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The school day started out almost pretty normal. The boys were really hungry, because they hadn’t had time to eat breakfast and so they were really excited to eat lunch.
“Ooohhh we should totally try this hotdog stand near school at lunch!” Reggie suggested. “Yes!” Luke exclaimed, while Alex nodded. “Linda told me, they make the most amazing hotdogs ever and that also for a really good price.” He added, as everyone agreed. When they had lunch they made their way over to the stand, which was 5 minutes away from the school. The boy got their hotdogs and sat down on a couch, that was near. “That’s a new flavor?” Alex asked after he took the first bite. “Chill man, hotdogs haven’t killed us yet!” Reggie said , convincing his friend that everything was fine. The blond looked at the bassist doubtful before he continued eating, he was so hungry, he didn’t care.
After they ate, they went back to the school, to meet up with their partners. “Hey…where were you guys?” Julie asked giving her boyfriend a kiss. “We had some hotdogs, at this stand near here.” The guitarist answered his pretty girlfriend. “Wait, do you mean the one with all these bad reviews?” Jules asked when she walked up to her boyfriend. “Bad reviews? No Reggie said that they are the best in the city.” Reggie’s girlfriend shook her head. “That’s the one on the other side of the street, this one you went to is literally the worst.” The bell rang an everyone made their way to classes, when Alex suddenly stumbled and needed to be caught by Willie. “Hey…you good? What’s wrong?” The skater asked, while the drummer put most of his weight on his boyfriend. “Yeah…just got dizzy…nothing serious…just give me a second” he answered closing his eyes,
the world started spinning again. Willie’s gut knew something was going on, but he just let it slide, not listening to it, as Alex recovered and was able to walk on his own again. ”Come on…let’s get to class now.”
During the class, all three of the boys suddenly got these growing pains in their stomach. It was growling sometimes. At first it wasn’t that bad but the more they sat around in the class, the more it started to hurt. When it got unbearable they ran out in the middle of their music class, leaving everyone else shocked and confused back. “Ehm what was that?” The teacher asked, Jules, Julie and Willie but they just shook their heads. “May we go and look after them Mrs. Harrison?” Reggie’s Girlfriend then asked, standing up and running the way they were. Julie and Willie sprung up and ran after their boyfriends as well.
“Where could they have gone?” Julie asked. “I…I don’t know…” Willie said worried. “We’re gonna find them…” Jules tried to sound convincing. When they were in front of the restrooms they heard groaning coming out of the boys ones. The girls were about to go in, when the skater stopped them. “You can’t go inside.” He told them pointing at the sign. “Fine…” they sighed unhappily and the long haired boy went inside. He was greeted with the sight of Luke and Reggie sitting on the ground, leaning on each other. “Are you guys okay?” Willie asked them crouching down in front of them. The bassist lifted is head. The skater saw that he got a bit pale and was sweating. “I…I don’t know…my stomach hurts…” Luke agreed with a little “Same…” Willie looked around in the restroom. “Wait…Where is Alex?” He asked worried. The others looked around as well. “I don’t know, he was here a few minutes ago.” After that they heard a soft groan from behind one of the closed doors. The skater got up and saw his boyfriend slumped over a toilet, clinging to it, as if his life depended on it.
Willie slowly went up to Alex, crouching down next to him and rubbing his back. “Hey baby…how are you feeling…” “Like shit…I never let Reggie decide where we gonna eat, ever again…” he mumbled, his head still over the toilet. The skater softly took his boyfriend leading him away from the sink and leaned him against the wall. “I be right back, baby…Stay there” he said and from the blond came an agreeing hum. The skater rushed out to the girls, who still were waiting. “Are they in there?” Jules asked. “How are they?” Julie asked at the same time. “I need you guys to get some help. I think they got food poisoning…” he answered them and they gasped, running of to get help. Only minutes later they came running back with 2 teachers and one of the school nurses.
