in love with a pornstar (modern au fanfic LAMS)

chapter 40

third person ~ 1 week time skip

"alexander! please go ahead and explain to me how you think us calling the manager and telling him we want to make a porn video for three hundred thousand dollars is going to help us!?" maria yells.

"to raise money for john's hospital bill!"

maria breathes in through her nose and pinches the bridge of it. "hamilshit, the bill is not going to be that much, the manager will say no, and why can't we just give them some of the money we already have!?"

"they can use the extra money to flee the country!"

"alexander, they're not fugitives!"

"you know what i meant!"

"then where would they live, in a cardboard box?" maria scoffs. "considering the hospital bill may be well over ninety thousand dollars, the rest not even pay for them to get a small house."

"okay, then we'll give them more money!"

maria stomps her foot. "alexander you're being unreasonable!"

"and you're not thinking of other people!"

maria scoffs. "okay, hamilton. say we do get the money to give it to them. where are they going to go? what if the manager says no? then what!?"

"we'll find a different way to help them!"

maria lets out a scream of frustration, storming out of the room that they were arguing in. alexander jumps at the sound of a door slamming, then proceeds to flop on the bed.

footsteps travel to his room and peggy is now standing in front of him.

"why is my girlfriend screaming into her pillow?" peggy asks.

"good question." alexander throws a pillow on his face.

peggy rolls her eyes, then sits down next to alexander on the bed. she removes the pillow from his face and puts it back in it's designated spot.

"you want to go see john?" peggy asks.

alexander scoffs. "no. he was supposed to be out of that medically induced coma a week ago, it's been three weeks."

"alex," peggy sighs. "they said the trauma he experienced was still too present for them to take him out of it without him going into shock."

"that's nice." alexander says nonchalantly.

peggy dismisses his attitude. "the doctor also said talking to him works. he probably just wants someone there with him."

"you don't know what he wants."

"neither do you."

~...~

ever since school started back up, rumors have been flying around campus. one rumor was that john's dad was about to kill himself and john had tried to stop him but he got caught in the crossfire, a different rumor was his dad got drunk and shot him, and the most ridiculous rumor was that john shot himself.