Way of the World

Chapter 4

When I got to my room it was about eight pm. This was me and Camille's first time to truly meet in a not hospitalized environment. The room felt different when I went in this time. I felt something I had never felt before when I saw Camille's bed. Everything had more life to it. Maybe even a little more meaning. Every crack and creaky board in the floor had more character than I had noticed before. For the first time, I stopped and embraced the good times in life. I never had too many good times to think on before. Actually, I still don't. But now I have a future to look at. Nothing all that great has happened yet, but the thought of the good times in the future is something I have never had.

Before I knew it, Camille walked in. I looked back to watch her come in for the first time. I know I was there when she walked in the first time, but I wasn't all that conscious. I had a difficult time imagining she had been here for three weeks. My train of thought was running wild. I just waited for her to stop it by saying something. I had so many thoughts, I couldn't speak. It was probably the most uncomfortable silence I had ever been in. One minute, then five minutes, finally, after ten minutes of her standing there and me sitting there she said, "So, I guess this is the dreaded moment where you crash my party, huh?" Finally I could focus and speak.
"Enjoy your own room for three weeks?"

"Ha! Hardly."

"Why not?! It's hard to find some peace and quiet around here. I can't remember a moment where there was no noise in all my time here. Even in the hospital there were always people being rushed places and people yelling and doctors all up in your business. And the 'therapy class' participants wouldn't keep their hands off me! I actually enjoyed my unconscious moments!"

"I wanted to see you more and get to know you! I don't know if you noticed but it's not easy to make friends as the new kid in an orphanage. This is the first time I've been in an orphanage actually. Foster kid."

"I can understand that. Anyway. May I have the honor of being the 'new kid's' first and probably only friend?"

"Oh! Are you trying to say I can't make friends around here?"

" All the other kids see diabetics as freaks and they are scared of them. 'Freaks' have to stick together, right?"

"Right. So. Let's play 'Get-to-Know'. Basically, I ask you a question and you answer and you ask the same question to me, and a question of your own. If you didn't pick up on this already, it keeps on going till one of us falls asleep. Last one awake gets to prank the snoozer."

"Sounds fun! You go first!"

"Ok! Do you know your parents?"

"No. Do you?"

"I did. Murdered on the street when I was three. Put into foster care after."

"My question to you is... How about how long were you in the hospital for after your attempt at suicide?"

"Three weeks and one week of therapy. I already know your answer so I'm gonna ask have you ever been into foster care?"

"Yes. When I was a baby to age four."

I'm gonna stop it right there cause we went on till one am when Camille dozed off mid sentence. I snuck down to the kitchen and stole some green beans and stuck them up her nose, mouth, and down her shirt. I ran back down to grab some whip cream and I sprayed on a mustache and beard. She was gonna hate me in the morning!

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