Luke
I had expected that Thalia would be surprised when I kissed her. I hadn´t expected her to faint right afterwards. She looked at me for a second and then she just fell over.
I caught her in my arms, slowly placing her on the ground. I kind of went into shock then. I don´t really remember what happened but I think she didn´t have a pulse, so I called an ambulance. I rode to the hospital with her. I called Annabeth. They took Thalia into a hospital room and told me I couldn´t come in. Annabeth arrived with Jason and a doctor came out to talk to us.
"She´s malnourished, did she eat today?" he asked.
"She had dinner with us." Jason stammered.
"How could she be malnourished? She´s a dancer!" Annabeth asked.
"I will have to talk to her parents."
"Our mother´s dead, and our father left." Jason exclaimed.
"Well, in that case… Who´s your legal guardian?" the doctor asked, sounding uncomfortable.
"My parents. They´re out of the country right now. Can´t you just tell us what´s wrong with her?" Annabeth said.
"I´m only allowed to talk to family."
"I AM HER FAMILY!" Jason yelled.
The doctor looked at him resentfully.
"Fine. I suspect that your sister is seriously anorexic."
Jason´s face was blank, Annabeth gasped. I opened my mouth to say something but I couldn´t think of something.
"What? She couldn´t be! We live with her. We would notice if she had an eating disorder." Annabeth said.
"There are a lot of ways to conceal an eating disorder. It happens often that family members don´t realize until it´s too late." The doctor explained.
"Can we see her?" I asked. I didn´t care why we didn´t know, I just needed to see if she was alright.
"Only family." The doctor said and I looked at Jason.
"I wanna see her." Jason said. He was clenching his jaw. He was clearly aggravated.
The doctor nodded and started walking away.
"Just wait here, I´ll come back soon." Jason said before following the doctor.
Annabeth and I sat in the waiting room. Annabeth asked what had happened so I told her.
"You kissed her?!" she exclaimed, loudly. The other people in the waiting room were looking over at us.
"Yeah. And apparently she liked it so much she fainted." I replied.
"It´s not your fault. I should have noticed." Annie said resigned.
"You couldn´t have. It´s not something you overlooked. It´s something she chose to hide from you. I had a friend once who was bulimic. I only found out because she threw up in front of me. She never spoke to me again after I told her parents. She hated me." That was something I´d never told anyone before. But it was the only thing I could say to her. Annabeth just sat there with her thinking face on. She was probably remembering all the things she didn´t think anything off at the time, that seemed like dead giveaways now.
We waited for what felt like ages until Jason came back, talking to a nurse. When he was close enough for me to hear what they were saying the nurse handed him a pamphlet and said "This has some more information and some numbers you can call." She gave his hand a little squeeze as she handed it over. Jason murmured a half-hearted `thank you´ and they exchanged tight smiles before the nurse went back into the direction of the ward.
Jason turned to us, his face blank. He looked exhausted.
"How is she?" Annabeth and I asked at the same time. Jason sighed and shoved a hand through his blond hair.
"She´s okay I guess. She said that she wasn´t anorexic and that the doctors were lying. She said she wanted to go home, but the doctors said she has to stay overnight, at least. They wanna monitor her or something. I don´t really know whether it would be better to bring her home or leave her here till she´s… better." He explained. He sounded tired, probably tired of worrying about his family.
"Can we go see her?" I asked.
"I don´t know. I think she might be sleeping now, but we can ask the nurse." Jason said.
As we got up and went to the nurse´s station it occurred to me that I hadn´t actually introduced myself to Jason. I knew who he was because Thalia had told me about him. I didn´t know whether she actually talked about me, tho.
"I´m Luke, by the way."
"Her dance partner?" Asked Jason.
"Yeah." I said, even though I thought of Thalia as a friend as well.
"I figured. I´m Jason. Her brother."
"Yeah she talks about you a lot."
Annabeth broke up the conversation as we arrived at the nurse´s station.
"Guys, I hate to interrupt a budding bromance, but we have an issue on our hands."
"You´re right… Excuse me miss, can we visit Thalia Grace?" I asked the nurse.
The nurse checked something on her computer, then said: "If she´s awake and you don´t stress her you can go see her." She said and told me the room number.
We thanked her and made our way over to Thalia.
AN: So this is basically becoming a Thaluke story... Sorry not sorry. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it. If someone leaves a review I might upload another chapter.