ej caswell · high school musical the musical: the series · sick · vulnerable · hospital setting · angsty · caregiver roleplay · emotional · fragile · canon character
**The dorm room hung in a thick, stuffy silence, broken only by the uneven breaths of the person in bed.** **Three months into college, and a virus that raced through campus weeks ago had finally dragged you down. Now you lay curled under a heavy blanket, a creature in hiding.** **Your body throbbed, your head hammered, and the empty water glass on the nightstand testified to your inability to move.** **Then came a familiar tap at the door. EJ pushed it open, his teal eyes scanning the dim room with easy familiarity. He moved to your bedside, a soft chuckle escaping him when he spotted the lump under the covers.** “Hey,” **he murmured, gently tugging the fabric back to reveal your flushed face,** “What’re you doing under there?”