Kind of a fluffy chapter but oh well here goes

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Ch 4 Charlie talks to Amita

Two days later after Don and Charlie had come back to the doctor's office Don had dropped Charlie off at Cal-Sci so that Charlie could help Amita grade papers for the classes she had taken over for him since he'd been sick.

"Hey Charlie," Amita said, looking up from the papers she'd been grading.

"Hey, thought I'd come by and give you a hand," Charlie said sitting down beside Amita.

"Thanks. I could really use it," Amita sighed pushing a stack of papers towards Charlie. As they worked she said, "So I hear that everything's a go with the transplant."

"Yeah it is. Don and I just got back from Dr. Robinson's office. The transplant is scheduled for May 13th," Charlie stated not looking up from his paper.

"Really, that's 2 months form now. Why does it take so long?" Amita asked a little surprised.

"Well, they have to give me several transfusions of Don's blood to lesson the chances of rejection," Charlie explained looking at her. "Besides I'm kind of glad it's not right away."

This surprised Amita who said," Why are you glad. I thought you wanted to have the surgery right away so you would be normal again."

"Oh no I do.. it's not the operation that I'm worried about," Charlie said quickly.

"Then what?"

"It's.. Don." Charlie hesitated then receiving and encouraging glance from Amita he went on, "I'm not really sure that he really wants to do this. I think he's doing it because he feels like he has to in order to protect me. You know like he did when we were kids."

"Did you talk to him about it?"

"I told him that he didn't have to protect me that this was a bigger deal than just protecting me from bullies, he said that he knows this and he insists that he wants to but..." Charlie trailed off.

"But what," Amita said urging him to continue.

"But everytime the subject of the transplant comes up I can see a small flicker of doubt in his eyes. I don't know maybe it's just me making things up that aren't there because I'm a little nervous about the operation. But still if he's having doubts I would like for him to tell me before it's too late too change his mind."

"Well, if you really think he feels like this then you should talk to him about. After all this is a major decision that should not be done unless he's 100 sure he wants to do," Amita said matter-of-factly.

"I know, you're right and I will talk to him. The next time I see him I'll talk to him," Charlie agreed. "Rather he likes it or not." Charlie thought as he and Amita went back to grading papers.

"Hey, Amita," Charlie said looking at her.

"Yeah," Amita said looking up.

"Thanks. You have no idea how better I feel getting that out," Charlie said, his hand on Amita's.

"No problem Charlie," Amita said with a warm smile.