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That was all I seem to remember because the next thing I knew I was waking up in a hospital room, with an IV hooked up to my arm. Damn that thing hurt. The thing that nota lot of people understood about me was that I wasn't even scared. Being scared and being in the business didn't mix well. Actually they didn't mix at all. Very much the same way water and oil don't.

"Well I can see that Ms. Corinthos is up, why don't we give her something for the pain." I heard a doctor but couldn't see; I hadn't opened my eyesyet. I oculdn't really feel my left leg, but I'm guessing that had something to do with the explosion. I had sprained my ankle and pulled something in my knee.

"Rachel! Oh god Rachel. Baby, I love you please don't leave me. Oh god, why did this have to happen?" I could tell that my family and Max were there and by the sounds of it Max was crying.

"Max." I whispered only so loudly that he could just barely hear me.

"Oh baby, what happened?' He asked as he took my hand and kissed it, and then he brushed his lips against mine.

"I don't know. The last thing I remember was turninghe gas to the stove on, and then BOOM! Do you have any idea whatcould have happened?" I opened my eyes for the first time to see Sonny, Michel, Carly, baby Morgan, Courtney, Jason and Max looking lovingly at me.

"Oh thank god you are wake. My god we thought we had lost you. You told methat you were going to be careful.What the hell happened?" Sonny was mad as hell at me but the funniest part about it was he didn't seem to care. I know he did, care thatwas.

"Oh Sonny shut up. Let the poor girl talk, she's in ahospital. If you were in her place anddon't tell me you haven'tbeen, because you'd justbe lying to all of us. Would you want her to come into her room and start yelling atyou becauseyou made a mistake?" Jason was always the one to make Sonny realize the truth. And somehow thecomment made us all laugh.

"Sonny, how could I have known whatwas going to happen? AllI wasnted to do was make lunch adn I just turned on the stove. And it is not Max's fault that I got hurt, it is nobody's fauly. You knowwe may neverbe able to figure out who tapped thegas line and I really don't care, I'm alive and that is all that should matter." I said as I sat up in the hospital bed.

I looked at Sonny and knew that he understood and I alsoknew that he didn't really mean to say what he had, but he had to yell or be mad at somebody or maybeeven both.

"Max, come here, I have something for you." I said as he brought his face closer to mine. I really didn't care if Sonny didn't like it,he would have to deal with it.

"What?" Max asked.

"I love you." I said with a smile, and then pulled his headto mine and kissed him like I had never kissed another man in my life. The weird part was that I wasn't thinking about Max whiel I was kissinghim. I was thinking about the kid from Mr. Moretalli's class.I shock off the thought and kept kissing him.

"EWEWEWEWEWEWEW!" I started to laugh as Michel bellowed his displeasure of Max andI kissing.

"Oh Michel. Come here you." Michel climbed up on the bed with me."Michel when you fall in love, and don't try telling me you won't. I wasonce your age, ask your dad I told him I would never fall inlove and now look at me. I love Max and he loves me and kissing him is just as much fun to me as playing withyour trucks is for you. I promise when youfind love youwillalways remember how you never liked seeingpeople kissing." I said as I made a face and tickled him. I tickled him until neither him norI could breathe. I loved hearinghim laugh, itmade me feel better.

That is exactly how I wokeup the following morning, with Michel under one armand Max in the chair across the room. I started to laugh inside, Michel was snoring and Max was talking his sleep. I stretched out my armthat I was able to move adn turned on the little radiothat Sonny had Johnny bring in. A song was just ending and anew one was coming on, oh god it was the song. The song was by Toby Keith, "You Leave Me Weak,"it was teh very firstsong that Max and I danced to at Carly's club.Ilooked across the room to Max and I started to remember the first day we met, it was my sixteenth birthday and Sonnyhad bought me a new car, well sort of see hebought a car and a driver. The driverturned outto be Max and as they say the restis history.

Max was so handsome as he slep; I was just now noticing how he always seemed to sleep with his hands across his chest, over his heart. Istarted to prya silently, 'god please don't take him away from me, I don't deserve him, he is only a man that I found to be my heart, I love him and I nothing more then for him to happy. I don'tdeserve such a wonderful man for all the horrible things I have done, but please I would givemy own life for his and so if that's what is suppose to happen, let it.'

"Rachel. Are you okay?" Jason was whispering as kneeled nextto me.

"Oh hiJase,yeah I'm fine. Just saying a prayer."

"About what?"

"Ohjust thanking god for my life." I leid to him but heknew that I was lying and he knew why. "Jase, what the hell are you doing here this early? I mean Courtney is probably going awol since I know you didn't leave a note." It was sixthirty in the morning and if I remember anything from the island, other then the explosion, was Courtney's frantic episode.

"Just coming to check on my favorite girl before I headed into work. Is that acrime? Come on look at Super Max over there." I startedd to laugh, Jason would address Max as Super Man because it was a nickname I had given him when I was seventeen,when he saved my life after I went over an embankment off ofJason's bike.

"Heard that, shut up over there some people are trying to sleep." Max was talking only his eyes were still closed.

"Sorry, babe." I looked over to Michel, he was still asleep and I had a feeling he woudl be for a while. He hadn't fallen asleep until midnight.

Sonny and Carly had told the nurse that Michel couldn't sleep unless he was in bed with me, which was some what true butit was only the part true because it was usually Sonny's bed he had to be in. The nurse said it was okay that he stay and she told Max that he could stay ifhe were really my bodyguard. We told her that he was, only I though if she looked at us now she probably wouldn't buy it. I had to laugh at the idea if she walked in, god I would have to spendanother night here by myself, okay I had to make it look real. Here was a Puerto Rico hospital. A place thatI felt out of place but that's okay.

"Jase, leave you're going to be late if youdon't leve now. I love you and all but I know better then that and Sonny will have your head if you aren't there on time to make sure that everybody else is there on time. Remember when I first started, I showed up two minutes late and he nearly ate me for supper." Both of us startedlaughing and then he leftwith a hug and a kiss on the cheek.

I must of fallen back to sleep because the next thing I remember was waking up to Michel complaining about how he didn't want to go to school because he wanted to stay here with me.

"Hi sweetie." I saidas I opened my eyes. "Michel do me a favor go to school and have fun then you can come back and see me. I'm not going anywhere I promise. Plusif you go to school you can tell everybody about teh explosion, and how cool it was."Telling Michel this was like watching the sky light up on the Fourth of July. He became so excited. Even though we were inPuerto Rico the boy still had to go to school. Wealways had a private class when we went onvacation.

"Ok. Aunt Rachel, you promise me you won't go anywhere?" Michel looked up at me and smiled, he kind of looked like that cat thatate the canary.

"I promise. Now come here." I gave him a hug and a kiss on the side of the face.

I was released from the hospital two days later. Sonny had ordered the houseon teh island rebuilt as soon as possible that way if for any reason we had to go back soon we could.The police on the island never did figure out what caused the explosion; however, in the back of my mind I thought that maybeLorenzo had something to do with the gas leak. I may have killed Lorenzo in cold blood, (or so I thought) but thatdidn'tmeanthat one of his goons or even his niece hadn't tried to pull something. We returned to Port Charles yesterday, and ever since then Michel hadn't been able to stop talking about the explosion, whichis no big surprise. I mean he is only ten and those sort of things make a boy wonder how it happened.