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As I get in the front seat, flashlight, and camera in hand, Jay slowly and sleepily gets in the passenger seat, as he weakly sits he says, "Here, I got the camera" Taking the camera from my hands, finally with all his might he closes the door as I turn on the car. All we do while driving out of Alex's old driveway is breathe, Jay let's a few coughs here and there but for the most part we're just breathing heavily thinking about what we just went through.
As Jay coughs he turns off the camera, "Tim." Hearing Jay's sleepy and slurry voice say my name makes my heart skip a beat but I push it down remembering why he's like this, "I need you to keep recording, even when like uh... I'm not able to or something happens, ok?" He says slurring his words a bit.
"ok, I will." He smiles when I agree, he puts the camera down by his feet and then just relaxes into the chair, his eyes fluttering down.
"I sleep." He says before his eyes fully shut and he drifts right to sleep.
"Shit." I panic at first when he shuts his eyes, thinking he might have a seizure while like this or he might die or something, I focus a bit on the empty road but also jays body, seeing as he's not tensing up anywhere and not really moving, I breathe knowing he's not having a seizure. I look at his chest which is barely moving, I put a finger under his nose awkwardly, hoping he is just asleep. When I feel his light breath on my finger I know he is softly sleeping and not dead.
When we get to the motel I grab the camera and get out of the car, I go to the passenger side and open the door, "Hey Jay, wake up." I say softly.
His eyes flutter open, "huh?"
"Come on we gotta go inside it's safer in there." He slowly gets out, and I hold him up with one of his arms around my shoulders and one of mine around his waist. He sees the camera in my hand and tries to take it with his other arm that's not around me, I give him the camera giving me a free hand to open the door. When we're in the room Jay lets go of me and flops onto his bed falling asleep, fully clothed, immediately. I take my time getting out of my dirty ass clothes and changing into clean clothes, before laying in bed I realize how bad my head hurts, it feels like someone is punching the shit out of my head over and over again, I quickly take some ibuprofen hoping it will help a bit. I lay down, very slowly drifting off to sleep.
I wake up to Jay sitting up, breathing heavily looking around panicking, I look at the red digits on the clock seeing that it's 4 am, and I sit up sleepily, "Jay?"
He turns quickly to me, breathing heavier, "Who?"
I look at him confused not thinking I heard him right, "w-what?"
"Who are you? Where am I? Who... am I?" He starts to panic even more, I quickly get up getting closer to him to calm him down.
"Hey woah, calm down you're ok." He looks up at me, tears striking his eyes, "You are Jay, I am Tim, your uh... friend and we are in a motel together trying to figure out some... stuff."
He pauses for a moment thinking back, his breathing slowing down, "ok I remember bits, we uh are trying to find someone, right?"
"Yes, Alex and Jessica." He just nods very out of it trying to think more. I try to think of what I do when I'm out of it like this after a bad seizure, "Pills!"
"What?" He says looking up at me, I grab my pills put one in my hand, and put it out to him, "What's that?"
"It's my... your pills that you need to take, they will help you feel so much better and help you remember." He takes the pill out of my hand looking at it, "Just uh put it in your mouth, don't chew, and swallow, I can get you water if-" He puts the pill on his tongue and then quickly swallows it, "Oh, ok good." I put the pills on the little table in between our beds, "ok now Jay, you and I need sleep we've been through a lot so-"
"I don't wanna sleep here."
I sigh smiling a bit, "I know sleeping in a shitty motel is not the best but-"
"No," he says interrupting me again.
"What?"
"I want sleep there" He points at my bed.
"I mean sure we can switch beds if you don't want to be right next to the window that's fine."
"No!" He says a little louder, "You sleep there." He points at the same bed again.
"You want to sleep in my bed? With me?" He nods slowly, "I- o-ok" He gets up from his bed, and stands in front of me, "So uh how- ah!" He pushes me onto the bed, and I sit up blushing.
"You there." He says slurring his words, he points at one of the sides of the bed, I lay there resting my head on the pillow, I just watch him as my heart beats out of my chest. He lays right next to me putting the blanket over us, he moves my arm so he can cuddle up next to me.
"J-Jay I-"
"Shush just lay, I sleep." He rests his head on my shoulder and wraps his arm around my chest, he quickly falls asleep on me while I am just frozen.
What the fuck just happened.
I feel Jay’s soft breath on my collarbone and his warm body on the side of me, makes me want to explode. I've felt this way about Jay for a while but actually being this close to him and cuddling him is a weird but really nice feeling. I calm down more my heart slowing and my face getting less warm, I relax into Jay’s arms and drift off to sleep cuddling him back, praying he doesn't remember any of this.
Spoilers, he didn't