Chapter 35

The next morning, she woke up with a fever and a stuffy nose. Takumi walked into the room.

“Oh good, you're awake. The power's back but it looks like we'll be staying inside today; it's still raining heavily.”

She didn't get up and only hummed in response.

“Something wrong?”

“I feel like a massive pile of shit.”

He put his hand on her forehead.

“So, Miss. I-never-get-sick, it looks like you caught a cold.”

“Tis doesn’t want to heal me. She said something about learning my lesson but it’s a bitch move in my opinion.”

“I can’t say that I don’t agree with her. I'll go make you something to eat.”

“No, I don't want to eat anything. I just want to sleep.”

“Wow, you must be seriously sick if you don't even want to eat anything. But you still have to if you don't want to get worse.”

“Geez, is this what being sick feels like? I feel like I'm dying.”

“You wouldn't feel like this if you had listened to me.”

Takumi woke up and found the other side of the bed empty. He went into the living room an