“What happened here?” They were shocked, seeing what was going on here. The boys looked pale, the color fading away, second by second. “We think they got poisoned, by these hotdogs they ate.” Willie was back again, holding his boyfriend, who was again on the verge of passing out. “Hey hey, sh Alex, stay awake for me okay? Stay awake, look into my eyes.” The skater tried his best, so his boyfriend won’t close his eyes. “We need to call an ambulance, I don’t have the things to help them. They need a hospital.” The nurse answered after looking at them closely. Julie took her phone out dialing 911 as fast as she could, hoping to save their lives. “Jules can you call the Pattersons please? They need to come also. You can try to call the Mercers and the Peters too but I don’t think they would show up.” She added, pressing her phone into her friends hand, before crouching back down to her Boyfriend.
Five minutes later, the ambulances finally arrived with the stretchers they put them on. In the hospital, they got separated at first, so the doctors could have a good look at them. The others had to stay back, since they weren’t allowed to be in there and were send to the waiting area. “Please don’t die, please don’t die…” Jules sat on one of the chairs, hands together and swinging back an forth. “They will make it….don’t worry Jules, we just have to stay strong…for them.” Julie comforted her friend, trying not to show how she actual felt. “He….he.. he almost died…in my arms..he…he was slipping away…” Willie broke down, thinking about what he’d do without Alex. The world wouldn’t make sense to him, he couldn’t lose him. He sat on a chair also and started crying into his hands, when suddenly he felt two people hugging him. The skater looked up to see both Jules and Julie comforting him as much as they could. The door opened not later and Luke’s parents came running in, crying about their son being in the hospital.
“Where is he? Where is my son?” Emily Patterson asked at the front desk, her face was dissolved, her eyes were red and puffy and her face hopeless. “His friends called us and said the he and two other are here and that we should come immediately.” Mitch took her to the side and started to talk, because his wife was now unable to speak. “Ehm for now I have no information about it, so I need to ask you to wait in the waiting area until I find out more” the nurse at the front desk said.
The parents made their way to the waiting area, where they were greeted with the girls trying to comfort Willie. “Kids…what happened?” Mitch said. Jules and Julie let go of the skater. “The boys went for hotdogs…but they were bad…they all passed out on the way here…” Julie started to explain her boyfriends parents. “Alex passed out before…in Willies arms…Willie tried to keep him awake, but somehow the hotdog affected him more….” Jules continued, while Willie sat wordlessly in his chair and continued crying. Emily went up to him and hugged him tightly.
30 minutes later a doctor came to the waiting room. “Mr & Ms Patterson?” The doctor asked. “Here” Mitch answered and standing up, as well as Emily. “How is our son and his friends?” She asked, starting to worry when she saw the sad face of the doctor. “Unfortunately you are not the parents or guardians of the other two, I can’t give you any information about their current situation, but your son Luke will be completely alright. He just needs to sleep it off for a bit. We gave him some meds for his stomach to calm down a bit. ” The doctor smiled at them, before showing them the room where their son was. “What about Reggie and Alex?” Jules asked. “I cant tell you anything, I am not allowed too, I am sorry.” With that he left rushing back to the room he came out. “You wanna come and see Luke?” Julie asked Willie, he shook his head. “I know how you’re feeling but see it like this…if Luke is fine Alex will be too okay…” she tried again and with that he looked up. “Okay” he whispered.
They all made their way into the room, seeing two beds. In the beds there were Luke and Reggie, both sound asleep but very much alive. The girls went up to their boyfriends, while the skater took a chair on the side, wondering where his boyfriend is and the parents went up to Luke. After two hours Reggie stirred. “Hey, hey sweetheart…” Jules said. “Jules…” he mumbled, while she went through his hair. “That feels nice” he said waking more and more up. “Where are he others?” He asked. “Uhm…Luke is here, we don’t know about Alex though…” his girlfriend explained. Tears came into his eyes. “Alex…is..gone?” He couldn’t comprehend what she actually meant. “No…no…we just don’t know where he is yet….he could be just in another room….he’s not dead….I hope.” Jules started to go through his hair, when suddenly they heard a groan and someone moving in the bed, next to them. “Luke!” Julie and his parents exclaimed, immediately standing next to the boy. “What……what ha-happened.” He asked, holding his head, because he was dizzy. “You ate these hotdogs remember? Reggie is next to you, but we don’t know where Alex is at the moment.” She informed him. “Why…why is Alex not here? What happened?” He asked desperately, pushing himself of the bed in a sitting position, Reggie did the same. “You all passed out on the way here…well…Alex even before the ambulances arrived…” his parents explained him. Luke and Reggie looked at each other, when suddenly the door opened.
