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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

wanted to be me

had done to me. And for now, I didn't want

want him to look

this wasn't who I

www.

his last memories of me to

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

But not now.

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

It didn't last.

The door creaked open.

another nurse coming to poke and

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sound

shifting slightly, just enough to see a familiar figure peeking

Jess.

were red-rimmed, her lips trembling, and for a moment, she just stood there, staring

in a few hurried steps, dropped down, and pulled me into the longest, tightest

mine, and I felt the warm, damp

I'm okay, I'm here-but nothing would come

I squeezed her back as hard as

she pulled back, swiping furiously at her tears, then

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

her a damn hug,

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something under his breath. But he moved, crossing the

as tight as

But it was real.

letting them hold me up because

This was home.