Chapter 6
On Friday, Cooper and Maxie were sitting in an exam room waiting on the results of the tests Monica had just run. They exchanged looks but didn't say anything, they didn't have a chance seeing as Monica walked into the room. Cooper slipped his hand in Maxie's and gave it a reassuring squeeze.
"What's wrong?" Cooper asked seeing the look on Monica's face.
Monica sighed.
"Since your heart is weakened it makes you more susceptible to get sick, when we got the test results back it showed you have pneumonia,"
Maxie blinked back tears hoping they went unnoticed by Cooper but she knew they hadn't when she felt him give her hand another reassuring squeeze.
"So what do we do for it?"
"We put you on antibiotics and medication to try to prevent heart failure since there is a chance of it happening, since the pneumonia causes your heart to work harder and it can't work any harder," Monica explained.
Cooper just nodded in understanding.
After that, he and Maxie exchanged glances wondering what came next.
In third period, Cameron felt a piece of paper being shoved into his hand. He glanced in Miss Meiners direction; she wasn't paying attention since class hadn't started yet. He unfolded the paper and started reading:
Are you sure, this plan will work?
Cameron rolled his eyes, started writing, and then passed the note to Kristina.
Kristina unfolded the note and started reading: It will work, trust me.
This time Kristina didn't write anything on the paper---she just typed.
Cameron looked at the computer screen and started reading: Trust you? That's scary.
Cameron just rolled his eyes in response.
Before anything else could be, said Miss Meiners spoke up as she passed out the test.
"This test is five pages long and most likely will take you the whole period. If I catch anyone talking they will have an automatic zero,"
Chasity looked down at the test. Probably the only thing she'd get right was her name.
Back at GH they had finally gotten Cooper settled in a room. Maxie sat in the chair next to Cooper's bed. She remembered the last time they had to be at GH, Cooper had just saved her from Craig, in the process getting himself shot. He had promised her he'd be okay. He had survived the bullet wound but he was far from okay. Maxie's thoughts were interrupted by Cooper gently squeezing her hand. She looked in his direction but not straight at him because she was trying to hold back tears.
Cooper took his one hand and gently lifted Maxie's chin forcing her to meet his gaze.
"I've told you this before, everything's going to be fine okay?"
Maxie responded by giving a weak smile and in a barely audible tone whispering
"I know,"
After a few minutes, Maxie climbed into bed and snuggled in close to him. They didn't have to say anything, being in each others arms was all the comfort they needed.
Chasity sighed with relief once the bell that signaled for third period to be over rang.
"I probably flunked it," Chasity said as she and Spencer walked out of the computer room.
"You probably did better on it than you think you did,"
"Yeah, maybe," Chasity shrugged.
About that time, both Chasity and Spencer's cell phones started to vibrate. When they pulled, their cell phones out they had the same text message:
Meet me in the science room hallway.
Spencer and Chasity exchanged glances.
"I wonder what that was about."
"I don't know," Chasity replied.
"Let's go, I guess we'll find out what's going on,"
Back in the science room hallway Cameron and Kristina were hiding near one of the supply closets.
"Are they coming or what? I have to get to fourth period," Kristina complained.
"You can get a pass from the main office after we finish this,"
Kristina looked at Cameron as if he had said the stupidest thing in the world.
"Yeah, just go to the office and say I need a pass because I locked my two best friends in a supply closet to make them realize they like each other. That will go over real well with my social studies teacher,"
Cameron rolled his eyes.
"All you have to say is you got held up because you were talking to your third period teacher,"
"That could work, but what about you?" Kristina asked.
"Are you actually worried about me? I didn't think you cared," Cameron said hiding his surprise behind a sarcastic tone.
"Don't think anything of it I was just asking,"
Cameron nodded.
"Well since you asked I can just make up some believable excuse,"
Kristina rolled her eyes and started to say something but before she could, she spotted Chasity and Spencer coming down the hallway.
"What did you want Kristina?" Chasity asked once she and Spencer reached Kristina and Cameron.
Kristina didn't offer an explanation she just grabbed both Spencer and Chasity by the wrists and dragged them in the supply closet. Once she was sure, they were inside she shut and locked the door.
After that, she and Cameron just waited out in the hall.
"I'm going to strangle her!" Chasity exclaimed as she paced around the undersized supply closet.
"I wouldn't do that because then you would have to explain what happened to Kristina and you definitely don't want to go that, because when Alexis goes into over protective mommy mode it's not pretty,"
"Okay, you have a point, but I'm still mad at her," Chasity said having a distinct idea of why Kristina had locked them in the closet.
