Sasha felt emotionally drained as she walked into her house after the trip to the hospital to see Spencer. She needed a bath, carbs and sleep. In that order. She went to the bathroom, running a bath when she heard the front door slam shut. She walked to the hallway and saw Indi, returning from her shift from the gym.
"Are you okay?" Indi asked. Sasha shook her hand and ran into her sister's arms, breaking down. Indi sighed and comforted her in the best way she should.
"Go and have your bath, Sash and I'll order some Chinese. Your favourite yeah?" Indi said, once Sasha had calmed down, moving away, squeezing her arm out of a comfort. Sasha sighed, wiping her tears away and returned to the bathroom.
Once she finished her bath, she tied her damp hair into a side plait and changed into her jogging bottoms and a vest top. She found one of Spencer's hoodies at the back of her wardrobe. She smiled to herself and put it on. It still faintly smelled of him and made her feel like at home; he was her home. She heard Indi opening the door and pay the delivery guy when her phone buzzed with a text message. Her heart skipped a beat when she saw it was Spencer.
Thank you for today. I don't deserve you. I love you x
She didn't even question how he had his phone, Chris probably gave him it and texted him back.
You're more than welcome, you know I do it all because I love you too x
She smiled, feeling happier then she did before and pocketed her phone, smelling the smell of Chinese, she walked out of her room and headed towards the kitchen.
"Where's April and Dex?" Sasha asked, sitting down at the kitchen table.
"At Angelo's. Date night. April had a hard time with Dr Bradley again today. Dex wanted to distract her" Indi replied, passing Sasha a plate of food.
"Anyways, I wanted to talk to you about an idea me and Chris had about Spencer" Indi carried on saying. Sasha looked up, interested.
"I'm listening"
"The doctors won't let Spencer out if he returns to live at the caravan on his own so we had the idea of him coming to live here. Chris will be moving in too as his main carer. April and Dex are training doctors. There's the spare room if its too much for you to start with" Indi told her. Sasha took all this in, thinking and nodded.
"Yeah, it sounds good. We should paint the spare room white and then Spencer can do what he likes with it. I just want him home, Indi and if this is what it takes then I'll do it" Sasha replied, smiling. Indi nodded and got out of her phone, Sasha assumed to ring Chris, and walked out of the living room.
About 5 minutes later, Sasha received another text message from Spencer.
I hear you have a new housemate. I bet he isn't as hot as me ;) x
She giggled to herself, feeling like everything was falling into place.
•••
The next day, Sasha got the day off school again to bring Spencer home. Bianca understood as principal which relieved Sasha but she knew she would have a ton of work to do when she got back. She would have to deal with that when it came to it. The only reason they were letting him out so soon because he would only being doing what he was doing now at home, oppose at the hospital and they needed the room for someone else.
"You got everything?" Sasha asked, as she looked around the hospital room once last time.
"Now I have" Spencer replied, looking at her and kissed her.
"Oh, come on you two, I have to be at the gym. I don't trust Heath in charge that long you know!" Indi proclaimed, laughing a little. Sasha rolled her eyes and took Spencer's hand, walking out of the room.
"You guys all set?" April asked, walking towards them as they went to say goodbye to her.
"April..." Dr Bradley said in an annoyed tone.
"We'll see you later, yeah? Don't want you to get trouble for talking to your family now do you?" Sasha asked, raising an eyebrow. April gave her a small smile and nodded, returning to her work.
•••
Spencer stared as he walked into the spare room, before turning to Sasha.
"What?" She asked, confused.
"Won't I be sharing with you?" He asked, she could tell he was little hurt.
"We have already been through this, Spence. Baby steps, yeah? I'll only be down the hall you know that" She replied, giving him a small smile. He sighed, nodding and walked behind her, wrapping his arms around her, resting his head in the crook of her neck.
"It would be nice to wake up to you that's all" He said, kissing her shoulder.
"I know, one day. I promise. Come on, Chris won't be back with your stuff for a while, let go and watch some TV" She replied, turning around.
"I can think of plenty other stuff to be doing whilst we have the house to ourselves" He proclaimed, smirking a little. She narrowed her eyes and playfully slapped him.
"Baby steps, remember, baby steps" She reminded him and they walked into the living room...
