Overdose

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White lights and silence in Detroit 1998

Hospital hallways have that sterile, oppressive smell that makes you feel uncomfortable as soon as you enter. Everything is white, too white, as if color itself is afraid to exist in there. You walk quickly, with your hands in your pockets, trying not to think about what you are going to see.

Noel is in room 307. They told you over the phone, in that monotone voice of someone who has made too many calls like that before. Overdose. They found him in time. He's stable. They didn't know who to call, but they found your number in his phone.

You don't knock on the door. You just walk in.

The room is small, with a window letting in the gray light of night. Noel is lying down, his head turned to one side, eyes closed. There is an IV in his arm and a monitor that keeps track of his pulse with a constant beep. His skin looks paler than usual, his hair disheveled, his jaw tense even in sleep.

You walk over slowly and sit down on the chair next to the bed. You don't know if you can touch him. You don't know if you want to. There are traces of something more than tiredness on his face. Something broken, something you didn't see in time.

"You're an idiot."

Your voice sounds shakier than you expected.

Noel doesn't move. His breathing is calm, but the mere fact that he's there, lying there with a wire on his arm, makes you sick.

"You could have died."

Silence.

You don't expect an answer, but it still hurts. You run a hand over your face and close your eyes for a second. The weight on your chest becomes unbearable.

"If you wanted me to be scared, you succeeded," you say, quieter this time. "But I'm not leaving."

You rest your elbow on the edge of the bed and run your fingers along his hand, barely touching it. It's cold.

After a while, you hear a sound. A sigh.

"Always dramatizing..." Noel's voice is hoarse, weak, but he has that irony of his that doesn't fade away even in a hospital bed.

When you open your eyes, he's looking at you. Barely, with heavy eyelids and slow breathing. But he's looking at you.

And it is there, when you feel the pressure of his fingers closing with effort over yours, that the lump in your throat loosens a little.

Noel is alive. And that's enough for now.

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