"Why would she lock us in the school supply closet?"
"I know why," Chasity, mumbled not realizing she'd said it aloud.
"You know why she locked us in the supply closet?"
Chasity thought to herself.Chasity who was still standing paced even faster around the supply closet as she debated on whether to tell Spencer the real reason they'd been locked in the closet.
"Will you stop pacing and tell me what's going on?" Spencer who was still sitting on the floor asked as he grabbed her wrist pulling her downward forcing her to sit on the floor next to him.
"Tell me what's going on, there's no doubt Kristina is insane but she isn't insane enough to lock her two best friends in a closet,"
Chasity sighed.
"You remember that conversation we had on instant messenger?"
Spencer nodded.
"Well we did talk about her and Cameron but she brought up the subject of you and me being more than friends,"
"What was said?" Spencer asked.
"Not much, she just brought up the subject and I denied it and then she brought up the night we were watching Greys Anatomy and had that talk,"
"Spencer thought about what Chasity had just said and it was true, when they had first run into each other he had been attracted to her and as they became friends he had started to like her but hadn't acted on it. Mainly because of her issues with Cooper, he had figured she'd needed a friend more than anything. He'd done a good job at hiding his feelings for her---until now anyway.
"Do you have feelings for me in that way?"
Chasity sighed; her head was telling her to do one thing while her heart was telling her something completely different.
"Yes," Chasity replied softly.
Spencer didn't say anything, he found the tiny gap between them had closed and his lips were from hers. Chasity lightly brushed her lips against Spencer's as if she was teasing him before their lips actually connected and they started to kiss. She slowly wrapped her arms around his neck. Chasity had mixed emotions, on one hand she was ecstatically happy, it was her first kiss and it was with a guy she really liked, on the other hand, she was angry she was doing it because Spencer was her best friend and doing this could make things awkward and complicated---her life was complicated enough already. Ultimately, her second thought won over because she was the first one to pull away.
"We can't---we can't do this now not with everything going on, plus you're my best friend if we start something it could make things awkward and difficult and I need my best friend right now," Chasity said knowing she was rambling but at the time she really didn't care.
Spencer listened to Chasity's rambling and he understood perfectly what it meant. He was probably the only person besides Cooper who did.
"So do you think it worked?" Kristina asked pressing her ear against the door.
"For my sake I hope so,"
Kristina shot him a look and he heard her mumble something under her breath.
"We should let them out now," Kristina said seeing what time it was plus she didn't want to spend any more time with Cameron than she had to.
"You're trying to avoid me," Cameron said holding the key out of Kristina's reach.
"Why would I try to avoid you?"
"Oh I don't know maybe because you actually like me?"
Kristina rolled her eyes.
"You're under a misconception because that is so not true. You're self absorbed and annoy the crap out of me, the only reason I'm dealing with you is because you're helping me get my friends together,"
"You just keep believing that," Cameron said leaning down close to Kristina's face and dropping the keys in her hand.
Kristina just looked at him trying not to show her discomfort.
After a few minutes, Kristina walked towards the door and unlocked it. When she opened the door both Spencer and Chasity stood up.
"You're really mad at me aren't you?" Kristina asked once Chasity and Spencer were out of the closet.
Chasity put on a fake smile and nodded.
"Did it work?"
Chasity's smile disappeared and she narrowed her eyes.
"Kristina, you locked me in a supply closet I'm not going to tell you if it worked,"
Chasity started to walk away but Kristina stopped her.
"If the teacher asks you were in the nurse's office with really bad cramps,"
Chasity just nodded and walked towards her fourth period class.
Kristina turned toward Spencer.
"Are you mad at me too?"
Spencer sighed.
"I'm not happy but I'm not mad. Before you even ask I'm not going to tell you what happened,"
Kristina just nodded and walked toward his fourth period class.
Kristina sighed; her plan blew up in her face.
"Looks like you don't get that date you tried to black mail me into," Kristina said walking away.
Cameron watched her as she left. If he couldn't get her attention by blackmailing her into a date, he'd get it another way.
Later that evening Chasity walked into Kelly's and started up the stairs only to be stopped by Georgie.
"I think you should go to GH,"
"What happened?" Chasity asked thinking about all the things that could've happened at the doctor's appointment.
Georgie sighed.
"Maxie called and said that when they got the test results back it showed he had pneumonia," Chasity didn't say anything she just nodded and went out the door.
