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Dreamers Oasis: Max and Liz will get together, not long to go. There will be a bit of misunderstanding but it will all work out.
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Chapter 6
Liz
I groaned when I woke up, the sun was giving me a headache. I sat up and ran a hand through my hair, confused. The last time I got a headache from the sun was because Alex and I got drunk. Now, that was an experience I never wish to experience again let me tell you.
I got out of bed and headed over to my adjoining bathroom, I stepped in and looked in the mirror before giving a gasp of shock. My face was completely pale and my eyes looked bloodshot and there were bags under them. I have the damn cold! Goddamn it, I so did not need this, this morning; I have a flipping test that I can't miss. I winced slightly as I turned and I saw a large bruise on my stomach, just under my right rib and grimace, there were a couple more bruises around my body, I winced when I realised there was cut on back and turned better to see in the mirror before shaking my head. Better not let Tammy see it.
I hurried in the shower and made sure that the water was hot so it could elevate some of the cold that I had. I really hate being ill.
I opened to door and saw Tammy standing there; she turned to me with a smile before it dropped when she saw me.
"Geez girl, you look like death warmed over!" she exclaimed and I scoffed.
"Ever heard of tact?" I asked and she nodded.
"Of course I have but what's the point of glossing over what you look like when you obviously needed it straight with no mixing." She told me and I giggled slightly.
"Sounds like you are talking about a drink." I told her and she rolled her eyes.
"Liz, seriously, I think you should stay at home. You don't look so good." She told me and I rolled my eyes.
"Tam, it's just a small cold, I'll be fine." I assured her, I saw her mouth opened to protest, I gave her my death glare and she shut her mouth quickly.
"Fine, but if you drop dead at school, don't come haunting me cause I told you so." She told me and I was sent into another fits of giggles at the image as I followed her down the path to the jeep where it was waiting with Max behind the wheel.
He looked up and saw us, his smile dropped when he saw me and opened his mouth to say something but was cut off when he saw Tammy's sharp shake of her head and warning in her eyes.
"Are you girls ready?" He asked and I nodded as I stepped into the jeep, Tammy shook her head as she followed me, I knew that she wanted to give me a lecture but I wasn't in the mood to hear it, my head was pounding enough all ready that I didn't need another headache on top of this one.
We finally arrived at the school and I sighed when I stepped out of the jeep, god, the silence on the way here was unbearable.
"Do we have practice this afternoon?" I asked Tammy and she shook her head.
"Nope, Sarah never called." She told me and I nodded.
"Great, we are not on shift tonight either." I told her and she nodded.
"Good, I have massive of homework that I need to get through tonight and working is so not on my list." She told me and I nodded. "I gotta meet up with Jake, he had something to tell me." She looked at her watched before hurrying off and Max turned to face me.
"So how come you are at school today?" he asked and I sighed.
"Max, we have a test today, I can't miss it." I told him and he sighed.
"Liz, it's only a mock test, the teacher would let you take it after you got better." Max told me as we entered the school, I went to reply when all of a sudden I felt bile rise up in my throat and I bolted for the nearest bathroom.
I ran into the bathroom with my hand over my mouth, I managed to get into the toilet stall just time before I was sick into the toilet. I groaned as I rested my forehead on the cool porcelain and sighed.
"Liz, maybe you should go home." I hear Tess tell me as she pushed opened the door and handed me a bottle of water and I shook my head.
"I can't, I have a test." I told her and she rolled her eyes.
"Liz, we all love you and we would love it if you could keep yourself alive for us to love." She told me and I smiled slightly as I drank some water, sighing at the coolness as it slid down my throat.
"I really need to do this test." I muttered as I got up and walked over to the sink and rinsed my mouth out and washed my face before grabbing the papers towels.
"Liz, you really need to stop being so stubborn." She told me and I smiled, weakly as I dried my face and threw the towels in the bin.
"It's who I am, come on." I told her and as I exited the bathroom only to bump into Max, who was pacing outside the toilet.
"Liz?" he asked and I shook my head.
"Nothing Max, come on, we have class." I told him and hurried off to class to I could do the test.
We arrived at our table, Max sat down and I went to sit down when I began to feel dizzy. "Max." I whispered as the room started to spin, he looked up at me and his eyes widen.
"Liz?" Max called out. All I could see was coloured spots forming around my eyes as blackness claimed me. I hate being sick.
Max
My heart dropped when I saw Liz's eyes roll up into the back of her head as she started to fall backward, I hurried over and caught her before she fell to the floor.
"Mr. Evans!" our science teacher shouted as he came into the room.
"Sir, it's Liz, she fainted." I told him and he went pale.
"Take her to the nurse office so she can take care of her." I nodded and hurried out of the room with her in my arms, holding her close to me. God, she is so small and fragile in my arms that I was scared that I was going to drop her.
I busted into the nurse's office, startling her. She looked up and her eyes widen when she saw Liz lying in my arms.
"What on earth happened?" She demanded as she stood up and hurried over to my side.
