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Authors Note: Please don't flame me about anything, especially spell, usage and grammar. I am not to good with the mechanics of english. THANX!

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I was excited about school. I really wanted to get back after being stuck in the hospital for so long. What I hadn't expected was for everyone to avoid me. I got to the bus stop at my usual time. Nancy, and Tommy were all ready there. I got tackled the second I came into view. Nancy's parents hadn't allowed her to visit me in the hospital because they where afraid I would infect her. Tommy had just been to busy. Unfortunately not everyone was so happy. When the bus arrived at school thing seemed ok for about three seconds. The first thing I did was head to my locker, Jam had brought me homework while I was in the hospital and I had a lot of books to unload. As I walked down the hall most people moved aside, groups of people would stop talking or start whispering, I arrived at my locker to find that the guy I was sharing with had, well, moved out. His stuff was no where to be seen and the locker was more or less empty (save my old gym cloths which I had to throw out). That was more or less when I started to realize that people where avoiding me. The rest of the day was more or less the same, the one time I decided to head to the boy's room all the guys in there exited with out washing their hands (only about 45% of guys actually do wash their hands anyway) or even going at all. After that I decided to stay away from the toilets. In gym only about 6 guys actually change with my. It was worse than when everyone found out I was gay. By the end of the day I was more than depressed. I refused to let Jam drive me home and when I did get home I went straight to my room and crawled into be. It was about half an hour later when there was a knock on my door. I groaned and yelled out.
"What do you want mom." There was silence for a second then a voice.
"Well I'f I'm your mom then I should be arrested for incest." it was Jam, I swore silently to myself. He didn't wait for an invitaion, he just entered. I rolled over and faced the wall. He sat on the bed but didn't say anything. I curled up more. Jam layed down and and wraped his arms around me. I sighed. I had to admit just him holding me made things a little better. I gave in and rolled over. His blue eyes where clouded with worry. I bit my lip, trying not to cry. He pushed my bangs back and rested his forhead against mine. I closed my eyes and he kissed me lightly on the lips, that did it, I started to cry. Jam pulled me close and I rested my head on his shoulder. We stayed like that untill my mom called me down for dinner. When the two of us reached the kitchen my mom waisted no time inviting him to dinner. I was glad when he accepted. It ment that the conversation would not revolve around my day at school.
"Jam, how is your father? I hear he had an accident at work," My dad's attempt at small talk was almost funny. He had talked to Jam's father just as he got home.
"He's good, the doctor says he can get back to work but the end of next week at the latest." My dad nodded. I silently work my way through my dinner. Once dinner was finished Jam offered to help me with the dishes, I washed he put them into the dish washer to be washed again (I do keep telling my mom that that appliance is just a wast of space!). When we were done he and I headed out to his car and left for the hospital.

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I arrived at Eddie's room at about six thirty in the evening. He was lying in bed looking pretty sick, I new the feeling. I put on the biggest smile I could and greeted him.
"Hey! Eddy, how you doin'?" he looked up at me surprised.
"You actually came!" He was happy.
"Course I came, I made a promise didn't I?" Jam cleared his throat. I look back at him.
"I'll just be down in the waiting room, you can come and get me when your done ok?" I smiled and waved to him. I sit myself in the chair next to Eddie's bed.
"So how's life back in this realm?" He rolls his eyes at me.
"About as good as it can be, comsidering that the doctor just told me that he found another tumor. This one is in my stomach." He gave me a depressed smile. I do my best to widen my own smile.
"Well look on the bright side, at least they found it. Besides they might beable to remove it, you don't need all your stomach to live." He sighed.
"How was going back to school?" He asked changing subjects, I bite my lip. "I want the whole truth, no sugar coated answer. I'm getting so many of those I think I'm gonna get a tooth ach." I smile.
"The truth is, it was hell. Nobody but Jam and my really good friends actually talked to me and most people went out of their way to avoid me. And truthfully that was sugar coated." He layed back in his bad.
"I'm glad I won't be going back." I was surprised at that statment. "Slash, I need to tell you a secret." He motions for me to come closer. I move my chair and lean over.
"Slash, no matter what anyone tells you I know I'm not going to leave. Ever since I got here things have been getting worse. Yesterday my doctor told me that the were taking me off Chemo and radiation. I know thats because they can't really do anything except help me with any pain." I didn't know what to say. I was shocked at what he had just told me. I knew that he was getting worse but I never thought that he would never get better. After all that was something that happened to somebody elses friend, right?