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Title: Laughter really is the best medicine

Summary: They say laughter is the best cure for everything. And maybe it was.

Rating: K+

Pairings: Josh and Grace

Genre: Romance/Drama

Prompt: 009 – laughter

It was hard. Hard to smile, hard to pretend everything was ok. It wasn't. It was far from it. The girl, she had tried to negotiate off the roof, had ended up jumping. She had been killed in an instant.

Grace had been on autopilot ever since. And she still was now, an hour later as she walked into the change rooms. She sat down heavily on the bench and stared at the wall, but without really seeing.

Michael, Stella and Josh walked into the room smiling and Grace was wandering what they could be smiling about. Especially now. She had just killed someone. Unintentionally of course, but still killed her.

"Come on Monkey boy. You seriously think you can beat me and Josh?" Stella questioned him as she walked towards her locker and started pulling various things out.

"Absolutely," Michael replied with a smirk on his face. He looked between the two of them, who were sharing a look, and then looked over at Grace. "Don't you think?" he asked her. Grace looked up as it registered someone was talking to her.

"What?" she asked distractedly.

"Michael here thinks he can beat me and Stella in poker," Josh said to her as he pulled on his t-shirt.

Grace smiled. "You have no chance," she told him straight out.

"How do you know?" he asked her with a curious look on his face.

Grace gave him a look. "You have obviously never seen them at our annual poker nights."

Stella turned to everyone in the room. "So everyone in?" she asked.

"I'm in," Josh spoke up. "And I know he will too. Grace?" he questioned turning to her. He gave her a look, silently asking if she was ok. She gave him a look back, and this didn't go un-noticed by Stella or Michael.

"I'm in," she spoke up, standing up and then walking to her locker. "Give me ten minutes!"

- -

Everyone laughed as Michael pouted, when Stella won. He was so sure he was going to win, and yet, he was beaten by a girl.

Grace looked around the table at all the smiling faces, and heard the laughter, and remembered the saying, "laughter was the best medicine!" As she looked around the table now, she realised that the saying was right. And that laughter was the best medicine.