At school, Nat waited for his dad to arrive, when he did he was a bit surprised to Alex was not with him.

"Hey dad, is Alex finally asleep?" Nat asked relieved it was finally the weekend.

"No, he was still awake when I left." Mr Wolff said quietly. "Now Nat, I don't want you to freak out, but Alex is at the hospital."

"What!? Is he alright?" Nat asked concerned.

"Alex's burns got infected, but the nurse and doctors can treat it. But they will keep him over night," Mr Wolff explained.

Nat pulled out a pile of cards bound together by a rubber band and showed his dad.

"Maybe Alex will like these. Mrs Thorpe had everyone make get well soon cards for him," Nat said, remembering how his class had done the same when Cooper had his appendix removed.

Back at the hospital Alex was alone, because Little Grace had gone to the bathroom, and Onita was getting some food for them, so they did not have to eat hospital food.

Alex sobbed on his bed.

A girl was being pushed by her mom in a wheel chair, she had a broken leg.

"Mom, go in there," She said.

"Juanita, it's not good to barge in on people," Her mom said, Alex however did not register the name.

"But he is all alone and sad, mom" Juanita pleaded.

"Ok, but don't be rude to him," She said and pushed Juanita into Alex's room.

"Hey, what's wrong?" She asked softly.

"It hurts and everyone left me," Alex sobbed.

"Do you want someone to be with you until someone comes back?" Juanita asked.

"Yeah," Alex said sniffing to stop himself crying.

"So why are you here?" She asked kindly.

"I got burned and then I got Inflickishun," Alex said quietly, he used his left arm to wipe the tears from his eyes, but it felt weird with the IV.

"I'm sorry. Gee, you look tired," She said sympathetically.

"It hurts too much to sleep," Alex said softly, "Why are you here?"

"I broke my leg skateboarding. I was about to go home and I saw you." Juanita said.

"I like skateboarding," Alex said quietly.

"Yeah? Hey has anyone ever told you that you look like the drummer from the Silver Boulders?"

Juanita's mom suddenly put two and two together and realized that he didn't just look like the drummer from the Silver Boulders… He was the drummer from the Silver Boulders. She wanted to leave as she felt like she was now intruding on his privacy.

Nat and Mr Wolff walked in.

"Hey Alex," Nat said walking in, "Who is your friend?"

"We were just keeping him company until someone came back," Juanita's mom said.

"Yeah he was looking sad," Juanita said.

"But we will go now," Juanita's mom said.

"Bye," Juanita said, waving to Alex.

"Bye," Alex said waving back.

"Wow, he looks like Alex Wolff," Juanita said to her mom when they were out in the corridor.

"Don't over react, but that was him," Juanita's mom said

"Cool," Juanita said awed, "If only I had asked him to go skateboarding with me,"

"I don't think either of you will be skateboarding for a few weeks, but you never know, some time in the future you might get that chance." Juanita's mom said smiling.

"You ok Alex?" Nat asked going up and ruffling his brother's hair.

"Yeah, that girl was nice," Alex said absentmindedly.

"I got you a soda," Nat grabbing a can out of his pocket, opening it and giving it to Alex.

Alex started to drink it.

"I also got these from your class," Nat said giving Alex all the cards.

Alex pulled off the rubber band and it flung and hit Nat in the arm.

Nat didn't say anything but sat with his brother and looked at the cards.

After ten minutes, Nat noticed Alex was now leaning heavily to the side. Before Nat realized what happened Alex had fallen off the bed and began crying on the floor.