When Milo came back with a hall monitor they both walked up to the unconscious body of Lucas. Milo sat down next to him and started shaking him, yelling at him to wake up. He started crying when he didn't.

"It's okay Milo, he just fainted, look he's still breathing."

The hall monitor was familiar with Milo, he often had to take him to the counselor when he started having episodes in class. Or when he was caught wandering around the school, which also resulted in him seeing the counselor.

All of the monitors knew he had a drug problem, and that he was severely traumatized. Mostly because of the multiple times he's been sent to the hospital from either self harming or overdosing. The monitors learned that to calm him down you needed to act like you were calming down a child, not a 17 year old.

"Ok..." Milo sniffled. Lucas woke up a little, still very out of it and groaned, this excited Milo.

"LUCAS!!" Milo yelled, the monitor shh'd him, and Milo shutted up right away and nodded. "Sorry..."

"Hello, Lucas? Can you hear me?" The monitor asked. He nodded.

"My name is Mr. Pell, im a Hall Monitor, I just contacted the nurse and an ambulance is coming ok? The nurse is going to come over first though to make sure you're not concussed. She's actually coming down the hall now."

When the nurse met up with them she instantly kneeled down and put a hand on Lucas's cheek. "Oh you poor thing! You look so pale..." she flashed a light into Lucas's eyes, he squeezed them shut and looked away. "That's good, you're reacting. Did you fall while standing up?"

"No he was... was sitting..." Milo was holding Lucas's hand, mostly to calm himself down, it was his new habit. The nurse smiled and nodded, she was very familiar with Milo.

"Thank you Milo, you were with him?" Milo nodded,

"we're friends."

That made Lucas happy. Lucas smiled and laughed a little, he was delirious.  Then he passed out again.

When he woke up he was in the hospital.

"Lucas how are you feeling" he heard a woman ask

"Applesauce..." he groaned, he didn't know why he said that. His mind felt like it was melting, his vision wasn't clearing up, and the woman who was talking to him didn't make sense. He felt a hand place itself on his shoulder and he looked over, his grandmother smiled.

"Atta Boy, just take it easy." His grandfather laughed.

Lucas was starting to wake up more, he weakly said hello to his grandparents and closed his eyes. He was exhausted, he didn't really know why he was in the hospital.

"Lucas? Are you feeling okay?" The woman asked, Lucas nodded and looked tiredly up at the woman. She smiled, "hello Lucas, I'm dr. Leanne, I'm happy to say your surgery went well. Your knee will heal up great."

"My knee....?" Lucas groaned.

"Yes, you fell and lacerated your knee, we had to stitch it closed. You also passed out and cracked your head open, so you needed stitches as well on your head."

"Hnnh... where is Milo... I was just talking to him...." Lucas sat up and his grandmother gently guided him back to laying down. This is when he realized he wasn't wearing his binder. He immediately felt a wave of humiliation.

"Where's my binder..." he slurred out.

"It's not safe for you to wear that right now, you're too weak to wear something that tight." Dr. Leanne explained, Lucas didn't care though. He tried to sit up again but his grandmother gently pushed him back down.

"Lay down sweetie, we're gonna get you home soon." She brushed some hair out of his face. Lucas groaned. He was starting to feel tried again, and he fell back asleep.

He woke up in his bed, this time he woke up faster. He sat up and looked at the clock, it was 10:30 PM. The first thing he noticed was the feeling of a thick fabric wrapped around his knee. He took off the blanket, and saw a white thick gauge wrapped around his knee multiple times. He also felt a tightness on the back of his head, when he went to touch his skin he was met with a cloth.

The second he went to stand up he felt a soreness that was definitely not wanted. He cursed and sat back down. The door opened and his grand father laughed.

"Hurts dont it? I remember when I fell off my horse and busted my leg open, went to get up and I cursed like a sailor! Hurt like a son of a bitch!" He laughed again. "You want yer food son?" He showed him a bowl of chicken noodle soup. Lucas nodded.

