Sorry, I think this chapter's a bit too short.

TW: brief mention of a needle, organ failure, mention of surgery, yk medical stuff.

Lloyd couldn't seem to find out what's happening. It's hard to focus on anything when your stomach and head are fighting the agonising pain which you don't even know where it came from.

His surroundings consisted solely of multicoloured blurs, like splotches of paint on an abstract picture. His hearing was no better.

Lloyd tried to move, but he couldn't. His mouth couldn't form any words either. His brain then sensed an object through his nose, suffocating him. Lloyd suddenly couldn't breathe very well. He started to panic and hyperventilate. And then it became dark.

Lloyd woke up in a bed. He tried to remember what he had been doing for the last few... hours?

He recalled going to school and Kai and Chen beating the crap out of him. Then he came home and his mom had told him that Wu and Morro would visit. Then he took... the medicine. Which caused him to vomit non-stop. What happened after that?

He tried to get off the bed, but he still couldn't move. He looked at his hands to find a needle attached to it.

"I see you're awake, Lloyd." The voice startled the boy and he turned around to see his uncle, sitting next to his mom and Morro. Koko looked as if she had cried out a river.

"Mom..." Lloyd couldn't hear his own voice but his mother got out of her seat and pulled him into a tight hug.

"Lloyd, I'm so glad you're okay!" She didn't let go of him until Lloyd finally managed to get his voice back.

"What happened?" His voice was surprisingly hoarse.

"You dint remember? You kept throwing up so we called the ambulance. Your liver failed and you had to get a transplant. You were in a coma for two weeks. You'd wake up from time to time but you were in a vegetative state." Her expression suddenly became stern and she looked into her son's eyes. "Lloyd, why'd you take so much paracetamol?"

Tears suddenly started spilling from Lloyd's eyes. "I'm s-so sorry Mom," he sobbed. "I had this stupid idea to take medicine to get sick instead of visiting Morro."

His cousin's eyes widened. "What-"

"I think we should leave the two on their own," Wu interrupted. Morro didn't object and the he and his father left the room.

Koko's expression was intangible. "Why?" was all she said.

Lloyd suddenly felt a fire burning in his heart. A fire of hatred. For Morro.

"He's not what you think he is, Mom! He's a terrible person when you and Uncle Wu aren't around. I hate him." His mother looked shocked.

"Just because Morro bothers you sometimes it doesn't mean you have to put your own life in danger! You'll work it out with him someday." Both of them kept quiet after that. "I need to talk to Wu about this matter," Koko finally concluded.

That night, Lloyd was all alone in the hospital room before Koko, Wu and Morro entered.

"Lloyd, your mother is currently dealing with many personal issues." Wu said. "She cannot take care of you because of your liver problems. As a result, when you can leave the hospital, you will be staying with me and Morro until you get better."

Yeah I hate biology to the point that I stopped taking it by choice after grade 7 so I relied on Reddit, my old friend, for info on paracetamol overdose: r/YouShouldKnow/comments/10julx3/ysk_overdosing_on_tylenol/

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