Near Jam Pony Messenger Service
"Max, are you all right?" Logan asked. Max suddenly came back to reality and realized that she was bent over and Logan was on the ground on one knee. There were people who turned to gaze as they walked past, but none stopped, probably suspecting that Logan was proposing.
"What hap-" Max stuttered. Logan got up off the ground and sat back on the bench.
"You threw up, then I don't really know what happened, you kind of fainted I guess, but we should really get you home." He said getting up and waiting for Max.
"Wait, I threw up again?" Max looked up wide-eyed at Logan.
"Wait, what do you mean again?"
"Uh…well I uh...all right, I threw up this morning too." Max dropped her head as Logan cocked his eyebrows and announced again, "We should really get you home, you need rest."
"I'm fine, I don't sleep or rest!" Max said frustrated, getting up and walking wobblingly down the street, as Logan followed and watched her.
"Max, what's wrong?" O.C asked when she saw Max walk back into Jam Pony.
"Nothing, I'm fine." Max snapped as she kept walking through Jam Pony to the bathrooms. O.C looked at Logan, "What happened to Max?"
"To tell you the truth, I don't really don't know myself, one minute we were talking, the next she threw up and, what I can only describe as fainted. She told me that she had also thrown up this morning and, walked away when I tried to tell her that I would take her home." Logan explained. O.C looked on wide-eyed and slightly smiled, "I'm going to go and find Max." Running off, Logan was left there to ponder what had just happened in the last half hour. Alec walked up noticing Logan just standing there and staring off into space, "Hey Logan, are you all right?" Logan finally snapping back to reality looked at Alec in surprise, "Yeah, I'm just worried about Max."
"Why, what's wrong with Max?" Alec asked nervously.
"I don't know, maybe O.C will know. She's gone to find Max now." Logan cut to the chase, point of fact answer.
"What happened?"
"Well I wanted to talk to her but she threw up and, well I think she actually did faint and when I told her I wanted to take her home, she got upset with me." Logan said sighing heavily. Alec stared blankly at Logan as he took all the information in and tried to process it and figure out what it really meant. There was a long silence as both of them thought about the day's events so far.
"Maybe she just needs a couple of days." Alec finally suggested.
"I hope so." Logan sighed.
O.C came out a short time later to bring the news, "Max is really sick you guys, I think she'll need a few days off."
"A few days?" Alec said in shock, "How long is she going to be sick?"
"Well…uh," O.C tried to explain, "I'm not really sure, I think she'll be fine in a couple of days." O.C said heading back to the girls bathroom to look after Max. Alec and Logan just looked in complete bewilderment at what was going on.
Back in the girl's bathroom, Max was sitting on the floor, her face ashen and her eyes tiny slits.
"Max come on, I'm going to take you home." O.C said trying to get Max to her feet. Struggling O.C finally got Max up and walked her to the door.
Logan and Alec were still standing there when they saw Max and O.C come out of the bathroom. They stared at both of them in complete and utter shock, not knowing what to do or say. O.C and Max walked over to Alec and Logan, Alec taking Max's other arm and wrapping it around his shoulder, to support her. She can't be that sick, she never gets sick, never. Logan was more trying to convince himself that he was seeing things and that Max really would be all right. He had still wanted to ask her his question, but decided waiting until she was a little better would be wise. Logan said he would see them back to Max and O.C's apartment.
Max and O.C's apartment
Alec and O.C lowered Max onto the couch inside the apartment. Alec stood there watching Max well O.C went to see how Logan was, "Are you going to be all right?"
"Yeah I'm fine, I just hope Max is going to be all right." Logan stared at Max, helpless to hold her, take care of her. Why am I going to ask her this question then. I can't even take care of her, which is sort of the whole idea. Do I even think she's going to say yes to this? This insane idea that maybe they could actually be together with this virus holding them back? Logan bowed his head, in a struggle to keep calm, he said he would call and check up on her in a day or so. Not wanting to push an already unstable issue, O.C said she would call if she knew anything, whether it be worse or better and watched Logan walk out.
She shut the door and walked back over to Alec and Max, who was now asleep, Alec was sitting there and brushing her hair, "Is she going to be ok?" Alec asked, more like a mumble then actual words.
"I hope so, but if it gets worse I will call the doctor." O.C answered.
The next morning Max was up, not working or doing backbreaking work, but enough to get herself off the couch and to her bedroom, or the bathroom if she needed to. Still feeling sick, she kept a bucket in her room, in case she felt faint again and couldn't make it to the bathroom in time.
She got herself some breakfast, just a bowl of cereal; trying to put something back in her stomach at least. Taking small bites, she started to feel a little better. It was Saturday now and O.C had gone out to get some groceries. Walking in the door O.C saw Max up and eating.
"Morning girl, I'm glad to see that you are feeling better." Closing the door she stepped into the kitchen to put the groceries down.
"Morning O.C, yeah a little better, not as much as I'd hoped though. What happened to me yesterday, last thing I remember, Logan was going to ask me a question. Next thing I know, I'm waking up and he's staring at me, on one knee I might add. I didn't know what had happened and he wanted to take me home, but I said no and walked back to Jam Pony, and I woke up here this morning." Max explained taking another bite.
"He wanted to ask you a question, and he was on one knee!" O.C nearly dropped the eggs on the floor as she heard Max's story.
"Yes, I don't know what he asked me though, I was in and out of it most of the time actually." O.C just stood there and was putting the dots together, "Hey gurl, would you mind taking a little test I bought." Max scrunched up her face in confusion, but agreed.
Max handed the finished test to O.C, who took and looked at the instructions. Wide-eyed she turned to Max to give her the results.