Will knows the feeling of shrinking away from the sympathy when people see you in a state so he tries to keep it to himself, instead looking down at his lap.
“At least someone qualified has checked it,” Will replies with a small smile. It’s an actual miracle Steve still has all of his face in the right places with the amount of times he’s seen the older boy covered in bruising.
“That’s pretty much what I was told when my ribs got broken, ice packs for the swelling, pain killers and hope it heals right is all you can do for bones you can’t really set.” He’d been mostly disappointed he didn’t get to have a cast to make people draw on, because twelve year olds have great priorities. “At least you don’t have to pay for medicine here, I think me and my brother have cost my mom a small fortune in pharmaceuticals.”
Joyce keeps what amounts to a small pharmacy in the house now for whenever he and Jonathan manage to get themselves hurt, even when they were in California away from the worst of it.
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“At least someone qualified has checked it,” Will replies with a small smile. It’s an actual miracle Steve still has all of his face in the right places with the amount of times he’s seen the older boy covered in bruising.
“That’s pretty much what I was told when my ribs got broken, ice packs for the swelling, pain killers and hope it heals right is all you can do for bones you can’t really set.” He’d been mostly disappointed he didn’t get to have a cast to make people draw on, because twelve year olds have great priorities. “At least you don’t have to pay for medicine here, I think me and my brother have cost my mom a small fortune in pharmaceuticals.”
Joyce keeps what amounts to a small pharmacy in the house now for whenever he and Jonathan manage to get themselves hurt, even when they were in California away from the worst of it.