"She wasn't feeling well but she wanted to come to school cause she had an exam, Tess told me that she was sick in the toilet and then she fainted in class just now." I explained to the nurse as she checked Liz's temperature. "Is she okay?" I demanded and the nurse sighed.
"She has the flu." She told me and I felt relief shoot through my body like a healing balm.
"What do I have to do?" I asked.
"Give me her home number and I call her parents." She told me and I shook my head.
"Her parents are at work, they don't like being bothered, I can give you my home number and my mom can come and pick her up." I told her and she nodded.
"No problem, what this girl needs is bed rest." She told me and I nodded as I recited off my home number and she called my mother.
I let Liz down and settled her on the cot that the nurse has out for people when they weren't feeling well. She moaned slightly as she shifted on the cot to get more comfortable as the nurse brought over a cool wet pack for her forehead. "Here, place this on her forehead, it'll help to cool down her temperature a bit." She told me as she handed it to me and I nodded as I did her bidding. "Your mother said she would be down soon." And I nodded.
"Max!" my mother shouted as she came hurrying down the hallway, she enveloped me in a hug. "What happened?" she demanded and I rolled my eyes.
"Liz has the flu, she refused to stay at home because we had an exam today so she ended up fainting in class." I told her and she sighed as she shook her head.
"I love that girl like a daughter but she really drives me up the wall with her stubbornness." She told me with love in her voice and I smirked.
"You and eight other people, the rest of the gang is furious with Liz for pushing herself like this." I told her and she sighed as the nurse came out.
"Mrs. Evans?" she asked and my mom nodded.
"Yes, is Liz okay?" she asked and the nurse smiled as she nodded.
"She's fine, what she need is bed rest and a good night sleep and some good food, she has been pushing herself too hard lately that her immune system went down due to the pressure." The nurse informed and my mother nodded.
"I'll take her home and put her to bed." She told me and I nodded.
"Put her in my bed, I have light sheets, Tammy prefers having heavy sheets." I reminded her and she nodded.
"Can you carry her out for me?" she asked and I nodded as I lifted a sleeping Liz into my arms and headed out of the school.
Tammy
"Why does she have to be so stubborn?" I demanded, we were all in the quad having our lunch, bar Liz of course, Tess had contacted us and let us know that Liz had fainted in class and was sent home or shall I say, carried home.
"What did you expect? You know what she is like when it comes to exams, mock or real." Tess told me as she took a sip of her drink and I nodded.
"Yeah I know, but sometimes I just wish that she would listen to us once in awhile and actually take a fricking day off!" I exclaimed and Maria snorted.
"Liz take a day off, that's like asking a shark to swim backward and that's impossible." She informed us.
"The nurse says she'll be fine in a few days, mom is making sure that she stays at our house till she is sure that Liz is better." Max told us and I nodded.
"Good, maybe she'll listen to mom." Isabel stated as she played around with her food and taking a bite of her pizza.
"How come you are sitting with us?" I asked Isabel and she rolled her eyes.
"Pam hasn't shut up how hot and brave Max is for beating up James." She told us, "It was damn well getting on my nerves." She admitted and Max sighed.
"Girls keeps grabbing my butt and slipping their names and number in my pockets, it's driving me up the wall!" he told us and Kyle smirked.
"Go buddy, you can't say that you are not gonna take up on those offers are you?" Kyle asked and I rolled my eyes.
"He isn't a player Kyle, unlike some people I can say." I stated; Kyle's smirk slid off his face.
"What about the rumour?" he asked and Maria huffed.
"Haven't you learned by now, not to listen to the rumour, always make sure it's correct before believing it!" she exclaimed. "It's like that time where someone spread the rumour that you were caught in the closest with Mr. Seligman." Maria stated and Kyle sprayed his juice out in surprise causing Isabel, Tess, Maria and I to cry out our disgust.
"KYLE!" we exclaimed but Kyle ignored us as he turned to Maria.
"What do you mean? When the hell did that happen?" he demanded and Maria thought about it.
"It was last year wasn't it?" she asked and we nodded.
"Yep, Liz couldn't stop laughing for the entire day that she actually fell off her seat in biology, she ended up dragging me down when she fell." Max informed us and I snickered.
"That was so funny, the rumour after that incident was that you and Liz were having sex in biology and things got out of hand." I told him and he roll his eyes.
"Don't these people have lives?" he asked and Tess scoffed.
"We live in Roswell, not L.A." she told him and he sighed as he shook his head.
"I knew it was a curse when we moved here." He muttered, causing the rest of us to giggles.
"Seriously, back to the topic, what are we gonna do about Liz pushing herself too hard, who does she have to prove to?" Alex asked.
"Her parents." I muttered and everyone turned to me and I sighed. "You know, with Rosa dropping her grades when she was at school, Liz feels she has to make up for Rosa's mistakes." I told them and Isabel shook her head.
"Someone need to tell Liz that she is not perfect, that it is okay to take a break every now and then, if she keeps this up, she will end up in hospital." She muttered and there was an awkward silence surrounding the group, not knowing that Isabel's word could very well be likely to come true.
