"She's burning up?" Andrew asked and corner my face with his big palms. "You look reddish. Is my baby alright?" my throat feels dry and rough. So I cannot talk normally. I cleared my throat but damn, it is really dry and rough.
"Are you feeling cold?" Nicholas asked and I just nod. He tried to heal me but it just doesn't work so my brother carried me while Nick took our bags. I hugged Andrew's neck and lean my forehead on his cheek.
"She's burning…" Andrew murmurs. My eyes are heavy and drowsy so I just closed it. After a few moments, I feel a warm fluffy and bouncy bed of the hospital of our school.
"What's with her?" someone asked. I tried to open my eyes but I failed.
"She's burning up. We need to know her temperature." Andrew's voice is very deep. My consciousness is getting weaker and I guess that anytime soon I will pass out. I felt something cold pressed on my ear.
"96 degrees Celsius! This is not normal." The unfamiliar voice exclaims.
"Coldwater!" I open my eyes to see Nicholas demanding people. "I will bring her to her room while you move quickly and gather ice and turn on the water in the bathtub." Andrew immediately nods. My eyes are drowsy but I wanted to see the people around me. I felt that I was carried out by Nick. "Hold on, okay? Talk to me and tell me what you feel."
"I…" my voice feels rough. "I need water. I felt a jolt of fire from my left-back. It is really painful…" I murmur. "My eyes are burning too." I feel like I was bouncing.
"Yes, what else?"
"Nick…" I called his nick-name and breathes. "I wanted to cry." I felt like we stop. I open my eyes and he's looking down at me. He pulls me up before I even slipped off. I hugged his neck to hold on him though I know that he felt he got burns because of me.
"Cry. Don't hold it." I felt his kiss on my forehead and he ran again. Fast. After a few moments, I suddenly wake up because of a whimper. I felt a furry thing rubbed on my nose. "Catastrophe." I look up at him though I feel so heavy. He pulled me up and gave me cold water. I drank it all and I felt relieved for a short time. Marissa was there with Patrick. I look around me and Andrew was there too busy on something.
Marissa removed my shoes and my sweater. Then, Nicholas put me down on the freezing water that makes me gasps. There is smoke coming out from my skin like I was a candle who was put in the water and dies. I felt a thing that I lean on. It feels like a diving board or something. I breathe and breathe trying to take all the pain. My back is burning and it is not even helping.
"Why is it still burning?!" I scream and hold on the tub tight. I don't know what else happened but even the water can't help me. I felt his handheld mine and gently kissed it. "Take away the pain…" I beg him and a hot tear falls from my eyes. He gently caressed my face though I know that it burns him. "Please…" he tried to heal me but nothing happened.
I felt a jolt of electricity. I felt my eyes dilated and my body feels paralyze. Things keep playing on my mind. Palace, people, dresses… fire, water, air…trees… I hear the birds and growling of werewolves. I heard someone's voice inside my head.
"The time has come…" that very deep, intriguing, shivering, warm voice whispers in my ear. I scream when I saw a dragon breathing fire and blow fire on me. I scream in the pain of the burning hell. All I know is that I collapsed on the cold water. But I tried to gently open my eyes. I saw a red-orange light from me but I can still see Nick's expression. He was baffled.
"Why is her hair glowing in red-orange?" I heard Andrew's voice. I am relieved that they never leave me. Nicholas gently pulls me into a tight hug and kissed my head.
"You worried me too much." I looked at Patrick who is all baffled and I guess he had seen what I had seen. Nick gently holds my cheek and kissed my lips. But I am tired and I feel unconscious and I don't even care about his actions. I just wanted to sleep and I did.
But, sleeping…? I just wished that I didn't sleep. Those disgusting monsters show up and tried to eat me alive. I don't know if I was the one that they wanted, but the voice is not mine. There are lots of voices behind the back of my head.
Although, nightmares creep me out. I am very relieved that someone is there embracing me when I feel so cold. I found a big muscular arm around me, hugging me from behind. He got burns on his arms and his palm. I gently caress his burns that are getting purplish. I am also not in my room in our dormitory. This room wasn't Adhiti's room in their house. The room was simple but luxurious. There are lots of flowers around it. I also smell some jasmine, honey, and vanilla.
I guess that I overslept. And, he had been embracing me since then. I am also coated in a long sleeve sweater and a warm duvet. I feel cold and I don't feel really good. I wonder if he takes all the burns and pains just to embrace me and comfort me. Did he do it for Adhiti or to me?
"How are you feeling?" he gently speaks on my left ear.
"I don't know…" I murmur. He gently slipped off his arms around me and I waited on his next step. I gently lay my back flat on the bed and looked at him. He poured water on the glass and he put a straw. He gently helped me to get up and lean on the headboard. He's very careful and caring. He sat beside me and gently move the glass towards me and pointed the straw on my lips. I watch him care for me while I sipped on the water.
"I reject putting dextrose on you." He told me as fresh chills go down on my throat to my chests and give chills on my lungs to wake up my sleeping nerves. "I brought you to my cabin than in the hospital." I swallowed and gently licks my lips.
"How many days I have been here?"
"This is your second night here. Patrick just accepts the medication that the doctor prescribes for you."
"I won't ever drink any med," I told him.
"I won't let you drank any medication. The reason why you suddenly had a high temperature is that your body is slowly adapting to the natures of your gifts." He explained briefly. I never felt this way before but I had been always sick when I was with George while I had learned my gifts. He poured another water on the glass and he let me drank as I want. My throat is dry and rough. My mouth also dries almost instant. "I will prepare for your porridge."
"I'm not hungry," I told him. My voice low and slow.
"You have to eat." He sounded more like a father. Is he taking all the career for being my guardian? "Marcus will be here to visit you. I told him about your condition."
"Why did you call him?" I gently breathe and leans my head.
"I have to leave to get back to my Kingdom. I got a business there."
"You are going to leave me in this strange place, alone?"
"You are not alone. You are with Ruin and Marcus." A white thing jumped on the bed and licked my face. He is growing bigger. I gently lift my heavy hand and patted him. He left and I got a chance to admire the wide room full of living things. It is more like I am in the Garden of Eden.
He came back with a bowl, orange juice, and few saucers of side dishes on a table tray. He put it in front of me where I was like in a hospital. I tried to lift my hand but it feels heavy so he took my arms and hand and massage it.
"Where is this place?"
"A place that is very far from people."
"How can Marcus get here?"
"I told Patrick and Andrew to pick him up." After he messaged me, I lifted my arms and hand and it feels lighter. I stop for a moment and stare at his neck. He got a burn on his neck.
"Why did you still embrace me even though you got burnt?"
"Because I am your guardian. I am responsible for you."
Why is he taking all the responsibility? Though half of me didn't want to because he betrayed Adhiti. I still have this hate on him. But damn, half of myself didn't want to be away from him.
What takes my breath away? It is whenever he stole a kiss from me. And he did it again gently cupping my lips mouthing to my mouth that he loves me.