A doctor and few nurses came in with a bed. “Alex…” Willie said, when he saw his boyfriend on the bed. He still looked pale and was unconscious but he was breathing. As soon as the bed got maneuvered between the other two, the skater sprung up, rushing to his boyfriends side. He laid his head on Alex chest, to kind of hug him, when he realized something. “His heart beat sounds weird…” he said worried and moved out of the way, when the doctor came up. The doctor and the nurses worked on Alex and after what felt like an eternity, they let out a breath full of relief. “I don’t want to know any details…I just want to know if we will be alright” Willie said, moving again up to the unconscious boy. “Yeah…he will be fine.” They answered before checking on Luke and Reggie and then leaving.
Willie sat on Alex bed and started to through his blond hair. “Hey baby…I need you to wake up again, okay…” he whispered and gave his boyfriend a sweet kiss on the forehead. After some time the visiting hours are over and they needed to leave again. “Bye, Lex…I am coming tomorrow again.” The skater said to the blond, who hadn’t woken up yet. “Come kids, we drive you home” Emily said to Julie, Jules and Willie.
“I’m sorry…” Reggie said after some time alone, starting to tear up. “What?” Luke asked confused turning to his friend. “It was my idea with the hotdogs…I got us the food poisoning…It’s my fault Alex is-“ the guitarist interrupted him. “Hey no…it’s not your fault, it’s the fault of the guy who sold us these things. And Alex will be fine.” He tried to reassure his friend. “Alex knew something was off, we was right…I said it will be fine…and now he has it worse…” Luke sighed. “Yeah…we should have listened…and I don’t know why he got affected more…” With that he stood up and made his way to his unconscious friend. He got dizzy and stumbled, needed to catch himself on Alex bed. “Luke? You okay?” Reggie asked concerned. “Yeah…just dizzy.” The bassist stood also up and made his way to his friends, but compared to Luke slower and without stumbling.
They sat on either side of Alex and held his hands. The guitarist stretched his other hand towards the bassist, who took it great fully. Luke squeezed Reggies hand for some comfort and turned back to Alex, who’s eyes were slowly fluttering open. “Alex!” they exclaimed happily when his eyes were open. His eyes were hazy and somewhat distant and just stared at Luke and Reggie. “We are so glad you’re fine as well!” The bassist said with a smile. The lead guitarist saw how much strength it took the drummer to hold his eyes open. “Go back to sleep, Alex. We’re gonna be fine!” And after a minute of Alex being somewhat awake his eyes were fluttering shut again, as if nothing has happened. The other two also made their way over to the beds to get some more sleep as well.
The next day Luke and Reggie woke up, feeling better. “He is still sleeping?” Reggie asked, while Luke stood up to check on Alex. “Yeah…” he sighed, wiping some hair strands out of his friends face. The bassist made his way also over. “I don’t understand…He was awake…or did I dream that?” “No, he was…kind of…Have you seen his eyes…he wasn’t really awake, pretty sure he didn’t even realize we were there and what we said…” he said looking up to Reggie. “We should call Willie…so Alex has some cloths when he wakes up.” He continued grabbing his phone, calling Willie.
Willie picked up immediately. “Hey, Willie” Luke started the conversation. “No…Please don’t tell me he’s dead…” the skaters voice shook. “I can’t handle it, if he’s gone…” The boys could hear he was started to cry. “No Willie…hey…listen…he’s fine…he is alive and breathing…he also was awake for like a minute last night…” Reggie calmed him down. They heard a breath out of relief. “We called, just to ask if you could grab some of Alex cloths? Maybe his pink hoodie?” Luke explained. “Yeah sure…I get the stuff and come over…keep an eye on him for me please…” the long haired boy said. “Sure don’t worry!” Both answered before they hang up.
