My Impractical Hurricane – 2
I was bored, and since this story is already finished offline, I decided I would post another chapter. It's short.
It had been nearly a week since what Reed had dubbed 'that thing that shan't be named'. Five days anyway, which wasn't long enough in his opinion. For the most part, Johnny and Reed had avoided each other, which was considerably easy when they were the two team members who interacted the least to begin with. No one asked questions when Johnny slipped out as soon as Reed entered the room like someone lit a fire under him, because that was how he always moved. Likewise, no one cared to ponder why Reed would get so uncomfortable and stiff—he was always that way, really. Part of him resented that. In any case, Reed was just set to convince himself that the whole thing was silly and never even happened, and that they were really overreacting to some stupid accidental brush of the lips.
That was—until Johnny started showing symptoms of the flu. This made it all very disturbing and real. Johnny denied it of course. Sue would ask him if he was sick and a ridiculously congested Johnny would return with a, "Sick? Hey, I use protection every time." And of course she would roll her eyes and mock gag at the idea of her brother having sex.
"Maybe you caught something from Reed. He's been sick too, you know." Sue suddenly brought up in the kitchen, and Reed nearly spilled his coffee into his lap.
Johnny's hand was frozen on a box of cereal up on a high shelf, staring dumbly at his sister with wide, unblinking eyes. The moment of awkward silence was enough to annoy those who were not in on this little disaster.
"Not exactly an earth-shattering revelation, kid." Ben muttered, glancing at Johnny suspiciously.
Reed felt himself go pale. Sue hadn't even gotten sick—not after Reed insisted that she keep contact to a minimal in order to try and quarantine his flu. It had worked rather well, and he was now mostly over it…save for one little slip up.
"How would I get sick off him, I-I'm never even here. In fact, I've got somewhere to be right now. See you guys later!" and with that, Johnny was whisked once more out of the room by some mysterious appointment.
"Does he seem a little high strung to you?" Sue shrugged with a bit of a confused expression as she turned to Reed and Ben.
"Since the day I met him." Ben answered.
Reed bowed his head and went back to reading his paper.