Rod - The Weapon

Chapter 24: Sick

      It is new years eve today and I am pretty excited to eat some Mac n cheese with my new hubby!
Have I caught you up till the fact that I have moved into a new place, it isn't amazing but quite good. Aiden will join me in a few days or weeks, depends on how he is packing and other things.

I made a new friend here, guess what, he isn't an adult. The grown ups here are crazy mean, like karens. I wonder how such a sweet child like him lives with rude people. His name is Kenny by the way. I named him Kenny because the kid walks like a chicken alright.

Honestly, I wish one day I would be able to have a kid like Kenny but unfortunately I can't. Maybe its my fate, maybe something good will come out of it. Who knows? Well I am going to meet up with Aiden, thought I should write something down as a new resolution for the year.

I know you're not alive but it doesn't hurt to ask you to take care of yourself I guess. Then, take care diary.

Truly,
Rach.  "

This girl is just sweet, I miss her so much. Well, I am sleepy now so I'll go to bed and wake up fresh in the morning.

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I hear the sound of retching and a disgusting smell following it. I look at Henry with pissed eyes and say, "I trusted him so much." Henry looks at me with those pleading puppy eyes and says, "Oh please, he is already suffering isn't he? Cut him some slack."

I yell at the top of my lungs so that Guy would be able to hear me in the bathroom, "Dude, after you clean yourself up, I'll fucking kill you."
Guy cackles while retching and says, "Is it too late to say sorry?" I scoff at that.

Suddenly I feel it, a wave of discomfort through my veins. I look at Henry and say, "If this is the last time you see me alive, cherish it."
I bend down and I feel like my entire intestine is out as I throw up the last of my last nights food, which wasn't anything. To be precise, it was the fish which got all of us sick, Guy's fish.

Don't think that Henry is all good, that guy already had his session of throwing up. The first thing the boys did after waking up was knocking on my door and throwing up on me as I welcomed them. Such a pleasure to be your puke bag.

They felt that something was wrong and so they rushed to my house instead of the hospital. What a bunch of geniuses. I ask Henry, "Dude, are you like okay now? How are Valerie and Ginny?"

He says with an awkward smile, "They're in the hospital. Ginny had a lot of that fish, I gave her most of mine. I'm not in a really bad situation like you guys."

He continues, "If you stop retching, I'll take you to the hospital." I say, "Yeah no shit Sherlock, you're going to take us to the hospital soon alright?"
He just nods while I actually throw up something unexpected.

He looks at me with shock and says, "Is that really blood?" Yeah, I am as shocked as he is too. We take Guy and rush to the hospital. We are in the waiting room, not a lot of people are here.

It is our turn now and we tell the doctor our issues. I tell him, "I also threw up some blood." He looks at me and asks, "How many times?" I tell, "Only once."
He looks more serious now and says, "It would have been better if it was like twice or thrice because then I'd have assumed that it was a fish bone which caused the issue."

I look a bit worried, not more than Henry and Guy. I can already read Guy's mind 'Oh fuck, I have killed him!'
The doctor continues, "Do you boys mind stepping out for a second while I tend to him?" They do as they're told and I turn towards the doctor.
He sighs and looks at me, "I pray to god that it isn't cancer."
Yeah, its my best friend.

He asks me, "So do you have any issues that I should know about?" I reply, "Yeah, I have something called Marfan Syndrome, but it is really mild. I am on medications right now."

He says with a sense of satisfaction, "Well your issue may not be cancer after all. Marfan Syndrome's symptom can be blood vomit. Can remove your shirt for me?"

I do as I am told and he says, "Well, do you see that dent on your chest right there in the middle?" I look down to see a small dent which I hadn't noticed before. He says, "This is just one of your condition's symptom. I'll have to increase your medication's dosage. Take care of yourself, I'll write a prescription."

He hands me the prescription as I put my shirt back on and I thank him before leaving the room. Guy walks up to me and says, "Man, I'm really sorry. I thought it was okay to eat the fish without properly checking. I'm really sorry. What did the doctor tell?"

I say, "Its fine, the doctor said that it was just a fish bone stuck in my food pipe. Thats all, he just gave fee medicines." They both nod and we go to the pharmacy to pick up the tablets.

It is better for them not to know about this because I know how hard it is to let go of someone once you've created a bond. I ask them after picking up the medicines and paying for it, "You guys want to record for a bit? I don't mind if you don't."

They look at each other and shrug, Guy speaks up, "Yeah, if everything is alright with you. We can order some Congee for lunch." Before I tell something, Henry says, "Congee? Sounds like an Indian dish called Kanji. Are those similar?"

Guy sighs and says, "Yeah, they're practically the same but I think there is a little difference."
I say, "Well whatever it is, I am in the mood to tell you guys my story so let's go to my house and freshen up for a bit."

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We are all sitting on the sofa while I start speaking, "Okay, Guy you haven't done you job of reminding me where I left off." He sighs and says, "Yeah, it has been too long, I forgot."

I say, "Well think harder. We haven't gotten all day now do we?" He says, "Enough with the sass. You left off at the firefighter part. You told Katerina, my bestie, that her son passed away."

I say, "Okay, well our investigation at that point hadn't really improved. If I have to be honest, we didn't have any leads at all. For some reason, we just kept hitting dead ends. After Kane, we didn't know how to continue the investigation."

Henry asks, "Did you check Kane's house? It could have had some good leads." I sigh and say, "Well, first and foremost, since his case was completely different, another detective had to take over. We didnt have enough time before the cops raided his house to collect evidence. But we didn't let the chance slip though. We did check the house after it had been flipped over by the cops."

I continue, "Most of the valuable evidences were already in the hands of the cops. We found a lot of cat fur inside his home, he apparently had a cat which was then in a shelter after his death. We also found the costume, not worn, which he got from Cally.

I mean, why buy something to just not wear it at all? That was very weird. It felt off. All of a sudden I hear a crackling noise which made me jump, a little too hard that I fell through the wooden floors into a basement, which smelled weirdly like vanilla.

Rachel was scared to death and looked into the hole I made, she called out to me to see if I was okay. Nothing bad, just few scratches here and there. I looked around with the light from above, to see if there were any switches. I found one at last and when I switched it on, I wished that I had never done that.

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