Infinite (Jai Brooks fanfic)

Chapter 12

The next morning I woke up feeling really sick. I think it was because I caught a cold. I began coughing really badly until I couldn't breathe. I quickly ran into the kitchen and grabbed a glass of water and gulped it all down in a second. My throat felt sore and I was shivering even though I was wearing clothing appropriate for this weather.

"Ava, what's going on?" My dad put his book down on the table and walked up next to me.

"Sore.." I stopped talking once I realized my voice was super scratchy and didn't sound like me at all. "Throat." I tried continuing.

My dad took some medicine out of the cabinet and handed it to me. I put it in my mouth and used water to swallow it down. I felt my body warming up so I sat down on the chair.

"You can't go to school. I'm calling in your absence." My dad said while washing the remaining dishes.

"It's fine.." I took a deep breath. "I need to go." The main reason I moved here was in order to continue my education and graduate.

He sighed. "If you must."

I stood up and held the edge of the table for support. I barely had any energy, how was I supposed to walk to school? I looked at my dad and he already had his car keys in his hands. "Let's go." He smiled. I grabbed my bag and slowly walked to the car.

"Rachel wanted to apologize to you last night." He said after starting the car.

I shrugged. "Doesn't matter."

Neither of us said anything for a long time. I stared outside of the window and noticed all of the dead trees and the dead grass. This city was so dead. I sighed internally. It was actually really coincidental how someone as dead as me could end up in a city as dead as this. In a way, I understood how this city could be so isolated.

"Her addiction got worse, didn't it?" My dad said quietly. I stared at the houses that were passing us and thought about how I should answer his question. Do I tell him the truth? Do I lie?

I nodded. "To the point where she couldn't let the bottle out of her sight." I trembled at the memories.

"I thought she would get better. I had high hopes that maybe she would be able to fix herself." He parked near the main entrance of the school.

I mumbled a small thanks and walked away from the car. Talking about my mom with my dad was extremely uncomfortable. I saw Summer and her group of her friends standing near the entrance of the school and I really wasn't in the mood of dealing with them so I decided to use the side entrance that not many people knew about. I no longer had any energy left and I felt the fever getting worse.

"How do you even know about this entrance? I thought I was the only one that knew!" Jai said while coming near, still not realizing that I was close to dying because of this pain.

"You're not the only one that knows everything." I snapped.

"Shit. Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed." He teased.

I flicked him off. "Let me through." I told him since he was blocking the entrance.

He laughed. "Not until you tell me what's wrong with you today."

I would have answered him by telling him to shut the fuck up, or I would've simply pushed him away so that I could get through. But that didn't happen. Instead, I felt a massive amount of weakness and I felt a sharp pain in my head from the fever. My body was radiating heat and I was sweating.

"Ava?" Jai grabbed my arms lightly to stop me from falling.

I felt a few tears come out of my eyes from the pain I was feeling. I couldn't let anything happen to me. Who would be there for me?