Barret X Kyle
Pt.2
Her big, round violet eyes peered down at his hunched over figure. The wind blowing softly through her ebony hair. Kyle shivered and noticed that his shirt was soaked, he stared in wonder.
"Oh, sorry about that! I tried poking you but you refused to wake up. This was the only thing that I thought of as an alternative, and it worked!" Mana sounded sincere and proud.
"Haha, don't worry about it. Thanks for waking me up though, I could have slept the whole day!" he said with his favorite grin on his face.
"I'll say, I saw the boat return yesterday, and now I find you in it sleeping this afternoon" She said shaking her head in dissapointment.
"What! I-I've been sleeping for that long!" Kyle started to jump up onto his feet before falling back down into the boat and sending it crashing to all sides and splashing water everywhere. Mana jumped back from the sprayed water slightly, before taking a step closer to the boat.
"Ow" he complained.
"You don't look very well Kyle, I think you should go see Natalie. You might have caught a cold or an illness" Mana said, gazing at him with worried eyes.
"Nah, I don't think - "
Before he could finsih Mana grabed his arm and pulled him out of the boat.
"No, your going to see her. It might be something really bad!" Mana pulled him through the port.
"N-No, it's probably nothing. I have to water my crops!"
"Kyle sleeping for so long is not a good sign. It could mean that your body is telling you something is wrong." She stated inching towards the clinic before bursting past the doors.
"Hello, good afternoon" Ray greeted the two at the door.
"Hi Ray" Mana replied, walking past him and heading straight for the room Natalie is always in, pulling Kyle from behind.
"She's busy with another patient at the moment, but you guys can wait in the other room" Ray informed the two, stopping them by holding out his arm like a police officer.
"Oh" They synched.
Mana peeked into the room and saw Natalie standing over a male figure sitting on the bed. She had an annoyed look on her young face that made her look older, and looked like she was giving a lecture to a misbehaving kid. Mana turned away from the scene and smiled at Ray. She pulled Kyle to the other room, pushing him down on the bed.
"Stay here and wait for the doctor" She ordered.
Ray walked over to them with a clipboard in hand, looking very professonal. "What seems to be the problem?"
"Nothi-"
"Yesterday I seen the boat from Blessia Island return and I didn't see anyone leaving from it, this afternoon out of curiousity I went down there and found Kyle sleeping in it. I had to pour water all over him to get him to wake up!" Mana interupted, explaining the situation to Ray, who was scribbling it down on the clipboard.
"I see . . " he mused, walking over to Kyle, he placed the clipboard down and put a hand on Kyles forhead. He left it there for a while and picked the clipboad again, writting more down. Ray, then, tucked the clipboard under his arm, and he extracted a stretoscope from the inside pocket of his white lab coat.
"I'll check your heart rate, Kyle" He pushed aside the bulkiar fabric, lifting up Kyles shirt and placing the cold metal on his bare chest. Kyle jumped slightly. Manas face reddened.
"Breath in . . . "
Kyle took a deep breath in.
"And release . . " Ray ordered. Kyle did so. Ray put the stretoscope back and replaced it with the clipboard scribbling more notes down.
"So whats wrong with him?" Mana asked, concern colored her voice.
Ray looked over his notes and back up at Mana. "I can't say for sure" he answered "please wait here" he said and walked out of the room, closing the door with a soft 'thud'.
Mana paced back and forth, her eyes staring holes into the floor. Kyle grabed her wrist, forcing her to stop.
"Mana its alright, you should relax. Ray just said hes not sure whats wrong, not that he didn't know" He tried to sooth her.
She gave him a smile and sat down in the chair next to the bed "your right, sorry. I'm just really worried. I don't want . . . I don't want anything bad to happen to you" she admitted.
Kyle gave her a reassuring smile.
"Nothings going to happen to me, I promise!" his smile grew wider and revealed his goofy grin. Mana smiled back and looked out the open window.
The room was quite except for the footsteps in the room next to them. Kyle's thoughts had started to re-run the dream he had before Mana woke him up. I can't beleive I was about to confess to him he thought, disappointed in himself. He would think I'm a freak if he found out that I liked him like THAT!. His mind re-wond to the first time Kyle had met Barret. He was so cold, but that whats seems to give him his personality. He intrudged Kyle, from the first moment he pushed him away. Everytime they would talk, Barret pushed Kyle away. Soon Barret started to give him more information about himself to Kyle, opening up more. With every new thing he learnt, Kyle made sure to remember and put it in high priority for their next encounter. Kyle lowered his head, ashamed that his heart had choosen such a path for him. Gay, huh he asked himself. Even though the most stunning and attractive girl was in the same room with him, sitting right beside him, worring about him was here with him his heart didn't flutter, nor did his cheeks turn an undiscovered red. He just felt normal. He even concluded that if she had jumped on top of him and ripped both hers and his clothes off, he wouldn't feel anything. At least not anything true.
The soft close of the door brought his thoughts back to the small, levender scented room. Natalie stood there, so perfect and professional. She walked over and pulled out a drawer the opposite side of the bed.
