"Adam…" Jesse said getting up off of the floor. "It's good to see you're up and walking around." Jesse spoke hugging his friend.
"Yeah, I'm able to leave tomorrow." Adam said. "How's everything?" He asked his friend.
"Getting back to normal. I just started Chemo last month, so my hair may be falling out soon. Adam, guess what." Jesse said excitedly.
"What?" Adam asked.
"I got accepted to UCLA!" Jesse shouted.
"What!? Omigod, we're going to the same college. All three of us." Adam said pulling Jesse and Charlie into a group hug happily. "But, listen, guys. I got to get back to my room, and I've got school later tomorrow. We'll make plans to see each other Thursday, okay?" Adam said to the first original Ducks.
"Yeah. It was good to see you, Adam." Tammy spoke.
"See ya, Adam." Tommy said. The Duncan's left, but the others stayed, afraid to leave Adam alone.
"Guys, I'm staying with him, don't worry. Go back to the dorms. Tomorrow's Tuesday and we'll both be back in school then. Just tell the Dean that Adam was in the hospital and the doctor wanted me to stay with him or something. Okay?" Charlie said.
"Bye, Adam, Charlie." They all said leaving the waiting room, but Guy walked close to Charlie to whisper something to him. "Don't forget to think about what I said." Guy spoke.
"I'll be sure to." Charlie said turning Adam around and together they left to go back to Adam's room. "The doctor knows we're together. So do the receptionist and one of the paramedics." Charlie said once they were back in the room.
"What? How did they find out?" Adam asked.
"Well, I kind of told them. Well, the doctor asked if we were good friends, and I said sort of, he wanted to know what I meant so I told him. And the paramedic that had asked me how long we had been together told the receptionist. I'm sorry if you didn't want it told, but they promised they wouldn't tell anyone." Charlie said carefully placing Adam on the bed so as to not hurt his injured hip.
"It's okay. But, if we're going to tell anyone, I want to tell them together or not tell them at all. Charlie, I'm afraid to tell people though. I mean, what if they aren't like the doctor, receptionist, and paramedic, they can be like David and Jonathon. They stabbed me because I'm gay Charlie. I don't want that or something worse to happen to either of us." Adam said grabbing Charlie's hand and kissing the top.
"Not everyone are ass holes. And we've got the unfortunate opportunity to know these specific two. And, Adam?" Charlie said his boyfriend's name almost in a whisper. Adam looked up into Charlie's eyes. "I'm willing to give you as much time as you want or need until we tell everyone. But Guy told me something that I think is very useful for us both to know. He said that one day we're going to have to tell them and it's better to have their support now incase something happens again than it is to deal with it by ourselves." Charlie spoke.
"You're right. But, not yet." He whispered as if ashamed.
"Come on, move over and we'll watch some TV." Charlie laughed lying down on Adam's left side. They watched TV for more than an hour until they heard a knock on the door. "Come in." Charlie called from where he now sat in the chair next to the bed.
The door opened and Adam's brother walked in. "Hey bro." Jarred spoke to his brother. "Charlie, right?" He questioned the other boy.
"Yeah, it's nice to see you again, Jarred. I'm going to go get some candy, I'll bring you back a bag of m&m's, Adam." Charlie got up and left the room after shaking Jarred's hand.
"Heard you were in the hospital, thought I'd come back to see how you were doing. What happened?" He sat on his brother's right side. He saw the bandage attached to Adam's right hip.
"I was stabbed in my hip." Adam spoke as if it was nothing.
"What? Why? Who would do this?" Jarred asked consecutive questions.
"Those ass holes David and Jonathon." Adam answered shortly.
"The same two people the Ducks all beat out of Varsity slots?" Jarred racked his brain thinking of where he knew the names from.
"Yeah, the reason they stabbed me is because I'm gay and they're homophobes." Adam said carefully to see his brother's reaction. He needed to tell someone the real reason why he was stabbed, and he'd prefer it be his brother than a Duck or one of his parents.
"You're gay? Adam, how come you never told me?" Jarred asked.
"Ooh, I see I came back at a bad time." Charlie said.
"No, Charlie. You came back at the right time. Come here." Adam opened his arms in a gesture for Charlie to climb into them. Charlie did and Jarred looked at the two with a shocked expression. "I need at least one family member to know, and Jarred, I know you'll support me and Charlie. Jarred, this is my boyfriend Charlie Conway." Adam introduced them.
