One Last Time //Lams//University AU//Part 1

Chapter 45

March 18 2018
Thursday

John POV
I wake up once again to the cold bed next to me. I open my eyes, Alexander isn't there. I groan again sitting up prepared to drag him back to bed but he walks out through the bathroom door. He doesn't look good.

He has bags under his eyes and he looks extremely sleep deprived. "Did you sleep at all?" I ask, he shakes his head and sits down next to me. I reach out to him but he just looks away from me. Did I do something wrong? He grabs his phone to check the time, I look over his shoulder. 5:04 am.

He sighs slightly and turns back to me, I reach out again and this time he takes my hand and I pull him into a hug. "Can you speak at all?" I ask and he shakes his head. "Do you want to go- oh no wait, of course you don't. Why would I even ask that?" I say remembering Alexander refused to go to a doctor when he almost died from a deadly disease.

"You want to go to school or do you just wanna stay home?" I ask, he shakes his head, "You wanna go to school?" I ask and he nods. "You sure?" I ask and he nods again.

We get up and go sit in the kitchen. "Does your throat hurt?" I ask, he shakes his head no. "You want tea?" he nods slightly sitting down. I make us both tea and I sit down next to him.

He drinks it slowly and stares at the counter. "Are we gonna talk about last night?" I ask without making eye contact. I can see him stiffen from the corner of my sight. He starts fiddling with the sleeve of his hoodie, something he doesn't do often.

"Not now. But we are going to have to." I say taking a sip of my tea. He gets up, I look at him and he looks as if he's trying to find a way to tell me what he's doing. Eventually he just walks into the room and I hear the shower turn on. I chuckle to myself and finish my tea.

I walk into our bedroom to make the bed. Alexander comes out of the shower and gets dressed so I shower and get dressed too. We grab our bags and head out and down to walk to school, I can't drive with one arm.

Alex POV
We walk into the school, I see the Meme Team (🐢 🐢 🐢) and tug on John's sleeve to direct him towards them. "Hey guys, how are you?" John asks as we walk up to them.

"Good." Peggy replies, she looks at me, "Alex, you look like shit! What happened?!" she asks shocked at my appearance. I'll have to admit, I've looked better.

I look away from them without answering because I can't, they look at each other worried and then at John. "We had a bit of a problem early this morning... He can't speak right now but uh..." John says looking at me. I drop my head onto his arm. "You can't speak? Why?" Lafayette asks confused, John shrugs.

"Shouldn't you go get that checked out?" Hercules asks conserned and I shoot a glare at him. "Remember who you're talking about." Angie says and Herc laughs nervously. "It'll probably come back soon. If not then we won't exactly have a choice." John says and I shoot him a glare. "You know I'm right Alexander." he says.

I would have punched him but he's still hurt from Lee shooting him in the arm so instead I turn and start walking down to hall to class.

I've had days and even weeks where I haven't slept but I've never been as tired as I am now. I swear I could have fallen asleep in class but I somehow didn't. My focus was off though, and this just so happenes to be our exam week! I still managed to finish though, let's just hope I got them right.

School ends after what feels like years and I begin dragging myself down to Peggy's classroom. We decided it's best if I stick with someone to walk with me from now on, I really don't want to run into Jefferson anymore.

But I guess running into Washington isn't a great option either right now. "Alexander, are you alright? You look like you haven't slept." I glance up the hallway for Peggy but her class is still in session. I just nod silently trying to avoid eye contact. He looks at me confused.

I point to my throat trying to indicate that I can't speak. These are the times I wish others could understand sign language, it would make it so much easier. "I don't understand." he says confused. I sigh. "There you are Alex!" Peggy says running down to me, "I was worried you might have- Oh! Hi Mr Washington." she says realizing he's there.

I look at Peggy for help and thank God she caught on, "Oh! He can't speak." she says, Washington looks at me confused again, I shrug. "Oh, well if you need help with anything, you can always ask me. And get some sleep." he says walking away.

"Yeah, you should probably do that." Peggy says as we walk to Herc and Laf's dorm. I sigh tiredly.

'You can do this. You'll be home soon.'