That afternoon he received another visit, but this time it wasn't the nurse who told him. It's just that, simply, all of a sudden he heard a yell that almost sounded like someone crying, or a moaning of some kind.

"Niiiiiick!"

"Oh, god…" He mumbled while sitting on his bed with a bad feeling.

It wasn't Maya, it was a more masculine and adult voice, but with a childish touch. At that moment a man around his twenties entered the room with tears on his eyes. He had blonde, pointy hair and a goatee, and Phoenix felt like he didn't want to know nothing about him even though, unfortunately, he felt like he know him.

"Niiiiick, man" The man yelled, steeping closer to the bed. "How can you do this to me?, I thought you were dead."

"What?" He asked, astonished.

"Hey!" A nurse yelled furiously while entering the room. "You can't be here pestering the patients! Get out of here immediately!"

"No, no! I'm one of Nick's friends, I have to be here, isn't that right Nick?"

"I don't know who this man is." Phoenix told her, taking advantage of the situation. "My name isn't even Nick. Please, take him away."

The nurse took him by the arm, but the man struggled.

"Wait Nick, man! It's me, Larry! You're inseparable friend, Larry Butz."

When something smells… A catchy saying came to Phoenix's mind and he had the feeling that he was saying the true.

"Alright, he can stay." Phoenix finally expressed.

The nurse looked at him surprised, she looked like she was about to call security. Larry on the other hand was grinning ear to ear.

"Thanks Nick, I knew that you would remember me." He expressed with gratitude, and then he turned to the nurse. "I'm so sorry, if you want I can compensate for all the trouble. How about this night? I know a European restaurant that…"

The nurse seethed like if she was containing the desire to slap him. She turned around and got out of the room without looking back. Larry made an offended face that seemed to say, "What's here problem?", but then he turned to Phoenix.

"Gha, forget her. In the end all the women are the same, you can't trust them…"

"Am… Larry, Isn't?... What are you doing here?"

"What do mean 'what am I doing here'? I came to see you, like the good friend that I am."

"We are friends?" Phoenix looked carefully, trying to remember.

"Ah, come on Nick, we been friends since primary. I know we had difficult times, like that time you were accused of stealing the money I stole, but I don't deserve to be forgotten like that, right?"

"… I was accused of what?"

"It's a long story, Nick."

"Why does everybody keep calling me Nick?!" He yelled in his mind, but he stopped himself and breathed heavily.

"This nurses… I love chics in uniform." He commented, looking at the hallway. "I once knew a flight attendant, she was incredible and she was perfect for me. But everything went wrong, her work was taking too much of her time, and she had to choose between her work and me. And can you believe that she choose her work instead of me? I hate women, when you're least expecting it…"

"Larry." Phoenix interrupted. "You came here to talk about your romantic life? Because if that's the case I don't feel like hearing it…"

"That's right!" Larry yelled. "I actually came here to tell you that everything about the accident it's solved, that driver crossed the corner like a mad man, and a lot of people saw it, he himself admitted that he passed the red light. He's going to have to compensate you with a lot of money."

"Oh, great… I guess." Phoenix commented. "You were there?" Phoenix then asked and Larry nodded. "Is it true that I saved Maya?"

"Oh yes, you are a hero. The car was going like a missile towards her and then you jumped, you pushed her. The car hit you instead and you were sent flying into the air for various meters, and your head collided against a wall. It was incredible; I don't even know how you are still alive."

"Me neither." Phoenix answered, imagining the scene. "Hey Larry… Maya and I are together?"

"What?" Larry asked. "Wow, I didn't know! But it doesn't surprise me, I suspected it for a long time. In fact, I talked with Edgy about it but he said that you would never take the first step… For how long have you been a couple?"

"No I didn't say that." Phoenix rushed to the answer. "I don't even know if we're together, I don't remember nothing about her, understand? That's why I'm asking."

"Now I get it." Larry commented while scratching his head. "Well, you both work and live together, although it was never clear to me if you had a relationship. But I'm sure that you had feelings for her and that she had feelings for you."

"I see…" Phoenix mumbled. "Well, thank you for coming, but that nurse is giving you bad looks. You should go."

Larry turned his head to see the same nurse from before and she was looking at him with a frown in her face from the hallway, it looked like if she was waiting for him to do something bad so that she could have an excuse to get him out of the building.

"That means that she likes me." Larry whispered. "I tend to cause that reaction. I think they call it, hate-love. First they seem to hate me then they see how wonderful I am…"

"Yeah, that's possible." Phoenix accepted. "Good luck." He bid farewell to his friend and Larry got out of the room and he gave Phoenix a wink and a grin like if he had everything in his hands.

Phoenix sighed as he hears Larry saying "I see you been considering my offer…" and so he decided to distract himself with the thought of Maya. For some reason he couldn't stop think about her. In fact, he wished she come to visit him soon…