"Open wide!" Bridgette sat next to the sick and sleeping Gwen on the bed, lightly shaking her so she could take her temperature.

"I don't feel good, can't you just let me sleep?" Gwen moaned and mumbled as she turned to the other side of the bed.

"I know you don't feel good, that's why I want to check your temp, duh!" Bridgette felt Gwen's forehead, which felt horribly hot.

"Just leave me alone," Gwen moaned once again.

"Open!" Bridgette said very strict, as if she was trying to punish a child for something.

"Fine," Gwen slowly opened her eyes and sat up waiting for the thermometer to beep.

"Oh my god! 103! Gwen, if this gets any more higher, we're gonna have to take you to the E.R!"

"Well then let me sleep!"

"How about we play doctor? I'll be the pretty young doctor, and you can be the gross sick patient?" Bridgette joked.

"Ha ha, very funny," Gwen said very sarcastically. "Where's Trent?"

"Work."

"Where's kitty?" Gwen asked.

Like almost on cue, Sea jumped up onto the bed and lightly purred as she rubbed her head on Gwen's hand.

"Does that answer your question?"

"Now can I go back to sleep?" Gwen weakly smiled as she laid her head back down on her pillow.

"Nope! First, you gotta eat a bowl of my home-made soup!" Bridgette grabbed a bowl of soup off Gwen's bedside table.

"When'd you make that?"

"Last night. I just reheated it a few minutes ago," Bridgette shrugged.

" I'm not hungry."

"I don't care! Your gonna eat this. I don't want my little Gwendolyn to get dehydrated and starve," Bridgette said in a baby voice.

"When your sick, aren't you supposed to let the sick person sleep? When you think hard about it for a minute, your actually making me sicker," Gwen noted, getting a little cranky from not having her much wanted sleep.

" Would you stop being such a cry baby if I told you I have a surprise out in the living room?"

"Depends. What kinda surprise?" Gwen asked with curiosity.

"Just come on! Please? It'll be fun, I promise!" Bridgette smiled, desperately wanting Gwen to go see the surprise.

"Fine," Gwen sighed as she pulled off her bed covers and carried Sea to the living room to see what waited for her. Each step she took out of her room hurt her, and her entire body continued to ache. She felt weak from lack of contents in her stomach, and the fever she was growing.

"You lay on the couch, and I'll be right back," Bridgette grabbed a bag and filled it with items from everyone's bedroom. She rushed from hers, to Gwen's, to Trent's, to Geoff's (which still wasn't entirely empty of his belongings, but it still seemed empty) and then scurried back to were Gwen was.

"When I was putting some of Trent's socks away, I found this in his sock drawer. I shouldn't tell this to you, since it will ruin his surprise when or if he gives it to you, but I feel that you have to know!" Bridgette said excitedly as she pulled a small velvet box out of the bag. She hesitated as she gave it Gwen.

"Oh my god!" Gwen shouted happily as she opened it. "It's an engagement ring!"

The ring was a gold band with a small emerald in the center, and two smaller diamonds on either side of it. It shone brightly in the light.

"I know!" Bridgette smiled widely. "When do you think he's gonna pop the question?"

"I don't know!" Gwen was excited, thoughts of different proposal styles ran through her mind.

"That's why I thought maybe I should do kinda like a spa-day. Just for today, to kinda calm you down," she smiled.

"So if you wanted to calm me down, why did you show me the ring in the first place?"

"Good point… I guess I really didn't think it through…" Bridgette confessed.

"Spa day, huh? I guess that doesn't sound to bad…" Gwen said honestly.

"I got some nail polish, lotions, and even candles! I was thinking this could also make you feel better," Bridgette started to light the pineapple scented candles and placed them all around the room.

"I'd be a nice start if you could get me aspirin," Gwen breathed in the candles and felt peaceful.

"Got it!" Bridgette also grabbed a bucket and went into the kitchen. She placed the bucket in the sink and started to fill with hot water as she grabbed some medicine.

"Take this to fill better, and put your feet in this," Bridgette lugged a big bucket of water and an aspirin with a small glass of water. Gwen yelped as she placed her feet in the hot water.

"Ow! That's really hot!" Gwen screeched, but didn't take her feet out.

" The better to clean your feet, my dear," Bridgette joked. "Now, let me do your back."

Bridgette got up and went behind the couch. She placed some strawberry lotion in the palm of her hand and started to gently message Gwen's back. Gwen grabbed the remote and started to flicker through the TV channels.

"Oh god! It's reruns of the show! I didn't think they still showed even the reruns!" Gwen screeched as she turned to a TV channel that produced some old Total Drama Island episodes.

"Do you think it will give us a big ego if we watch ourselves?" Bridgette asked.

"Nope. I wanna see what the show looked like to all the lucky people in the world that didn't have to do it," said Gwen, honestly. She left the channel stay where it was. It turned out to be the first episode of the first series.

"Wow Gwen, even at the beginning you were seriously ticked!" Bridgette joked.

"Shut up!"

"Oh…" Bridgette mumbled and looked away from Gwen's direction. She started to rub her friends back more gently.

"You know Bridge, I was just joking around. No need to go all wuss on me! It's not like the f---" Gwen apologized, but noticed why her friend got more quiet.

Geoff. He'd just gotten off the boat. Gwen felt a knot in her throat as she tried to speak.

