Looking back, Enzo will always remember this day.
The day that a boy named Dan sacrificed his heart to him - literally had it cut out of his body, and transplanted - for him.
More scars. More pain.
A living, breathing, beating heart.
Dan's heart.
And with the heart, comes feeling. Feeling like Enzo has never known it - anger, fear, grief - a screaming, screaming grief that sinks in its fangs and shakes him useless, biting and cawing and wailing - Dan is gone. Dan is gone.
He stayed in the hospital for a week.
Seven days.
A hundred-and-sixty-eight bloody hours.
Then he went home.
Home, with Gem and Robyn and Mum and the twins - home, where Dan's own mum and dad and sister came over - talking funerals, talking tears.
And Enzo would sit, in his room - in the room that he shares with his siblings, in the bed that he shares with his brother - and he would remember - he would remember that boy, that Dan, who did such an amazing thing, who sacrificed himself, who loved him - and Enzo would smile and laugh and cry, all, in equal measure, because Dan was joy and happiness and tears, all in equal measure.
You're a hero, Dan.
You're my hero.
Come back.
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The Anatomy of a Parody Heart
Teen Fiction|| Highest rankings: #1 in notfittingin (30/03/19) #9 in antibullying (25/05/18) || - COMPLETED - Enzo knows that he is different. He knows it in the way that people look at him. Talk about him. Bu...
