CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT: The care I need

-CELESTINE-

KARINA’S WORRIED face flashed at me. I woke up and I could feel the cold all over my body, shivering and getting into my system.

“Wait. I’ll get you a towel,” she said when she saw me dripping wet.

I hugged my body, and my hands were shaking from the cold. I don’t think I even realized I fell in the pool because I put the bench near where I was swimming. I fell asleep and the dream I thought had brought me to disaster. I thought it was real; it was just another dream wishing to come true.

“Here’s the towel.” She reached for me and circled behind me. The towel hugs me and gives me comfort, but it didn’t soothe the freeze I felt. “Come on, let’s go inside.” She helped me to stand up and go inside the house.

Karina directed me to the bathroom, and she took off my clothes that were still dripping.

“It’s very cold outside. Why did you