"Maybe I should just change the channel…" Gwen found the words to say and pressed different buttons on the remote until she found something that didn't relate to the dead friend.

"Thank you," Bridgette let a lone tear fall from her face.

"Yeah… Now, feel free to start at my feet anytime now, 'kay?" Gwen tried to smile to make her forget Geoff.

"I cannot believe I let you convince me into having my toe nails painted pink!" Gwen laughed, watching her newly painted pink toe-nails.

"Eh. I was gonna make you anyways. It wouldn't kill you to put a little color in your life!"

"Black's a color, thank you very much!"

"Stop complaining! Are you scared the Little Gothic Girl's friends are gonna not talk to you anymore if you have pink on your feet?"

"Whatever!" Gwen laughed. She never really acted like this much in front of anyone but Bridgette. But she made her want to be someone more fresh and lively.

"Maybe that's what Bridgette's mom meant…" Gwen mumbled.

"Are you talking about my mom?" Bridgette asked, wondering why her friend used the phrase 'Bridgette's Mom.'

"Oh, nothing! Just a dream I had once!"

"Good luck with that…"

"Alright, I need to take a break! I've been working on you for about three hours now. If I have to rub your feet or back any longer, I might have to cut my hands off!" Bridgette complained.

"I feel someone coming Gothic!" Gwen smiled as Bridgette made her remark.

"I feel someone coming Preppy!" Bridgette wiggled Gwen's toes.

"Touché."

"Need an aspirin?" Bridgette went into the kitchen to grab her something to drink.

"No, actually… I kinda feel better. I think we found the cure for the common cold!" Bridgette felt Gwen's forehead, which held a normal temperature.

"Stick your feet back in the water. I'll give you one more message, then I'm calling it quits," Bridgette poured more hot water into the bucket.

"Aww! But what about this facial mask?" Gwen held up a small jar filled with a green substance.

"I've never seen you so girly in my life! It's nice to watch. How about you put it on, and I'll do your feet at the same time? Kill two birds with one stone, right?" Bridgette started to message Gwen's feet once again in the warm water while Gwen applied the facial mask by herself. She sighed a content sigh.

"I'm still tired, though," Gwen yawned as she finished putting on the mask. She laid her head down on the top of the couch. Her feet were still in the water and her face was covered in the muck.

"Take a nap. I'll be done in a minu--." Bridgette was gonna say, but got interrupted by Gwen's snoring.

"Now, to take a break!" Bridgette sighed, then left for her room.

The clock rang as the time was officially three A.M. This normally didn't wake anyone up, but some reason, it made Gwen awake from her wonderful dream.

"What's this?" Gwen mumbled as she sat up on her bed. Liquid covered her bedroom sheets.

"Did I wet the bed?" she silently whispered. The liquid was only felt from the end of the bed, though. She ran her fingers over it, and lightly sniffed it.

It had no smell. It was just pure water.

"That can't be right!" Gwen turned on the bedroom light to further exanimate. As the lights brightened, she looked over her bed. It was only wet were her feet were. She grumbled as she went to go back to sleep, but froze in fear as she bundled her feet closer to her chest to stay away from the water.

Her toe-nails were painted a bright shade of pink. Her knowledge of doing it before was slim.

"Just like the dream…" she gasped, and lightly hovered her fingers over her mouth. But something with a slimy texture stunned her yet again. She ran over to her vanity, to see what it was, and felt a tear flow down her face.

A facial mask. Bright green in color, and slimy in feel.

"This is just too much," Gwen slightly cried as she ran into the restroom to clean it off. Her mind wandered back into the dream she just had. Everything from the facial to the water from the foot message had entered reality.

"Does this mean that…" Gwen mumbled, but never finished her sentence. She tip-toed to Trent' room and very lightly opened his bedroom door. She carefully rummaged through his sock door, not making a sound, to check for a small velvet box with a ring in it. After minutes of burrowing, nothing was found. She searched every other drawer, and found the same thing over and over: Nothing.

"I'm losing it. I really am," Gwen sighed. She felt weird in her stomach, and her head buzzed with mixed thoughts and emotions. I can't sleep in my room tonight. I think I'm going crazy, Gwen thought to herself and thought of one of the few places she felt safe.

With Trent.

She silently and carefully opened his door again, letting a small ray of light shine in. She tip-toed over to him, then slid into his bed. She huddled over next to him until she was even on the same pillow as he, and wrapped her arm around the top of his torso.

"Gwen?" Trent slightly mumbled.

"Yes?" she worried that her boyfriend might get a little mad that she had awoken him.

"I love you," he yawned, and wrapped his arm around her waist.

"I love you too," she smiled and laid her head on his chest. She memorized his heartbeat, and let out one content sigh of tranquility before she went back to sleep.


People seem to be requesting stuff on this story xP One or two asked for me to have Gwen stay in the 'Other World' or 'Dream World' longer. I really don't know what to call it myself xD So I hope that this is long enough for you!

Some of you may be wondering when this story will finally end so you can get on with your lives, and I'm sorry to tell you that this story still has quiet a bit to go! Future chapters and ideas are bottling in my head, but I need to update my other stories! I'm hoping that someone will message me soon about the info I need for the TDS, but she's taking a little while xP

And I must apologize some more. I don't think I can characterize anyone well. But I really do try my best. I just don't think I'm too great of a writer...

So, to make your life easier, how about I stop talking now x3