Finally Cam's house mom was there to get him.
Cam got his things and she signed him out.
As they got into the car she said, "Why didn't you tell me you were sick this morning? I would've let you stay home".
"Maya made me go to the nurse. I was going to stay in school. I felt fine" Cam said angrily.
"Well, how do you feel now?" she asked.
"Fine" Cam said with an interruption of coughing.
"You don't sound fine" she said with a suspicious look in her eye.
Cam was silent for the rest of the ride home.
They got to the house and walked inside.
"Cam, go get something comfortable on and meet me downstairs" she said.
Cam did as she said and headed downstairs.
She had blankets on the couch for him and was waiting to take his temperature.
"I could've got them myself you didn't have to" Cam said.
"I wanted to!" she said.
Cam smiled and started coughing.
"Yikes. That doesn't sound good. Lie down"
Cam did as she asked and rested his head onto the pillow.
"Let me just take your temperature and I'll be out of your hair"
She leaned over and put the thermometer in his left ear and waited for a beep.
"101.6, that's pretty high. Do you need anything?"
"Can I play tonight if I get it down?"Cam asked.
" Haha, oooh Sweetie, you're not playing. You're not in school. You're too sick to play hockey tonight" she told Cam.
While coughing, Cam said "I have to play though, they're counting on me".
"I'll see how you're feeling around 4 and I'll decide. Does that sound good?"
Cam nodded and thanked her.
"Now, besides that do you take Tylonel or anything?" she asked.
"I do" Cam replied.
"Okay good. That will hopefully bring your fever down. Do you want soup or anything?" she asked.
This made Cam really miss his mom. But, he was glad he would be able to play tonight or could he?
Cam just nodded at her.
"Okay, give me a few minutes!"
Cam rested his head down and closed his eyes.
He could feel the sweat running down his face.
He woke up a little after and started coughing, hard.
His house mom ran into the room in a panic.
"You okay!?"
Cam answered when his coughing started to stop.
"Yeah, just letting some coughs out".
"You were asleep for a good bit of time. Feeling better?"
She ran over to feel his forehead.
"A little" Cam was lying, he felt worse than earlier.
"Yikes. You feel warmer than earlier" she said in a worried tone.
She leaned over and grabbed the thermometer. "Let me see if anything changed. Hopefully it's down, but it doesn't feel that way"
She was right. "102.2 now it's way higher. We need to fix this"
Cam felt a bad feeling in his stomach and jumped off the couch.
His house mom was confused then saw which direction he was heading.
"He is not playing tonight, poor kid" she whispered to herself.