13 Reasons Why / Zalex Story

Doctors appointment

Pov. Zach
Alex and I were sitting in the back of his moms car on the way to the hospital.
His head was leaning against my shoulder and his hand was on my lap intertwined with mine. Right now I'm as calm as ever. Feeling Alex' warmth and holding his hand and then the fact that his mom is super cool about us being together. This is the best day ever, besides my nose probably being broken. But I guess if that wouldn't have happened we would've just gone to school as always and had to hide our feelings for each other. I'm getting kinda sick of it. That was the reason why I broke my nose in the first place. God I really need to talk to Alex. But now is not the right moment. I just feel like that's the hundredth time I've said that to myself.
I let out I sigh.
"You okay?" Alex asked, turning his head to face me.
I looked at him and smiled. I put my hand on his cheek. "Don't worry, I'm fine. I'm just thinking about the best way to tell my mom. She's gonna freak out if my nose is broken." I answer.
"How is your nose actually? Does it hurt a lot?" He says with a concerned look on his face while slightly touching my nose with his index finger.
I love feeling his touch. I don't mean that in a dirty way. Right now.
"I mean it hurts like shit, but it was worth it." I whispered that last part and gave him a smirk. Alex smiled back it me and placed a soft kiss on my nose.
"You're an idiot."
"A lucky idiot." I say back.
We continued to cuddle for the rest of the ride and I just listened to Alex softly humming the songs in the radio while playing with his hair.
"Have I told you that I love your hair like that. Natural and long. It's so soft, I love it."
"That's good, because I wasn't planning on dying it again." Alex laughed.
I kissed his forhead and then continued playing with his beautiful hair.
We drove for another 10 minutes and then Alex' mom parked the car in front of the hospital. I opened the door on my side and got out of the car. Alex took his cane into his left hand. I was still holding his right hand so he followed me. The three of us walked up the bright white stairs and before we walked inside I let go of Alex' hand. He looked at me and then smiled. We walked inside and Alex and I sat down on a sofa while his mom was talking to the receptionist.
Thank god he didn't take that the wrong way. It's not like I don't want to, obviously I wanna hold his hand, all day everyday, but I just feel like before we didn't properly talk about us being official for everyone to see, we shouldn't do that. We don't need a big coming out or something like that. But I want to at least let our parents know before anyone else. I don't know if Alex' dad already knows but I don't think so and my mom has no idea.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Alex asked.
"Yes and now stop worrying, or do I need to shut you up." I said.
"Maybe I want you to shut me up." Alex said and smirked.
I blushed.
"Since when are you so bold, Standall?"
Alex just giggled.
"Now you're laughing, but you're gonna get it when we're back home." I said with an evil grin on my face.
Alex' eyes widened and his face became red.
I really wanna kiss him right now...
"Well guys we probably have to wait 20 minutes." Alex mother said and sat down on the chair beside us. She grabbed a magazine off of the coffee table and started flipping through it.
I took out my phone and scrolled through Instagram. Alex did the same. We showed each other memes or stupid videos of stupid people doing stupid things.
We haven't changed at all.
I think we waited for 30 minutes.
Then a nurse walked over to us.
"Zach Dempsey?"
"Yes that's me."
"The doctor is ready for you now, just follow me." she said.
"Should I come with you?" Alex mom asked.
"I'll go with him mom." Alex said.
She nodded and we followed the nurse.
We walked down a long hall with many doors. I was supporting Alex' side while walking, as always. We stopped in front of a big green door and proceeded to follow the nurse inside.
The doctor was a rather short and already older man. He shook my hand and then I sat down on the bed. Alex took a seat on a blue chair next to the bed.
"Well then Zach, let me take a look at your nose." The doctor said while putting on gloves.
He stood in front of me and slightly squeezed the bridge of my nose.
I flinched.
"Well that really doesn't look too good, I slightly even applied pressure. What exactly happened?" he asked.
"I was driving, and I was stuck in thoughts. So I didn't process fast enough that the car in front of me had stopped. Thankfully I didn't crash into it but I hit the brakes pretty fast and smashed my face into the steering wheel." I explained.
"Basically he is a big idiot." Alex said. He sat there with crossed arms and a big smile on his face.
"Yeah basically." I said. The doctor took off his gloves and smiled at us. "We have to do an x-ray. Just follow me, it's right next door."

