Heartache

Chapter 31 Part 1- Wishes

Chapter 31 Part 1 - Wishes 

It's been a week since Jason had come home from the hospital however because he wasn't feeling too good, the doctors advised him to stay in the hospital as they would be able to keep a close watch on him; Jase instantly refused but knowing Mrs. Peterson, she would defiantly put up a fight. Which leads us to the point where Jason was now on a hospital bed stuck with a nasal cannula, which was plastic tubing's wrapped over his ears ending with two prongs fitted into his nostrils, sulking like a five year old child. The doctors said he needed the nasal cannula to help provided a constant oxygen supply to keep his heart beat constant. One good thing about his situation was that he has no needles being poked into him as he didn't really need anything apart from the oxygen tank.

One Saturday morning I was sitting on a chair beside Jason, who was sleeping, thinking about getting a part time job. I did my degree and graduated therefore I should at least do something with my life.
"How you feeling?" I asked Jason who woke up from hours of sleeping and had taken me out of my thinking zone. That was one of the side effects of having brain tumour; He slept for most of the day and when he wasn't sleeping he was in agony due to the frequent headaches. Jase weakly smiled at me, crinkles forming around his eyes. I noticed he had light eye bags and he still looked slightly pale.
"I'm... Okay" he managed to say slowly. I smiled at him and kissed his forehead causing him to shift a little and tap the bed beside him. On normal occasions visitors aren't allowed to have sit on a patient's bed however in our case the doctors allowed it, as long as I stayed away from batman. Confused? A few days ago I was confused too until he told me he loved batman when he was young and now his oxygen tank was called batman. Jase was my masculine version of Hazel (From the fault in our stars). I sat beside him and put his head on my chest. I leaned my head against the bed rest and slowly began to massage Jason's head. We stayed like that for a while till I noticed something I hadn't in all my time with Jason. He had a scar at side of his head and around it was very little hair. I asked him about it and all he said was...

"Just happened when doctors tried to treat me. Ignore it. Please I don't want to think about it but if you really want to talk tell me something happy. I need it" He said now looking up at me. The only happy moments I had were with Jason which he already knew about so I spoke about my parents. It stung me to talk about my parents but it also hurt to me to see Jason in pain. I took a deep breath and pushed all the bad thoughts out and told Jason all the good memories I kept safe with me.

I talked for a while, laughing while Jason nodded and smiled at me. I knew he was in pain but I was trying to distract him and eventually we both got lost in my memories with the pain lost in time. I told him about how my parents would take me to a new county every year during summer break and how we would visit Mag and Dave and my grand-parents. I also told him about my parent's last wishes. Dad wanted to see the entire world which he nearly did while mom's last wish was to see me get married. We stayed silent after that last bit considering the fact that I was on the verge of crying my eyes out.
"I'll make her wish come true. I can promise you that. You know what my last wish would be?" I ignored him as he knew I hated it whenever someone mentioned the world last. It always reminded me that somethings can never last forever. See the word last again.

Nevertheless Jason continued as he knew I would not look at him but I would listen.
"I want to have an exhibition dedicated to me. I want a huge hall with all my art work there. Each individual painting would have its own inspirational quote and just outside the hall would be a huge banner saying... wait for it... The Batson exhibition" he laughed showing his perfectly straight teeth and lifted his arms in the arm. I took my head of his shoulder and looked straight into his eyes. I reached for his arms and brought them down.
"Batson?" I asked narrowing my eyebrows
"Yeah why. What's wrong with that?" he asked with his innocent pair of eyes.
"Jase what isn't wrong with that" he made an angry facial expression and pointed his bony at me.
"Don't insult batman" I backed away lifting my hands in the air.
"Sorry sir. I'll never insult your dear batman. Please have mercy" I fake pleaded, he smiled and put his hand on my head.
"I forgive you" and with that we went into hours of laughing.