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My stos to move me toward him

“Your stepbrother is here,” the nurse tells him

DG’s eyelids lift open His reet me “Hey” His voice sounds slow His eyes drop back shut

“This stuff…always…hits me” —his eyes peel back open— “so hard”

I stand beside hiuely panicked

“It’s okay” I forceokay?” I ask dumbly

I think he tries to nod, but his head barely moves “It’s…ll be…fine”

Then he’s out His head lolls slightly to the side on its pillow, and the nurse laughs “I think it hit hi to stay awake for you”

“He was?”

She smiles “Just to say bye”

I stand there as long as I think I can Thinking of another room Another patient How the needle always seemed to burn

Miller

“I’m finished?”

“That’s it,” Dr Kelley tells et dressed” She puts a finger over herme to keep a secret “Skip the wheelchair ride out this time You can leave as soon as your stepbrother arrives”

I pull ononto the rail with one hand as I do Whatever was in the IV made me so tired Even now, after almost three hours, I feel sleepy and off-balance

Also, Ezra isn’t here When I woke up—apparently I slept through the whole hour in the MRI, as well as a second EEG—they tried to bring hi room I called him just to let him knohat’s what, but he didn’t answer That was o

After I’m dressed, I sit in one of the plastic chairs beside the wheeled bed I just got out of and send him another text ‘Hey I’m done Can u pick me up? Like in the circle drive/drop off?’

I have this fuzzyso to me before they whisked me away to the MRI, and the nurse confirmed that when I asked She said she didn’t knohere he went after that, though

I’m so dead-ass tired, I don’t even want to walk out to the lobby, so I sit for a second waiting for hi What the fuck?