Pov. Alex
I watched Zach walking out the door behind the doctor. I decided to wait here. I took out my phone to see that my mom had texted me, already. She asked if everthing is alright. I texted back that everything was fine and that they were doing an x-ray.
After a few minutes they came back.
"This is going to take a while. You have two options, you can wait in the waiting room but this is probably going to take at least 2 hours because I have a lot of patients today or we can make an appointment for tomorrow and I'll just give you some painkillers and a cooling cream to relieve the pain a bit."
Zach looked at me
"What? I'm not your mother." I chuckled.
"But you're my boyfriend." he said without thinking.
I blushed a bit.
"Making decisions, it's always the same with me and my husband too. We're both pretty bad at it." the doctor said.
Zach and I looked at each other and immediately started to smile.
"Boys, at least I'm good at giving advice. Just come back tomorrow then you don't have to sit around all bored for the rest of the day. And I'm sure he's going to take good care of you." he said while handing Zach the painkillers and the cream.
He took them and got up from the bed.
"Yes he will." Zach said and kissed my cheek.

Pov. Zach
That felt so good. Just the feeling of being able to show my affection for Alex in front of a stranger. Okay that sounded pretty weird but I think you get my point. God I'm talking to myself again. I need to stop overthinking everything.
"How does 3 p.m. sound?" the doctor asked.
"That's perfect." I answered.
"Well then, see you tomorrow and be careful on the way home." he said.
"Thank you, see you tomorrow." I said.
Alex took his cane and I opened the door for us. We walked outside back to Alex' mom. She was flipping through her probably sixth magazine. She looked up and saw us.
"And is it broken?" she asked.
"Probably yes but we have to come back tomorrow to find out. We got an appointment at 3 p.m. ." Alex answered.
"You don't have to come with me."
"I want to." Alex said. I smiled and lightly squeezed his shoulder.
"I can't drive you tomorrow though. I could asked your father or do you think you can handle it?" Alex' mother asked.
"Mom I think we'll be fine." Alex said.
"I'm not so sure about Zach driving again." She said while raising her eyebrows at me. I scratched the back of my head and smiled a bit embarrassed.
"I'm sure he will be fine. He's got me." Alex said.
"Fine, but you're going to call me when you start driving and when you arrive and when you're done and-
"And when we drive back and when we're back home, yes mom." Alex cut his mom off.
"Good. Well then we're going to head home boys. Should I drop you off at home Zach?" she asked
"I still have my bag at your house."
"Just stay the night." Alex said.
I smirked.
Alex looked at his mother.
"Well I have nothing against that if you two can behave." She smiled.
"Yes ma'am." I answered.
"But don't you need some stuff from at home."
"I have my charger with me but I would probably need a new shirt." I said while hinting at the blood.
"Mom do we maybe have some of Peter's old shirts at home?" Alex asked.
"Yeah you're right. There are still some in the dryer. I'm sure one of them will fit. And your brother probably won't visit till christmas anyways so yeah."
"Thank you." I said.
We walked out the hospital towards the car.
"Are you two hungry?"
"Definitely." Alex answered.
"I'm guessing pizza is okay, I didn't have time to go grocery shopping yet."
"Always." I answered.
I helped Alex down the stairs and back into the car.
This time Alex didn't buckle up so he could lay his head on my lap.
"Are you tired?" I asked
I stroked his face and he mumbled something inaudible.
"What was that baby?" I mumbled back while pressing my cheek against his.
"I'm tired." He answered a bit louder.
"You tired." I said back.
He nodded.
I planted kisses all over his face.
"Allee is tired, huh." I said and then continued stroking his face.
I took out my phone and texted my mom that I will be staying at Alex' tonight.

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Hey my beautiful angels I just wanted to say thank you to all of you. Thank you for the support and for all the nice comments. Nothing makes me happier than reading that you're enjoying my story.
Have a nice day and see you next week ❤️