Finally, we reached Jake's house, and we entered through the garage. When we get inside, Miss Peregrine tells us all to be quiet because Mister and Mistress Portman are asleep. When she sees Horace wheezing she immediately starts shooting questions at us. "Why is Mister Somnusson wheezing?" She asks.
"Oh, he's fine, he's just-"
"He most certainly is not fine, Miss Bloom!" Miss Peregrine interrupts Emma. Horace coughs into his arm. "Look at him! He looks pathetic!"
"He's got the bloody peculiar disease, Miss Peregrine," Enoch says. "Emma just doesn't want to admit it. She has to be all "positive" and whatnot."
"Well, don't just stand there, Mister Somnusson, get over here so I can get a look at you!" Horace saunters over to Miss Peregrine and she asks him how he feels. I don't really know what else they said because I'd wandered over to Millard who was standing in the back of the room.
"Do you think Horace has it?" I say to him. "The peculiar sickness?" Millard's hat begins to bob up and down, which I assume means he's nodding.
"Oh, yes, he definitely has it. This is going to be one heck of a week," he replies to me.
"Are you nervous?" I ask.
"Oh, no, not at all. It has never affected my powers each year it happens. I just feel really nauseous for a few days," He answers. I nod, and Miss Peregrine speaks up for all of us to hear.
"Mister Somnusson is going to stay in my room until he gets better so no one else gets sick," She states. Horace begins coughing again, and Miss Peregrine waves us off. "Now off to bed, all of you."
