COVID Can't Break Us Apart

Chapter Twelve: Oh No...

Luke

Me and Courtney walk out of the bathroom. She still looks a bit unsteady, but I am sure that it is nothing.

We walk into my room. It has a bunk bed and has a desk in one corner and a small T.V. in the other. Courtney sits on the bottom bunk. I turn on the T.V. and we watch it for a couple hours.

Then it is dinner time. We go downstairs and eat, tonight is Courtney's favorite, Pizza night.

She barely touches it. She coughs, she coughs again and then she asks if she can be excused. Then she gets up and leaves.

Why is she acting so weird?

When dinner is done I go upstairs and find her wrapped in a blanket sitting on the bottom bunk playing video games on her phone. She looks sick. She coughs.

    "Luke, go," she says in a scratchy voice.

    "Why?" I ask.

    "I'm sick, that's why," she responds.

    "I don't care," I reply.

    "You should be scared, I think I might have Covid."

That comment hit me like a truck. I have no idea how she could have gotten Coronavirus, she was so healthy 2 hours ago, but I leave her alone, saving all my worry for my mother.

Then I hear the front door open, and I'm immediately startled to see my sister Kat (Katrin, Kat for short) in the front doorway. She hasn't been home for 2 years because of the fact that she was 25. We adopted her when I was 2 and she was 15.

I ask, startled, "Kat? Is that really you?"

She replies, "Yes idiot. Mom said for me to come."

I say, "Oh, okay."

I lead her to my room but then remember that Courtney is sleeping, and sick.

I say, "Not here.."

She replies confusedly, "Why not, this was half my room."

I say defensively yet silently, "My best friend's in there."

She says, "Best friend, eh?" and gives me a whisper, "I don't believe it." 

Kat is annoying when she says that to us! But I ignore it and just lead her to the guest room.

She says, "So you know exactly what I'm here for?"

I say, "Nope."

She says, "Good, it isn't something you should know yet. Or something you'd want to know."

I hated when surprises were given out like that and she knew it. But Kat never cared. Courtney hadn't heard us apparently because she didn't come out of the room greeting Katrin.

She loves Kat. No, literally, I'm pretty sure she's obsessed with her. Okay, that may be an exaggeration, but Kat loved her and she loved Kat too.

Adora is calling me.

I text her a quick, "Katrin is here."

She's also met Kat/Katrin, but the two of them kind of have a rocky relationship.

She types back an "Oh, okay."

Alva

The group had all forgiven me. Now it was my job to get the others to know. Suddenly I get a text from Court. It reads,

I am really sick and i think i caught covid, don't tell Luke he will freak. 😢

Oh no!  It's only been a day since we made up and Courtney is already sick. I wanted to text Luke but decide against it and instead ask,