CHAPTER TWO

"She looks like she might have-" Lily awoke with a doctor above her. Her mom was there and they were discussing what happened on Lily's date.

"Lily!" Her mother greeted her with a warm hug. "Did you sleep well?"

Lily nodded. The truth was, she had dreamt about Ray the entire time!

The doctor gave her a friendly smile. Her face turned back to serious. "I think it could be food poisoning."

One time Travis had had food poisoning, and Lily knew from how he described it that it would be a total pain. He had to miss 2 weeks of school.

The doctor gave Lily's mother some instructions and left the house to return to her office.

Lily pretended that she was going to go back to sleep. She felt horrible. Again, her stomach and head hurt, and the pain was uncontrollable. She sighed. That had to have been the worst date EVER.

Why had she eaten the food? She knew there was something wrong, but she ignored it. She ignored it so her date would be better. But she had only made it worse. She cried softly into her sweet, fluffy pillow. Why had this happened to her. Maybe her and Ray weren't really supposed to be together.

Lily's mom brought her a bowl of chicken noodle soup for lunch. "Thanks, mom," Lily said. She knew that she had to at least PRETEND to be HAPPY.

Lily tried to eat the soup-and she loved it, but she didn't have an appetite. She put aside the soup and got her notebook from her night table. She flipped the pages until she found a blank one. She thought of how she wanted to write this song.

Lily wrote and wrote. The song was going great-it sounded great, but it was tearing her apart thinking about Ray.

Lily slept for the rest of the day, exhausted as ever. She knew that this feeling would continue until she healed.

What she didn't know that Ray had come to check on her-twice and had brought her a get-well card.