There at the door was a short boy with medium length fluffy light green hair. He had big cute eyes filled with tears that were covered with glasses and thin pale lips.
He wore a red short-sleeved shirt on top of a white long-sleeved shirt, paired with jeans, black sneakers, and a big black backpack.
She recognized him as Noah her best friend. Noah was a kind-hearted person who was loyal to Zoey ever since they were children. He was naturally very cute and sweet but if he wanted he could look very handsome and cool.
He exercised quite a bit and so he had quite a bit of muscle but, his body was still quite feminine with a pear shape and big hips and a slightly small sized waist with a height of only four foot ten.
If he put on a dress with little make-up he could easily pass as a delicate pure girl. If he put on an expensive suit and slicked his hair back he could also easily pass as a powerful CEO.
Noah cried out. "Zoey I know I disgust you but when I heard that bastard of a husband put you in the hospital. I know you hate the sight of someone like me but, at least let me pay your hospital bills."
Zoey felt extremely guilty. A couple of days ago Noah came out to her as gay, Zoey felt disgusted by this and refused to talk to him and wanted to stop being friends with him.
Zoey was almost in tears at Noah's loyalty to her. She then stepped out of her bed and stood in front of Noah.
Noah quickly insisted. "Zo-Zoey lie back down you need to rest." Zoey smiled at him, she then got on her hands and knees and pressed her for head against the ice-cold floor.
"Noah I have been terrible to when all you've ever done was give me loyalty, love, and affection. You are not the one who needs to apologize. I am so so sorry."
Noah stood in still surprise but, quickly regained his composure. He kneeled down to help Zoey off the floor extremely heart warmed at her gesture. He was able to get Zoey to lift up her upper body but, she continued to stand on her knees.
He then grabbed Zoey's hand and looked at her with his big caramel-colored eyes. He spoke in a calming and sweet tone. "Don't worry. The fact that you would go to such lengths already makes me so happy.
But if your health is affected because you sat on the ground too long. I-I don't know what I'd do."
His voice quivered on his last sentence partly in an attempt to guilt her back into her bed and partly as he felt very emotional at Zoey's grand gesture.
Zoey grinned and grabbed Noah's arm pulling him into a huge hug and she gently kissed his forehead and said in a sing-songy voice.
"♫Thank you, Noah, you're my best friend.♪ ♫I love, love, love love, love, love, you so much.♫"
Noah blushed cutely and chuckled. After a few minutes, Zoey (reluctantly) released Noah and climbed into her bed. After she had sat down and gotten comfortable Noah released an onslaught about how terrible her husband was and how she should divorce that asshole.
Noah's rant was interrupted by the door slamming open again. In walked a thin woman who appeared to be in her late sixties with dark black hair tied messily in a bun, haggard clothing, dry and scaly skin, and eyes so black that they didn't look like eyes at all but, they looked like giant pools of tar.
Next to her was a young man who was almost as skinny as her. He had orange spiky hair, extremely baggy clothes, dull lifeless skin, and eyes so bloodshot he looked like blood was going to spurt out his eyes.
Zoey immediately recognized them as Chloe Yang and Zack Chang her mother and brother. Chloe immediately rushed towards Zoey and whimpered in a weak voice, "My poor poor daughter what did that awful man did to you?"
She gently placed her hands on Zoey's face and looked at her with a misty expression. Zoey felt as if a knife had been stabbed her right in the heart. Chloe had worked herself ragged for nine years and never did anything for herself.
She always gave her kids at least half of her portion of food and spent at the most two hours at home while the rest of the time she was working and even though she's in her early forties she looks like she's almost in her seventies.
Her brother Zack stood behind Chloe and with his fists clenched and growled with "That son of a bitch! I'll kill him for messing with my sweet sister."
Zack was a very intelligent person who could have gone to a great college if not for his financial state. Instead, he followed in his mother's footsteps and got a job right after high school and works from six in the morning into the next day until one in the morning.
Zoey looked at the two and their worn-out souls. From their heavy breathing, her mother and brother had ran to the hospital to see her. She felt so much rage it almost spilled out of her pores.
She growled in her head. "Damn you Changs and Yangs I'll make your lives hell and then some. You dare make my family suffer get ready for OBLITERATION!"
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