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Ryder

I can't believe what I just heard. Joe just said that he loves Mel! Thank the heavens, I didn't go in. that would've made things really awkward. But still, I did hear him. It was so damn clear. Or was it? Did he actually say it or did I hear it wrong? Things have seriously gotten messed up now. But I still can't believe I haven't caught Joe and Mel hooking up in the kitchen. Both of them are so damn blind about each other. Should I tell Lennox? Should I tell Aunt Mel? C'mon, dude, just slow the hell down. I'll tell Lennox first and then she'll deal with it. She'll probably make up some diabolical plan to get those two together.

"Lennox, um, I need to tell you something" he started to say. "Ryder, if this is one of your crazy crushes on my friend, I don't want to hear it.", lennox started to say something else but he interrupted her. "This is about Joe and Aunt Mel." "Spill it, what do you know about them?" " I was about to go in, when I heard Joe talking to Mel about how she should wake up and stuff. And then he was like 'I love you, burke'"

"oh my god, do you know what this means? Mel will also tell him that she loves him. They'll start dating and then they'll get married, and we'll be like a real family, …" lennox kept rambling. "can you just chill, len? How do you know that he's even gonna tell her when she's awake ? how do you know that she'll tell him that she'll loves him?"

"we should make a plan to get them together, after mel gets out of the hospital." Lennox said with a devilish smile, a plan already forming in her head. "Why exactly do you think that I came to you? What's your plan?" ryder said. "I have a few ideas, so once we narrow it down, it's gonna be mel and joe kissing in every room that they will be in. And that can happen only if mel wakes up. Why can't she just wake up?" and then she went back to crying and sobbing her head off.

It's unbelievable when people expect me to be the rock. Everyone cries but I have to keep a dry face and console everyone. Maybe people should consider my feelings. Lennox has been crying for the past two days. The only time that she has been even slightly cheerful, is when I told her about the ' I love you '. Even Joe cried - ok, one tear, but that's the only time that I have seen Joe this vulnerable - wow, he must really love her. I have never seen Joe weep openly ( fine, i spied on him!)

He felt a tear rolling down his cheek. And then it was like a flood. It kept coming and coming. First, it was just about aunt mel, then came all the significant stuff that happened in my life - his mom going to jail, his dad going off the grid and leaving them, Joe (almost) leaving them when he (almost) got that huge settlement. I can't cry over here. I just ran outside even though it was early. I try to keep my mind off all that just happened. " It's better to cry where no one can see you, rather inside, where people can see you". I just kept walking around the hospital, and then I saw Joe come sit down in one of the benches. I couldn't exactly hear him from where I was standing. I just heard him trying out different versions of his feeling about mel. Then he got up and almost went back. He came back and sat down, and then practised versions of him telling us that - uh... - aunt mel... dying... And then he just sighed, letting another tear slip and then went back into the hospital.

Next day:

I can't believe it has already been 3 days. Why hasn't aunt mel woken up. I walked in the room, and it looks like she's awake! I feel like the weight of the sky has just been taken off my back. I was so glad, I almost hugged her. One that would break her ribs even if she wasn't badly injured. At least, lennox will stop crying and praying now. I hope joe's gonna tell mel how he feels. But that just means that lennox's plan is gonna go to waste. And wow, is that one good. That has to work, I want it to. It's really getting weird with mel and joe not resolving, their unresolved sexual tension. Of course, they wouldn't see it at all.

But that's what Lennox's plans are for right?