"And I asked him if he did…" and chase interrupted my story with a quizzically stunned expression and said:
"You asked him if he liked you?" he said in an astonished tone.
"Well yes, I wanted to know." I said calmly trying to lower his level of curiosity.
But his eyes remained wide and in anticipation to hear the remainder of the story.
"Yes and?" he was urging me to continue the story, and I wanted to but I was afraid he'd judge me. I was good friends with chase, but he was such a blabbermouth I was afraid he'd tell others.
"Well, he simply said no." I said and cleared my throat with dismay. He looked at me with even more shock than before, his mouth wide open with astonishment.
"I can't believe it, he actually said no?! Well and to think we considered him to be egotistical, he's insane!" Said chase, then after a long pause he turned around to see my aggravated expression.
"The results aren't showing any sign of the virus he diagnosed him with!" I said in an angry tone.
"He's not always right, you know?" and it was then when I didn't realize what exactly in House he was referring to; the diagnosis, or what he said to me.
"He is always right; if he isn't at the beginning then he is at the end. Don't act naïve chase." I said with a firm voice.
I hesitated then asked:
"But to what were you referring when you said that?" I asked with an eager yet sorrowful expression on my face.
"I meant, he isn't always right…House has to keep up appearances." And I quickly understood what he was referring to, House's "no".
I looked away with shy eyes. What if he was right? What if House would actually still admit he likes me? Especially after the kiss.
"Good morning people" said house and he gestured for us to sit down. "Anything new on excessively bleeding guy?"
Chase shook his head and handed him the paper with the test results.
"Your diagnosis doesn't match; he doesn't have Ebola in his blood." Said foreman in a confident tone.
"Or does he?" said House in a mysterious tone and then he continued "test his blood for leukemia." His voice was serious again.
"Leukemia?" I questioned in a low voice. My eyebrows began to furrow and I felt my face contort into confusion.
"I love it when you guys repeat everything I say in question form. Don't wear your little brain out," said House and then continued "it's a secret us doctors know, not that you two are." He said pointing at a giggling Chase who abruptly stopped, and a serious looking Foreman.
I was then filled with determination to remember something that relates Ebola to Leukemia, AH, finally I remembered.
I remained sitting and looked up at House, who had a challenging smirk on his face.
"Leukemia masks Ebola in blood tests, he still might have Ebola, and the tests simply don't show it." House stood still with surprise; he didn't expect me to solve his puzzle.
He smiled at me as he nodded with respect.
"So we should all have a cup of tea to celebrate this…this revelation" he gestured to the door and the smile is wiped off his face. "Go do the tests!"
We all left the meeting room to do the Leukemia test. Chase stared at me in shock when we closed the door behind us.
"We showed him!" he said in a cheery tone.
"You keep thinking that blondie" I laughed as I kept moving through the corridors.
Foreman simply rolled his eyes as we both moved past him to reach the patient.
"So we are dealing with leukemia, an uncertain theory about Ebola, and a bleeding to death patient." I said in a stressed voice.
"I love you're optimism." Said House as he entered the test room. He limped his way to come by the microscope I was just looking through.
He suddenly got too near, and I felt his breath on my cheek as he asked me about the test results. He smelt so good, he smelt of expensive aftershave and a hint of this sweet odor I couldn't quite recognize.
I then breathed with unease and gulped; I was getting all tense and was afraid people were starting to notice.
"And so the virus might be" he then continued his sentence but I didn't hear, I was too consumed by tension.
"What do you think?" he asked eventually and I was completely lost, what the hell was he saying?
"Um…"I wanted to laugh but that would've been too inappropriate. He left my side and started limping out the door.
"How very verbose." I felt my cheeks burning up as I smiled at Chase and Foreman coyly. He had left and Chase had this gleam in his eye, he was ready to ask me an embarrassing question.
"I don't get how you like him! He's intolerable."
And I knew it; this is exactly the question I imagined him asking in my mind.
Foreman raised his eyebrows as he felt he had uncovered the darkest secret I had.
"You like like House?" he asked with suspicion in his voice.
I gave him a "what a childish question?!" look.
I shook my head with disbelief; what silly questions.
"Well does he awaken butterflies in your stomach?" asked foreman in a teasing tone.
"Very funny, you're humor really tops everyone else's, Chase you're an idiot." And I turned around to face the microscope; something was different with the blood sample, as if a new organism had just been created in there.
"What's that?!" I mumbled in silent surprise." The cells are mutating, this isn't Ebola."
Foreman and Chase quickly came closer and started looking at the sample. They both had shocked expressions and we all finally got up and left the room, for the only person who can crack this one was the master himself.
