Usopp ran towards her too, but Luffy, naturally being more athletic than Usopp, got there first. "OI!" Usopp yelled. "Kaya, wake up!" Merry felt Kaya's forehead. "She's burning up."

Usopp's eyes widened. "Oh no! Kaya"
"It's okay." Merry said. He started clarifying. "Kaya doesn't collapse like this everyday, but she is weak. Chopper keeps an eye out for her, so he has extra medicine waiting in the Hospital Wing."

Usopp nodded, trying frantically to calm down. However, that's an oxymoron, so he didn't really calm down. He panicked alot though.

Luffy helped Merry carry Kaya to Chopper. Usopp walked with them, feeling useless. 'This is ridiculous,' he thought over and over to himself. 'I'm panicking for nothing. Merry said it would be all right, and it will be. Yes, yes, she will be all right.' He was still worried about his new friend though.

He waited outside the door while Luffy and Merry walked in. He was too tense to sit still, and started pacing around the front door. 'Pretty soon, I'll be hearing Chopper say reassuringly, She'll be All right!' he consoled himself. "Yeah," he thought out loud. "I will be hearing that reindeer tell us that Kaya's okay!" Usopp started feeling a bit better. "GET BETTER KAYA!" he said emphatically, now feeling important. "I will be here for moral support if you need it!" he sat down, feeling calmer and happier than before.

Then, he heard something that wasn't so reassuring. "No..." he gasped, his eyes widening in fear.

"Luffy. Usopp." Carl was grim. "Sensei says you have to come back to class now..." Usopp nodded, pale faced. His throat was tight, and he couldn't seem to say anything. The most coherent thing he said was, "tgitbswmahbl."

Carl chewed the mealworm in his mouth. "It's time for English, you know"
Luffy wasn't as hyperactive as usual. "Sure...English..." he mumbled sullenly.
Suddenly, Usopp lost it, and he broke into a sprint towards the hospital.
Luffy started after him, but Carl held him back. "Let him be," he whispered to Luffy.
Luffy nodded, having seen Kaya. It wasn't pretty.

Her skin was sallow, and she had been sweating. That was before the spasms came.
Chopper was especially worried now. "Call the doctor," he ordered Luffy hoarsely. Luffy spared no time in running to the phone and dialing 9-1-1...(1)

English class was no fun (is it ever?) Everyone sat in a dazed silence, and the tension was almost palpable. Only the teacher made any noise today, and it wasn't much. Luffy was in shock. Seeing Kaya before an ambulance whisked her off to the hospital was like seeing the dead. Her eyes had been rolled to the back of her head, and she was pale, so, so, pale, except her forehead, which was burning hot and RED. She had been sweating so much, and shivering, the seizure had been terrible. Chopper had been scared out of his wits.

Usopp's heart was hammering. It pounded in his chest, his blood pounded in his ears, his concern burned a hole in his mind. Everything else was pound pound pounding away, heedlessly, endlessly, his feet pounded at the ground, knowing where to go, and something was clonking away at his head. Usopp was long past caring, all he knew now was his friend. His friend was about to die, and he wanted to be at her side.

"All right. Say it with me now. This is a pen." the teacher nodded, waiting for the class to repeat.
No one said anything.
She sighed. "This isn't going to work, is it? But, we need to practice. Say it, please?" she begged.
"This is a pen." the class droned emotionlessly.
"All right, that's better. I can tell we won't get anything done today. Why don't you pack up, and have this period for free"
The class stared back. Today, they were dolls. No one could move on their own.
Mechanically, they all started to pack up, and sat there, doing nothing. They waited there, for the ominous message that was sure to come some day or another. They were sure it was today. It was inevitable. She was the quiet, sick, girl in the back of the room, and she was going to die. It made sense. She didn't have any friends after all. She didn't particularly mean anything to them.

So why was there this sinking feeling in their hearts?

Nami hadn't heard the news yet. She didn't know that Kaya had collapsed in the middle of class. Of course she would be okay, cheerfully greeting her friends at the bench. "Hi!" she said, happily.
She immediately noticed that something was wrong. "What's wrong, Zoro? Sanji? Luffy? Where's Usopp? Carl, what's going on"
Zoro and Sanji were not fighting. They addressed each other as "Zoro" and "Sanji" rather than "Mold-head" and "Fru-fru.
Luffy had collapsed on the bench, doing his little 'melted jello' thing. Carl went over to the 'popular' people.
No one wanted to answer her questions.

Three weeks later, Usopp burst into the room.
"IT'S A MIRACLE!" he yelled. Tears of joy were streaming down his face.

Only a few students turned to look at Usopp. He had quite the repuatation for being a liar. "KAYA'S BETTER!"

Everyone's heads snapped up to look at him. "No way!" some of the groupies chorused. Groupies of the popular people, that is. Not Usopp.
"Hey man, are you lying?" asked a jock.
"For once, no!" Usopp cheered.
The jock was confused. "Couldn't you be lying about your not lying right now?" he asked. Everyone stared at the jock and his use of expanded vocabulary for a jock that is.
After the silence of amazement was over and done with, everyone peppered Usopp with questions. He answered them joyously, not really caring about what he said.
So, some of the answers made no sense at all.
"How bad was she a week ago?" asked Clarabelle, a foreign exchange student from America.
"A week ago, I had a view from Saturday!" Usopp responded.
Clarabelle, like the jock, was confused. "What?" she asked.
Usopp grinned. "A view from Saturday!" What he said made no sense, and Clarabelle didn't get it. She took him for a liar and walked away to talk to the teacher.

The entire day was filled with partying! Even the teachers seemed delighted at the fact that Kaya was okay. They allowed the students to wreak havoc upon their rooms. It didn't matter, Kaya was alive, and even better, she was okay! Well, almost.
"When is she going to come back, Usopp-kun?" asked Uotani sensei.
"Ehh..." Usopp was thinking hard. "She'll be back in about three days"
"Really"
The rest of the period was spent with hyperactivity, even coming from Uotani sensei.

(1) I don't know the 'emergency' phone they dial in Japan. Sorry.

Sorry for the short chapter.