I woke up very early in the morning to see Jason asleep on the pull-out-bed. I didn't want to wake him just yet, so I laid in bed thinking about our first kiss last night. After the kiss, he finally agreed to go to bed, but of course, not until he got one last good night kiss from me. I sighed thinking about how happy I am with him. I still haven't told him about my past relationship yet…I will when I think the time is right. Just hasn't felt right yet, and plus all he really needs to know is that I was hurt very badly, and I think he understands that already.
I was starting to get bored waiting for him to wake up, so I grabbed an empty plastic cup off the nightstand next to my bed, and chunked it at Jason. As soon as it hit him, he jumped awake with a loud snore. I couldn't help but laugh at how cute he was.
It seemed as soon as he heard my giggle he smiled and rushed over to my bedside. I scooted over again to let him sit beside me on my bed like he did last night.
"Good morning, M'lady," he whispered as he gently stroked my cheek. I could feel my cheeks burning slightly, "Good morning," I whispered back to him.
"How are you feeling today?" he asked me. I smiled at him, "I feel a whole lot better than yesterday." He continued to stroke my cheek very lightly, "Good, I'm glad."
We sat there in silence for a couple minutes just relaxing and waking up, but then I remembered Nate. "How is Nate doing? What happened with his fever?" I looked up at Jason.
"Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you. It turns out that he was catching a cold, and the doctors said that it was a good thing that it was caught when it was, or it could have been pretty bad due to the vulnerable condition he is in already," Jason looked down at me with what looked like sadness in his eyes, "Thank you for taking care of my baby brother," he whispered in my ear. I wanted to tell him something, anything, but I couldn't. I couldn't speak…he looked as if he were about to cry, and I didn't know how to react to that. I gently rubbed his arm, "Jason, are you ok?" I whispered.
I could have sworn I saw him wipe a tear from his eye. He sighed, "I don't know. I want Nate to get better. I want him to be able to eat whatever he wants, and not worry about his blood sugar. I want our family to be able to tour without worrying that he might need to be hospitalized. I don't want him to have to be cooped up in a hospital for days. It's not fair to him," his voice grew angrier as he spoke, which in all honesty sort of frightened me. I tend to get nervous around angry men…
He sighed again, and seemed to calm down. "But there's nothing I can do," he whispered, sounding defeated.
"That's not true. You can be there for him, and that's what he needs. He needs his big brother to be by his side, telling him that he's going to be fine, and that you'll always be there for him. That is what you can do. As a matter of fact, why don't you go wake him up, since I don't have the pleasure to do so this morning," he smiled while I talked, "When you wake him up, you should pull back the curtains to his windows, and yell 'Good Morning, Sunshine,' and tell him that's from me!" I told Jason excitedly.
He laughed when I was done talking, I'm guessing at how easily excitable I am, but then became serious again, "I would go do that, but I don't want to leave you alone," he told me. I shook my head, "No, go see him. I'll be fine for a couple of hours," I insisted.
He sighed defeated. "Fine, but I'm sending Shane in here," I laughed at this.
"Yeah, ok. Like he's even awake right now," Jason laughed at my statement, knowing that it was most likely true.
"You're probably right, but he'll be in here soon, I promise you that," he said with a determined sound in his voice. Jason leaned down to kiss my forehead, "I'll be back soon, M'lady," he whispered into my ear. I smiled at him before he walked out the door, "I'll miss you, my Prince Charming."
It had been about 30 minutes since Jason left my room to go be with Nate. I was starting to doubt that Shane was going to come visit me, but if he didn't I would be ok. Just as soon as I was thinking that, a sleepy looking Shane stumbled into my room grumbling about I'm guessing how early it was, and went straight to the bed that was already pulled out. I remembered the first day I met him and how he had me locked out of Nate's room…it was time for some payback.
"Shaneeee," I whined, "come keep me company," this got his attention but he didn't move. "Shaneyyy Poo," I whined louder, "I'm boreddddd," he still didn't move from the bed. I tried not to smile, "Shane Gray, if you do not come over here and talk to me, I'm going to sing so loud and out of tune that you'll want to cut out my vocal cords and sow my mouth shut," I told him very seriously. Finally, I got some movement. He groaned and shuffled his way over to my bed.
"Well, hello there sunshine!" I greeted him with a teeth-baring smile. He glared at me, "move over," he demanded. I laughed and scooted over so he could sit next to me. He laid his head down on my bed and started to fall asleep. "Shane Gray!" I yelled, he jumped back up, and placed his index finger over my lips. "Sleep now, talk later," he said barely conscious. I laughed again, and decided to be nice. "Alright Shane, if you want to go back to sleep you can go lay down on the bed over there," I told. He shook his head, "No because if I go to sleep and Jason comes in and sees me not keeping you company, I'm gonna be in trouble," he told me sounding very grumpy.
Just as I was about to say something, someone barged in my room, with Cindy on their tail. "I don't care who's in here with her, I'm going to see my friend!" I heard the voice yell. Finally, I got to see who it was. It was my friend Sherry! We went to high school together, but weren't really that good of friends until the end of senior year. Now we're like best friends, plus besides Carolyn, Sherry and her fiancé Sam are all I have left. Another thing about Sherry is that she is 8 and half months pregnant with her first baby, and could be due any day now.
"Cindy, let her in please," I asked as nicely as I could, "fine, but I'll be back later," Cindy told me and then left to let Sherry come in.
Before she walked over to my bed she stopped, "'Lana, who is that in your bed?" she asked sounding a little scared. Oh crap! I forgot that Shane was still in my bed, but he was asleep by now.
I laughed at Sherry's face, "It's ok, he's just a friend," I told her. She scooted a chair closer to my bedside. "What happened to you?! I was so worried when you didn't answer my phone calls," I looked down sort of ashamed. "I would have called you, but when I woke up last night you would have been long lost in dreamland. Anyways, I just fainted and they're keeping me here probably until this afternoon, then they might let me go," while I was speaking though, I noticed Sherry look over at Shane. Then her face became shocked. Oh crap, I bet she recognizes him. "Alana," she whispered, "do you know who is sitting next to you?" I laughed a little. "Yes, I do. He's supposed to be keeping me company, but he's too lazy to keep his eyes open," I rolled my eyes, but kept a smirk on my face so she knew it was all in good fun.
I noticed while we were talking that she couldn't take her eyes off Shane. I sighed, I was going to have to tell her…"Sherry," I started out slowly, "please, if he wakes while you're here, don't make a scene. He's on vacation…sort of…so don't be like one of those groupies or anything…please," I whispered to her. She looked at me and sighed, "Anything for you, 'Lana," she told me with a smile, "but don't worry. I need to leave now so I can get to work on time."
I glared at her. "Sherry! You are not supposed to be working at all right now!" She laughed and patted my shoulder, "I'm just joking, I'm gonna go home and just do some house work, getting the baby's room ready," I nodded. "Just don't work too hard," I told her sincerely. "You know I won't, be safe from now on and answer my phone calls! Oh yeah, and when you can, get me an autograph from him," she pointed at Shane and then was out the door. I just chuckled a little and was thinking about how great my friends are, and that was my last thought before I fell asleep…next to Shane.