After a few hours of spending the time on Alex bed with the blonde being unconscious, Julie, Jules and Willie came inside. They all had bags with cloths for them. “How are you guys?” Julie asked. “Better” Both answered, and the girls hugged their boyfriends. “No changes here?” Jules asked looking to Alex. “Not really…” her boyfriend answered. Willie sat down on Alex bed. “Hey baby…I’m here, just as I promised…I miss you…please come back to me…” he whispered into his boyfriends ear, hoping he heard everything, as he pressed his forehead gently on Alex forehead. Because Reggie and Luke had a check up at another room, the others decided to grab some breakfast down in the cafeteria.
10 minutes later Alex eyes opened. He looked around seeing that he’s completely alone. “Guys? Anyone?” he asked scared, slowly sitting up. He started to cry and panicking, he pulled his knees up and put his head on them. Willie got back inside, seeing his boyfriend awake and panicking. “Hey, hey, Alex…whats going on?” He ran up to him. “I…I should have tried harder…it’s my fault…it’s my fault they’re dead…” The drummer sobbed, hugging the skater. “What are you talking about? Alex who is dead?” He asked concerned, comforting his boyfriend. “I…I saw them dead…Luke and Reggie…I should have tired harder…I knew something was wrong with these hotdogs…” “Baby no…both are fine…I swear, they are just at a check up. We were all more worried about you…The whole incident was yesterday…you passed out still at school, before the ambulance even arrived…somehow you got more affected by the food poisoning.” Alex looked up at his boyfriend. “They are okay?” He asked and Willie nodded. “I was affected harder?” He started thinking. “What are you thinking about baby?” “I…just…I have an idea why…we all didn’t have breakfast yesterday…and the day before…I didn’t have dinner…my parents didn’t care about giving me some…” he confessed closing his eyes, swaying a bit, even though he just was sitting, because of a dizzy spell. “Hey…are you okay?” Willie asked worried, steadying him. “I am dizzy…and I have kind of a headache…” Alex answered dropping his head on his boyfriends shoulder. “Let’s lie down again and rest more, okay?” He felt the blonde slightly nod, before instantly regretting it. The skater laid the drummer carefully down and got then pulled by him next to the blonde to cuddle.
“Alex…you’re awake.” Luke’s smile grew, as he walked into the room after his check up. “Yeah….I guess I am….” His voice was kinda weak. Willie noticed, how his voice changed from strong to tired, “Go to sleep babe….you sound tired.” He went through his boyfriends hair and gave him a kiss on the forehead. “No, I won’t sleep until I see Reggie. I need to make sure he’s fine.” He replied, remembering his dream while being unconscious, fighting his eyes to stay open. “Reggie is fine dude. Don’t worry about it, he should be coming any minute.” The brown haired informed him, but he still wanted to see himself. ‘They just don’t want me to worry, that he’s probably dead….please god let him be alive.’ He thought, trying to get these exact thoughts about his best friend dying out of his head. But luckily only few minutes later, Reggie walked through the door, looking perfectly fine.
“Reggie!” He exclaimed with an relieved sigh following tears welling into his eyes, that all of them survived and didn’t die. “You’re awake.” His smile also grew bigger, as he saw Alex smiling back at him. “We were worried about you bro.” He came and sat on the opposite of Willie. “I’m fine….just wanted to see you before taking another nap.” He sighed and exhaustion hit him more. “You wanna sleep now? Breakfast is coming soon, one of the nurses told me.” The guitarist voice was full of excitement. “Finally something good…that’s not foul or expired.” When Alex heard about breakfast a knot formed in his throat, which he swallowed hardly. ‘I’m never eating again…no….’ Alex wanted to say something, but then the girls came back into the room. “Alex!” Julie exclaimed excited, running up to hug the drummer. “I’m fine Julie…” He murmured into her chest. “Yeah…fine…” Jules said sarcastically and rolled her eyes. “Dude! You should rest! You sound all tired and worn out!” She added more serious. “And you still look not healthy at all, you’re still pale!” The singer said. “Yeah…I’m not all fine…” he agreed, his eyelids dropping. “Okay…That’s it! Let’s just let him sleep!” Willie said firm, freeing his boyfriend from Julies embrace, laying him on his chest. “He can still eat later.” He added, when he saw that Luke was about to protest again. He was going through his boyfriends hair, while he drifted of to sleep again.
