Wallflower (MILES X ALYA)

09

ALYA'S POV

My day starts off as usual. Drop off a secret admirer letter, then wait until school starts.

I walk to my first period classroom and most of class goes by normally with Julie insulting me every five minutes. That is, until I'm taking notes and she won't stop looking at my paper.

"Julie, do you need something?" I ask.

She doesn't respond, she just keeps on looking at my handwriting.

"Earth to Julie?" I question, waving my hand in her face.

She still doesn't respond. Her eyes just keep on examining my notes. Weird.

The rest of my first class passes by smoothly without any interruptions. I'm on my way to second period when I see Miles open up his locker and a surprised expression appears on his face. He probably noticed the letter, I think smiling to myself. My smile quickly changes once he angrily tears up the letter and tosses it into the nearby trash can, as if it were a piece of garbage. I feel my heart drop for a second, but I slowly attempt to pick it back up as I walk towards him.

"Hey." I greet him, trying to hide back any pain.

"Hey." He greets back, almost growling.

"Miles, what's wrong?"

"Nothing."

"Oh please."

"I told you, it's nothing."

"Miles it's me."

He looks at me for a second and then sighs.

"Fine. It's just that this secret admirer, isn't who I thought it was." He confesses, looking sadly at the ground.

He knows?!

"You know?!" I question.

Oh crap, oh crap. I should've known this would backfire. Of course he doesn't think of me like that. And Jax probably told him anyways that it was me, or maybe I just made it obvious. I don't know.

"Yeah, Jax told me."

I knew it.

"Oh. Well what you think about it?"

"What do I think about it? Alya, Jax did it as a prank."

He thinks Jax did it? I guess I should just go with it since I can't risk him finding out it's me.

"Oh yeah. Right."

"That's why I don't understand why I got another one. Jax already told me that he's the one that wrote them as a prank, so the game's over. At least I thought it was."

"Oh, that... makes sense."

"Anyways, let's head to second period and get that song done." He says, and we begin walking together.

We get to our class and then go into the recording studio to further work on the song in a more private setting.

"So what do you think about this chord change here?" He asks during our rehearsal.

"I think it sounds great. I think we should add one here too." I respond pointing to a part of the music sheet.

Our hands accidentally touch, and we both shiver involuntarily. I look up into his vividly brown eyes, and feel myself gradually becoming entranced by them. His eyes seem to get closer to mine, and my heart rate immediately quickens.

His phone rings interrupting the second "moment" we almost had.

"Oh sorry. It's just my alarm to go take my pills." He apologizes and takes out a capsule from his bag.

"Don't worry, it's fine." I say.

Once he pops the pills in, he stops talking, suddenly he can't breathe. He brings his hands to his lower abdomen and grabs it tightly. He collapses on the floor, clenching his abdomen for some sort of relief, but nothing happens. He just stops moving and lays there.

"Miles?" I say, completely bewildered at what I just saw.

He doesn't do anything.

"Miles?!" I say again, this time yelling.

"Miles! Oh my gosh Miles!" I scream with tears falling down my face.

Jax. I need to get Jax.

I shove the door open and dash through the hallways to find him. There he is, sitting with Bianca in their rehearsal spot on the stairs. I continue running over to him, and hunch over, completely out of breath.

"Jax, it's Miles." I say, taking a breath between each word.

His face quickly changes and he excuses himself to go see what happened. We walk into the room and Miles is still on the floor, unconscious. Jax looks horrified, as do I probably.

"What happened? Did he just collapse?" He asks.

"He took his pills and then started grabbing for his stomach or something, and then he just fell and now he's unconscious." I answer.

He picks up the pill capsule.

"Oh my gosh." He mutters to himself.

"What is it?" I ask.

"Alya, this isn't kidney medication. These are Nephrotoxicity pills."

"What's that?"

He sighs.

"Alya, this is practically kidney poison."

A/N

Sorry for the shorter chapter, and the cliff hanger. *evil laughs* Anyways, thank you all again for the continued support on this story. I won't be able to update on Saturday, but I will on Sunday and possibly Monday. Saturday (Tomorrow in my time) is actually homecoming for me and I'm really excited. Please make sure to vote and leave comments, because I love hearing what all of you have to say. I hope you all have a wonderful day! (: