MISUNDERSTANDINGS
George carefully climbed out the bed and walked as far away from that room as he could. Alex burst into one of the labs to find Jackson. Jackson looked up from the skin graft he was working on to see Alex struggling to get his words out. "What happened Alex?" Alex kicked a nearby stool, "She's back with him. I go to give her some chocolate as a reward and he's got his tongue down her throat and she's not even fighting back. Who the hell am I kidding? She's got my heart in a vice grip and I let her. How could I be this stupid? She was always open to going back to him. He broke her heart…and I've done everything I can to mend it—but clearly I wasn't the one she wanted to heal her." Jackson was about to speak when his pager went off; Alex failed to notice April being in the lab until she walked out silently ahead of Jackson. Alex just stared straight ahead for over a half an hour. He jumped a mile in the air when he felt someone touch his shoulder. He turned around to see Callie, "You okay Al? Your pager has been going off for like 5 minutes while you were in Lalaland", she said with a soft smile. His anger wouldn't let him kiss her on the cheek like he normally did. He brushed past her quickly and bit out "Don't call me Al. Not right now, not ever again."
Callie stood in the same spot dumbfounded as to why Alex was so upset. When she walked out of the lab she walked up to April at the nurses' station. "Hey Kepner." April turned around surprised and apologetic, "Hey Dr. Torres. I am so sorry that I haven't done the post ops yet. Every time I turn around, Dr. Bailey has me doing a bunch of other things." Callie waved her off, "First, call me Callie. Second, Bailey is putting your through the ringer because she sees the potential that you have out of the other residents. I'll get Lexie to do the post ops, she's my resident anyways. I'm not sure if you guys are close or not, but do you know what's wrong with Alex? Did he lose a patient or something?" April's thoughts were screaming at her 'Oh my God, she doesn't know! Callie could tell that April was fighting with say something, so she pulled them into the same on-call room, she'd been in minutes ago. April looked completely uncomfortable. "Kepner, please just spit it out." All her words came out in a rush so fast that Callie almost didn't understand what she was actually saying. "Alex thinks that you're back with George. He said that he was coming by to give you chocolate and that the two of you were kissing and you weren't resisting." "What!" Callie exclaimed. April started to say, "It's none of my-" but Callie stopped her. "No! I went to the on-call room to take a nap. I was so tired after surgery. When I was almost asleep I felt Alex massaging my calves like he always does when I'm done with surgery. Oh my God! It wasn't Alex…it was George. I remember saying that my head hurt and I thought that Alex kissed my temple like he always does, but it was George. He thinks that I'm back with George. I wasn't even fully awake when George was touching me." April's heart broke for the both of them, "Dr—Callie I really love working on your service and I've spent time with Alex, as a big group, outside of work. Anyways, what I'm trying to say is that I think he's in love with you even if you don't feel the same. He feels like George will always have a better chance at winning you heart than him. I think that the two of you should talk." Kepner turned around to say one more thing, "I'll split the post ops with Lexie. He might be in the basement."