"I'm Jarred Banks. It's nice to meet the man that stole my little brother's heart." Jarred stuck out his hand for Charlie to shake.
"It's nice to meet you, too." Charlie shook his hand. Adam felt satisfied that his brother hadn't seemed to have a problem with he and Charlie. As a matter of fact, inside, he was ecstatic.
"I'm going to go now, actually. I have some homework I brought with me and I've got to go back home. I'll see you tomorrow when you leave Adam. I'll pick you up because it seems like both of you don't have your car." Jarred laughed.
"Bye, Jarred." Adam called after his brother. "I knew he could be the only one I could trust with telling.
"Yeah, he seems to have taken it well." Charlie said.
"I want to go to sleep." He whined.
"I'm not stopping you." Charlie said moving so he was the one now holding his boyfriend.
"I know, Charlie, just, protect me from the pain." Adam whispered as Charlie came up to lie next to him once again.
"How?" Charlie questioned.
"Hold me." The whisper was soft, sweet, and it made Charlie's heart break to think of the pain his boyfriend was receiving for being in love with him. "Forever." Adam dozed off after whispering the last word. And Charlie did just what Adam asked. He held his boyfriend as he slept, eventually nodding off himself.
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Charlie woke up to a fidgeting Adam. "Sh… calm down." He whispered into Adam's ear. "I'm protecting you." Charlie looked up to come eye to eye with the doctor.
"I said you two must have been really cute together. Don't forget to treat him the best you can, Charlie. He's going to need all the love he can get from you because his parents refused to come get him. He's lucky he's old enough to sign himself out." The doctor said. "I'm just going to give him a shot here for the pain in his hip, and I'll write out a prescription for him to take for the pain when he leaves. Will I be seeing you tomorrow Charlie?" The doctor asked.
"Yeah," Charlie looked towards his boyfriend's sleeping figure. "I'm never leaving his side again."
The doctor looked at them both once again before injecting the painkillers into Adam's IV bag and leaving. Charlie was left to his thoughts. His thoughts about life. About his love.
Charlie knew Adam was the best thing to come into his life from the moment he saw him, till the moment he knew he was in love with him. He had made the first move with telling Adam before Adam spoke to him, and he still couldn't believe what had just started to come out of his lousy thinking. His lousy thinking of Adam being asleep got him his love, his Adam.
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The Ducks missed out on school that morning, setting up Guy and Adam's room for a party. They stayed until Adam and Charlie showed up and they all spent lunch together in the room. Adam stayed in his room all day, deciding to stay in bed to rest his side. Charlie had gone back to class to get his and Adam's homework. Charlie had promised to come back to check on him and spend the night together.
It was their third day together, and God was he in love with him. Not only had Charlie been the sweetest thing to him when he spent the last two days in the hospital, but he had been treating him with love. Adam could feel Charlie's heart whenever Charlie touched him, it was soft, yet firm, and as if he was sure but also wasn't. It made Charlie seem vulnerable, innocent.
"I'm back, sweetie." Charlie said walking in the room. "What have you been up to?" Charlie kissed his boyfriend on the cheek before sitting down next to him. "How's your hip?"
"Hey." Adam took his homework off Charlie's lap and placed it on his other side, then pulling Charlie and himself down onto the bed so they could lay together, they cuddled together. "Thanks to that painkiller I took before we left I haven't felt a thing in my hip all day. It's boring watching TV all day." Adam snuggled up to Charlie. "I'm glad you're back."
"Me, too." Charlie took the remote from Adam and flipped through the channels, letting his boyfriend once again fall asleep on him. The painkillers had gone into effect quickly after Adam had taken it, and he'd explained it as if his hip was asleep, but he didn't feel the tingling. The doctor had also warned Adam not to take to many at once because they made a person sleepy, and could simply knock someone of Adam's size out. Charlie stayed up holding his boyfriend in his strong arms. "I love you." Charlie whispered before the door opened and a shocked face came into his view.
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A.N. Sorry it's so short but I wanted to get it up before I got completely kicked off. I started it while watching the hockey game again and by the time I finished it and I've got homework to finish so I'm going to get off. I'm going to write the next chappy now so I can post it after school. Bye!
~*Angel*~
