Losing Game

Chapter 22 - A Casual Tuesday

Zee was the lucky one who didn't get sick from the rain on Thursday. He felt genuinely fine but he couldn't say the same thing for Saint. He surprised him on Friday by coming over to the architecture building to spend some time together. As they both chatted with Tommy, Saint started to feel under the weather and didn't look so good either but pushed through it. After an hour or so, it was Saint who decided to leave early and expressed that he only felt a headache coming on and nothing else. Zee offered to walk him to the front of the university and wait until Mew arrived to pick him up but Saint declined and said he drove himself today. He was then going to offer to walk him to his car but Saint beat him to it by saying he needed to stop by the international school first and grab something from Opp then head to his apartment before going to the office.

Since he had the day off from work, Zee focused on trying to finish up his second draft of the building project. He didn't have much left to do on it but he wanted it to be perfect. As time passed, he became more and more concentrated on it that he missed the two phone calls from Saint and one from Mew an hour later. Once he was satisfied with everything in front of him, he finally looked at his phone and quickly texted Saint asking what's wrong since he didn't leave any type of voicemail. There was one from Mew though and he pressed the notification for it to listen.

"Hey nong, its Mew. I'm not sure if Saint tried to get a hold of you earlier but I just dropped him off at his apartment. I think he's running a fever so I'm going to go get him some medicine. If he calls you at any point and is delusional - you'll know why now."

After hearing his messages, Zee pulled up Saint's contact information and started a FaceTime. It took a couple of seconds before a half alive Saint answered the phone.

"I'm sorry for not picking up earlier but Mew left a voicemail for me saying that you might be getting sick" he said all to fast that it caused Saint to go wide eyed and process what was just spoken.

"I can only take in so much but yes, I'm not feeling the best. I think being out in the cold rain that night finally took its toll on me. I should be fine in like a day or two. Maybe...possibly" Saint replied very slowly and fixed his position in bed.

"I got you sick...didn't I?"

"The rain got me sick"

"But I let the rain get you sick. It's only right that I try to help take care of you"

"You can't. You have work this weekend and it wouldn't be the greatest idea to take care of a sick person and then go to work within a building full of people"

"But-"

"No buts" the calling of Saints name by Mew entering the apartment distracted both of them "You can call or message me whenever you get free time and hopefully I'm awake or near my phone to pick up. I have to go since Dr.Mew has arrived with medicine. I'm not sure if I trust anything he brought since he tends to buy out the whole store for one thing."

"I'll try to call when I get on my breaks or when I come home! Feel better okay?"

"Okay. Bye" Saint waved at the phone to a sulking Zee. 'You're cute' was the last comment made by him before hanging up the phone.

The sulking Zee turned into a blushing Zee when a photo of Saint wearing his red sweatshirt popped into his messages with the caption "had it washed in the morning and now I am ready to get over this sickness. Let's go red!!!"

"It's nice to see you finally alive after what five days?" Billy commented as he sat down in the chair next to Orn. She looked at him confused thinking he was talking to her but he pointed at Saint who was to her right.