Liz
I woke up and blinked slightly as I looked around the room, it wasn't my room. I turned slightly on the bed and a whiff of cool mint enveloped my sense. I smiled slightly. I was in Max's bed.
Everything came back to me, I had fainted in class and I let out a low moan when I realised that I had missed the test. The door opened and it was Diane.
"Oh you are up. How do you feel sweetie?" she asked and I nodded slightly.
"A bit better. How did I end up here?" I asked
"Max carried you in, he took you to the nurse and she said you were to go home, they contacted me." She told me, and she set down the tray and I noticed it was my favourite soup, sweet corn, potatoes and mushrooms in stork sauce. God I love that soup! It's great.
"Thanks for the soup." I told her and she smiled as she stroked back my hair.
"Honey, you need to stop pushing yourself, your friends are very worried." She told me and I sighed.
"I know, it's just, I had a test today and I didn't want to miss it." I told her and she sighed.
"Max told me that your teacher would have let you take it when you came back so there is no reason you should have pushed yourself." She told me and I nodded. "You are staying here till I'm convinced you are better, the nurse doesn't want to see you back in the school till you are completely cured from the flu and that means bed rest." She told me, I opened my mouth to protest but she shook her head. "Nope, the gang can bring your homework home for you, you are not going to school." She stated firmly and I nodded, knowing it was futile to even go against Diane Evans, especially when she was in mothering mode.
"Okay." I told her and she smiled before kissing me on the forehead.
"Here, eat up the soup and try and get some more sleep." She told me and I nodded as I began to eat my soup while she went off to do some housework. I smiled; she definitely loves mothering everyone.
"Honey, I'm home." I vaguely hear a female voice stated then some whispering. I turned in the bed, refusing to let the sleepiness go, all I wanted to do was go back to sleep when I heard something.
"Liz, come on, you need to wake up." A male voice stated.
"Max?" I mumbled, confused.
"Yeah it's me, come on, you need to drink." He told me. I opened my eyes and saw him sitting on the edge of the bed.
"What's the drink?" I asked and he smiled softly.
"Juice and some medicines, you need to take them if you want get better." He told me, I groaned as I buried my face in the pillow, I hate medicines; they taste disgusting. "I know you hate them but you really need to take them." He told me and I sighed as I turned my face, too tired to fight.
"Don't wanna drink, wanna sleep." I mumbled as the sleepiness began to hover over me again.
"I know you do but you really need to take it." He told me, he slipped his arm under my back and lifted me up; he opened my mouth and inserted the pill before holding the drink to my mouth so I could swallow it.
"No more." I muttered, trying hard not to gag the pill back up.
"One more." He told me and I shook my head.
"No." he opened my mouth once more and pushed the pill downs my mouth before placing the drink on my lips once more.
"This is the last one and you can go to straight back to sleep if you drink it." He told me, I drunk down some of the drink before he placed it back on the table and laid me back on the bed once more.
He took my jumper off and pulled the lights sheets over my body once more. "Have a good sleep." I heard him whispered before kissing me on the forehead as I drifted off into a deep sleep once more.
Max
I watched her sleep for a while, making sure that she didn't throw back up the medicines, I had seen it happen way too many times before that I know I had to watch her. I remembered the first time it started, it was after her sister's death, she contracted a heavy flu because she was out in the rain crying. We gave her some medicine, which she promptly threw back up, Mom was worried about it, Liz had never had any problems taking medicines before and she couldn't understand why she was suddenly throwing them back up.
At first, dad thought it was because Rosa took drugs and Liz saw what happened so she decided not to take medicine but Tammy had a feeling that it was something else altogether, she still took medicine even when Rosa was on drugs. We never did find out why.
I left the room and headed into the kitchen where everyone was sitting, my mom looked up from the cooker where she was cooking our dinner.
"How is she?" she asked.
"She kept the medicine down, I made sure that she was sleepy before making her take it, you know it makes it easier as the body can't be bothered to move." I told her and she nodded.
"Good, the medicine will help her body fight the flu." She told me.
"Is it because Liz spent that time out in the rain she contracts the flu easily?" Kyle asked and my mom shrugged.
"The doctor seems to think so, no one really knows for sure." She explained as she handed us all drinks.
"Do you want a hand?" I asked and she nodded as she handed me the plates.
"Is Liz staying here till she gets over the flu?" Tammy asked.
"Yes, I made sure that she knew, could you guys get her homework for her from your class please?" she asked and we all nodded.
"No problem, Mrs. E. I have her homework in my bag, I'll give it to her when I see her." Michael told us.
"Same here." We all stated and she smiled as she handed us our food.
"What smells so delicious?" we heard a male voice stated and my dad came through into the kitchen and smiled when he saw us but it dimmed when he noticed that someone was missing. "Where's Liz?" He asked.
"In my bed, she fainted at school due to the flu so the nurse sent her home, mom is making sure that she stays here till she is better." I told him and he nodded.
"Pushing herself too hard?" he asked and we all nodded and he shook his head. "Just has to be stubborn." He stated and we all smiled as we tucked into our food, thinking about Liz and talking about our day.
TBC