Flatline ~ Jackson Avery

EIGHTEEN

  After work, Cristina said she was holding a housewarming party, and of course I wanted to go, but I had a totally horrible cold that bound me to the warm sheets of my bed in the attic. My phone rang. "Hello..?" I groaned, rolling onto my back so I could face the warm ceiling.

"Woah, you sound really sick." Meredith realised.

"Thanks for the compliment." I mumbled. "So what's happening? Is the party good?"

"Well, all parties with a little alcohol will be good." She said. "Jackson punched Alex multiple times." She started.

"Wait, what? He punched Alex?!" I gasped.

"Yeah, but Alex tried to have sex with Virgin Mary, so it was his fault." Meredith explained.

"So how's his knuckle?"

"Being treated by Lexie." Mer said.

"I thought Lexie never really liked him." When Alex, Jackson, Lexie, April and Mer came back home, I could hear them from the attic, which meant they were extremely loud. I put a pillow over my head.

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The evening after the incident, Jackson was screaming again, and I had to run all the way downstairs in my bedsheets and nightgown to wake him up from his nightmares. At least my voice didn't sound so nasally when I told him to get up.

"Jackson! Stop!" It didn't do much, but I stood there until I finally got tired of him and threw a pillow at his face. "Jackson! It's me!" I yelled, which made my voice feel like crap. He opened his eyes and looked at me. "Hi." I attempted a morning smile. He threw the pillow back at me, and I caught it. He looked around the room.

"Time for work?" He asked.

"Y-Yeah, just about." I whispered, and we walked out of his room, topless, without saying a word. I shrugged and went back up to the attic so I could put away my bedsheets and get dressed. I heard my brother come back from his shift. I crashed onto my bed. "It feels like I only slept for fifteen minutes..." I grunted.

"That's because you were up all night, trying to make sure Jackson actually fell asleep before you got to bed. Which is too bad, because he started screaming fifteen minutes into you sleep." Lexie rambled, took her stuff and left to get ready for work. I opened my eyes and looked at the clock beside my bed. 6:00 p.m. Gotta love the night shift. I got out of bed once again and walked past my brother to get ready for the night ahead of me.

"Are you done taking a shower? It's been like five minutes and you're going to make me late!" I shouted at the closed shower door. Lexie was shaving and Alex and April were looking into the mirror doing whatever they needed to do to get ready.

"Just a minute." He replied. I had already brushed my teeth prior to coming into the bathroom. The bathroom downstairs had horrible tasting water.

"How about you just get into the shower?" Alex suggested. "I mean, you guys seen each other before, so how about you just-"

"Oh that is such a good idea!" I stripped down and entered the shower.

"Dude! What the hell!" Jackson yelled.

"Are you going to keep staring at me or finish up and exit the bathtub? If you want, I'm tempted to have some hot, hot-"

"This is so not normal." Derek huffed from the entrance of the bathroom. "Hey, what are you two doing in the showers?" He asked.

"Nothing!" We yelped in unison.

"Actually, Jackson was on his way to getting out of the shower!" I pushed him out of the shower with a towel around his waist. "Thank you for not using up all of the hot water!" I called as the water turned warm. After two minutes, Alex knocked on the shower door.