When the sun started setting, the others decided that they needed to leave. “Hey baby…wake up real quick” Willie tried to wake Alex up. It took him a few tries until the drummers eyes finally opened slightly. “I need to leave…Visiting hours are over.” “Stay please…” his boyfriend said sleepy, pressing his face into the skaters chest. “I wish I could…promise me to rest more…I come by tomorrow again okay?” Alex sighed, before moving slowly away from his boyfriend. “Fine…I love you” “Love you too babe…now rest more…” Willie said, giving the other a kiss on the forehead, as he hummed and closed his eyes, falling again asleep. The skater said goodbye to Luke and Reggie as well, before leaving with the girls. “It’s scary how much he sleeps…” Reggie said when the door closed. “I know…but if it’s what he needs to heal, it’s fine!” The guitarist answered, looking first at Alex then at the bassist. The boys ate their dinner, chatted a bit, before they decided to sleep as well.
The next morning the boys got woken up by the nurses and doctors coming into the room for the last check up. “Good Morning boys, you all look good and better so you can be discharged this afternoon.” He said, after looking at them. “Yes, finally.” Luke exclaimed happily, throwing his hands up in the air. “Since you guys are still underage, we need a guardian over the age of 18 to pick you up.” Alex got scared, that his parents will have to pick him up.
He got his phone out, to call his parents. “Alexander, why are you calling?” His mom picked up the phone. “I…I need to be picked up…from the hospital…” he said hesitating. He heard an annoyed sigh. “Can’t one of your so called friends get you?” “No…it has to be a guardian over the age of 18…to sign the forms, so that I can get discharged…” he heard some mumbling and shuffling. “Fine! We get you!” She answered annoyed before hanging up.
“Your parents coming?” Luke asked, when the call ended. “Yeah…” Alex nodded stiffly. “It will be fine” the guitarist patted his shoulder. “I didn’t think this would happen, but my mom is actually coming to pick me up!” Reggie said smiling. A few seconds after, their partners entered the room. “We are getting discharged!” Luke and Reggie said happily greeting their girlfriends. “Then what got you so bummed?” Willie asked his boyfriend, who was staring ahead. “My parents are picking me up…mom was pretty annoyed.” The skater put his hand on the blondes shoulder. “Are you gonna be Fine?” Alex looked up to him. “I think so…you shouldn’t be here though…if they are pissed, then they will be even more, when you’re here…” “Okay…You can call okay?” The drummer nodded, before his boyfriend left.
About 10 minutes later all the boys parents were assembled in the hospital to sign the discharging forms. They still talked about what happened, before they went up to their sons. “Let’s go home, son” Mitchell Mercer said to Alex. He stood up and made his way over to his parents, saying bye to the others, as Daphne put an arm around his shoulders, leading him to the car. Alex knew they only acted like this, cause their in public, but as soon as they’re home, they wouldn’t be like this anymore. “We talk when we’re home, understood Alexander?” His mom said strictly, when they were in the car. “Yes, mam.” He answered.
When they arrived home, the Mercers went Inside and as soon as the door closed, they started the “talk”. “THAT WAS EMBARRASSING! Getting into the hospital, because of food poisoning through a hotdog? The Mercers don’t land in the hospital for something this stupid boy!” Mitchell yelled at his son and started to hit his face. Alex didn’t do anything, he just wanted to get through this, fighting would just drag it out more. “Your phase is making you sick and that’s what you get from it!” He said with another punch, which made the boys face start to bleed. “Enough, Mitchell” Daphne said. “He bleeds now. Blood stains are so hard to get out!” She said caring more about the furniture and the floor, then her son. “Alexander, go clean yourself of, but don’t ruin anything with your dirty blood! Then go to your room!” She said firm. “You heard your mother boy! Go. NOW!” Alex did as he was told. After he cleaned his face, he went straight to his room and into his bed, ignoring the feeling of hunger.
