Manny found himself back in school, having arrived a little late to his first class. He had went through the school day like normal for the most part at the moment, and he was sitting in history class, more focused than he usually was, though he noticed a crumpled piece of paper land on his desk. He looked over his shoulder, seeing Frida who was making a small wave hand gesture. He unraveled the piece of paper and read it. "How are you feeling?" He just hid the note in his desk afterward and showed her a thumbs up in response, hoping she will understand it, and he continued through class.
Once school let out for the day, Manny was putting his items away at his locker. "Hey, Manny!" he heard, noticing Frida approaching. She slowed a bit, seeing his green eyes. It was still creepy how they just changed randomly. "Hey, Frida," he responded tiredly. Having been up all night had taken its toll on him, draining most of his energy otherwise. "I had an idea on what could be causing your whole… weird problems," she claimed, catching his attention fast with the presumption she had some form of clue to find out what started this. "Really? What is it?" he asked, waiting for some hopeful insight. His dad would be home in a few hours, so he had to know fast.
"You said you weren't feeling like yourself since the hospital trip. So what if someone at the hospital messed with you?" Frida elaborated while they were walking through the halls. Manny did remember the nurse injecting him with various syringes of medicine that burned or chilled his veins. "Maybe. I mean, they gave me weird medicine… we could go try to find that nurse," he said, thinking that finding the nurse that had injected him was the best idea. Frida saw his eyes turn blue again, having to question if the colour change to blue was related to her being near him. He wasted no time heading to the hospital alongside her.
It had taken two hours for them to arrive to the hospital that Manny had been in barely a few days ago himself. They were in the lobby, where at least dozens of different people were seated, looking dreadful drained or tired, and the nurses were going around and getting histories the same way a waiter would gather orders. "Ugh… there must be a ton of nurses on this floor alone. How are we going to find her in all this hospital?" Manny wondered aloud. Frida pointed to the nearby elevator. "Well she'd probably be in paediatric care like you were," she suggested the third floor would be the best place to look. He was thankful she was around to help, and he was feeling like he was slowing down and not wanting to continue doing much.
The two took the elevator to the third floor, the music droning like it was trying to put someone to sleep. Once they got off the elevator they could see a desk nearby where workers were just putting folders away, shredding papers or working on the computer. Manny approached the desk, getting one of the workers attention. "Hey is there a nurse with blonde hair that is kind of short around here?" he requested to know if there was any kind of nurse like that around. The worker just gave an annoyed glare. "Kid, we have blonde nurses but they all are pretty tall in height. Some are taller than me," he answered, Manny giving a confused glance to Frida.
On the way down the stairs, Manny was irritated. "Are you sure that's what the nurse looked like?" Frida had to reassure he was looking for the right person or not since he had been nearly out of his mind in the hospital during his first time admittance. "I know what I saw," he growled, his eyes going red again. "I have a lot of people that hate me and could be happier if I were dead. One got me sick and then they sent someone to my room to mess with my mind," he elaborated on his train of thought at the moment. Frida was unsure of when he became smart to plans like that, but she doubted a villain or someone that hated him could do all of this in less than a day's notice. It was almost like he was becoming paranoid of himself and the things around him.
"Okay… maybe we should just focus on a cure right now before we go hunting down every person that doesn't like you ever," Frida recommended, wanting to treat this weird problem of his before that, doubting a hospital would know what to do in this case. If someone wanted to kill Manny and had the chance to get him sick, then they could have just poisoned him so he was prone to inevitably face death in a few minutes, unless the villain just enjoyed watching someone suffer, but there had been no signs of anyone stalking him. "…Zoe might know…" he groaned, hoping she would need nothing special to help.
"Zoe? Why her?" Frida raised an eyebrow. "I've been hanging out with her since the bank robbery," he described, not wanting to go into further detail of what he had been doing in the time he spent with her. But the two had no clue that someone was watching from the shadows, spying on them like the hospital was under heavy watch in case they had come back. Manny and Frida were off, leaving the hospital to find the gothic girl herself.
