Preoccupied

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Mary sat next to Alex and felt his head. "He's burning up."

Andi walked over and lay her hand gently on his chest. "Everything will be alright."

He laid there, in a cold sweat, coughing and shivering. He wandered in and out if consciousness. He was never all there. When he finally came to, he grabbed his sisters shoulder, "I've been worse." He smiled and lay back down. Then he reached into his old tattered leather jacket and pulled out a journal. On the front it said, "Mary Parker".

He handed it to Mary and she grabbed it from his shaky hand. How? It was in my apartment? "There was a bunch of pictures and stuff too, pictures of you and your family, I tried to grab them but I kinda got preoccupied."

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