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"Come on. Mom, we are going to be late." Noah couldn't wait to get to the hospital. He had never been fishing before, and it had been three whole weeks since Glenn, and he had hung out. 8964 copyright protection488ＰＥＮＡＮＡg1L1FFAipr 維尼
"Hold your horses. I'm an old lady, and I am sure Glenn won't mind if you're a few minutes late." 8964 copyright protection488ＰＥＮＡＮＡWvf8r7yYvA 維尼
It wasn't Glenn he was worried about. Of course, he wouldn't mind but in the last week or so Noah had found it increasingly harder to stay awake for more than eight hours, if that. And if his math was correct, that meant he had another four to five hours before he would need to crash, leaving only three hours for them to actually fish. 8964 copyright protection488ＰＥＮＡＮＡiXS0gGZ02R 維尼
"Okay, okay. I'm ready," his mom said, holding the front door open for him.8964 copyright protection488ＰＥＮＡＮＡShbfMwIkBD 維尼
Noah wasted no time as he briskly walked to his friend's room. He would have been running if he thought he could manage it.8964 copyright protection488ＰＥＮＡＮＡQztfWoF0A7 維尼
"Noah," a nurse called from behind him. Whirling around Noah recognized the elderly woman. He didn't know her name or anything, but she was always smiling and waving to Noah and Glenn any time they passed by.8964 copyright protection488ＰＥＮＡＮＡmGTBU9A2wa 維尼
"Uh, yeah?" he asked, his hand on the handle to Glenn's door.8964 copyright protection488ＰＥＮＡＮＡxqgnHfms7u 維尼
"He's gone."8964 copyright protection488ＰＥＮＡＮＡcIiXYANGJM 維尼
"Gone? Gone where? Is he already waiting outside? I didn't see him when I came in," He said, looking back the way he came. She smiled at him, and his stomach dropped. It was the same uncomfortable smile his doctor had when he gave him the bad news.8964 copyright protection488ＰＥＮＡＮＡdt5NzA5GNv 維尼
"No! No, he can't be. We were gonna go fishing today," he cried in disbelief.8964 copyright protection488ＰＥＮＡＮＡfbfHo4U8Rs 維尼
"I'm sorry. He passed away four nights ago." 8964 copyright protection488ＰＥＮＡＮＡ518d5mr9jN 維尼
Noah sunk to the floor his hand never letting go of the door knob. Glenn was dead? He just couldn't wrap his mind around it. He had seemed like he was doing so much better the last time they hung out. He hadn't even needed the oxygen tank.8964 copyright protection488ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7bC27I6aQj 維尼
"His mom said to give this to you next time you stopped by," she said, placing an unwrapped brown box on the ground next to him. He eyed the package before picking it and himself off the tile floor and taking a chair in the guest seating area.8964 copyright protection488ＰＥＮＡＮＡggt5SCfUGD 維尼
Opening the small box Noah couldn't help but smile. Inside contained a polaroid camera, similar to the one Glenn had carried around. Only it was much more modern, unlike the older boy's prehistoric one. Along with a short note and a photo of his friend. Noah laughed as he stared at the image. It was a selfie something Noah had challenged was impossible with such a mammoth contraption. Apparently he was wrong.8964 copyright protection488ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4TX4eDFVNh 維尼
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Noah began reading the note written in Glenn's uncharacteristically neat handwriting. It was a poem. Nothing long or too fancy, but profound and beautiful, very much like his friend.8964 copyright protection488ＰＥＮＡＮＡEPgaqcsTYQ 維尼
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"That was horribly corny, I hope you know," he said to the picture he still held firmly in his hands. He could imagine Glenn smirking back at him saying, 'It's not corny. It's meaningful you doof.' Taking a deep breath, Noah fought back the tears threatening to spill out. Instead, he grabbed his new camera and walked over to the nearby window. The sky was a stunning shade of blue that seemed to go on forever, with a single cloud floating along. Noah smiled as he snapped a picture. "I'll see you soon," he whispered as he watched the fluffy white mass drift away.8964 copyright protection488ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ytlVGnwHG 維尼
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With nothing more to keep him there Noah turned and headed for the exit ready to go home and call it a day, but he didn't make it that far. Not even ten feet down the hall, Noah stopped at the sound of muffled sobbing.8964 copyright protection488ＰＥＮＡＮＡYoCwyubiyz 維尼
"It's not fair. It's just not fair," he heard a young girl's voice cry out. Noah stepped into the rec room to see a little blond girl with a rainbow covered bandana tied around her head. She couldn't have been older than eight.8964 copyright protection488ＰＥＮＡＮＡmtMhlyHe3Y 維尼
"Now come on, it can't be that bad." 8964 copyright protection488ＰＥＮＡＮＡIcKnBJIK5M 維尼
She glared up at him her blue eyes rimmed with red.8964 copyright protection488ＰＥＮＡＮＡTtjlgVWA8f 維尼
"What would you know?" the young girl snapped at him. Noah smirked at her.8964 copyright protection488ＰＥＮＡＮＡaEZkjNrxhU 維尼
"More than you think," he responded. "I'm Noah by the way." 8964 copyright protection488ＰＥＮＡＮＡwmy4HhzV8M 維尼
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