Teen disasters

Chapter 8

   It's already two in the morning and I still can't sleep, as it was for sure "a couple of hours" for Alex must be like ten hours. I just hope his parents don't come back before him because they would kill him, not because they don't trust me but because it was his responsibility and his brother.

   I go to Gastón's room to give him his medicine, he has the flu but it's not a big deal. I go in and see him uncovered but sweating, I go up to him and he's too cold. When I move him I shout "Gaston" many times but he does not wake up, I open his eyes and he has them as gone, the only good thing is that he breathes.

   The first thing I do is call the ambulance, since I honestly can't think of anything else to do. Then I call and call Alex, I know I left him at least 20 missed calls and he doesn't answer me. Damn Alex, you told me you were going to answer me!

   The ambulance took like 30 long minutes to arrive in which I panicked over and over with Gaston by my side and continuing to leave missed calls to a missing Alex. He had taken Gastón down to the dining room and put him in an armchair so he would be faster by the time the doctors arrived.

   We got to the hospital and ... hell! I need to call Alex's parents, but I don't have their phone numbers anywhere. I speak to Facundo and he does not have them either, I am completely alone.

   They broke him in about an hour and a half ago and a damn doctor hasn't even come out to tell me "he's alive." Meanwhile I decide to send a message to Alex, to see if he reads it. I can't believe that I've been trying to contact him for 3 hours and he didn't answer me, I repeat, he said he would answer me!

Me: I CAME TO THE HOSPITAL DAMMIT

   Half an hour more and a man in a white coat comes out.

"Relatives of Pennisi Gastón" I get up right away. "Are you related?"

"I am like his nanny, his parents are traveling and I have not been able to communicate with his brother. In this city they have no more family" he nods and debates in his head whether to talk or not. Okay, I lied to him, his parents are not traveling but he was not going to say anything to me and I need to know what is happening.

"Gastón died for 18 seconds, we managed to resuscitate him and for now he is stable. We don't know how or if he will spend the night, so I recommend that you talk to his parents right now. We don't know the exact cause of this, but we think it has to do with the flu she already contained" I nod my eyes watery.

   He leaves and the tears soon come out, I fall to my knees to the ground ... how do I tell them what they just told me? I hope everything goes well, please everything goes well.

POV ALEX

   After seeing the missed calls and reading Eliana's message, I left as quickly as possible towards my house, there was no one so apparently they didn't come back, I don't know why I expected them to be there. Then I shot out to the hospital.

   Upon entering I see her talking to a doctor, he leaves as soon as I enter but I see Eliana fall to her knees and cry. What will happen? Has something happened to one of your parents? It breaks my heart in a thousand to see her in this situation so I approach her, I was going to do it anyway but I need to know what is happening, and where is my brother.

"What happened?"

   As soon as she hears me she turns around and I think that anyone who saw her realizes the fury that is reflected in her eyes, why is she so angry?

"Damn Alex! Dammit!"

"What happened Eli?"

"Call your parents RIGHT NOW, the doctors don't know if Gastón is going to be able to spend the night".

   She goes to the cafeteria but I stay in the place ... what?

POV ELIANA

   I don't want to be mean to my best friend knowing that his brother is behind a door not knowing if he will spend the night, but he left me alone. He told me he was going to answer me and he did not answer, he needed it, his brother needs it and she did not come. I see him talking on the phone so I guess he is talking to her parents, you can see in his eyes how bad he is.

   I feel powerless, I feel angry, I feel betrayed, I feel sad and all at the same time. As soon as I saw Alex I felt a tremendous desire to smash his face, but I held back, spoke to him, and went straight to the cafeteria.

   After about half an hour, I see Alex entering the cafeteria looking with his eyes, when he finds me he comes directly towards me. At that moment I get up and go to the bathroom, I need to cry and unload. I know he needs me too but I don't know how to do it.

   I have no idea how long I was in the bathroom crying, I look at myself in the mirror and my face is red. I clean myself with water and smile, it's what I do whenever I cry, as a way to refresh myself. When I leave I bump into someone, I look up and I see a sad Alex ... now I feel a little bad for him, but if he hadn't left me there, he could have been the one to help him. But no. He had to go with that p********e over there ... Melani ... Monica ... Miriam ... Melina ... Melisa ... Melisa!

"I did not know" he speaks with a broken voice, it breaks my heart but does not go to the bottom, he was the one who made sure that it is made of iron although not consciously.

"It wasn't your fault" I try to leave but he grabs me.

"Don't go please".

"I didn't think to do it Alex, I'm not like you".

   Now he lets go of me and I go back to my table, he stayed in the same place and after a few minutes he comes to where I am.

"I don't know what to do".

"Did you call your parents?" he nods. "Unfortunately there is nothing else you can do but wait".

   We get up and go outside, I hug him all the time until a few minutes later his parents arrive practically and literally running.

   I explain everything to them since Alex did not know everything well enough to tell them. His parents come in but we stay outside with him.

"Why didn't you tell them that I left the house and was not with you?"

   It tired me, today it tired me.

"I tell you something? I like you, I have liked you for years. I can't even get seriously mad at you since all the nice things we go through come to mind".

>> "Now you are living a bad time and if I were to say that to your parents, all this would be worse. Do you want it to be worse?" he denies with the head. "Me neither, and I can't bear to see you badly. So yeah, that's why I didn't tell them".

   He stares into my eyes for a few minutes until he kisses me, he kisses really well but I break away instantly. I didn't want to explode the way I did but I didn't want to make him react like that either.

"Why did you do that?"

"I needed it," he whispers with a smile. "And I like you too, I didn't tell you before because I'm not wanting a serious relationship".

   I guessed ... not the fact that he liked me, but the fact that he doesn't want and never will want a serious relationship. He shouldn't have done that, we shouldn't have talked about it, me and my big mouth one more time!

   I enter the hospital without saying a word and sit next to his parents, in minutes he arrives and sits next to me. He is defeated, I feel it, he cannot take it anymore so I hug him, I hug him until the tears begin to fall. He feels guilty, I know, I shouldn't have reacted like that because none of this is his fault, Gastón didn't get sick because of him.