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HAZEL
I satup in the hospital bed and stared out the window.
It was all I could do to keep from crying.
I told myself no matter what happened in my personal life, the number one thing was being there for Juniper Evelyn. The sweet, little life didn’t ask for any of this to happen.
When I asked to see one of the doctors to talk about what was happening, the answers weren’t what I wanted to hear.
There was no set answer to this.
Juniper Evelyn had been born a little too soon and now she needed to rest up and let her body finish growing.
On top of that, it was pretty evident I would be leaving the hospital sooner rather than later. Without my baby in my arms. I’d be able to visit as much as I wanted, but that wasn’t the same. That wasn’t the plan.
At this point I wasn’t sure what any plans were supposed to be.
The hospital door opened.
“Okay, I just scored us fresh turkey and cheddar sandwiches,” Hannah said. “Don’t ask me how I pulled this off. I may or may not have flashed the people working in the cafeteria to get these. Plus fresh pickles and some barbecue chips.”
I slowly turned my head and forced a smile at Hannah.
She put the food down and climbed into the hospital bed next to me.
I put my head on her shoulder.
“Fuck,” she whispered.
“What?”
“Everything, Hazel. I usually know what to do or say. Even when Gram went, I knew what to do and say. I knew how to keep things moving, you know? But this? This is a lot.”
“Have you reached your breaking point with me?”
“I reached my breaking point when you made out with Kyle Kuss in the basement closet of Sabrina’s house when we were fourteen.”
“Oh, come on,” I said. “Really?”
“You knew I liked him. You knew I was working on that.”
“Working on what?”
“I wore low-cut shirts for him,” Hannah said. “I would drop my pen in class to bend over in front of him. All those little tricks.”
“But you didn’t go for it,” I said.
“You only did because of a dare.”
“It was a good dare.”
“That’s a rule, Hazel. You don’t make out with someone your best friend likes.”
“I’m sorry,” I said. “For the thousandth time.”
Hannah shrugged her shoulders. “I guess it worked out. I got mad at you and we didn’t talk for a week.”
“That’s when you hooked up with Brett Pomme.”
