Medicine [H.S]

Chapter 8

The past four days has been exceptionally quiet around the house. There was no yelling. No demanding. No Harry. I missed the noise. I have gotten a lot of work done though while he's been away. That's one good thing about his absence. Even though I had tried to stay focused on my work, the last words he said to me before he walked out of the door kept repeating over and over in my head. "Why are you like this?" I whispered my myself. What did he mean by that? How was I? I have been the SAME way for 25 years, what makes me different now.

Rolling over I turned off the alarm, before it resonated throughout the house. It was 5:59 a.m. I had to work today. I've probably gotten 3 hours of sleep the entire night, all due to my unwanted thoughts. He came back home today though, and I was determined to talk to him at some point. Throwing myself out of bed, I jumped into the shower, and let the warm water rain over me. It felt relaxing. It didn't take me long to get ready, I towel dried my hair and knotted it on top of my head, threw on an old dress and some flip flops. I peeked inside Madi's room to see if she was awake, but she was fast asleep, with that guy she met at the club that one night. Shaking my head, I grabbed my purse and keys and headed out the door to face the day.

Alex and I had been working all morning in complete silence. He never talked, but today I couldn't get him to shutup. I had been tuning him out and agreeing with everything he said. Uh huh... Yeah... Yep... Mmhmm... I repeated those words, over and over again.

"Really, Brittany, you will?" Mikey asked. His face was so red. Oh no! What did I just agree to.

"Oh, I'm sorry, what did you say Alex?" I asked. I softly smiled at him. He was an attractive guy. He had dark, unruly curly hair and eyes to match. He was rather tall and slim.

"I...I...Umm...I wa-wanted to know if you would go out with me tomorrow night? If not I understand." I wish I could run out of the room or crawl under my computer desk, but I couldn't. I was face to face with this guy asking me out on a date. I couldn't be rude and just say NO, I wasn't that mean and he seemed so nervous. I can't remember the last time I'd been asked out on a date.

"Well, Alex..." my words trailed off as he interrupted me. "It's okay Brittany." I was shocked. He turned back around in his chair and went back to work. I felt bad and I hadn't even said anything. I started to work again until I came up with a solution.

"Alex." He turned around to face me. "I was just going to say that I need to talk with my roommate first to see if she doesn't need me or the car for anything. If not, then I'll be glad to go out with you." I said to him. His face lit up like a Christmas tree. He wrote down his number and I told him that I would call him when I found out something from Madi and we both went back to work.

Noon came and went by fast. I hadn't seen Harry or Linzey all day. He never slept late. I knew he was around though, because Jamie came walking by and I overheard him say he was asleep... in his room. That room. I've slept in that bed. It was a nice bed, too. Shaking my thoughts away, I focused on the computer in front of me. Alex left at lunch. Thank goodness, so I had the room all to myself. Just me and my thoughts, working on this endless task list.

5 p.m. came and there was still no sign of Harry. I shut my computer down and grabbed my purse. I started down the stairs, but his door caught my eye. Like it was the only door upstairs. I looked around and the house was quiet, so I decided to go knock to see if he was asleep.

I heard him scream on the other side of the door. I immediately regretted my decision. He could be so intimidating sometimes. I walked inside the room and closed the door behind me. There he was, shirtless, laying on the bed, on his stomach. He was beautiful, even half asleep. He looked at me with squinted eyes. He quickly apologized for yelling at me, which made me forget about it immediately.