Unfortunately Just Friends✔️

Chapter 22: You Weren't Supposed To Know

Milo

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January and Leo announced to the group that they got engaged the other night so we were going to have a celebratory dinner in my apartment, which I had been secluding myself in for a while, besides the hospital.

Walking out of my room, I wear a hoodie and some jeans on with a baseball cap to cover the chunks of hair that have fallen out from the chemo. There aren't many visits that I have to do so they told me that I don't have to shave all of my hair to my relief.

I walk back into the room and sit down on one of the chairs. Forgetting that I had the hat on backwards, it pops off when I lean my head back on the chair behind me. As I bend down to pick it up I'm met with the confused look on January's face.

Shit.

I quickly put the cap back on and try to ignore her but she's already in front of me. She reaches for my hat and I swat her hand away. "Hey stop that." I try to say as calmly as I can muster.

"Milo stop", her voice not playing.

"No January just leave my hat on" I say and Dash comes up behind us and grabs it off of my head.

"Why so possessive" he says jokingly and when I reach back to grab it his eyes shoot open and January's hand is on my head. 

"What happened?" she asks.

"Just a bad barber. You know what I mean?" I try to laugh it off and seem convincing but her face doesn't change.

Leo and Janell come into the room laughing at what one of them said and instantly stop when they see the two inspecting my head. Leo walks over and looks at it. "Bro are you balding or something?"

"Um yeah. Just give me my hat back" I reach again for the hat but Dash throws it across the room and January pushes me back into my seat. Thalia walks into the room and her eyes widen too but nobody is paying attention to her.

"Milo these are chunks taken out. People don't bald like this. I'm a hair dresser I think I would know what a bad cut looks like. It looks like they fell out of your head."

"I did it" Thalia says too quickly. "I thought I could cut it and I was drunk and one thing led to another and he just decided to leave it and let it grow out." She says the whole thing quickly without breaths in between and everyone starts to look at her nervous figure. And I try really hard but it happens at the worst time that my body decides to go into a coughing fit. Instantly Thalia's by my side and trying to calm me down but I run to the bathroom to vomit everything in my system.

One of the side effects from the chemo.

"What the hell's going on Milo?" Leo asks with a stern look and his arms crossed in front of the bathroom door. I flush the toilet and stand back up to my full height and move to wash my face. I try to push past him "nothing just leave me alone." And he shoves me backwards.

"DON'T PUSH HIM" Thalia screams. She runs up to me and starts feeling my chest. They all look at us funny but I know she's checking to see if he bust open another stitch. "You don't remember when he was in the hospital you jerk!" 

"It's fine Thalia. They healed." I try to calm her down a bit as she keeps frantically patting my chest lightly as I try to steady my breathing.

"I know this has something to do with the hospital visit, Miles just spit it out. You're hiding something."

"Drop it Leo!" I say through clenched teeth.