So apparently Cody was attacked by a bear.
He was taken to a little medical ward in the back of the Loser House. Having a guy in the house with a fullbody cast, as if this gang wasn't unresponsive enough. There are partial 'cliques' here now. Katie is always with Justin because he's hot and she's a sixteen year old girl, Tyler and Eva are always playing sports, and Eva always wins. That leaves me with the choice of two lovely contestants: Ezekiel Smith, homeschool turned homeboy, or Cody MacNeil, that guy who's in the hospital. Oh boy.
I sit looking at my spaghetti.
"What are you doing?" Katie asks inquisitively.
"Saying grace in my head"
"Why?" She asks
"Because that's how the Costa household has operated for years and I'm used to it"
"Ohh. Why?"
I don't really answer.
After supper I felt compelled to go to the hospital ward. What kind of house has a hospital ward anyway? Other than the TV show, of course. (Which I admit to being a big fan of) I go to visit Mr. Bearattack. It's not like I have anything better to do. I look at the multitude of white bandages enveloping his skinny body. He looks pretty bad.
"Um, hi Cody"
He looks at me and grunts.
"How you feeling?"
I may as well just stay and chat, you know...I couldn't tell what he tried to say.
"Bit's okay, Ma fast healr" he says, muffled.
I cast a simple "oh".
Well it's like the others. I have nothing to say to him.
"I'm pretty friggin' bored here. I mean, we don't even talk to each other around the 'Loser House'. It's pretty lame."
"Srry to hrr tat"
"I don't really know why I'm talking to you. I guess it's something out of the ordinary."
I can't tell if he's giggling or going through cardiac arrest.
A poofy-haired woman with a big rack comes in.
"You should be off now, son, he needs his rest." Evidently, she was the nurse.
"Okay. See ya." I motion to him.
I felt tempted to add an "I promise when you wake up you won't find me kissing you," but that would be inappropriate on many levels.
As I prepared myself for bed, I found myself waiting for Justin to get out of the shower. He takes so long with his little beauty routines, he's worse than a woman. I don't know what everyone sees in him. Sure, he's attractive, but he'd probably be so high-maintenance, not to mention he'd probably have an affair with one of his crazy fans. He isn't really my idea of attractive. Not that I really know what my idea of attractive is...I should get out more often. He steps out of the washroom in a cloud of steam, water drops dripping off his perfectly tanned skin. I sigh. That's why everyone is so attracted to him. I slap my forehead, realizing how odd that sigh could seem to anyone unaware of my inner dialogue.
By now I've taken up a habit of visiting Cody every day. It used to break up the pace of the day, but now it's part of the routine. I enjoy it, though. He's a good listener. Not that he has any choice.
"...I mean, they always say the Latinos are the hot ones. But no one thinks I'm hot. I honestly think he's an over-cooked dane. Severely over-cooked." I stop rambling for a moment. Do you think he's bothered by me yet?
Just then, the latest loser enters. Beth. She has with her what appear to be flowers. Is she trying to impress him? Maybe Beth likes Cody. That would be weird. I let her do her thing anyway. She talks to him for a bit as if I'm not there. Her lispy, annoying voice fills the room. I notice she keeps adjusting her glasses. Well the hell if I'm going to let her step in on Cody like that! I've been here for weeks and he's been the first person whom I've felt it right to lecture, and the hell if I'm letting her get closer to him!
Way to sound all jealous girlfriend, Noah.
Before I end up scaring myself, I leave the room. I have a strange attachment to that mummified creep, it's nothing weird, it's just, strange. Strange, weird, whatever.
The completely icy treatment the losers gave each other in the past is begining to ease up. We play Wii sports now, for some odd reason. Sports, even when digital, are not my forté. It's entertaining to watch, though.
"You screwed me!" Ezekiel said when someone elbowed him as he took his bowling shot.
"You mean screwed you up."
"Is there a difference?"
Before I have to go through a birds-and-the-bees monologues, I duck out.I should totally go in the hot tub...and not do those things Cosmo suggested. I walk by the sick room on my way out and notice Mauling Victim standing there, now unwrapped. I decide to go in.
"Um, you really are a fast healer."
"Yeah, told you so! I've gotten cuts that healed over night."
I search for my words.
"So, uh, now that you're not dangling between life and death and you're out of your bandages, I was wondering, uh, would you....like to be my roomate?"
Where did all that come from? Am I trying to turn him into my BFF? The Katie to my Sadie?
"Sure! That sounds good. Some of the others here seem less than companion-like."
I couldn't agree more.
"Okay! So I'll be up in a second! Just gotta get my things."
I snap out of a weird trance I was going through.
"Sure...I'll show you the room."
Cody throws his stuff on the bed and sits on it.
"Sweet pad you got here, bro!"
"Please...don't try to sound all cool with me. It doesn't work."
"Okey Dokey!" He says sweetly.
"That's more like it."
He takes some papers out of his bag and a biffs the huge stack into a drawer, and throws his clothes haphazardly into the dresser.
"Meh, I'll deal with the anal-retentive stuff in the morning. I just gotta fill out the doctor report...y'know, just so they know I'm not bleeding internally!"
He's a bit quirky, isn't he? I watch him scribble on the sheets of paper.
"You a lefty?" I ask
"Yep"
"Cool..."
I don't know why, but I can't even interact with him. Maybe I shouldn't have burnt bridges on the show. Maybe I should've tried to actually build some in the first place. Oh well. At least they're one person I can sort of, almost, talk to.
It's a start.
-I chose MacNeil as Cody's last name. It is MAJOR east-canada. I know at least 5 MacNeil families and I don't even have a huge network of friends. Whoever this Neil guy is, someone needs to tell him to lay off on having children.
-Damn Cody heals fast. 6 days??
-Those who don't get "other than the TV show, that is" he's saying the only house with a medical ward is House, MD, the TV show.
