A game.

A game I very much dislike.

Day 2

Nothing very interesting happens, today. Iwaizumi would always talk to the nurse or Daichi and I would just finish my meal quietly. Every once in awhile giving my input. I sat quietly at the table in the hallway and read my manga after Dinner. Out of the corner of my eye I can see Iwaizumi staring at me. I can feel his eyes examining me. Finally, he sits at the chair across from me and starts shuffling some cards that were on the table.

"Oikawa, right?" He asks me. I nod my head but keep my eyes down in my book. The butterflies in my stomach are too much for me to look up. He sits back while still shuffling and moves his eyes down to the cards. "Do you know how to play Rumy?" I shake my head no. Daichi during lunch said he would teach me. "Care to learn?" I hesitate. I'm so awkward how would I be able to do this. I don't know him. I just want to isolate but I know that's not good for me.

"Sure," I mumble and put my book in my lap. He explains the rules very simply { I linked a video on how to play above}. The more we play the more I understand how to do it. He wins by a lot every time but I didn't care (I ended with negative points). It was fun. "Damn I'm terrible at this," I joked. "Let me shuffle," I take the deck and raise an eyebrow at him.

"What? You think I'm cheating?"

"Well," I motion to the desk and his piece of paper with our points on it. I'm down by over 100. "It's the only explanation."

"Or I could just be better than you," I grimace to show I'm pretty sure that's not the reason and deal the cards. After a few turns I get all the aces.

"HA I GOT ACES," I brag once I put them down. He rolls his eyes and puts down 3 kings next to his 4 queens he previously put down. "Eff you." He lets a small smile shine through his stern face.

Day 3

"Tomorrow I get real clothes! Definitely not going to miss this." I celebrate with my parents. "And I get my phone!"

"What about school?" My dad asks.

"Tomorrow is Saturday... they don't come in on weekends," I shrug and start telling my parents what clothes I want them to bring in. I brought a few but not enough.

"Okay. We'll try our best, honey." She gently caresses my face with some tears in her eyes. She inhaled sharply to provably put herself back together. "So... on the phone yesterday you said something about someone else in the program with you..?" My mom asks clearly to try to change the subject. I can call my family anytime I want on the hospital phone. Yesterday, they called to say goodnight and I told them about meeting Iwaizumi.

"Yeah! His name is Iwaizumi," I think for a moment about what to say about him. "He seems nice. He's good at cards. He taught me how to play Rumy."

"Wh-What does he look like?" My dad asks trying to see out my room door. I guess he thinks that someone out there might be him.

"He's average height, black hair, brown eyes. Strong RBF, looks like he's ready to punch someone..... so yeah that's about it from what I've observed so far. He's probably out there talking to the nurses right now actually," I motion to the nurses station. My mom gets up from her seat to try to sneakily peak at the nurses station to see him.

"Is that him?" My mom points slightly and I go to stand next to her to see.

"Yeah that's him," I sit back down on my bed.

"He's cute," my mom smiles and nudges me.

"I mean... I guess..." I divert my attention elsewhere. He's cute... yeah... but definitely not my type.

Day 4

As soon as I walk into the mealroom I remembered.

Today... is the day I start...

Eating solids.

I immediately get a huge dreading feeling. My heart and all my confidence sinks. I don't want to do this... I really really don't want it. I don't need it. I don't... don't want it...

I reluctantly sit down in front of the tray with my name on it. I notice Iwaizumi taking a second and then start to eat his omelet. My hands shake uncontrollably as I pick up the lid on my pancakes. The smell is what you'd expect for hospital food but still makes my mouth water. My mind immediately punishes me for it. Many thoughts that said for me to just leave and never come back came in like a tsunami.

I'm drowning.

Iwaizumi gets up abruptly causing me to jump a bit in fright. He turns on the rickety radio and it only buzzed at first. Then once he tuned it some music started playing.

"Said little bitch, you can't fuck with me 
If you wanted to 
These expensive, these is red bottoms 
These is bloody shoes…" Iwaizumi sings along to Cardi B's song on the radio. He Bob's his head and sits back down to eat.

"That's not proper English," I mumble talking about the song. I cut a piece of pancake and stick it in my mouth. Better finish as fast as I can before the thoughts start coming back.

"How's your first day in normal clothes Oikawa?" The nurse eventually asks me.

"Honestly pretty good. I feel more... me I guess," I mumble and continue eating. I decided to put on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt.

I finish about the same time as Iwaizumi so the nurse let us go early. Now that I have a tray to take care of I now need to put it in a little refrigerator. The door is completely messed up so Iwaizumi has to open it for me. I grumble and step back to let Iwaizumi do it. You have to lift it up and pull apparently.

We walk in the hallways together to the little table. Except Iwaizumi makes a detour and grabs one of the nurses rolly chairs from a desk that's in between all rooms. For a secind i thiught he wasnt going ti sit with me then I looked up. I realized he is just having trouble scooting over to me. I can't help but giggle a bit at his struggling expressions to move the chair a few feet across the tile floor.

"Damn slippers with no grip," he says and grabs the deck of cards. "Rumy?" He asks me. I nod my head and he sets up the game. Not long after a nurse comes up behind him.

"Playing a game?"

"Yep," Iwaizumi looks over his shoulder and smiles once he sees who it is.

"Be careful of him," she points at Iwaizumi and starts walking away. "He cheats," she continues on her way to the nurses station.

"So I was right!" I take a jab at him.

"Shut up no you weren't," he says in a joking manner so I didn't get offended.

"Natsu! Natsu," I hear one of the nurses yelling. I look to see what the commotion is and a little girl that can't be any older than 5 is running down the unit. "Natsu you need to put your mask on," she stops and turns around with a finger in her mouth.

"No!" She yells and continues running once the nurse started walking towards her again.

I spent countless hours playing Rummy. It's how I passed time. It helped me get through this whole experience. Of course with some help from Iwaizumi.

I'm just happy I eventually got pretty good.

~{A/N}~ Last chapter I asked if y'alls wanted pictures so here they are :).

This is me on the little couch under the window.

This is the only picture I got of my room :/ .

If you zoom in you can see room 22. So that's what the unit looked like. I guess I forgot to put tht everything is orange.

Here's the table thing with my coloring book.

Another table picture with more hallway.

This is the whiteboard. I blacked some stuff out for privacy reasons.

The view

I'm going to eventually have a chapter about Halloween in the hospital so here's me in my Halloween costume I got in the hospital ^.^

That's all my pictures that are relevant.
~Sincerely Yours~