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I had to stay in the hospital another day and I hated it. I wasn't on the ventilator

any more but the oxygen tubes were annoying enough as it was and the nurses were all treating me like I'd break any second and all because there was no medicine I could take for my illness because of my allergy. It was a bad thing but I tried to look past it. I didn't want to spend the rest of my life on medication even though I might need it for pain.

I talked it over with Darry and Sodapop and we agreed it was for the best. I knew I'd need oxygen and the pain medication but that was it. I wanted to eat my normal meals and be with the people I love. I'd have to spend a lot of time in bed hooked to oxygen but I wouldn't let it get the best of me.

If I had to sit in a wheelchair and be pushed to go places without tiring I would too. I wanted to live while I even had a life no matter how bad of one it might be.

I was very board because frankly in case you've never noticed hospitals are not the funniest of places and to be honest they scared me. There was where I learned I was an orphan there was where I saw my best friend die, there was where I got an infection when I was for and there was where I got my death sentence

"But I'm his cousin best friend's sister's brother-in-laws sister's nephews godson's brother's child twice removed."

I knew that voice. It was undoubtedly Two-Bit's. Besides nobody was crazy enough to talk like that except him and maybe Sodapop.

The nurse must have given up on trying to shoo him away because he walked inside with three McDonalds bags, two Pepsis and a grin like a cheesy cat.

"Well heeeeelllllllllllooooow Sunshiiiiiiiiiiiiiine!" I fought the erg to laugh.

He was so goofy. Only Two-Bit could make you laugh when your dying.

"Figures you'd want something besides the poison they try to feed ya here. Honestly schools and hospitals. The stuff they give ya does more harm then good. I still have nightmares about mystery meet Monday."

I grinned; his presence helped me feel better. "Naw it was Tuna Surprise Tuesday."

Two-Bit smiled again and sat the food up. Burgers and fires and other yummy foods that technically I shouldn't be eating but I'm dying I gotta get my kicks while I'm still here to get them.

While we ate Two-Bit kept me bust with tales of his exploits which were as strange as you could expect from him. They included girls; fights; and cars but it was just the normal. I was glad to see he was still good old Two-Bit. I was afraid the guys would all change now that another one of us was dead, for the most part.

I took a bite of one of my fry's and nodded as if I were listening but wasn't really.