After a few hours just staring at the ceiling, Alex phone rang. He saw it was Willie, who wanted a face time call, he accepted. “Hey ba- What happened to you?” Willie said worried as soon, as they were connected. It was now that he saw, that there where his dad hit him, a bruise started forming. “Dad hit me…” he answered honestly. The skater sighed. “You can come over…I rather have you with me, where I know you’re safe.” Alex nodded, he would like to be anywhere but here. “Yeah…I try to get past my parents.” “Okay see you soon, love you.” “Love you too.” The drummer said before hanging up. He threw some clothes in a bag before heading downstairs, sneaking out the back door. He made his way to Willie. “Hey…you hungry? Mom just made some dinner?” The thought of food alone made Alex feel unwell. “No, thank you. I had some snacks left in my room and so I ate them.” He said, pretending to be full and patting his stomach. “Why don’t you sit on the couch than and I’ll be there shortly.” He walked inside, and started watching some tv while waiting for Willie to finish eating.
It went like this for a few days. Alex somehow managed to get through each day without eating. Whenever he felt hungry, he just suppressed it as much as he could. On their way to the cafeteria Alex hit his toe on a bin. “Ow…” he said wanting to continue walking. “Wait! Hop on my back!” Willie said. “Why?” The blonde asked confused. “You’re hurt…now hop on!” “I am literally fine, William!” “No! You said ow…You’re hurt! Now, jump on, Alexander!” “Ugh…fine…” he sighed, jumping on his boyfriend. “Wow…you feel lighter…that’s wired.” Alex got down of his boyfriends back. “No, I don’t. You might have got more muscles…lets go to the others.” He urged continuing walking towards the cafeteria.
They found their friends sitting at a table and walking up to them. Everyone got their lunch out except Alex. “I haven’t seen you eating in the past few days. Are you okay?” Jules asked him quietly. “I am just not hungry today. Don’t worry, I eat.” He tried to reassure her and gave her a smile. “If you say so…” She said not fully convinced. “Hey…We should totally have band practice again!” Luke said and everyone agreed on after school today. “We could practice ‘Home is where my house is’” Reggie suggested happily. “No, Reg. We aren’t doing country! How often do I have to tell you?” The smile on his face faded into a little frown. “But Julie promised she would learn how to fiddle.”
The day continued like always but that now Alex was on his way to band practice. “So Julie has some new songs for us, that she wrote these past few days…do you wanna hear them?” Luke asked as he sat down on the couch, taking the pink and blue notebook and putting it onto his lap. “Sure, man. Go ahead.” Reggie put his bass down and joined him with sitting down. As they read through them, Alex suddenly felt really hungry right now but still wasn’t planning on eating, so he started to feel sick and light headed, standing up to get some water. He tried hard, not to stumble so the others won’t notice he wasn’t feeling well. “Hey, Hey Alex, you aright?” Of course Luke noticed that something was off. Not just because his friend kinda swayed as he walk but he also was kinda quiet today, which he usually isn’t at all when it’s about band practice. “Where is Julie btw?” He dodged the guitarist question and just changed the subject, when he got his bottle. “Wasn’t she supposed to be here too?” “She had to cancel last minute and take Carlos to a doctors appointment, because Ray couldn’t make it home in time.
Without answering he nodded. Making his way back to the couch. Luke was about to ask Alex again, if he was okay, when the door opened and Willie came in. “Hey guys!” He greeted them. “Willie!” Reggie greeted him excited. “What are you doing here?” He added confused. “Well, it’s been 3 hours now…I miss my boyfriend!” He looked at his boyfriend seeing his entire body screams exhausted. “Come on, baby…we’re going home…” he said grabbing the drummers hands and leading him home. Willie noticed something was off with his boyfriend, but decided to talk about it when they’re home. Alex didn’t really know how he made it back, with how lightheaded he felt, but was glad he did somehow. When they entered the house, Willie made his way further in, as Alex closed the door and then leaned on it, closing his eyes, swaying a bit, when everything started spinning. The skater noticed that the blonde stayed back and turned around to look at him. “Alex? Are you alright?” He asked when he saw the scene, just before his boyfriend fell to ground, passing out. “ALEX!” He ran up to him, starting to shake him awake. “Hey…baby…wake up” he carefully patted his boyfriends cheeks, but it was no use. Willie picked him up from the ground and laid him out on the couch. “God…you’re so light…what’s going on…” he mumbled. “Baby…come on wake up….” He decided to call an ambulance.
