Cancer

-Stephen-

I hated being next to him now, nothing personal, it was just that I didn't want someone who tries so hard to see the good in people, being forced to see the ugliness in front of them 'God, I sound like a girl!' I thought bitterly to myself.
I suddenly noticed the sensation of being watched crawling over my skin, I looked over my shoulder and saw Gerard with concern clearly etched on his face, he had been given tubes to go up his nose in order to let him breath,
'oh my God Stephen are you ok? What happened? How are you feeling?'
Before I got.a chance to answer I rolled back onto my side and threw up my empty stomach once more, it hurt to move, my entire body screaming with each twist and turn.
I counted to three and rolled completely over, grimacing and grunting with the flaring pain.
His expressions tightened at the sign of my pain, causing his face to go rigid, it was clear he was desperate to not let his emotion cross the barrier.
'Its fine... I'm fine' I added when I saw what I was saying wasn't enough.
'I'm not convinced.' He said sharply. 'You know,' He started with anger in his tone 'your don't have to be as tough as you act' He sighed as he regained his control again. 'I'm here to help' He finished.
'Well that's awesome of you but, I would hope your not just randomly in here for no reason but to give me moral support' I grinned at him despite my predicament, he just looked away shaking his head as I retched once again. When I looked over at him again he looked absent from his body.
I motioned toward the two tubes coming from his nose 'whats with the tubes?'
He scoffed 'my lungs have fluid in them again, it helps me breathe apparently.' He turned to face me once more 'i'm pretty sure you shouldn't be asking other patients about their condition though... ' He chastised. I looked down at my bedsheets, sorry for having annoyed him. He sighed then spoke gently to me 'look, I'm sorry.... I am' he threw on when I still wouldn't look at him. 'I just didn't get much sleep last night.' That grabbed my attention.
'How come?'
'Well I, erm... I stayed up watching over you, and worrying about you...' his cheeks tinged a slight pink.
'oh, thank you' I smiled at him trying to make the situation any less awkward.
'No problem, It was just, Erm, friendly concern...' He stumbled
I nodded at him understandingly.
'well...thanks anyway.
at this a large lady in the nursing blue waddled over pushing a cart the same height as her, filled with medications.
'drug round!' She sang cheerily, she handed Gerard and myself a cup each, both containing the different medications we had to take at that point of the day.
Once we had taken our pills, we sat in silence just embracing each other's quiet company and hearing the ward bustling around us, in time with our rasped breaths.

Notes

Sorry it's been so long but I have been struggling at home and stuff so Yeh, but I hope to update sooner than last time :)
KILLJOYS MAKE SOME NOISE!!