Point Of View 2 [*Do not read until you've read the same chapter of ATW]

Chapter 3 You Need To Calm Down

"James... what's going on?" Julia startles me about five minutes after Casey left to go take the dog for a walk.

"Hey. Li-listen. I don't know much. But Jonah took Nate to the E.R. He was coughing up blood."

"Well, c'mon! We need to go!" Julia jumps out of bed but I grab her arm to sit her back down. 

"He said no. He doesn't want you to go and he doesn't want you to worry."

"Bullshit. I need to be there with him."

"He was adamant. He has Jonah, Trisha and Paul with him. Ok?" I say. She tries to get up again in a panic but I sit her down again.

"Julia..."

"James! I need to be there!"

"There's nothing you can do right now. Lets just wait until we need more." I hold on to her arm but then see it coming. She's about to have a panic attack. Her breathing quickens in pace, she gets clammy and her eyes dart around the room.

"James. Let. Me. Go."  She says  frantically.

I hate when Julia gets like this. I don't know how to help her. I can try and talk her through all I want but it never works and I tense up. These are the times I know Nate is right when he says he can take care of Julia better than I can.  These are the times I wish Nate were here to take over for me.

*Trisha*

"Right this way, sir." A nurse escorts us down the hall. "You have quite a fan club out there!"

"Apparently."

Thank God the nurse noticed the commotion in the waiting room. An entire team of teenage girl volleyball players spotted Nate right away. Their shrieks and shrills were going right through me.

"Ok. Lets get you situated." The RN goes through the routine. 

A tear slips down the corner of Nate's eye and it breaks me to pieces. He shouldn't be going through this. Not Nate. He takes care of himself. Yes, obviously he is a recovering alcoholic but aside from that one major detail, Nate take really good care of his body. He doesn't eat crap like I do. He works out constantly and is aware of his mental health. He takes good care of himself. Why does he have to be the one to suffer like this!?

And on top of it all we find out his sister Cara is here in the E.R. also getting seen. Jeremy is with her. That sonofabitch. I can't even look at him after hearing the things he did to Julia. We may not be the best of friends but I have been raped. Watching Julia recover from it brought up a lot of bad shit in my head.  It is one of the few times I genuinely felt bad for the lady. Because we had something in common. Something terrible. 

And Jeremy Donovan, Julia's Avalon therapist now rapist, is here with Nate's little sister? It makes me sick to my stomach that the kid  got away with what he did and isn't in prison somewhere. He's sick in the head and has everyone wrapped around his fingers, believing him over the victim.  He knows he's in control of Julia's medical files and one bad report would send her locked up in some mental institution for good. Having that kind of power over another human being  like he does over Julia- that's scary.

And knowing Jeremy is pretty much a fucking genius of a doctor and the only one who was ever able to help Julia get through some of her worst Bipolar episodes when no one else could, that's also scary.

[Now what the hell is going on? It's all over the news. ]

Shit.

I look down at my messaged. Elliott is letting me know Nate being in the ER has gone public. With a waiting room full of teenage girls noticing "America's Heartthrob" Nate Hollan, I'm not surprised. But I really don't feel like dealing with Elliott or Richard right now. We are so fucking close to Tour...Nate is not only gonna give himself a heart attack but his managers too.