30 Rainy Days

Thirteenth

Thirteenth

"Joong? Are you alright in there? What's happening?" I knocked at the bathroom's door worriedly.

Early in the morning and Joong's loud coughs woke me up. He's nowhere to be found inside our room and when I went out, the coughs are coming from the bathroom.

And I can't enter to check on him because he locked the door!!! Where's the freakin' key?!

He continued to cough, followed by the weird sound of vomitting and the longer he stayed inside, the more I'm feeling worried.

Is he sick?! Fever? But his temperature seems normal last night!!

"Why would you lock the door? I'm worried" I silently complained while patiently standing in front of the door.

He knows I'll be awake any minute that's why he locked the door so I won't be involved in whatever is happening to him. I can't recall where did I put the bathroom keys. I have no choice but to wait for him to feel better and walk out of the bathroom and when he did, I immediately attended him.

"What happened?" I asked.

He looks so weak and I already expected that. His lips are again pale and his eyes are a bit teary. I reached for his neck to feel his temperature and it's really in a normal state.

Why is he vomitting like there's no tommorow then?!

"Nothing serious. Maybe I still haven't recover from yesterday's trip so I feel a bit dizzy" he smiled faintly before going back inside my room, leaving me staring at him with doubt.

I just shook my head before I entered the bathroom to brush my own teeth. I made it very very quick, I feel like my teeth will broke anytime on how fast I brushed it just so I can quickly tail him inside my room.

Joong is sitting at my bed when I entered the room, probably waiting for me to follow.

"Do you feel any better now?" I worriedly ask as I remain standing in front of him.

"Chai, yesterday's trip is just so tiring especially that we arrived late. That's normal" he answered but I can still sense how weak his voice is. Yeah, how can he be that fine so fast? He almost threw his intestines away!

Mygad Joong, why can't you just tell me how you really feel? You're always making me feel worried about you!

"Do you want some hot soup or coffee? Or anything? I can make one so your stomach will warm" I continued asking him and he just gave me a chuckle while shaking his head.

"Sit here first and calm down" he tapped the space beside him which I quickly occupied. But my worries doubled when I saw something..

His left arm is super red and when I look closely, it's... skin rashes?

"Where did you get this? In my bed?" I worriedly ask as I hold his arm gently. But I made sure my bed is sanitized and bedbug-free!! How come he got skin rashes?

"Nope. I got that when we hiked the mountain a few days ago. I happened to lean in a tree with some itchy worms and there, I got that" he explained.

I really don't know if I would believe him. I mean, is the itchy worm he leaned on that big to infect his whole upper arm?! That's so impossible Joong Archen! Are you lying to me now?