Author's Note: Cheese

Author's Note: Cheese! It's chapter 12 already! Thanks for the reviews, everyone. Um, this is a chapter basically filled with sap. Tyler visits Val. Val goes to the doctor. Not much else happens. Sorry it took so long… curse of the writer's block! It's spreading!

This chapter is sort of choppy, but it's a lot of flashing to different scenes because I want to get this done and it saves time to have the little stars instead of saying, "He went here, she went there," etc.

Thanks to Team Omega for suffering through a romance fic. Wow. I feel so special (and that was sincere, not sarcastic). This is also supposed to be funny too so just… ignore the romance… I guess…

I will overcome my writer's block. I have it. It's like a disease. I'm drinking deranged iced tea, LoL, to anyone who read that one by me.

Also, I have no idea if any of the medical stuff is at all accurate; so don't sue me if it isn't. I just adjusted the amount of days to what it needed to be for the story to work- if that made any sense.

SAP ALERT! SAP ALERT!

You have been warned.

I recommend waffles.

As always:

I don't own the characters,

Or a single lyric,

Don't sue me- I'm broke,

Just R'n'R my fic!

Chapter 12

Yes! Our shift is finally over! Now I can go see how Val's doing! Tyler thought once their shift was over.

He grabbed his coat and practically ran all the way to Val's house. He breathlessly rang the doorbell only to be met by Brooke saying that Val was asleep.

"Will you tell her I was here?" Tyler asked.

"Sure," Brooke replied but Tyler was already walking slowly and worriedly away from Val's house. He couldn't stand it.

***

"Hey Brooke? Who was at the door?" A sleepy Val asked Brooke when she came up to Val's room.

"Tyler." Brooke said. "He'll probably come back later," Brooke said, but the words fell on deaf ears. Val was already asleep again.

***

Tyler meandered around town aimlessly, song lyrics playing through his head.

"I've tried to find myself an approval

I've already been there

Already done that

It got me nowhere

It brought me nothing"

He knew that it had some sort of connection to the way he was feeling, but he couldn't quite place the relation the Lifehouse lyrics had to his feelings.

"Here I am

So alone

And there's nothing in this world I can do

Until you're back here baby

Miss you want you need you so

Until you're back here baby, yeah"

BBMak wasn't the kind of thing he normally listened to, but he heard it somewhere, and now it seemed permanently glued to his mind. It was exactly how he felt about Val right now at this current moment in time.

He realized he was at the park where they had met… oh, was it just last night? After relishing the memory a moment, he turned and headed for home.

***

"Val, wake up," Val woke up to her mother's nudging. "You have to go to the doctor."

Val threw on a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt and followed her mother out to the car without saying a word.

***

"You have the flu," the doctor stated. "Get plenty of rest, drink plenty of fluids, and-"

"I know. I'm an EMT. Get rest, drink fluids, etc." Val stated. She was tired, and wanted to crawl under her covers and never come out.

"Okay, this will probably be gone by Friday or Saturday." the doctor said and Val and her mother were out of there.

***

"Hello. This is Tyler Connell. Is Val there?" Tyler asked the hoarse voice on the other end of the phone.

"It's me, Tyler." Val said.

"So? Did you go to the doctor? What is it?" Tyler asked anxiously.

"Yes, I went to the doctor, and he said I have the flu, and I'll be better Friday or Saturday. So, let's reschedule our date for Sunday?" Val asked.

"Um, okay, I guess. What do you want to do for the date?" Tyler asked.

"Surprise me," Val stated simply.


"Okay, pick you up at 7, I guess." Tyler said and hung up. Val needed her rest.

Oh, did he have an idea in mind! It was new, it was different, it was… double. He and Jamie had plotted it at the station while Val wasn't there. They were going out to an under-21 club. It was mostly Jamie's idea, and it took a lot of convincing for Tyler to agree.

Tyler smiled, then sighed, and got started on what little homework they had over winter break. Math. It really wasn't that bad.

***

Author's Note: Okay. It's over. It sucked, but it's over. I have major writer's block on this. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's the heat. It's happening to all my stories in Animorphs, and now it's spreading. I'll get several chapters into a story and, BOOM! I suddenly lose the spark. It used to be that I couldn't type fast enough to get my words out onto the computer, and now… I don't have any ideas. Fanfiction.net is being stupid again, so I'm going to go write the next chapter of this, then try to work on some of my Animorphs stories, plus I got an idea for a weird little Mini-Me story, sparked by a word in "Real World 2".

Deranged iced tea is good for my creative abilities, I guess.