River dashed through the hospital corridors on her way to a patient's room. She had received an early morning call informing her that Praxeda had collapsed suddenly. Her heart pounded, each second repeating the same prayer she'd been saying since she got the news.
Please God. Don't let anything bad happen to my girl.
She arrived at the room and opened the door with force. Sigh. A very cool breeze blew on her face, drying all the sweat. She could actually feel her whole body loosening after seeing that Praxeda was awake, in bed, gulping down her favorite juice box flavor, grape. When she saw River, Praxeda spread her arms, something she did when she needed a hug. And River wasted no second. She rushed in bed and embraced her little girl.
"I was so worried.", said River, breathily, "How're you feeling?",
"I'm okay.", Praxeda assured her.
Well, she still needed to hear from the doctor who was now standing further from the bed, admiring the lovely scene in front of him.
"What's wrong, doctor?", River asked.
"Praxeda collapsed due to dehydration.", said the doctor.
River nodded, "Lately she's been very slow when it comes to eating or drinking, especially water. We've given her some Vitamin B but I guess it didn't work.",
"She's better now but we still need to observe her for the next 24 hours. Her blood was also very low when she got here, but now it's back to a good amount. I guess there's something wrong on our end.",
"I appreciate your hard work, doctor. We're counting on you.", River looked at Praxeda, "And you, young lady, need to drink water. This is going to be your last juice box for the day.",
Praxeda frowned. Ah. River's weakness, her tiny, cute, frowny face, "Okay. Alright. You'll get one after lunch, deal?",
Now Praxeda giggled, "Deal.",
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Cora was the last one to join the ongoing video call with the girls. Already 10 minutes had passed. She had no idea what they talked about before that.
"What did I miss?", she asked,
"It's Helzeny's birthday today", Zydal announced, "She wants to be alone today but asked us to do something together tomorrow. We're collecting ideas.".
"What about dinner?",
"Some of us are dieting.", said Freya, obviously holding a bowl of dressing free salad.
"Okay. But we need to do something fun together. Think, people.", Zydal added fuel to the conversation.
It became quiet for a minute as everybody thought of what to do. That was until Ylle got an idea.
"Guys, just for fun, how about we all get a psychic reading?", she said.
"Oh come on.", Lessin spoke, "Do you believe in those stuffs?",
"I said for fun, you get it? There's a psychic in town everybody is talking about. We can all go get one or two predictions from her. Whether she's legit or not, doesn't matter. What matters is that we'll be together.",
"I'm in.", Cora raised her hand.
"Me too. There's no harm.", Freya added.
Others also seemed to be on board. And Lessin, seeing she'll have nothing to lose, gave it a yes.
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