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Connor

I open my eyes and a blindingly bright light is shining directly into my eyes, and my doctor smiles at me. Where am I? What the hell happened? 

"Welcome back." He has a soft smile on his face. "I guess you're wondering what happened."

"Yeah, it'd be nice to know." I chuckle darkly.

"Well, you've got a small satellite colony in your lungs. We aren't sure what it is yet, it isn't serving to be too threatening yet, but we're going to keep you in here and run a few tests. Worst case scenario, you're in here for a few weeks and it's just a bad fight with pneumonia. But it isn't proving to be anything life threatening yet."

I nod, just listing the things that could go wrong in my head. What if it isn't just a non-life threatening satellite colony? What if it's more? What if I end up in Troye's position, or even worse?

Troye. My heart starts to regulate itself, my brain clearing itself of panic as I think of him, a small smile forming on my lips. But then it fades. If I can't leave this stupid hospital, how am I going to take Troye on that date? My heart sinks into the depths of my stomach at the thought of Troye literally dying while waiting for us to go on a real date.

Nurse Jackie walks in, a boy looking a bit older than me in tow. He's interesting looking, glasses with piercing blue eyes behind them. His hair is a dirty blonde, but the roots like a smidge damaged, as if he has dyed it a few times. He's walking with a medicine cart, nubbins in his nose. Of course Jackie would bring her sick son to meet me. Someone else to keep me company, I guess. The more the merrier.

"Connor," Jackie grins. "This is my son, Tyler. I've talked quite a bit about you, and he wanted to meet you. He's upstairs in the regular patient ward."

"Hey." I smile, and Tyler's face turns a deep pink in response. I gotta admit, he is kinda cute. But he's not Troye.

"Hi." As the word escapes Tyler's lips in a slight squeak, I am entranced by his voice. Something about it is just captivating. Like he was born to talk to people, and you can't help but be sucked in and listen to everything he has to say. 

"We were just about to go meet Troye. How are you feeling?" My heart quickens at the mention of Troye. No. Troye is mine. What if he and Tyler fall for each other? What if this colony becomes worse and I'm quarantined until I die and then Troye and Tyler get together when I'm gone? What's worse, what if Troye falls for Tyler now, and I'm stuck pining after some guy with a boyfriend like a pathetic loser until I die?

"Fine." My voice sounds a bit hard but I clear my throat, which still hurts like a bitch, and smile. "Tell Troye I said hi."

"Of course. He's doing much, much better."

"Good." I smile. Tyler looks down at his fingers and fidgets with them a bit. Then, something hits me. What if Tyler isn't even gay? I mean, if looks could be a giveaway, you'd assume the boy was. But you never know with people nowadays. 

They're starting to leave when Tyler smiles at me softly. "Nice to meet you, Con. Maybe we can hang out sometime."

"Yeah, definitely." I smile back, and the deep shade of pink on his cheeks becomes even darker as he leaves to go catch up with Jackie.

As I slowly fall back asleep with the help of my lovely, lovely morphine, I can't help but feel uneasy about that Tyler guy. I just don't want anyone stealing Troye from me. Which is pathetic, and I mentally kick myself. Troye isn't mine. He'll probably never be mine.

There's no use in falling asleep after thinking like that, so I turn on my TV and watch what shows up first on the screen, which is Pretty Little Liars, in the middle of a rerun episode from the first season. I've already finished the show on Netflix, but I watch anyways. Anything to get my mind off of Troye and Tyler.

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