In last chapter Tai found Matt unconscious on the floor of his house. Hey, what other things to say, huh? Ah, Tai had suspected Matt of having SARS after he returned from China. That's a short summary, isn't it?
Like I told you previously, I don't own Digimon. But if there is a Digital World, I'll create Matt and Ken all for me. Hey, hey… *evil grin*
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Chapter 3: The Isolation (Matt's POV)What had happened to me? I found it so hard to breathe…so hard to breathe…
When my visions cleared, I found myself in a very wide, white room. There was a table with several bottles of medicine, and some machines…
I think I'm now in the hospital.
I closed my eyes slowly, trying to remember why the fuck am I here. I searched for anything that would help me remember, but to no avail. Finally I sighed in defeat. I didn't even know why am I here.
So I tried to search for someone I know, but I couldn't move much. My body is aching all over, and it hurts. It really hurts. The pain was unbearable for me to hold. What had happened to me?
Suddenly I heard coughs from a nearby patient. Her cough sounded so weird; it was as if she was choking on food or something. Slowly I turned to see the patient. It was a girl. And strangely enough, she wore a surgical mask.
That's when I realized that I am also wearing the very same thing.
"Rei, stop it!" Another girl, who wore the same mask, tried to stop the coughing girl from taking off her mask.
"I don't want to be here, Kaoru!!" the girl called Rei wailed. "I want to go home!!"
"What do you mean, 'home'? We don't have any home!" the girl called Kaoru snapped. Then she realised that I was watching them quarrelling. She narrowed her eyes a bit, as if she was smiling, and paid her attention back to Rei.
"Rei, look there!" she said, pointing her finger to me. "He has awakened! Yamato Ishida has awakened!" she continued happily. I lifted my hand, and greeted them a very warm 'hi'.
Both girls approached me; with the blond-haired Kaoru helped the red-haired Rei to go near. "Hi, Ishida-kun," Rei greeted slowly. "You finally woke up."
"Finally?"
"Yup, you've been sleeping here for about…2 days?" Kaoru said, counting her fingers. "A brunette boy sent you here, and was quarantined, and now he's back home. Oh," she paused, "He had visited you yesterday."
I knew at the instant that the boy she mentioned might be Taichi. "Is he wild-haired? Like this?" I guessed, shoving my fingers out from the side of my head to describe him.
"Yes, he's the one. Oh, he sent his regards to you." I didn't say anything, but to answer it silently.
"Uhh…Kaoru," Rei began, "Don't we want to introduce ourselves?" The question made Kaoru blinked, but then she laughed lightly before she coughed a bit.
"Yeah, sure, why not? My name is Kaoru Miyama, and this is Rei Tanaka," Kaoru introduced. "We were there when you perform in China, you know." I was surprised to hear that.
"Really?"
"Yup, you were so amazing out there," said Rei happily. Then she began to cough so hard Kaoru had to rub her back. "But now we ended up in a hospital."
"Hey!" Kaoru snapped out.
"Well it's true. Why do we have SARS anyway? If it's not because of our visit to China, then why?"
The word caught me. SARS. I thought I had heard that name before. I narrowed my eyes, trying to remember what it is. I knew I had heard about it somewhere. But where? "Uhh…" I began, "What is SARS?"
Both Kaoru and Rei blinked at me. The stares took a long while before they glanced at each other. It was obvious to them; I don't know even a little damn about it.
"It's a disease," Kaoru finally answered. "A very serious disease. It makes us have trouble breathing. It's epidemic."
"Epidemic?"
"Like, if you have it, it can spread to others in contact with you," Rei offered to answer. And that's all I needed to know. I have trouble breathing; maybe I got SARS. But I had stayed with Father when I got sick, and he deals with a lot of people but if he got it too, then everyone around him…ahh, I can't think of it anymore.
"I heard that it's fatal," Kaoru added. "Many people have died in China. But many had also recovered, so we still have a chance." Of course, it didn't relieve everyone's worries but at least there's still hope. Maybe.
We were silent at the rest of the day.
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Another short chapter is completed. Well, not that short, really. Maybe keeping it as short as possible is better than writing a whole long story and then you realised you didn't know how to continue. Meh.
Anyway, review, okay? Thanks. -_-