After Dunkirk

Chapter 5

I help him to the bed and grab him some clothes from the drawer.

"Here put these on." I say as I hand him the clothes.

Then it hits me. The medicine. I could have gave him the medicine but I guess we both just forgot about it.

I don't think it's too late to take it though. I go to the kitchen and get the pills and some water for him.

I hand him the pill and I notice he seems to be seems to be coming back to himself a bit more now.

I wrap my arms around him as he rest head on my shoulder.

He's cold as ever.

I'm glad I had woken up or else he might have been there all night.

I think I may need to look into some therapy for him a lot sooner than I thought.

More than anything I just want him to be okay.

"Come on let's go to sleep." I say to him.

"You sure you want me to go to sleep with you? Right now?" He ask.

"Well you did just take the medicine and I mean we'll never know unless we try it out."

"But listen, I don't want you to feel like you have to do something your not comfortable with."

"No really, I think we should. You to at least see if the medicine actually helps." I say.

"Okay, as long as your comfortable with it." He says as he climbs into bed.

"I am, now let's go to sleep." I say I wrap his arms back around me.

I wake up Alex's head on my stomach and his arms wrapped around me.

He didn't wake up all night. He tossed and turned a lot but he never woke up. So that's a good sign I guess that the medicine worked.

I still want to call though and see if I can get in touch with a therapist and set him up an appointment. I don't want to take any of this lightly.

"What time is it?" Alex groans.

"9:45, did you sleep well?" I ask.

"I guess, but I have a god awful headache now." He groans.

"I'll shut the blinds back for you, but I'm proud of you. You got through the whole night without even getting up." I say as I place a cold rag on his head.

"Thanks. I would be happier but I feel like shit."

"Well I'll let you get some rest, just let me know if you need anything."

"Okay, thanks."

I grab the phone so I can see about setting up an appointment for Alex to see a specialist.

The only time they have available is Monday afternoon, the only thing is that's the day my nursing classes start back. I really don't want him to have to go alone so I might leave early that day.

I need to talk to him about this, but I want to do it while he's sick but I also don't want it to look like I just dropped a huge bomb on him without any warning.