Augustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so I passed.
We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go
but then fell back down onto the couch and sneaked a kiss onto my cheek.
“Augustus!” I said. “Friendly,” he said. He pushed himself up again and really stood this time,
then took two steps over to my mom and said, “Always a pleasure to see you,”
and my mom opened her arms to hug him, whereupon Augustus leaned in and kissed my mom on the cheek.
He turned back to me. “See?” he asked. I went to bed right after dinner, the BiPAP drowning out the world beyond my room.
I never saw the swing set again. I slept for a long time, ten hours,
possibly because of the slow recovery and possibly because sleep fights cancer
and possibly because I was a teenager with no particular wake-up time.
I wasn’t strong enough yet to go back to classes at MCC. When I finally felt like getting up,
I removed the BiPAP snout from my nose, put my oxygen nubbins in, turned them on,
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