I woke up late (like 2 pm late) the next day alone. I sat up and looked around the dorm, and to my dismay, Peggy was gone.

"She said she was going to get a shower and coffees," Alexander was sitting in front of his laptop and was typing away on Tumblr.

"Okay," I said, laying back down, "How long ago did she leave?" I asked sitting back up.

"Like an hour maybe," he said, not pausing his typing.

"What are you writing about?"

"Someone on here is wrong."

"It's the internet, Alexander, someone is always gonna be wrong."

"Well I don't like it."

There was a silence, spare the clicking of the keys. I stared out of the window next to my bed for a few minutes, wondering why Peggy was taking so long to come back because taking a shower and getting coffees shouldn't take more than an hour. "Alex?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you think she's coming back?"

"Eventually she'll be back,"

I could feel tears welling in my eyes, "What is she doesn't come back, Alex. Maybe I ruined it between us." my voice cracked and I felt tears fall down my cheeks, "I should've just let her go back to her dorm," I didn't even try to stop myself from crying, putting my hands over my face and sobbing.

The typing stopped and I heard Alex turn in his chair and before I could stop him, he was sitting next to me, rubbing my back. "John, why are you crying?" he asked.

"Peggy is my best friend and I don't wanna ruin anything between us because if I do who will sit with me and do almost nothing for hours at a time?" I said sobbing some more.

Alex didn't say anything, but he pulled my hands from my face and wrapped his arms around me, hugging me. I didn't move until he made me hug him back, and I nearly squeezed him to death and cried into his shoulder until I couldn't cry anymore.

We sat like that on my bed for almost ten minutes until my phone started ringing. "I'll get it," Alex said, letting me go with one arm to grab my phone and answer it. "Hello?"

I couldn't hear the other end of the conversation so I just listened to Alex. "No its Alex." a pause, "John's roommate." another pause, "Oh," he let me go and handed me my shoes, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll get him there." Alexander was jumping on one foot, trying to get his shoes on with one hand. "John, put your shoes on," he said to me. "Okay, we'll meet you outside." he said and ended the call.

"What's happening?" I asked pulling my shoes on.

"It's Angelica," he said grabbing my hand and dragging me out the door and down the stairs to the courtyard.

"What happened?" I asked franticly.

"I don't know but Eliza called and she said Peggy is with Angelica in the hospital and that you need to get there like, now."

We saw Eliza and rushed over to her, "Hey guys, lets go," she started running towards the front of campus. "Hercules is in his car out front waiting for us."

We followed behind her, moving quickly. We all got to Hercules' car and Alexander and I got into the backseat while Eliza got into the front seat. "Where's Lafayette?" I asked.

"He's at the hospital already." Hercules said speeding off campus and in the direction of the hospital.

"What happened to her?" I asked, "How is she?"

"Peggy wanted to get coffee from the gas station so we all were walking down and some douche swerved in the road and almost hit Peggy but Angelica pushed her out of the way and then she got hit. I told Peggy to call an ambulance and I immediately ran back to campus, calling Lafayette, Hercules and you." I could hear her about to cry, "I don't know how she is."

Hercules stopped in front of the ER entrance and Eliza clambered out and started running to the door. "Alex go with her," I said without thinking.

He didn't even question me, he just scrambled out of the backseat and ran after her.

Hercules found the first parking spot he could and we both ran into the waiting room to find Alexander, Lafayette, and Peggy sitting in the plastic chairs. Peggy was in hysterics and Alexander was just sitting there looking at the floor, not sure of what to do.

"Peggy!" I called to her and started running towards her.

She looked up and ran towards me too, crashing into me and hugging me, sobbing into my chest. She was almost Alexander's size. "They won't let me go see her!" she cried, her voice muffled by my shirt.

"Where's Eliza?" I asked, embracing the desperate girl.

"They took her to ask her questions and to fill out papers."

I led Peggy over to a chair and sat her down, kneeling down in front of her, "Peggy, I'm sure Angelica's fine. Really."

She shook her head and covered her face with her hands, "No, John, she looked really bad." She started crying again and I took her hands.

I sat on my knees for who knows how long, holding Peggy's hands. Alex hadn't moved since I had gotten there, Hercules took a seat across from Peggy and I and Lafayette went to get a soda from a vending machine he saw by the restrooms. Eliza had not come back and we were just waiting for a doctor or even Eliza to come out to give us something. Anything. 

"Here, mon amie, vous avez besoin de boire quelque chose." Lafayette said holding a bottle of water in one hand and a coke in the other.

I looked up at him and furrowed my eyebrows, "What?"

There was a moment of silence because none of us knew what he had said.

"He said she needs to drink something," Alex said.

I looked at him with wide eyes because he had not said anything since we got into the car over two hours ago. He still didn't look up from the floor. I took the bottle from Lafayette and opened the cap, "He's right Peggy, you have to drink something, you've been crying for like an hour."

She took the bottle and took a sip, staring at nothing. I got up and painfully made my way over to Alexander and sat in the chair next to him. "I didn't know you could speak French."

"Fluent."

"Lets go get some coffee, yeah?"

He stood up and I followed suit, he followed me as I tried to find the cafeteria with no luck. We ended up just walking around the hospital.

"Are you okay?" I asked.

He just looked at the floor without responding.

"Okay, I know something is wrong, so," I paused, "what is it?"

He still didn't respond. I grabbed the bottom of his chin and forced him to look at me.

He looked awful. He had bags under his eyes and he was pale, well pale for a kid with darker skin. "Oh my gosh are you alright?"

He nodded, getting out of my grasp, "Tired,"

I almost laughed, "Alexander, you look like you're going to fall asleep standing up,"

The corners of his mouth drew up and then dropped again. He took a step toward me and leaned his head against my shoulder. "I think I might fall over," he said.

"Okay lets get you back to the campus for some sleep." I grabbed his hand and led him back (with some trouble) to the waiting room.

Hercules was the only one left in the waiting room when we got back. "Where is everyone?"i asked him.

"Peggy and Eliza are with Angelica, I drove Lafayette back to campus a little while ago." He said, "You two ready to head back?" he asked me.

"Yeah, Alexander is almost asleep,"

"Sleep is for the weak," he said.

Hercules and I laughed and I led Alex back to the car and Hercules drove us back as the sun was setting.

Getting Alex back up to the dorm was a lot more work than I had hoped, he was almost helpless and I gave up trying to keep him up and forced him to get on my back.

I opened the door to the dorm and carried Alex over to his bed and tried my best to put him down gently. Sighing, I started to move over to my bed when Alex grabbed my hand.

"Stay." was all he said and its all I needed to hear from him. I climbed under the blanket on his bed and let him curl up into my chest. He fell asleep almost instantly.