His grandfather sat down next to him and handed him the bowl, immediately Lucas started eating, he was starving.

"Doc said you need to stay off yer feet for a day or so, said if you don't the stress could upset the healin'. Also said not to get yer heart a'goin' especially cause you busted yer noggin."

Lucas nodded while continuing to eat, he never had a better bowl of soup.

"Also said to keep off the binder, which I know you won't listen to. You have that thing on more than your drawers!" Grandpa slapped his knee and laughed, then rubbed Lucas's back, "I'm just messin with ya son, I hope all of this doesn't make ya upset. Just rest up and keep positive, I'll bring in Frank to keep ya company."

Lucas smiled and nodded, "thank you" he put the empty bowl on his night stand.

"Woo wee! You ate that up faster than a pig! Hungry ain't ya?" Grandpa laughed and got up, "I'll bring this down and then get Frank, get back to bed I don't want you screwin' up yer knee further. And don't lay down on your stitches either, I don't want you getting some infection on yer noggin." He left and Lucas laid back down.

He sighed, he wished he got Milos phone number, he wanted to talk to him. He heard his phone buzz and reached to pick it up from his night stand, when he saw the notification he was confused. Someone from Instagram messaged him, someone he didn't know. He opened up the app and looked at the message.

Hello //^^//

The username was xkittenteethx and the profile picture was.... Is that Milo? It was very blurry and dark, but he could see the scruffy black hair covering their eyes. He looked at the account and the bio said:
☆彡Milo
18
They/he

Lucas smiled now that he knew it was Milo.

How r u ( '∀｀)

Im doing good! Just woke up :)

Omg me 2 :3

Really? Do you take naps after school?

Yesb sleepy

How did you find me on Insta??

My friend Andrew knows a guy who is your friend I thinbk his name is Desmond

Dionte?

Yesb!

Ohhhhh I see, I know Andrew a little, he has red hair right?

Yes he has red hair. He is gay.

I thought he said he was straight

Nope! He has a bf now who is very cute :)

Aw good for him! Do you have a bf/gf?

Nope (-.-;)

I had a gf a while ago but we broke up :,)

Why :(

We kind of  got distant when I moved from Ohio to here

This was not true. They actually broke up because Lucas came out as trans and his girlfriend was a lesbian, she wasn't interested in dating someone who identified as a man. They still talked, but not as much.

That's so sad noooooo I hope ur not still sad about it D:

I'm not! I'm glad we got that out of the way, hopefully she found someone better than me lol

Do you identify as straight?

I'm not sure actually, I've had crushes on guys but idk it's complicated :\

I'm a fag :3

That's an interesting way to say you're gay

Srry I get hyper when I talk 2 friends (＞＜;)

Lol it's ok I just never heard someone say that in a good way

Do u have any pets? (・・?)

Yeah I have a cat his name is Frank :)

Do you have picturs? (●'ω｀●) i love cats

Yeah!

OMG KITTY!!! ☆*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆

Aww I'm glad you like him! Do you have any pets?

Yes I have 2 sugar gliders :3 I have some pictures

The white one is sushi and the other one is birdy! I love them so muchb (〃ω〃)

THEYRE SO CUTE OMG 🥺

YOU SHOULD COME OVER THEY LOVE TALL PPL (*^ω^*)

I would love to meet them and spend more time with u :)

Omg I can't wait ｡ﾟ(ﾟ'ω'ﾟ)ﾟ｡

Where do you sit at lunch? Maybe we can eat together?

I eat in the library, it's quiet ^u^

That sounds nice, can I sit with you?

Okie Dokie (*'∇｀*)

Yay! I have to go now I'm rlly tired and sore, I'll probably be back at school in a week or so :,) pain.

At least you get to sleepb gnnnn

Gn!

Lucas set his phone down, it felt like his heart was fluttering. Talking to Milo made him so happy, it was strange. The little faces Milo uses while texting were so cute, everything about Milo was cute...