Don't Do This To Me ~ Sonny Robertson (Roadtrip)

Chapter 9 - Lover Boy

We were back in our hotel room, and I lay on the bed just staring at the ceiling. I took a deep breath and tried to clear my mind of all the stress but it was no use. 

"You okay?" I heard Brooklyn ask in an almost whisper. I sat up making my back ache and looked away as I felt an unusual amount of water in my eyes. "Sonny?" A single tear managed to escape and I felt it stroll down my cheek, burning me with it's saltiness. He came and sat next to me and I clung unto him, burring my face in his jumper and letting it all out. I don't think I've cried this much since I was 5 years old, not even when I ended things with Meredith. 

"I can't do it anymore Brook, it hurts." I cried out.

"What does?"

"Everything!" I said as I choked on my own tears."My head hurts, so does my body and I can't think straight because I'm dying." I mentally slapped myself as I realized I shouldn't have said that. He raised my chin upwards so I could face him.

"What did you just say?" I knew I shouldn't have said anything. It would've made life easier for me to tell him when the test results came in but I didn't mean to and now there was nothing else I could do. It was just best to just tell him now.

"Last Monday..." I began. "Harper told you I fainted. Well, the morning after I was in a lot of pain and I started to get a fever. I thought it was nothing but when I went to the doctors they told me it was something serious and transferred me to the hospital. I haven't gotten my test results yet but I'm so scared Brook, I don't know what to do with myself." He looked at me in disbelief.

"And you decided not to tell anyone?" He spoke in a slightly louder manner. I opened my mouth, preparing to say something but just as I could, he cut me off. "Listen, it's probably nothing and let's just wait until we get the test results. Until then, I don't want you doing a lot of work so I'll take over as lead." I nodded my head and wiped my tears off with the sleeves of my hoodie. 

I set off to bed, and 3 hours later I found myself still awake. I check to see if Brook was asleep and he was. Once I made sure of it I grabbed my phone as called the first person that came to mind. I rang Harper, but then freaked out 3 seconds later after realizing that it was 1 am and ended the call. I went back to staring at the ceiling and getting lost in my toxic thoughts until 5 minutes later I heard my phone ring. I checked to see it was Harper and answered it without any hesitation.

"Hello?" I spoke.

"Hey." It was crazy the amount of Joy I achieved from just hearing his voice. "You called?"He asked.

"Yeah, sorry it was stupid. Why are you still awake?"

"I could ask you the same thing." 

"Fair enough. I just couldn't get to sleep in this heat." It was the best thing I could come up with.

"Nice to know I was your first call." 

"What makes you think I called you first?" I said slyly.

"Nothing, just assumed." We talked for hours until I looked at the time and It was already 4 am.

"Shit, 4 am I gotta wake up early tomorrow."

"Ok but you never told me."

"Told you what?"

"Was I your first call?" 

"Maybe." I said while smiling. We said goodnight and I doze off into a peaceful sleep. Talking to him cleared my mind and I was thankful that I could go to sleep know without having as much weight on my chest.

The next morning I refused to wake up, but we planned on finding the surface of the pyramid today therefore I had to get up. After practically being dragged out of bed, I slithered back under the covers.

"Please brook, 5 more minutes. I got like 3 hours of sleep."

"Well maybe you shouldn't have been on the phone all night with your lover boy." I hid my face in my pillow to hide the fact that I was blushing. 

"I just couldn't get any sleep so I called him." I heard him chuckle and walk away, 10 minutes later I rushed to get dressed and head off back into the desert. I had a good feeling about today.