Chapter 4: Hole In The Earth

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Where am I? Did I die?

Gary's head was trobbing with pain, and he could feel clotted blood plastering some of his hair to his forehead.

The smell of latex filled his nostrils and he opened his sore eyes. He was in a hostpital bed. His mother was asleep

in a chair by his side, and the noise from the hallway that had awoken him told Gary his Dad and siblings were here

as well. He looked down at himself in his flimsy hospital gown and flinched at the sight of the IV needle in his wrist.

Gary watched as his mother stirred in the armchair, and it brought one worry to the front of his mind.

Do they know what happened?!?

She opened her eyes, and her face lit up when she saw Gary sitting up, awake at last.

He smiled at his mother's beeming face, she looked so worried about him.

"Oh Gary!", she said breathlessly, getting up and throwing her arms around her son's neck, "Thank God you woke up!"

Gary gritted his teeth discreetly at the sound of that name, God.

"George, get in here, Gary's awake now!"

His afformentioned father was soon at his bedside, along with his brothers and sisters, hugging him and telling him how

much they loved him. And of course, how much they had prayed for his recovery.

"What..happened?", he finaly had the guts to ask.

Everyone went quiet.

Gary's older brother Landon put his hand on his shoulder and spoke softly, as if of the dead.

"We called your friend Butters, and he said you were with Kyle."

Gary almost laughed at the discription of Butters as his friend, it went without saying. Everybody was Butters' friend.

"We went to the Broflovski's house, and when Kyle answered the door, he had a bandage on his nose."

*his big fugly kike nose*

Gary tensed his wrist, making his IV needle push deeper, as Landon countinued.

"He said you and that boy Craig has a fight, and he tried to break it up."

His father shook his head and his little sister Maggie giggled.

"I guess you didn't get beaten up too bad, but when you came home, you passed out from exaustion."

No. Kyle wouldn't...Just to cover it up for me?

Landon ran an idle hand through his orange hair and countinued, unable to make eye contact with his younger brother.

"We called him when we found you in your room, wondering if he knew anything about it, and he told us."

Gary tried his best not to look shocked. How did Kyle even know about it? About his....his problem.

Maybe he was just drunk before, maybe he didn't mean that stuff he said. Kyle's always been a pretty nice guy.

"The doctor says you'll be able to go home and back to school soon, isn't that great?", said his father, patting his arm.

"yeah, gr-great...hey, why'd I get in that fight, anyway?"

Gary decided to play along. It was a weird excuse, and he wasn't sure how Craig, of all people, had gotten mixed up in it.

"Oh", Landon blushed, stuffing his hands in his pockets, "Kyle said Craig had just been mad at you for something...I don't know,

it sounded dumb."

Gary lied back on his pillows and his family left to let him rest.

Hmm I thought Kyle would have more of an imaginaaaation than that.

He tried to laugh, but it made his head hurt.

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*Hole In The Earth by Deftones

Author's Note: Short chapter, next one should be better. I also had to give the Harrison's names, so I just used the names of Mormons I used to know, to make it more authentic ^ ^

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