All Nighters WRH Style
Bill sat beside Alex trying not to show the fact that he was shaking with nerves. He didn't really know if this was the best way to meet her parents but it was what she wanted so it couldn't be too bad could it? The door swung open. Bills head snapped up and he saw to his relief that Alex's father wasn't there this time.
"OH MY GOD!" her mom yelled upon seeing her daughter sitting up with eyes open. She didn't even notice the boy sitting beside her. Alex waved.
"Your up, how long have you been up? Why didn't you call the doctor? How are you feeling?" Alex just stared at her while the flood of questions poured on. Alex picked up the pad and wrote simply.
'Chill, mom, I'm fine, but I can't talk'
"Ohh, you mean quiet?"
'Yes mother quiet!'
"Wait," her mom had finally seen Bill, "who is that!"
'He is my boyfriend mom,' Alex looked at the sheets.
"OH, so that's why he has been here all the time." Alex sent her mother a quizzical look. "The doctor told me that you had a regular visitor and that he thought the reason you hadn't slipped completely away," it was hard for her mom to say those words, "was that he kept coming. Now young man I am going to believe you are as respectable as my daughter and I know how few boys would have stayed for their girls if they were knocked out and possibly dying for a month especially one of your status."
"What?" Bill spoke startled.
"If I didn't recognize you after the last year or two with my daughter I wouldn't be able to call myself a mother."
"Well," Bill said wondering if this woman knew his age then assumed not since most mothers wouldn't let their top athlete, straight A, never get in trouble daughter date a guy like him that was the same age and no sane parent lets there 13 year old date a 20 year old he still wasn't quite sure why he had dated her it was pedophilia but then again only if they had sex technically.
"Now," the woman turned back to her daughter, "if you try to do some thing stupid," she paused as Alex began to write.
'Like runaway with him to Europe?'
"Exactly," she gave her daughter a scrutinizing look. Bill desperately wished he wasn't the room.
"Alex," he interrupted she waved him to silence.
"Why do you ask?" her mother said.
'Because I am planning to I figured It would be much better with your consent'
"WHAT ABOUT YOUR EDUCATION!" Alex rolled her eyes.
'Bill will make sure I get to school I can got o a better school than LCHS we all know that European schools are way better!'
"He will do no such thing he is a partier!"
'BILL!' The look in her eyes said that she needed his back up so he looked up to read the paper she shoved in his face. 'Tell the crazy woman you will make sure I go to school!'
"Look, I know Alex is exceptionally brilliant," he said struggling to form sentences in a language not his own he was getting better but he was stressed and it was making it harder to think. "It would be a shame to waste such a brilliant mind, not to mention illegal."
'You see mother, you should know me by now, you can let me go or I will go it matters naught to me it's up to you whether you ever want to see me again.'
"Why are you obsessed with leaving we just got you back," her mom looked sad.
'I am not leaving soon, I am sure I will have physical therapy and other such menial things to attend to before the allow me to exit this facility.'
"Can't we worry about this later?"
'Sure, as I said I will not believing soon but I figured I will give you time to prepare yourself.'
"Well I have no idea what your father will say,"
"Don't threaten me it matter naught to me what his opinion on my choice is, it remains my decision'
"I wish I had a less strong willed child, I would forbid you to go but I know you would go anyway. I would rather see you rarely then lose you completely."
"I should leave," Bill stood looking down at Alex he saw fear maybe even panic on her face. "I swear I'll come back message me as soon as she's gone you need some alone time, okay?" he murmured into her ear. He set her phone on her lap straightened up nodded at Alex's mother and walked out. There was a long silence as Alex held her phone tight to her chest.
"Look," Alex's mother started Alex fought back a sigh sentences that started with that word never ended well. "I know how you felt about him before," Alex almost burst out laughing her mother had no idea, "I don't want him to take advantage of you, I don't know how old he is and I don't want to. Why couldn't you be a normal child who would complain but not have the brain enough to fulfill their threats?"
'It's all your genes that made me this smart don't hate; at least I won't be dipping into your checkbook anymore.'
"That never bothered me," her mother looked sad.
'Could have fooled me!' Alex shrugged making her face look sarcastic. She was used to hiding her insecurity from her family, from the world. She sighed she was tired of hiding but it was what her life was based on.
"Well," her mother said laughing as usual believing her daughters falsities "do you want make to stay all night?"
'No, I think I would like to spend tonight alone if you don't mind.'
"I figured I know that you like solitude." Her mother kissed her forehead and left. Alex sighed there were so many things she wanted to say that she couldn't that her mother didn't want to hear. She picked up her phone and texted Bill. He said he would be right over and that he was surprised her mom had left. Alex sent a digital shrug and texted all of her friends to tell them she was awake and alive.
Bill had stopped to get something to eat. He paused seeing Alex's message. Her mom had left already? He remembered when he had been in the hospital for a concussion when he was younger. His family had stayed all night to keep him awake because he wasn't allowed to sleep. He knew her mother had sat there for countless nights but the first night her daughter woke she left? Bill didn't mention any of this as he sat next to Alex. She however knew him better than he expected.
'What's bothering you and don't say nothing.'
"I just think its strange that your mother left so fast." He looked at the floor.
'Look, my family isn't talkative emotions aren't for display and we are all people who like solitude so that what we get,' she sighed at Bill read the note. He looked at her surprised. After only a few weeks with Alex conscious he knew that Alex was not a person who liked solitude. Well perhaps if there were strangers but around people that loved her she needed to be near them, in his case to touch him even just to hold his hand. Bill wondered how her parents hadn't realized that. He guessed if her parents liked distance from people Alex would have learned when she was young that that was how she was supposed to behave. He felt strange what had it been like for someone like Alex who needed peoples touch, company, and love to grow up in a house where people weren't like that. Bill reached out and stroked her cheek as he thought she turned her head slightly toward his hand. He sighed, the vision that he had of Alex's childhood upset him, was it part of the reason she was the way she is today?
Authoress Note: sorry it took me FOREVER to update my friend was leaving and I was helping her with her stories. Please REVIEW please!!!!!!!!!! And to Collette, Allie, and Colista I wrote you guys a chapter its your turn to write!!