Too Sick to Matter — Episode 7

familiar scent wraps around me alex thought you were busy tonight alex ignores him his gaze sweeps over the crowd pool challenge is starting you're really wasting more time here they get the point and head to the pool laughing tonight's real show isn't some freak like me alex looks down at me his eyes linger on my reddened eyes and my still bleeding knees he tilts his

shin toward the guest rooms i get it i force myself up limping toward the rooms colin and Lydia's stairs burn into my back, so I move faster, desperate to get out of Just as I reach the door, Alex strides up and grabs my wrist, urgent but careful, like he's afraid to hurt me. He pulls me in and shuts the

Alex suddenly scoops me up. I wrap my arms around his neck and catch my startled reflection in his deep blue eyes i'm thankful he didn't just carry me out of there i don't even want to imagine the chaos he pours me a glass of water i take small sips and from the corner of my eye i see reach for my knee i instinctively pull back let me clean that for you the way he tends to my cuts

it's a gentleness i've never felt from colin aren't you afraid colin will blame you after i'm what he calls a problem blame me i never saw him as a friend not after how he treated you alex Alex looks at me. He packs up the kit, his gaze landing on my phone by the bed.