's.

But it was real.

in, letting them hold me up because I couldn't do

This was home.