Polar (Erejean)

Disruption

"Jean," I started, glancing over at him from where I sat in the passenger's seat. We were on our way to his place for a tutoring session and, like usual, we had spent most of the ride in silence. He gave a hum in acknowledgement, keeping his gaze set on the road. "Thanks for earlier."

He raised his brows slightly, briefly glancing my way. "Yeah, no problem," he murmured. "Listen, about-," he sighed when he was cut off by the sound of his phone going off. "Could you grab that for me? It's in my bag."

"Sure," I nodded, reaching over to grab his bag from the back seat. I hummed softly when I found it, pulling it out of the front pocket. "Says someone called Petra Ral is calling."

"Fuck," he muttered, chewing on his lip and holding his hand out in my direction. "Give it here."

"I'm pretty sure it's illegal to use your phone whilst driving."

"Oh, for fucks- okay, fine, just hold it to my ear, then."

"I still don't think that's-"

"Christ, Eren, just do it, will ya?"

I didn't say anything in response, instead just giving in and holding the phone up to his ear. I'd be lying if I denied trying to listen in on the conversation, though it really didn't matter because I couldn't hear a thing that the person on the other end was saying. At first, I just figured that it was some girl that Jean was seeing, but that idea was proved wrong almost immediately.

"Hello?" Jean answered, before sighing softly as the other person responded. "Hey, ma," he said, seeming so much more relaxed than he had been before. "Yeah, I'm fine... Yeah, yeah, of course... Okay, see you soon... Love you too."

I slowly pulled the phone away from him, glancing down at the screen and watching as the call ended.

"We're gonna have to make a detour," he said, turning off from the usual route to his house. "It won't be too long. You okay to wait in the car for a bit?"

"Yeah, sure," I said, looking him over as I spoke. "Is she okay?"

"She's fine," he answered. "Can we not talk about it?"

"Sure," I said, giving a nod. I kept my gaze stuck on him for a few moments before sighing in defeat and reaching over to turn the radio up a little. He didn't want to talk about his mother, and I didn't see a point in just making conversation for the sake of filling the silence.

I stared out of the window with Jean's phone still held loosely in my hand, noting the dark clouds starting to gather up in the sky. My brows furrowed when we passed the town's hospital, but I decided not to voice my confusion. I really didn't understand, though. Jean had said that it wouldn't take long, and the next hospital was forever away...

He ended up parking the car around 15 minutes after he had received the phone call. I glanced out of the window, still as confused as before. I didn't recognise the building that we were parked by.

"Just stay here, yeah?" Jean said, waiting for me to look over at him before speaking again. "Keep my phone so I can just call you if I need to stay longer or something."

He barely even waited for me to nod my head in response before he was out of the car, which was probably fair enough given his situation - whatever it was.

Even though he had told me to wait in the car, I just couldn't manage to shake my curiosity. Less than five minutes after he'd left, I was out of the vehicle and making my way around to the front of the building with Jean's phone still in hand. It wasn't long before I managed to find a sign, placed just outside of the building's grounds.