Toppled Over!

Chapter 12

Chapter 12

22nd September.

Carl

The morning was dark and gloomy. As soon as I woke up I felt something like a punch on my stomach, I look to see no one standing. I felt my stomach feel like a knife is being pierced into it. I got up and went straight to the toilet. As soon as I latched the door, I felt a blob in my throat and I neared my face to sink and I threw out some pale white liquid, I think I had stomach poisoning or something. I coughed repeatedly and in the end puked out blood. This time more in quantity. I looked at the blood stained basin and thought to myself, what was wrong with me. Was it something I ate.
"Carl!??! Carl!? What you doing in there? Are you ok?" I heard Jamie scream banging the door with his fist. I opened the tap and allowed all the blood to flow out. I waited for it to look clean and then opened the door.

"Are you ok? What have you been doing?"

"Hey, good morning, don't worry, I was just having a bad stomach."

"You puked, I came to your room to take you along for a drive. I heard you coughing continuously and I got worried. How are u feeling now?

"Yeah, I feel much better, I puked some white stuff. Probably last night's food didn't digest well." I said.

"Don't lie Carl, I can see the blood"

"Where?" I asked as I looked at the sink.

"Look at you, can you stop pretending. Tell me what's wrong! There's blood on your lips and a little on your cheek. You look like a mess!" he said and reached for a tissue and started gently wiping my face. I felt good, loved once again.

"Don't worry, it's the second time its happening, I'm fine." I said, trying to sound assuring.

"No, lets go to the doctor immediately, he'll prescribe you something and you'll feel much better."

"Okay" I said and brushed my teeth. I cleaned up and went down to see Jamie cooking, again. He was looking at a YouTube recipe of boiled eggs, bread and salad. He brought the food and laid it before me like a professional and said, "Enjoy your meal sir!" and walked off smiling. I loved these small acts he did, which made my day.

We went to the resort and went straight to Calarie who called for the doctor. He gave me something that felt like adulterated glucose, a translucent liquid. It was a white powder dissolved in water, I drank it. Jamie and I, then decided to go back home because he didn't want me to get drained out.

At the toppled towers, I wanted to meet Romie but I fell asleep much before. I slept for long, very long. Its sure to be the side effect of the medicine I had. I was only up at around 7 in the evening, I go to the hall to see all the lights off, this gave chills down my spine and I immediately turned on the lights, I called out for Jamie but he was no where to be seen.

I gave him a call but his phone was switched off, I started getting worried, I went out to see that the car wasn't there too. He probably went to the resort or somewhere else. I didn't even have Calarie's number to call and find out. I decided to walk to the resort and find out. I picked up a jacket and opened the gate, that's when I see Jamie approaching, I stood there with my hands folded to see where this guy was coming from. It was not from the resort but the other way. He honked and I got out of the way and he parked the car. I stood in front of the car, still with my hands folded.

"What's that look for?" he asked, getting down.

"You don't know?"

"I didn't think you'd want me to wake you up before I left.." he said.

"At least keep your phone alive then!"

"Oh sorry, it ran out of charge half way."

"Where had you gone though?" I asked as he brought a bag along with him as we opened the house door.

"Didn't you have lunch or anything? I left a note in the kitchen saying that I'm going to get some snacks and groceries."

"There are eggs and bread in the fridge, what other groceries did you have to bring?"

"Look Carl, you're clearly getting malnourished, so I thought we have some nice protein today! You know how to cook right?" he said raising his eyebrow.

"Nope, I'm sorry, lets have it raw. Lets hope it doesn't start flying around half way." I said making a face.

"Very funny!" he said, making a weirder face and we both burst out laughing.

The food was delicious that night, we had salad, chicken roast, some rice and desert too. He'd brought some custard packs which we had. This food tasted amazing and we were very full by the end of it. He told me that he'll wash the dishes and I take some rest. As I was climbing the stairs, I realized that I hadn't heard from Romie today, she would have come to see me sleeping like a sloth. I wished she'd come now but I never saw her here after the sun went down.

I started reading some story on my phone and spent the next 20 mins doing that. Jamie suddenly entered the room with his laptop in hand. Jamie's mom was on call(video call) so we all spoke for a while, aunt told me to take care and make sure that Jamie didn't do anything crazy. After the call, Jamie asked if I was feeling fine and then went to his room to sleep. I too was still slightly drowsy of the medicine, and dozed off.