"When can he be released from the hospital?" the black haired male asked the nurse as she sighed, never giving off emotion.
"Edwin, not for a while." she said, walking along side him, holding a tray of food. The male sighed, shivering as he neared the random hospital door. The black haired woman turned her head to him, bit her lip, then turned back to her walking.
The slight movement didn't go unnoticed. "You know Beny… you've been doing that a lot lately." he said with a sigh.
"Doing what?" she asked him, knocking once on a door.
"Glancing at me, then looking away," he said, arms crossed, "I'm flattered and all that you like me… but I already have someone in my sights." Beny gently put the tray inside the room on the sink and the closed the door. She turned back to the man and snorted, laughing in a mythical tone.
"That's funny, really funny. I'm not interested in you." she shook her head and crossed her arms as well, slightly taller than the man before her. "In fact, I'm engaged happily to my girlfriend. We're supposed to... get married soon..." she looked away, biting her lip again.
Edwin raised an eyebrow and stood in front of the woman who normally never showed emotion. "Ok, I may not be as thick as Ben, but you can't keep hiding that face from me." he placed a hand on her shoulder awkwardly.
She looked at him and her eyes broke, she looked on the verge of tears. "Whoa, calm down Beny!" he quickly caught the girl as she collapsed into almost tears. "It's going to be ok." he told her, hugging her as he rubbed her back.
"No it's not! I can't go back. Nothing's going like it should have... my parents should have gotten together by now!" she choked out, gripping his shirt.
"Hey hey. They're probably just stubborn. Give them some time, they'll get back together." he patted the girls back awkwardly, other nurses walking by as the woman slowed her hysterical fit.
After several moments of awkward silence, she stood up and wiped her face, pulling her theoretical no-emotion mask back on. "I'm sorry. I... I normally only cry around my dad. He..." she shook her head, holding her throat.
"Hey, it's ok. You don't have to talk about it now... I can tell you're sad." in the history of things he'd done, this had to be the weirdest. Not only had the girl captured him into adoring how creepy she was, but she'd shown emotion to him from the first day he'd meet her. According to the staff, he was one lucking man.
"I'll walk you to the cafeteria. Buy you lunch." the woman said finally. Edwin nodded, not really feeling he could say 'Oh, no thank you, I already ate the lunch that they gave Ben, he didn't want it.'
"So, who is it you've got your eyes on?" the nurse asked after several moments of walking. Edwin felt his face brighten in a blush.
"W-What do you mean? Never said that." he mumbled, this really wasn't his day.
"If I recall, you did." she said, smiling at him and pushing open the cafeteria door. Edwin stopped as he yanked a tray from the tall pile.
"I really don't think you need to know who I do or do not like." he told her, dropping his tray on the metal poles as he pushed it forward. Beny followed his lead, only a lot less forceful than his had been.
"Really? I actually think I do. I play an important role in your life." she said simply, plucking a small piece of cake from the lines. Edwin turned to her and rolled his eyes, filling his plate full of things he knew Ben would actually eat this time. He stopped at the end of the line and picked up his tray, turning to her.
"Really. So tending to my best friend during your shift is an important role?" he asked her. She shrugged, smirking as she pointed to a dish on the plate.
"He's allergic to that." she said with a smile.
"Maybe I'll like it?" he asked back, following her.
"Like you like him?" she asked with a smirk, walking to a large array of drinks.
"Well ye-NO! No, eww! He's my best friend!" Edwin sputtered out.
"I never insinuated it was meant to be a sexual love like you seem to be implying." she said with a brighter smirk, plucking a cup from the long row.
'Oh damn... she's good.' the black haired boy thought as he grabbed his own cup.
"So, what's your girlfriend like?" he asked her after a pause.
"Are you trying to change the subject about the fact you want to fuc-"
"Finish that sentence and you'll never work as a nurse again." he warned, his face beat red.
"So you do like him." she nodded, pulling a leaver as she filled her cup to the brim with soda.
"I do not! Not in the way you're thinking!" Edwin said, filling his own drink and slamming it down. By now people were beginning to stare at them.
Beny continued her smirk as she placed a lid on her cup and then grabbed two straws and walked to the check out, Edwin following after her.
"Hey! Why are you thinking about this. Why even bring the subject up? Are you picking on me or something?" he asked as the woman at the checkout got quiet and stared at them, slowing typing up the receipt so she could soak up gossip.
"Hmm? Oh I'm not picking on you. I think you being attracted to him is-"
"I am not attracted to him! Stop that!" he ordered as she handed the lunch lady a card with only her first name on it. Beny chuckled and picked up her tray, heading toward a table.
"Stop what?" she asked.
'Good god, she's as bad as Ben is! Maybe even worse!'
"Insinuating that I like him!" he said as he sat next to her, grabbing a to-go box and starting to fill it as she ate.
"Because you do." she stated. Edwin groaned, nearly screaming his head off at her as he pulled lightly at his hair, resisting the urge to curse.
"Shut up!" he grumbled, "he is just my friend." he groaned again, staring at the necklace around her neck as it came into view for the full measure of five seconds as she raised her arm to point a woman in the direction of the sweets.
'Wait... That's... my Sumo Titan Slam necklace...' he quickly pulled his hand to his chest, feeling the dangly piece of silver hanging from his neck and under his shirt. Simply S and T shapes placed together, but he knew no one on Earth, or any other planet could have the same one that he had.
Ben had made it for him for his 15th birthday.
'I must be losing it to her pressure.' he groaned.
"You like him." she stated, plopping a piece of her cake into her mouth. He quickly glared at her, then shook his finger.
"Don't you breath a word!" he growled, slamming his head lightly onto the table a few times as people passed. She chuckled as the people stared strangely, finishing up her little lunch.
