4.
I opened my eyes seeing Levi calling me. "What happened?" I groaned as I sat up. It was still raining and we're on the side of the river. I remembered, we fell from the bridge and all I know is that time I try to grip something but we lurched on the flow.
"Where are we?" I asked.
"Still on earth." Levi said. He walks aside and rested on the near tree. He rested his head on the trunk and I could tell he still catching up his breath. I looked to see his hands wounded.
"Wait. Your hands. They're bleeding."
"This is just a scratch."
Now I remembered. He grabbed me as soon as we fell in the river. He searched for something to grab on but he ended slipping on every rock he was gripping. Me on the other hand was knock down by the pressure. *facepalm for that.
"Let me!" I grabbed his hand and treated it with one of my first kit I got in my pouch. Good thing there's one.
"We should find some shelter. At least a cave."
"Are you nuts? A cave? Or except if you wanted to get eaten by a bear."
"Not all caves have bears." I pouted and looked around. There must have been shelter around here somewhere.
"Stay here. I'm gonna look around." I stood up but Levi grabbed my hand.
"We shouldn't split. We don't have our radios and our cellphones were soaked so it will be hard for us to find each other." he said and stood up.
"Are you sure you're okay. Coz it looks to me that you're not." I raised a brow.
"I'm fine. I could walk. Now lets go." he said.
The kids might searching for us right now. Any minute now it'll get dark. There are some abandoned cottages that we've found two years ago so I'm pretty sure that this place has few of it. The rain drizzled which is a good thing.
"Hey." I called Levi. I'm really sure he's not okay. I came to him to checked.
"What are you doing?" he shoved my hands off again. "I told you I'm fine!"
"No! I could tell that, once I checked out! Cmon!" I insisted and put my hands on to his forehead. His hot! What I mean hot is, his body temperature. "Liar!" I told him.
"You have a very high fever! Stay here I'm gonna find a safer place."
"I told you we shouldn't split up. It's easy to get lost in this place."
"Between the two of us. I was the one who could easily memorize the place."
Levi sighed. He grabbed me, and I felt his hands are cold.
"I won't take long. I won't go that far. I just need to find us a place to stay for the night!" I shoved his hand but his grip was tight. "Cmon!"
He furrowed. He was about to say something when he began to collapse. I managed to catch him. "Levi!" I called. "Wait. Levi not now! Goodness!" I shouted.
I carried Levi all the way through the forest. His arm around my shoulders. Though I'm a bit taller than him, this guy is somewhat heavy, maybe because he's a bit masculine. The rain had stopped for a while which is okay. Though it made the ground muddy and slippery which is hard for me to walk specially carrying this ill guy.
A few minutes of struggling have passed and at last I found an old cottage. Hoping it wasn't the three bears' house.
I called if there's anyone inside. But of course no one replied. Obviously, this is an abandoned cottage. A very old one which I don't know how many ages, this was. The door creaked as I pushed it open. The place was a mess and dark. The floor was made of wood that's a bit of frail now. Levi might not want to see this. There was a sturdy bed on the side, a small table and a chair beside. A fire place across the bed. A small kitchen sink and a small bathroom. I wonder who used this before. This could be a good place for studies and reports.
I carefully put him down on the chair and cleaned up the bed. The sheets were too dirty so I pulled that out and dust out the dirt.
As soon as I finished. I tried to carry him to the bed. But I fell on to him still even I carefully set him down to the bed. He really is that heavy. I stared at him. First time I ever get to see his face this close. And noticed how cute he was when asleep. Does he always sleep like this? He looks better in sleeping mode. Wait. Why am I thinking about that? He still feverish. I got up and checked him. I need to pull out his cloak and his jacket. It's still soaking wet. Wait. How? I've never done this before. I never treated or cared a feverish person before. Except for myself. I removed my jacket and hung it up somewhere near the fireplace.
"Sorry Levi." I said as I tried to pull out the cloak. That wasn't so hard though. Next was his jacket. Now how will I remove that?! I unzipped his jacket. "Okay, guess I'm your care taker for today." I sighed. I went on the other side of bed and lifted his arm and pulled the jacket's sleeve. I did the same on the other side. I hung them up to dry, together with my cloak and jacket. I found some matches on the kitchen cabinet and start up the fireplace. I saw some old books around. I hesitated to tear up a page. Books are one of my fave thing and am feeling guilty tearing up these books to make a fire.
He was still asleep so maybe I have to go and find us something to eat. I looked through the narrow window. The rain started again but this time it's just drizzled so maybe I still could go and look around.
I grabbed my cloak and ran to the rain.