My Worst Enemy Brother and Me: Chapter Seven: The Joke On Me

It seems like it has been forever since it happened. Thad has been in the hospital for a good month, and doesn't do much considering his condition.

Right now he still can't sit up without help and well, he can't do a lot of anything. And what he can do, he doesn't do it, or doesn't enjoy doing it.

Thad comes home today, and everyone is nervous and in a hustle. It seems I have been moving all day, and it's only 9 in the morning. Time is moving faster than normal, which is weird. Preston said it was because I was nervous about Thad's coming home, and if I wanted to come over and play Space Elimination Triple X, then I could. Carol said it was because I was actually working and concentrating, and that I shouldn't call her, she is making cookies. Max said not to bother him with silly questions and to clean my room. Helen said it was going the same speed as always, and not to worry, and then she told me to walk Dox. Dox didn't have anything to say, but he listened.

No one really helped me out with the answer.

After lunch Max told me it was time to pick up Thad. So we all headed out to the hospital, Helen said that she was going with Matt in a few minutes, so to head on out without her.

So we got in the car. Which was really weird, because I almost never get in the car. I almost asked Max why we needed to take the car, because I could get there before he ever started the old thing.

But I figured out that was a stupid question to ask. We were picking up Thad, and Thad couldn't run home.

I didn't bother to tell Max that I had answered my own question that I had never asked him, because that would just be silly. People don't do that. So I didn't.

Thad seemed content, or something like that. He didn't say more than he had to, and he didn't look at me. His eyes were fixed on nothing and everything, like what you do when you are really tired and need sleep. But Thad has been sleeping for months and he doesn't need anymore sleep.

People kept telling me to simply 'get out of the way' or 'stop Bart, just sit down, you aren't being of any help, so please just sit down.' Things that I didn't want to hear, because I was trying to help them as much as I could. I offered to do just about anything, and they thought I was just trying to get attention. I wasn't though.

When we got home Thad just sat there and said he didn't want to do anything when Helen offered. I decided to stay with him, cause I knew that being alone was something that you couldn't do alone, if that makes any sense at all. I talked to him about everything, and never got an answer, but I wasn't looking for one. I just wanted to let him know that I was sorry, even though I never said those words.

I was sorry.

I am sorry.