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Song lan woke up abruptly. He is in the hospital. He doesn't know how he got there. He last remembers staying at his parents house and someone breaking in.
He tries to sit up and notices the needle in his arm. He also notices the searing pain in his abdomen. He groans and lays back down.
He turns his head and sees a person lying in the bed next to him. He sees dark hair and a white blindfold over his eyes. He immediately recognizes his best friend, xiao xingchen, in the bed. He freezes. He knows he was absolutely not at his house last night, so why was he in the hospital?
He panics and sits up fully, alerting the nurses nearby. They run up to him and push him down.
"Sir, sir, stay down! You'll pull your stitches!" The nurse says frantically
"What happened? Where are we? Why is xingchen here?" He yells, fighting the nurses.
They push him down. He fights them but still feels loopy from the anesthesia.
"Quick, get a sedative!" She calls to a nearby nurse.
The other one brings one over quickly. Song lan feels cold liquid flow through the veins in his hand as they inject it in his iv.
He fights weakly before his eyes close and his vision goes black.
When he wakes up again he sees Xiao xingchen's soft features looking down at him, his eyebrows furrowed in concern.
Song lan briefly thinks it's cute before he remembers he's in a hospital bed with a needle in his arm and his abdomen wrapped in bandages.
He remembers why he's there and freezes. He remembers the broken windows, the gunshots, the blood of his family members covering the floor. He remembers the killer sparring him the bullets, but forcing him to drink poison instead.
He feels sick. He sits up quickly, pushing xingchen off of him, causing him to fall. He ignores the pain in his abdomen.
He's angry, furious even. He growls in outrage, talking it out on xingchen.
"Where is he?! What happened?!"
Xingchen gets up slowly. "zichen, I'm so sorry..."
"No! Don't fucking say that! Just let me!" He yells
Xingchen sighs "they're gone, zichen... All of them... You were lucky to survive. You were poisoned badly. The doctors had to pump your stomach and... You needed a kidney transplant."
Song lan starts to cry "did they find the killer?"
"They did. It was a young man named xue yang. We went to highschool with him actually. He was the kid with nine fingers who bullied everyone. The police think he did this because you yelled at him and told him to stop hurting people in school..."
Song lan feels like he was just hit by a bucket of cold water. It was his own fault. He was the reason xie yang killed his family. He completely breaks down.
He cries for hours, not even noticing his blind friend holding his hand.
He only looks up when a nurse comes by and scolds xiao xingchen for being out of bed.
Song lan snaps back to reality. "What happened to you?!"
Xingchen looks up and smiles. "You needed a kidney."
Song lan feels worse. He feels crushing pressure on his chest. His friend gave him his kidney. And he's the reason for why he needed one in the first place.
He screams and rips the bandages off his abdomen, causing more nurses to come try to stop him
"Mr. Song! You can't take these off! You're not anywhere near fully healed and your incision could get infected!"
He fights against the nurses in a haze. He barely hears xiao xingchen yelling at him to stop.
He fights until he feels a familiar coolness in his veins and his vision fading away.