Thud !!!
Arhhhh ???
I felt a sharp pain in right side of the body and head. The bottle on my hand had gone rolling away with a loud noise. I tried to got up but I couldn’t help my body up. Everything was still spinning around. I tried to focus on the things ahead of me. But everything was blur, I couldn’t even focus on a thing. And then Austin’s everything around me went black.
I stayed there motionless in the cold floor shivering with cold. I was trying to get up but it was of no use.
Just then the door cracked open and there was some noise of a person coming in. Help…. I screamed so loud but no voice escaped my mouth. The person held me up from the floor. I was in his arms. I slowly opened my eyes and a blury picture came in my sight. It was a familiar picture, he was Mr Gold…
He placed his hand in my forehead and murmured something that I couldn’t hear clearly.
He shook me by my shoulder “You have fever, why didn’t you called me earlier? ” He was shouting at me.
“Wait wait don’t pass out.” he was screaming something but only the movement of his lips were seen, I wasn’t hearing him clearly… I can see his face with panic expression. And somehow that gave me pleasure.
“Aachyoo ” I sneezed again so loud and all the energy left my body with it.
He took me in his arms up in the air. And put me on the bed slowly. He put on some blankets on me and finally it was so warm. I closed my eyes as the eyelids were so heavy to keep on. And then the sound of the person going away reached my ears.
I was still thirsty but I have no courage to get up again. So I let me be in that position.
After a while the footsteps came back in the room and then closer and closer to me. Then a side of my blanket eas lifted up and Mr Gold sat beside me. He helped me sat straight and put some pillows behind me.
When i was seated comfortably, he give me a glass of warm water to drink. He put it on my lips.
“Drink slowly, your throat is dry already.” he helped me drink the water. I gulped a mouthfull of water, it actually burned my throat instead of helping. I drank some more water before it finally helped me relief my dry throat.
“Its very… very.. cold. ” I said with my hoarse voice. “Aachyoo” I sneezed out loud again. He took the water from me and put it aside before helping me to sleep on the bed again.
I looked up to see him still worried about me. I felt warm as he was worry about me.. He put blankets over me and asked “Is it still cold? ”
I shook my head. My heart, body… everything felt so warm now. “Be a good child and wait for me, I’ll come in a second ” He smiled at me before going out.
I nodded at him even though he had already left the room. Now I was waiting for him. “Achyoooo” the cold is so bad. Maybe the cold water that I took bath in and the night walk from earlier don’t want to go away just like that.
It feel so cold…. I shiver under the blankets. My eyes started feeling so heavy and I closed my eyes.
After a while, he came back in. He dragged one chair beside the bed and sat there.
After a while I felt cold sensation in my forehead. I opened my eyes again to see Mr Gold was soaking towel in warm water as he put it on my head. It felt good like this. He put small towels on my eyes too and now I couldn’t open my eyes on my own.
I drifted into sleep for a while. I wake up again with someone shooking me hard. I hardly opened my eyes to see two structure of man in front of me. I focused in the image and one of them was Mr Gold while the other one was someone that I was seeing for the first time.
The unfamiliar man came in front of me shoved a thermometer in my mouth. ” Keep it for a while” he said. Then he hold my wrist and checked my heart beat, he even put his hands in my forehead and checked my temperature. He opened my eyes and checked the very corner in it.
Beep. Beep. Beep..
The thermometer in my mouth started to beeping. The man slowly took it out. He looked at it.
“Why did she caught a cold? It’s not rainy season and she don’t seem to be a kid”the doctor said.
“I swimmed in the night and then I went for a night walk around the city bare footed.” I tried to joke.
I looked at Mr Gold. He didn’t seem to like the joke, he didn’t have a very pleasant expression on his face.
“Gave her these medications and she’ll be OK in a few weeks. And yeah don’t let her have something cold for a while, or too sweet things. Fed her something before the food.” The doctor said as he looked towards Mr Gold.
Mr Gold nodded to him. “Thank you for coming at this late hour. ” Mr Gold said politely. ” Let me see you off” he took the briefcase of the doctor and walked him to the door.
I looked as if the doctor went out tailing Mr Gold.
He didn’t returned for a while. He seemed to be busy with something. I wanted to nothing other than sleeping. So I begin to yarn and feel sleepy.
I was about to fall asleep when, Mr Gold came in with a tray of food in his hand. I don’t wanted to eat anything, I was just wishing for a good sleep.
He keep the food beside me and woke me up.
“I don’t want to eat… Let me sleep.” I pleaded still half asleep.
“Come on, be a good girl.” He didn’t listened to me at all and keeo me up with some pillows behind me.
I sat on the bed as he started to put some soup on my mouth. I really wasn’t hungry, I tried to dodge it and shook my head. He glared me with angey eyes and hold me by my chin and then he put some soup with another hand. The food wasn’t tasty at all.
“Don’t make that face, get well soon if you want to eat tasty foods ” he said.
“Achyoo” I sneezed again. He didn’t make a disgusted face, instead he took out a tissue from the drawer and cleaned my hand and mouth.
He fed me soup one by another spoon untill the bowl was empty. After the soup was finished, he gave me medicine and warm water. I gulped down the medicine with the help of the water and then slipped down the bed in the warmth of the blanket. He didn’t leave me, he sat beside me as he keep patting me on my head untill I fall asleep.
When i woke up again, it was already afternoon. I sat on the bed and I was much lighter than yesterday. I touched my forehead and was completely surprised. My fever has completely vanished. I was all fine if nothing had happened the night before. . .
I got of the bed and there was no one there. I got fresh first. But even though I came out of washroom, Mr Gold wasn’t there. I looked at my new phone, Mr Gold gave me yesterday. It was already one pm. I panicked once but then It was thankfully Saturday.
I smiled at my stupidity and went out. Then I saw a figure sleeping soundly in the sofa. He looked so cute. I didn’t woke him up because he seemed so cute like that.
I went to the kitchen and to my surprise the food was already ready. There was so much food in the kitchen but they all were plain food. It was all for sick ones. I wasn’t sick anymore.
I took out another pan. I wanted to make some delicious meat. I looked at the fridge and there were package meat. I took it out of the fridge and put it on a pot.
I wanted to wash it with hot water as it was so much cold. But as I pick up the jug of hot water, it slipped my hand and water spilled all over the floor.
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