"Kyle, I hear you have been missing for a while," she started.
"Haha, yeah I guess I have"
"You've gotten quite a few people worried, you know," Natalie continued, pulling away from the drawer and leaning against it.
Kyle glanced at Mana and then looked back at Natalie "yeah, I know"
"According to what Ray had written, you have a slight fever, but thats nothing to concern yourself with to much. The thing that worries me is your heart. Its beating much to fast for someone of your age," she said, tapping the side of the drawer.
"It's kind of strange, but I'm sure I know what is the matter," she concluded.
Mana watched her, her eyes wide and her face serious. Kyle gulped. Even though he hadn't cared at first, now the thought of it kind of scared him.
"You have a little extra stress on your shoulders, Kyle. I looked deeper into what Ray had put down and I'm sure thats it. No need to fear, your lifes not in danger or anything, but you need to take better care of yourself. If you skip meals and excercise time, then your body will respond to that in a negitive way," Natalie pushed off the drawer, holding a little, silver tube. "I'm going to give you a antidope injection to help calm your body a bit faster then the drink," she walked over and sat on the edge of the bed, she placed the needle on the drawer next to it and turned to Mana.
"I want to run a few more tests on him, Mana. I assure you he is alright, but I must ask you to leave," she said sincerely, placing a hand on the worried girls.
Mana looked at Kyle for a long time before she shifted her gaze to Natalie and smiled "alright, I understand." Mana got up and exited the room almost quieter then Natalie.
When the door closed softly, Natalie turned her gaze back to Kyle.
"Kyle, where are the places you went yesterday?" she asked, softly.
Kyle thought back for a moment. It was clear she didn't want to know about his feild or his barn or anywhere else in town. She wanted to know which dungons.
"I went to Messhina Vally first," he said slowly, gathering his thoughts.
"Mm-hm," she mused, urging him to continue. "Then I went to Blessia Island," he admitted. Feeling kind of ashamed for actually staying there the whole day.
"You were there all day? I'm asuming you slept there aswell."
"Yes"
Natalie took what kyle had said into thought for a long time. They sat in slience for almost five minutes before she got up.
"Okay Kyle, I'm going to run the tests. First I need you to take off your shirt. I'll take another reading of your heart," she ordered.
Kyle nodded and sliped off the brown, armor-like peice first. Then the took off the loose fabrics under, he placed his clothes in a neat pile beside him on the bed. Natalie turned around and had her strethoscope ready at her ears. She sat down on the chair that Mana once occupied and placed the end to his chest that slowly lifted and then fell.
"Keep breathing nice and slow," she mused.
After a minute, Natalie pulled away and smiled "alright, it looks like your starting to sound better," she put the end of the strethoscope that was around her neck down and reached for the first drawer on the bed, extracting a arm wrap that belonged to a blood pressure machine. Natalie stood up for a moment, plugging the tubes into the machine and correcting the settings. Soon she re-called her seat and gestured to Kyles left arm. He handed it out to her and she wraped the cool fabric over just over his elbow. The machine turned on, squeezing at him before stopping and making soft purrs of the air being released. After the machine deflated, Natalie un-wound the band from his arm and stood up, collecting the printing results. She looked over them for amoment before looking back at Kyle.
"It looks like things are back to normal, I'll still give you the injection for precautions sake," she informed him, placing the paper down and reaching for the cotton swabs. Then she grabbed a tall, dark bottle and poured it over the cotton ball, soaking it in a liquid that stung Kyles nostrals. "alright, this won't hurt a bit" she assured, reaching for his arm and wiping a spot just above the inside of the elbow. Then she reached for the needle and placed the cold end percisly in the center of the wiped skin. She pushed the end and the liquid injected inside him slowly. Kyle flinched slightly at the end, before she pulled it out.
Natalie grabbed a clothe and wrapped the needle before disposing it "you can get dressed now Kyle." she said before she started to walk towards the door.
"Uhh . . Natalie can I ask you something," Kyle said, his shirts on his arms, but havn't made it over his head.
Natalie stopped and looked at him "of course"
"Why did you ask me those qeustons before?" Kyle stopped his arms from the actions of getting his shirt over his head, dropping them to his legs.
"There was a simular accedeint just before you arrived. I wanted to make sure that it wasn't contagious, or if it was just coiencadence.
Kyle metally sighed and he smiled.
"Oh, Okay"
"I'm glad I could help, please take care of yourself," Natalie said before leaving the room.
Authors Notes:
Wow, so this is the second chapter, I actually lied to you guys. I have about 5 chapters finished, so uploading will be done faster then I thought. After the chaptes that I already have are done I'm going to have to start writting again, and I have to admit, I'm pretty slow and I get distracted. It takes a while for me to get the situation in my head and then onto the document, and my editing takes a while. Besides that, my DS and Rune factory game was stolen so now my refreancing is a little complicated until I get new ones which might take a while cause I'm broke T_T. Nontheless, I hope you guys enjoy the chapters that I have up already. Thanks for reading, and remeber to reveiw.
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