Shun
When my eyes opened and looked over to the digital clock on my nightstand, and saw the time. Damn, I slept for ten hours. But in the end, all that sleep didn't do me any good cause I was still exhausted from last night. Thinking about the party last night made me remember Alice, who was probably still on the couch out cold. I tossed my covers off and headed downstairs, almost tripping several times cause I was still drowsy. Once in the living room, I peered over to the couch Dr. Michaels and I had placed Alice on last night.
Alice was in the same position we left her in, and Dr. Michaels was sleeping on the matching love seat across from the couch. I walked quietly on my feet, trying not to wake the two of them up. I then placed my hand on my stomach as it growled, telling me I hadn't eaten in a while. I sighed. I'm not really that hungry though, despite my stomach growling, but I need to eat something. When I was almost in the kitchen, I had passed by a mirror. I stopped walking and back up and looked at myself in the mirror.
My hair hadn't been brushed, my eyes were surrounded by dark circles, and my skin looked pale. It's official….I look like crap, and feel about as bad as I look right now. I sighed in aggravation and headed into the kitchen. After pawing through the fridge for a few minutes and finding some cubed fruit, I sat down at the table that had been placed next to the window. I had only eaten three or four pieces of the fruit, and couldn't force myself to eat anymore. I got up from the table and returned to fruit to the fridge where I got it, and went back into the living room to check on Alice. She looked just she had when we put her there last night. Using the back on my hand, I checked her forehead again, and she was still warm.
As I was removing my hand, her eyes opened slowly. I whispered just loud enough that she could hear me, but not her grandfather. "Alice, you're awake. How are you feeling?" She blinked a few times and said with a raspy voice, "Shun….I don't feel well at all…" I could see it was taking a lot out of her just to get those words out pf her mouth. I sighed and asked her is she may be able to make it up to her room. Alice only shook her head. There's no way I can get her up those stairs, not with the way I'm feeling right now. When I looked back down at her, she had closed her eyes again, and was starting to drift back to sleep.
I bit my lower lip and grabbed the cloth Dr. Michaels had used as an ice pack for Alice last night, and ran cold water over it in the kitchen sink. I returned back into the living room and put the cloth back on her forehead. I know it's not going to do much, but it will help for now. Besides, until she wakes up a little more she doesn't need to be taking any meds. I bead of water slid down her cheek from the rag and onto the cushion of the couch. Dr. Michaels then began to stir, and then woke up himself. He leaned his head up and looked over at me.
"Ah Shun, how long have you been up?" He stretched after he spoke, grunted as he did so. "I've been awake for perhaps an hour." He then adverted his attention to his ill granddaughter on the couch and frowned. "She still running a fever?" I nodded my head and spoke, "Yeah. She woke up earlier, but was too weak to talk. When she fell back asleep I went and wet that rag in the sink with cold water." The old man thanked me for doing that while he was resting. He sat up, and I heard several of his joints pop, then picked up the phone sitting on the coffee table in the center of the room. "Who are you calling?"
He punched in a number and said, "I'm calling an old friend. He's been a doctor for many years and said if we ever needed his help to call him." While the two men talked on the phone, I went back over to Alice and brushed one of the orange locks out of her eyes with the back of my finger. I heard the sound of the phone being set back down on the receiver, and turned around to see the man had ended his phone call. "My friend will be over in an hour or so see Alice. You know, I didn't mention anything earlier, but you look like you're not feeling well yourself."
I sat down on the love seat where he had been sleeping earlier and said, "Yeah, I haven't been feeling like myself all morning. Or when I went to sleep for that fact." The elder man took off his glasses and cleaned them while saying, "Perhaps we should have my friend to look at you. That is, if you want, of course." It probably wouldn't hurt for him to see what's wrong with me. "Yeah. It's no problem." I leaned back into the love seat and closed my eyes. With my eyes shut, I could feel the aches and pains coursing around my body. I then shot up and quickly opened my eyes. Dr. Michaels doctor friend had slammed the door shut and had scared both me and Alice. She was just like me, sitting straight up and wide eyed.
The old doctor looked almost like Dr. Michaels, but just had more hair. "Hello, I'm Dr. Fredrick. And you must be Alice." He set a bag down and walked over to the disoriented red head. I watched as he took her temperature and so forth. After about an hour, he walked up to Dr. Michaels and said, "Well, it looks like she's just got a bad virus. There's one been going around lately, and my wife had just gotten over it lately." The man went over to his bag and pulled out a bottle of pills. He explained to Dr. Michaels how the antibiotics should be taken and was about to leave when he stopped him. "Stan, hold on. My granddaughter's boyfriend isn't feeling well either, and I was wondering if you could check him as well."
When he said boyfriend it felt weird, cause it seemed like Alice and I were so much more than just your everyday couple. Dr. Fredrick looked at me, then did the same procedure he did on Alice. He pulled out an identical bottle of pills and said, "Here, they're the same medicine I gave the girl. But you just have a minor case of the flu, and if you follow the directions you should be feeling better in no time." I thanked the man and he and Dr. Michaels walked outside to talk. I set the pills on the coffee table next to the phone, then looked back at Alice, who had gone back to sleep again. I leaned back into the love seat and did the same.
OMG. lol. In my opinion it was slightly repeatative. -.-'' But I'm actually making this up as I'm going along. I don't even know what the title of the next chapter will be. So, all of this was JUST written. Excuse me for any errors or misspellings i may of made cause i was kinda being rushed. I will either upload one or two chapters tomorrow because it's a weekend and i don't have school. YAY! XD lol. So, please read and tell me what you think. (Suggestions are ALWAYS welcomed!) Thanks for reading!