Just when he ended the call, Alex eyes fluttered slowly open, with a groan. “Thank god!” Willie said relieved, when his boyfriend regained consciousness. “Stay down…I don’t need you to pass out again!” “‘M fine…” the blonde answered. “Yeah…you say that a lot…and yet you still passed out a few minutes ago…you stay on the couch till the ambulance arrived and you got checked!” His boyfriend looked at him. “You called an ambulance?!” “Of course I did. I couldn’t wake you…I got scared…I don’t know what’s going on.” “You’re overreacting…I really-“ Alex got cut off by a knock at the door. Willie opened it and let the paramedics inside. They checked the blonde through, when the skaters parents came running inside. “Willie! Are you okay?” His mom asked panicked. “Yeah I’m fine…I called them for Alex…he passed out…” he explained his parents, who nodded. “When did he eat the last time?” One of the paramedics asked him. “To be honest…I don’t know…” he looked at his boyfriend, who looked at the wall. “When did you eat the last time…” the paramedic asked Alex. The blonde sighed, there was no way out of this situation now. “A few days ago…” he said quietly looking at the ground. “A few…A few days ago? Alex? When?” Willie asked worried. “The hotdogs…” “Oh Alex…” he sighed. “As long as he eats, he will be fine again.” The paramedic said before they left again.
Willie was about to make his boyfriend something to eat, when his mom stopped him. “Take care of him, I make something to eat.” Both of them sat down now, waiting for the food. “Alex….why…” he asked, you could tell he looked kinda disappointed but also worried. “I-….I was scared….” He looked down on the table, fidgeting around with his fingers. “We almost died…because of hotdogs….” “But you can’t just stop eating….you’ll die too…starvation is even a worse way to died, than food poisoning…babe…” Willie stopped his fingers and clasped his hands around one of his, squeezing it lightly. “I just didn’t think about it…..I was scared it would happen again…and then….then….” Tears starting to well in his eyes, “then you lose me….and I’ll lose you…I want to prevent that…” a few tears fell down now. “But Alex….that’s not how you solve it….please…eat for me…” his mom made 2 Salami sandwiches and placed them in front of him. “I’ll leave you two alone.” She gave her son a kiss on the forehead, before walking up the stairs.
“I…I can’t…” every taste, everything he felt that day came back into his mind and mouth.. he could taste the foul meat of the sausage, when he looked at the food he got. “Alex..you know my parents…they would never ever serve you things that are expired and not good anymore…and you know it.” The skater saw how he looked at the food, so he took one of the sandwiches, taking a big bite out of it, to show him, there’s nothing to worry about. “See, everything’s fine…..if you want we can set a timer for a few minutes but only if you promise to eat more now….this can’t continue like that….” The long haired boy took his boyfriends phone and set the timer on 10 minutes, the same amount of time, it took the hotdogs to take them out. He put it down on the table and started facing Alex, so he could see that everything will be fine.
They sat in silence the whole time, till the timer went off. “See, I’m fine… you can eat now…please.” The poor boy looked into his eyes for a hot minute, before taking one of the sandwiches, but hesitating. “Alex” he tried again, slowly taking a little bite. It tasted delicious and so he took another bite and another, finally eating after a long time. “You did it babe….you are fine, everything is fine…you did it.” He couldn’t get enough of it. Yet again tears coming into his eyes. He felt really bad and couldn’t shake the guilty feelings he had, about lying to everyone. He just thought it was for the better, not only for him but for the others to because they wouldn’t have to worry about him anymore.
Another week had past. Alex has been eating just like Luke and Reggie again. Willie also taught him a few quick meals, in case his parents don’t let him have any dinner or lunch. Everything turned out well and Alex was happy again. “GUYS! GUESS WHAT! I GOT US A GIG! It’s at the Orpheum!” He threw his hands up in the air, dropping onto his knees in triumph. While the others started to cheer and rejoice. “We need to celebrate that with some food….and I wanted to apologize about….yk…so this time its on me” He continued, standing up again. “Where should we go eat?” Luke asked, not long after calming down. “Oo I heard about this place…” Reggie started but his girlfriend interrupted him. “No honey….you don’t get to decide now.” She said, laughing, while holding her hand on his mouth. “How about my moms friend restaurant.” “YES! Let’s go.”