He ignored her threats, unable to believe she'd hit him after she'd jumped from her seat to see what was wrong with him. He was too focused on trying to figure out what was wrong him with him, and more specifically, if he was going to end up an invalid on her lawn. That probably wouldn't bode well with him; he had no desire to be the subject of her teasing when he recovered—which was also probably putting his priorities in the wrong place, but whatever.

"I don't want to go to the hospital. I'm sure it's nothing," he responded stubbornly, trying to pull himself up to no avail. "You'll be at home anyways; you already said you were house-bound by your parents," he added as an afterthought. Going to the hospital would mean admitting he was injured, which meant being teased.

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