A few hours later, Sora had gone home to think. Riku had remained lifeless thanks to the tranquilizer until about an hour ago. Ryo called Sora to tell him that Riku had called her and told her that everything was fine except that he kept seeing Rep in his delirious episodes. His parents had apparently came to see him last night after she and Sora left but Riku was still dazed out from the tranqulizers.
The next day, Ryo had gone to see Riku very early in the morning. At around seven, just two hours before visiting hours began. She had snuck in. With her powers, she made a mirage that she was a doctor and went to Riku's room. He was sleeping when she got there. At about 9:15, Rep showed up.
"What are you-" Ryo said loudly until Rep put a finger to her lips.
"We don't want to wake Riku now, would we?" he asked in a sly yet calm voice.
Ryo shoved Rep's hand away.
"Ryo, will you be a dear friend and get Riku an orange juice?" asked Rep in a mannerly voice. "The nurse told me to make sure he takes his medications."
Ryo was hesitant at first. She didn't know whether to go or not. But then again, Rep might have just been trying to help his brother feel better. She stood up and walked out of the room, took the elevator to the waiting rooms, and to the vending machines. She came back about five minutes later to find Riku awake and sitting up in his bed and Rep was handing Riku two pills in a small cup. One was small and white and the other was conspiculously pink and white. Ryo gave Rep the bottle of orange juice. He opened it, poured some into a glass, and gave it to Riku.
"Here, Riku. Take this with your medication." he said.
Riku took the juice, popped the pills into his mouth, and drank the juice.
"Did you sleep okay, Riku?" asked Ryo.
Riku nodded. He was too sleepy and weak to even talk. He lied back down on the pillows and tried to relax.
"Time for vital signs!" said a male nurse, carting in a machine. He made Riku sit up. The nurse took a thermometer that was attached to the machine and stuck it under Riku's tongue. He waited a few seconds until the thermometer beeped. He took it out of Riku's mouth and looked at it. "One hundred and two point two. A lot better than yesterday! I see that you're on the road to recovery!"
Riku smiled a tiny smile. The nurse picked up a blood pressure cuff and put it around Riku's arm. The cuff inflated and deflated slowly at first and then it completely deflated.
"Your blood pressure's a little high but that must be a side effect of the medication." mused the nurse. He took his instruments and left.
Rep took out his cell phone and checked the time. "Whoops! Better go!" he said. "Mom wants me to mow the lawn."
He walked out almost in a flash. Ryo remembered that Riku normally mowed his lawn on Saturdays, but Riku has been unable to do so since he has been hospitalized and Rep's been here...wait, something occurred to Ryo. Riku was fine until Rep showed up. Two days after Rep returned to the islands, Riku was hospitalized. Ryo thought that maybe Riku's sickness had something to do with Rep, but how was there any proof?
Riku was asleep at this point. His long, silver hair was strewn everywhere on his pillows. Ryo smiled to herself. Riku was like a little boy when he slept.
"Ryo?" asked a voice.
Ryo turned to find Sora standing in the doorway. He walked over to one of the chairs and sat in it.
"Sora, I think Rep may have something to do with this!" Ryo blurted out.
"WHAT?" Sora yelled loudly.
"Shh, Riku's sleeping!" shushed Ryo. She paused. "Listen, every since Rep's been here, Riku has been sick. Just a few days ago, Riku was fine before Rep came along."
Sora leaned back in his chair and thought. This did sound like something Rep would do. He thought back to the last time Rep was on the islands, back in January. Rep had run Sora over with his car and stabbed him. Sora remembered that fateful day. He was skateboarding along, like nothing was wrong, when he felt something slam into him. He felt his rib and his wrist snapping as he flew over the car and rolled onto the ground. While he was down, he felt something stabbing into his back and Sora let out a scream. Finally, he passed out. He didn't remember nothing after that until he woke up in the hospital a few days later. Riku said that he found Sora lying there in the street with blood gushing out of his back. Riku and the others were devastated.
Suddenly, Riku woke up and immediately ran to the bathroom. He leaned over the toilet and began to throw up.
"Riku!" cried Sora and Ryo, both running into the bathroom with him. Riku threw up all he could and then plopped himself down on the floor. The tiles felt cold against Riku's bare legs. He was wearing two hospital gowns that went a little past his knees. He wore two of them because there was a huge slit in the back of the gowns, exposing his backside and he hated that. So, there was a second one, covering his back and tied up in the front.
Sora helped Riku stand up and walked him back to his bed. Ryo flushed the toilet only to notice that Riku had thrown up a small amount of blood.
"OMG, he's throwing up blood!" Ryo said in shock when she walked out of the bathroom. Sora helped Riku lie down. Riku immediately closed his eyes in exhaustion.
"Time for medication!" said a female nurse, walking in with a cup consisting of one white pill.
Ryo gasped. Didn't Riku just take his medication just now???