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!
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 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
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.
