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The doctor shook Amas's hand before letting him sit in the front seat of the S.U.V along with his mother and told him not to fool around too much this time and to keep his physical activities moderate if he wanted to regain his strength to the fullest and not lay on the hospital bed again.

Amas looked at him with his eyelids so wide open that if felt like his eyeballs would fall out any moment and doctor knew exactly what it meant, he did not want to face that hell of a life again. Laying around all day with just a fixed diet and everything that made him feel like a prisoner, like someone who could not control his own life. Since all this sounded pretty awesome to him in his head, he tried to act like main protagonist of Your Lie In April, Kousei Arima who's in search of something that gives his own life a purpose, something or someone perhaps. All of a sudden he quoted Kousei and said "Maybe...just maybe, the light can reach even the bottom of a dark ocean." Which did not make any sense at all, neither to the doctor neither to his mom and perhaps not even him. So he just made a face that said, "Just trynna be cool but don't know how to be." and the doctor nodded in agreement before saying, "You might wanna work on that Amas." And they both set off on a laugh, a hysterical one as he sat in and his mom set off on the way to their home that was a mile or two away from the hospital, so it would take almost 20 minutes for them to drive there.

His mother started to play slow jazz in the car and started to talk to Amas. She began by saying, "You ready for the school from day after tomorrow honey?"

Amas who did not expect this to happen after all the hassle replied, "only if you want me to be." His mother laughed it off and said, "Why would I stop you from going to school? Don't worry I got your safety under control."

"How's that?" Asked Amas somehow amused and then continued, "You aren't gonna drop me off like a nursery student are you?" An expression covered his face that was of a prey that was gonna be hunted down and his mother played along for a moment by giving off an evil smile, so evil that it'd give shivers to the devil but then finally saying, "Nah, You know I'm not like that. I won't meddle in your personal affairs."

"Then?" Amas asked relaxed this time and his mother told him to look at the backseat of the car. Without taking an extra moment he jumped up on the seat and suddenly felt a glare at him that said, "Don't you remember what the doc said? You're so dead." So he toned it down a bit which turned the death glare to a beautiful smile. As he explored the backseat, a box caught his eye. It was the same box that contained the mobile phone he'd wanted for so long! His eyes started to shine like that of a kid as he reached out for the phone and looked at his mom in the most pleasing way that he could with a lovely amile on his face. "Bought it the day you were hospitalised, didn't know back then what had happened though. So it was laying there for 3 months and 4 days." Amas almost hopped on to his mom to hug her to which she looked at him with the same eyes that he had seen the doctor with, a look which asked Amas if he was planning to take a family vacation at the hospital. So he settled back down on his seat and started to unpack his gift, he took it out just like a child opened his gifts on occasion of a festival like Diwali. His eyes all lit up and his hands shaking of the immense pleasure he was getting just by looking at it, and his mother somehow was feeling what he felt just by looking at him. All the excitement and love and happiness he was feeling everything was same with his mother. She felt the same, she was happy to finally have the boy back. The boy who he had been before they were a duo and when they were a happy family of 3.

Amas looked up at her and said, "Thank you mom! I love you."