Four weeks in the hospital was a nightmare. But finally; finally, I got to leave.
The first two weeks were so lonely, just me, me and a bunch of adults. The last two weeks, well, after Camryn decided to get a little carried away, I got in trouble. For the life of me, in a single hospital room that was cleaned daily, I could not find a good hiding spot for her panties.
I spent nearly half an hour pleading with the nurse for top secrecy when she found them. She said she would keep the reason a secret, but from then on, I wasn’t allowed unsupervised visits with Camryn or Corey.
Surrounded by people, but nothing to talk about; not with the adults around. If Camryn, Corey, and I were just friends, it would have been fun. But, but it was different; we all knew there was more between us, we wanted to be secluded, it was our relationship. Nobody else was welcome to listen to our conversations.
We had almost developed a language with only our eyes. We laughed when one of us would tell a joke using our traveling eyes - look to one person, then another, then reproduce a memory in the movements. The adults thought we were crazy. I didn’t care about them though. To the left of my bed, Camryn always sat, my hand hanging over, holding hers tight. Hours.
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