Alleyway Chronicle Excerpt- Happiness

We got to the hospital and took the elevator up to the third floor where J Day's room was. But when we got in there, everyone was gone. I stood in the doorway; the bed neatly made, all the machines gone, and the floor swept. I was too late. J Day was dead.1

Then Jamey came running up behind me. “Bobby, they moved J Day down to the second floor!” she gasped.
“They did?” I exclaimed with relief, “Why?”
“All of a sudden he said something like, 'I ain't gonna die,' and just got better, he stood up and asked a doctor if he could leave. So they moved him out critical and put him in one of the regular rooms,” she said happily.
“How—“
“No one knows!”
I stood there gapping, completely amazed.
“Congratulations,” the gospel woman whispered into my ear. I let out a happy whoop, jumping up and down in a sudden spastic happiness. I ran outside of the hospital, dancing and laughing. I noticed a grumpy looking child was walking in with her mother. I grabbed both of their hands and spun them around, amused by the shocked looks on their faces. Sonni and Bounce came running out too, grinning. We nearly tackled each other in a bear hug.
“He's alive!” we chanted wildly, spinning around in circles and leaping around cars. Bounce ran up to destitute looking guy sitting outside the hospital with a money cup and hugged him. The scruffy old fella looked surprised and amused as Bounce started to leap around, letting out happy cries every now and again. Moony came running down the long aisle of cars, looking confused.
“What's going on?”
“HE'S ALIVE!” Sonni shouted hysterically. Moony's face was absolutely priceless.
“What do y—“
“He's gonna be alright. J Day isn't going to die!”
Moony looked like he had won a million bucks. In all the celebration, the homeless guy that Bounce had hugged began to join in. Now I knew why Jamey had always said old people were adorable. The little guy's lip wobbled and his eyes grew big and bubbly as he began this attempt to copy us. It almost looked like someone was zapping him with a tazer.
But my favorite part about that moment, besides the mind numbing bliss, was that I could swear I could hear the gang rejoicing from inside the hospital. Eventually we were all out of breath, but we couldn't stop laughing. I never remembered being that happy in my life.