Chapter 4
The next night, Lavi walked to Allen's room and knocked on the door. Komui had told him to come to Allen's room.
"Hey Lavi," Reever answered. "Come in."
In the normally empty room were tons and tons of machines. Allen was hooked to most, if not all the machines.
"Lavi can you sit down, please?" Komui motioned to the stool next to his that was by Allen's bedside.
"Yes sir."
"Lavi," Komui said solemnly.
"Yes sir?"
"Allen won't make it through the night."
"…What?" Lavi whispered in disbelief.
"Spend that time with him please. He's quite attached to you." Komui stood up. "We've done everything in our power. There's nothing more we can do for him." He ushered the rest of the science division out of the room.
Lavi stood up and sat on the bed. He stroked the boy's hand and pushed back the white bangs that were in his face.
Allen opened his eyes and gave a weak smile to Lavi.
Lavi smiled back, but he felt his eyes begin to flood with tears.
"I'm sorry Lavi. We can't play tomorrow." Allen gave Lavi a sad smile and closed his eyes.
Finally, the tears came.