Living next door to Mr Popular

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Brooke's P.O.V

I woke up my head pounding, I sat up only to have Alex rush to my side,
"Oh not you don't" he said pushing me back down "lie down"
I sighed "Alex, I'm fine",
"Yeah sure" he said sarcastically "because everyone I know who collapses is fine." I lay there silently unsure of what to say until Alex spoke up,
"Why didn't you tell me?" He said sadness evident in his eyes "what if it had happened in the middle of nowhere when it was just the two of us? I wouldn't have know what to do, what would have happened then Brooke! Because let me tell you now that I would have no idea if it was because of high blood sugar, or low blood sugar, if you needed insulin or sugar." He said as he ran his fingers through his hair,
"Wait" I said smiling "how did you know all of that?" He blushed making my smile grow bigger,
"After Taylor told me, I might have done a little research" he said rubbing the back of his neck, "but then I thought, why not get you to teach me" he said pulling a chair next to the bed and sitting down, "which I why you're going to teach me now." I groaned into my pillow,
"But I'm hungry, " I said, Alex laughed as he revealed a Mc Donald's take away bag and handed it to me, I opened it started devouring my chicken nuggets, after I finished my last chip I turned to Alex,
"Can you pass me my bag?" I said pointing to it across the room, Ales passed me my bag and I took out a small black kit,
"What's that" Alex asked,
"My diabetes kit, I have to check my blood sugar and give myself insulin" I said as I started to lay things out on the bed,
"How come I've never seen you do it before?"'he asked as I tested my sugar
"Because" I said as I calculated the amount of insulin I needed, "it's not something I like shouting about, that I have diabetes I mean" Alex nodded in understanding,
"What's that box for then" he asked pointing at my pump,
"It's a insulin pump, I enter how much I need and it delivers it."
"See, I don't know this stuff Brooke, Wikipedia didn't go into that much detail," he said laughing,
"Fine" I sad laughing along with him, I spent the rest of my evening laughing, joking and teaching Alex, secretly happy that he knew my secret.

It had been a month since I'd collapsed at school, and since then Alex had followed me around treating me like a child, constantly reminding me to test and to eat, I was grateful at first but now it was just getting irritating.
"Did you check yet" Alex asked as I sat down in the canteen,
"No, not yet," I replied, Alex took my kit out of my bag and placed it down next to me on the table,
"Do it now" Alex said tapping me in the shoulder, interrupting my conversation with Taylor
"No" I said "I'm eating, I'll do it later" I said whilst turning back to Taylor. Alex tapped me on the shoulder again,
"Brooke just do it now and then you won't have to do it later, I'm just trying to help you Brooke" he said,
"Well maybe you should just back off because I've lived with this for years now and I know what I'm doing" I said as I stood up,
"The way you knew what you were doing in drama?" he said as he turned to me, with that I stormed out of the canteen leaving my friends calling after me.

Taylor's P.O.V

Brooke and Alex walked into the canteen together and made their way towards the table
"Have you checked yet" Alex asked Brooke, I cringed at her response 'she's high' I thought to myself as watched tor car crash of a conversation unfold in front of me. Having known Brooke for most of my life, after her diagnosis three years ago I usually found it easy to distinguish if she was high or low, when she was high she was unbelievable irritable and thirsty and when she was low she would feel tired, shaky and hungry. Noticing that her anger was getting the better of her I tried to distract Brooke from Alex,
"So," I said getting her attention, "do you want to go shopping with me after school?" I asked before she turned back to Alex. I struck up a conversation with Harry, suddenly out of the corner of my eye I saw Brooke stand up and storm out of the canteen leaving Alex with an extremely pissed off look on this face.
"Brooke!" I called after her standing up,
"Leave it Tay" Mason said as he pulled me back into my seat "leave her to cool off." I nodded and sat back down in my seat as I saw Cassidy and her 'followers' rush out of the canteen, I pulled my arm out of his grasp and walked out of the canteen and began to search for Brooke.