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Eren
Room 106
I've been pent up in this hospital room for about a week. It's cold and dark in here, the sun seems to avoid my window and no matter how high I turn up the heat I still shiver.
The last seven days I've been here have been full of nothing. Nurses and doctors come in and prick me over and over to take tests and they all come back the same. I have a heart disease. Although I'm on the donor list they don't think I'll get one in time since I'm not incredibly high on the list. I am dying, just slowly.
This side of the hospital is just a bunch of dying patients, everyone that's on this floor knows that. The doctors don't try very hard to come up with solutions and the nurses just sit and gossip at the front desk. But there is one nurse that I like, Hange, they're interesting to say the least.
I don't get many visitors besides my step sister Mikasa and Uncle Levi but they have their own lives and aren't able to come by very often. Because of that I find myself staring out the window a lot. Watching other people live their lives not even aware that there are dying patients looking out at them.
"Hello Eren, I have your meds." Hange says as they enter my room with a bright smile and a small paper cup. They hand it to me along with a cup of water. I let the pills sit on my tongue and then take a sip of the water. They go down easily as usual.
"Thank you." I say and the turn my attention back to the window.
"Don't be so gloomy, would you like to go for a walk?"
"No, not today Hange." I sigh.
I can feel Hange's stare on the back of my head. I hear them sigh and then begin to walk out.
"Oh there's a boy that's moving into the room next door, you should talk to him sometime. Maybe you'll become friends, he is your age." Hange fully walks out of the room and shuts the door behind themself.
I don't plan on making friends with the new boy next door. What's the point if we're both dying? Hange has tried multiple times to get me to make friends but I just don't feel like it. There's a group of people around my age that all meet in a room down the hall. They have a bunch of recliners sat in a circle. The few times I've walked past and looked at them I've noticed the smiles on their faces although they still look extremely tired and sick.
I hate this place, I hate it a lot. I hate the way people look at me cause they know I'm dying. I hate sitting in bed and staring at the wall. I hate the sound of a flatline that you can hear every now and then from someone else's room. I hate the looks on Mikasa and Levi's faces when they visit.
Armin
Room 107
Brain Cancer.
Out of every Cancer there was I just had to have the one that affected my favorite thing. My brain.
I certainly wasn't happy about it but I wasn't going to let it change the way I live the time I have left. The tumor is apparently not able to be removed safely. I don't completely believe that. The doctors here are extremely lazy and only do this for the money, but it's the only hospital I could afford.
I walked into room 107, my new room until I left this world. It was bright and warm, sun shone through the window lighting up the room. I put my suitcase in the corner of the room and then I sat on a chair next to the window.
I wonder if there's any people my age here. I mean a bunch of dying 20 year olds isn't exactly a good thing in general but it is for me cause then I'll have some company.
"Hello! I'm Hange I'll be your nurse while you're here." I turn away from the window to face the nurse. Their hair is in a ponytail with their bangs hanging out. They're wearing a pair of glasses and have an eyepatch on one eye. On their scrubs is a pronoun pin that says 'they/them'. They are a very cool looking person.
"Hello Hange, I'm Armin." I smile and wave their way.
"If you have any questions feel free to ask."
"Uh yeah one thing, is there anyone around my age here?"
Hange smiles brightly and nods, "There's a boy next door but he's a little antisocial. There's also a group of people down the hall that I'm sure you would get along with." I nod and then stand up to walk out of my room. Hange leads me to the room where supposedly I'll meet some friends.
As I walk past room 106 I look into the small window that's on the door. Inside there's a boy with dark hair pulled into a small bun on the back of his head, a few stray hairs fall around his face. He seems to be completely zoned out staring at the wall. He's pretty.
I smile at him although I'm pretty sure he didn't see me and then continue to follow Hange down the hall. They open a bright blue door to reveal a group of people sitting comfortably in recliners.
"Hello guys, this is Armin, he's new." Hange says and then turns to whisper to me, "they're all very nice, have fun." They wave to the group of people and then walk out.
I look around the room quietly, I didn't expect to see so many people in here. It hurt my heart that the majority of them would probably die soon.
"Hello Armin! Come sit with us." A blonde haired girl says and then points over to a chair that had a blanket folded on it. "I'm Historia."
"Ymir."
"Jean."
"Connie!"
"Sasha!"
"Marco."
I smile as they all introduce themselves. I walk over and unfold the blanket and cover myself in it as I sit down. The recliner was surprisingly comfortable for such a crappy hospital.
"So blondie number two why are you here?" Ymir asks.
I laugh at the nickname she gave me and then shift in my seat to look at her. "Brain Cancer." I say.
"That's tough, I have FFI." I was familiar with FFI it was basically a fatal version of Insomnia which had no cure. People with it usually only lived between 7 months and 3 years. I wonder how much time she has left.
"Heart failure." Historia presses her palm against her heart and looks down at herself.
"Early-onset Alzheimers." Connie says in a happy tone. He seems like it doesn't faze him at all. My grandfather died from alzheimers, although he was in is 80s so it was his time.
"You won't sound so happy about that when you can't remember why you're here." Jean says.
"At least I'm not the one who's organs are shutting down."
"You two stop, you're scaring the new guy." Sasha says and she eats from a bag of chips.
I laugh a little a then fall back into my thoughts as the rest of them continue to talk.
I like it here. I like Hange and everyone in this room. I like how the sun shines through my window. I like the bright blue door and the white floors. I like how not everyone was gloomy, these people didn't seem like they were dying. They looked alive, tired but alive.
