Back in Time

Chapter 21

Alex P.O.V

I looked from corner to corner, wondering when Monica would come back.

I knew she needed space but she had taken a while now and I didn't want her to be alone crying. I sighed, I knew the news about Roxanne would affect her, I just hoped it wouldn't affect her that much.

I wasn't the most trustworthy person to give comfort to someone, I was the type of guy that instead of giving comfort I ended up saying something sarcastic or plain mean.

Like with Joey, when he broke up with his first real girlfriend when he was 15, he had been so upset and instead of giving him comfort I had said "Well that's what you get for trying to be the girl in the relationship you sensible twat".

It's not that I was trying to make him feel bad, I'm just not very good giving comforting words.

But now I knew that Monica would probably need them, and if I'm honest I wanted to be the one to comfort her rather than my little bro. I don't even know why either, don't ask.

Where was she?

"Hey, Monica already took a while don't you think?" Joey spoke my thoughts.

So he had noticed it too.

"Yeah, I wonder how much time alone she needs?" I mumbled.

"Should we go look for her?" he asked.

"Guys this is really hard on her, I think she needs a little few more minutes" mom said with a little upset sigh.

I crossed my arms and lightly began to tap my fingers against my arm, how much time did she need?

"So when do you think Roxanne will be out mom?" Joey asked.

She sighed again "I don't know darling, but from the looks of it, I think a while," she said.

I raised an eyebrow at that "Is she really that sick?" I asked.

She nodded "The doctor said she's very weak, her and Monica were really slowly starving to death" she shook her head sadly.

Joey looked all of a sudden very pale, "Wow," he mouthed looking somewhat stunned.

I gulped, just how bad were they to be slowly starving? I remembered back to how they both ate, like if they had never seen food before, how they ate so fast as if they food would disappear. I remembered Monica's words too, "Do you have any idea, what its like to be hungry?"

I gulped once more, well shit now I felt extra bad for calling them pigs. I passed a hand through my hair a little frustrated with the way I had behaved these last couple of days, I'd have to amend my attitude.

When Roxanne got out of here I promised I would take her to the most expensive restaurant I could find, I owed her one.

"Poor Roxanne, I hope she gets better soon," Joey mumbled next to me, he looked all of a sudden upset too. Aw crap, was this whole thing affecting him too? He looked worried, but at the same time it made me wonder, why was he so worried about Roxanne when he barely knew her?

Was it just because of the fact that she was his daughter?

Speaking of daughters, I wondered were my offspring was at?

"I think we should go look for Monica," I declared uncrossing my arms.

"Alex I think she needs more time alone," mom objected.

"We'll just make sure she's alright" I shrugged, "Come on Joey" I told him.

I saw mom giving us a perplexed but slight proud look, I guess she was wondering why we were so interested in seeing why Monica was fine, I was pretty sure she was going to ask me later something about it.