"Told you so." she said as she lifted both empty trays and closed the to-go box.
'How do women do that? How did SHE do that? Good god I'm so fucked. She'll tell Ben! Then what will I do? Fuck fuck FUCK!' Edwin slammed his head against the wall outside of Ben's room one last time before sighing, gripping the box full of probably cold food.
"Ok, keep it cool, she hasn't even been in here. She's checking up on other people. It's Tamy's shift… Tamy is nice." he repeated to himself.
"I'm nice? Well, I would hope I was, Beny says I'm a bit mean to my baby cousin." the woman's voice made him jump as she stood behind him with a medical cart.
"Good fucking God don't do that!" he gaspeed, gripping his chest with one hand.
"Why so jumpy? Beny getting you to say you like Ben got you that uppity?" she asked with a smirk.
"She told you?" Edwin squeaked. The brunette nodded with a laugh, turning the cart towards the door.
"We are twins. Though we may not look alike, we get along… most of the time. Come on, gotta pull that old surgery I.V. out of Ben." she opened the door and smiled, waving to the brunette male on the bed.
He sat up gently and waved back, pulling the breathing mask off. "Hey Eddy. What's wrong with you? You look pale." he asked his friend as Tamy walked over to him and pulled the mask off, replacing it with a nostril tube that could be lifted up and off by simply sneezing too hard.
"This may be better while I work." she said with a smile. Edwin walked inside the room, placing the box on the table with a bright blush.
"Geez, when am I getting out of here, Tam?" Ben asked the nurse with a chuckle.
"When you stop flirting with us and pay attention to getting better." the woman said as she rubbed alcohol to remove the tape covering the line.
Edwin sat quietly in the chair beside the hospital bed, watching as the two started chatting about how things were going, who did who in the broom closet, what was that stuff they were pumping into his I.V.
After stripping him of his dressing gown and leaving him in his boxers, the woman promised to be right back, complaining about getting fresh clothes and towels in the room.
All those bruises and cuts made Edwin's heart and head hurt. That was his best friend in a hospital bed, his best friend with so many wounds, his best friend half naked-
"Hey, Eddie, you got a fever? You look sick, man, really." the boy asked his friend, sitting up further. Edwin shook his head and chuckled, averting his gaze.
"Are you mad because I didn't let you watch that movie with me?" he asked, slight worry in his voice.
"What? No! No Ben, it's... a lot bigger than that." he said with a sinking feeling.
"Fuck. So you are mad at me? I'm a million times sorry, for whatever it is I did. I'll find out soon enough. Was it the pudding thing? Oh god it was the pudding thing!" Edwin stood and shook his head quickly.
"No! No way, I'm not mad at you, Ben. You see, it's weird! Beny was haggling me back in the cafeteria-"
"You're mad at Beny?"
"No, I'm not mad at her-"
"Then what the hell is wrong?"
With a quick slam of Edwin's fists to Ben's hospital bed he groaned. "Will you shut up! And why are you still half naked!" he was about to explode.
"Because." Ben said simply.
"Because why Ben!"
"I look good half naked?"
"BEN!"
"Dude, you were in the room! Tamy is getting me a new gown." Ben stared at his friend before sighing. "Hey… Eddie."
"What you moron." the black haired boy asked him.
"Am I still sexy, even though I'll have all these scars?"
"Don't you fucking ask me that you perv!"
"Oh come on, answer my question. Be a pal." Ben whined.
"No! I refuse to answer!" Edwin barked, still hovering over Ben's bed.
"Answer i-"
"Fine, you'll look sexy! Fucking so sexy you'll even have guys wanting to bone you. Then I'll have to beat them all off and tell the girls you're taken by me and that your ass is mine!" Edwin shouted.
"Ok, I'll play along with your little game. So what if some guy grabbed my ass in a food store?" Ben asked with a chuckle.
"He wouldn't be a guy anymore."
"Ouch. What if some chick wanted to date me?" he asked.
Edwin glared at him. "I'd have you so cock loving by then you'd scream and run away." he said, feeling really stupid right now.
"Will you make out with me?"
"WHAT?" Edwin's scream could be heard three rooms down.
"Will you make out with me? Right here, right now, in all the glory of a hospital?" Ben asked, an oddly serious look on his face.
"Shut up." Edwin said, rubbing his temples.
"I did not hear a n-MPF!"
And then Edwin was pressing his face into Ben's face in a crazy, yet romantically spur of the moment first kiss.
With a groan Gwen slapped the back of Kevin's head for the forth time. "Stop tying them so tight!" she shrieked.
"Fuck you, I'll tie it as tight as I fucking want it!" he barked back, re-rolling the small section of gauze for the forth time.
"Don't make me de-man you!" she screamed, pulling his hair as he nearly cut off the circulation in her legs.
"Fucking whore!" he barked, slapping her leg and pushing her to the bed, her stomach pressed into the mattress. "Stop squirming and I'll fucking fix it!" he growled.
"I swear if you fucking do one thin-GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY ASS!"
"Umm… ngh-Gwedolen..." Gorg's voice struck out.
"I'll put my hands where I want them, whore!" Kevin spat back, she quickly proceed to kick him in the gut. There in which he grabbed her leg and pulled her farther down on the bed.
"Gwendolen..." Gorg's voice called again.
"I already told you I can tie it myself!" Gwen shouted.
"Like I fucking ca-"
"KEVIN, SHUT THE FUCK UP!" and that was Gorg screaming, flopping to the floor as she grabbed her belly.
"Gorg? Oh god!" with another kick, she pushed Kevin off enough to rush toward her friend, even if her legs were in searing pain still.
"I... I can't find… Hinu and UGH! It hurts!" she screamed the last bit, a gush of water dripping from her tail.
"Holy shit... she's in labor!"