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I’d gone home after that

I hadn’t even stopped to tell rabbed my lunch kit, jacket, and keys and checked the fuck out

I’d gotten a call about an hour later checking on me, but I hadn’t answered it

I’d withdrawn from all of my classes hours later via eone to sign my un-enrollment papers when all of my peers were in class

Like a coward

This was supposed to be a safe floor They all knew ot, because otherwise they wouldn’t have sent me in here

And upon closer examination of the man a little more up and personal, I realized that it really was localized to one area of his body—his head

So, I sat down in the seat that was conveniently beside the bed and turned on the TV

The first thing that caed it

I hated sports—or more importantly, sports hated me

I was a klutz, pure and simple

I couldn’t catch a baseball to save h school, only to catch a ball straight to the face when I found I couldn’ton the cake of you-suck-at-sports was the ti on my metal-spiked track shoes—before the meet even started

That’d been the last straasn’t cut out for sports Hell, I didn’t even like watching sports

They sucked, to be honest

I’d once tried to go to a professional baseball ga the bearded hotties

Speaking of beards,in bed

It was distinct Thehis cheeks, but on his chin, the beard was long and pointy—like those Viking skull shirts I saw running around so much lately However, what made it distinctly different frohtly curly, and there was a thin white line running down the very left side of his beard—alht

But, that ‘highlight’ started at the very edge of theas theon four days now

“How’s he doing?”

I looked up to see the doctor—one I didn’t recognize right off the bat—whisk his way in with a nurse on his tail This one was actually a woraduated with had I finished school Her name was Tatiana, and she was a very outspoken woman I could tell that she wanted to say a s about the doctor’s abrupt entrance but chose not to in deference to liking her job

“Patient is still on one hundred percent oxygen,” Tatiana said “His brain swelling hasn’t gone down at all In fact, we’ve emptied more fluids out of his drain today than we did yesterday”

I zoned out as I looked at the man

He looked so big and intie and strong looking as he was needed a h I could hear it, and see it, it was still rather shocking to hear

His chest rose and fell rhythmically Up, down Up, down

“Mom’s on her way down as we speak”