Chasity walked into GH to find Maxie in the lobby.
"Georgie told you what happened?" Maxie asked.
"Yeah can I go see him?"
"Yeah, hey are you okay? Besides all of this I mean," Maxie asked.
"Yeah I'm fine,"
Maxie gave her a skeptical look but didn't say anything. She just led her to Cooper's room.
When they got to Cooper's room Chasity walked in to hear the silent beeping of a heart monitor and see Cooper with an IV stuck in her arm. This was all new territory to her because she wasn't used to seeing Cooper sick, he'd always been the one that held her together.
"Hey,"
"Hey," Cooper replied.
Before Chasity could respond her cell phone, started vibrating and she knew it was Kristina trying to text her so obviously annoyed she just shut it off.
"What was that about?" Cooper asked.
Chasity shrugged.
"It wasn't anything,"
When Cooper gave her a skeptical look Chasity spoke up again.
"Don't worry about it; you have enough to worry about right now,"
"Worrying about the younger sister is part of the big brother job description so, start talking,"
Chasity sighed because she knew Cooper would get it out of her one way or another.
"Okay you remember how a while ago I told you about Kristina getting the idea that me and Spencer liked each other?"
Cooper nodded.
"Well with some of Cameron Webbers help she locked us in the school supply closet during fourth period and I had to lie to my social studies teacher and say I had been in the nurse's office with cramps,"
"Okay but what happened in the closet?"
Chasity hesitated before answering.
"Well we talked and I found out he does like me in that way and we…kind of kissed,"
"Chas, either you guys kissed or you didn't, which is it?"
"Okay we kissed and I really liked it," Chasity said smiling.
"Well I don't see the problem then,"
Chasity gave an exasperated sigh.
"Did you hear anything I just said?"
"I heard you, and from the way it sounds you're mad at Kristina because she made you deal with the fact you like him,"
Chasity didn't say anything she just stared at Cooper.
"Don't look at me like that, I'm right aren't I?"
Chasity gave a reluctant nod.
"Okay you're right, I'm mad at Kristina because she locked us in the closet and that forced us to say stuff that led to the kissing and the kissing made things awkward and complicated. I don't like awkward and complicated,"
"Well if you like him you can't help that so maybe you should see where it goes," Cooper advised.
"But what if we---" Chasity was cut off by Cooper
"Chas you're over compensating,"
Chasity sighed.
"You wouldn't be telling me to go for it if I wanted to go out with a guy like Cameron Webber would you?"
"I only know about him by the conversation I heard between you and Kristina and by what you've told me so no, I probably wouldn't be telling you this if it was him you wanted to go out with,"
Chasity sighed.
"Fine we'll talk and see what happens,"
Cooper nodded.
Chasity got up out of the chair she was sitting in and hugged Cooper before leaving the room.
When Chasity walked out into the lobby, she was surprised to see Spencer.
"What are you doing here?"
"I went to Kelly's to look for you and somebody told me you left to come here," Spencer explained.
"Yeah, it turns out Cooper has pneumonia,"
"I'm sorry,"
Chasity just shook her head and Spencer knew she didn't want to talk about it anymore.
"Look, I'm sorry about---about earlier in the supply closet, I shouldn't have reacted the way I did,"
Spencer didn't say anything he just grabbed Chasity's hand and led her to the elevator then he pressed the button and waited for the door to open. When it did open, Spencer stepped inside with Chasity trailing behind him.
I have got to stop watching so much Greys Anatomy with Kristina and Chasity.
Spencer thought to himself as he pressed the button that stopped the elevator.
Spencer thought to himself as he pressed the button that stopped the elevator."You don't have to apologize for the way you reacted, you were getting everything thrown at you all at once and you were scared,"
Chasity smiled slightly at Spencer's understanding.
"How can you always be so patient all the time?"
"I've lived with Kristina for fifteen years; you have to have some level of patience to live with her,"
Chasity smiled but Spencer could see she was still upset.
"You're still scared about what's going to happen with Cooper aren't you?"
Chasity just nodded not trusting her voice.
Spencer took hold of Chasity's hand and gave it a light squeeze. Before either of them knew what was happening they were getting ready to lean into a kiss until Spencer pulled away.
"We shouldn't do this now; you're doing it because you're scared about what's going on with Cooper. I don't want to take advantage of that,'
Chasity sighed; it didn't feel like she was doing it for that reason but maybe Spencer could see something she couldn't.
Chasity just nodded and she and Spencer walked out of the elevator hand in hand.