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Chapter 9: Feverish

It was stuffy and very uncomfortable, yet so cold. I pulled at my clothes as if bringing it tighter my body would provide me with more warmth. Despite my pleas for a hot water bottle to keep my warm, my parents and my older brothers told me, "No, you're already burning."

I didn't believe them but grumbled and accepted it.

I felt like I was just thrown into an ice bath and was left for cold. I was shivering like a newborn animal, my teeth chattering.

Underneath my layer of clothes of my pajamas, I also wore a thick, soft jacket that had colourful, cartoony patterns with diamond patterns sewn all over.

Despite my internal diagnosis, I knew I was already blazing hot. Underneath my clothes, it felt sticky and wet. My skin was clammy and I reached a shaky hand to wipe sweat off my skin.

Breathing was difficult and I felt like I was in a fever dream.

Which was too far from the truth since I did have a fever.

It had been two days since I woke up. My older brothers that were attending the same high school as me, were the first to be notified. They in turn called our eldest brothers before they called our parents.

I kept going in and out of consciousness, bits of memories here and there. I was filled in the between when I woke up in the hospital.

Officially, the diagnosis was heat stroke and lack of sleep. Stress was also another fact but it was rare (or so I think) of falling unconscious because of it.

According to what I've heard, after the others found me carrying Amanda, I fell over unconscious. I was screaming and crying in pain, with me holding my head. They believed at first it was simply a migraine until I stopped moving.

Then they called 911 again for another ambulance.

Amanda's coach, helped take off some of the layers of my clothes as she was the only female among the group. Amanda herself was knocked unconscious but she still responded to the tests they performed at the time.

Hunter had moved me to the shade and Alex used my hoodie to make a make-shift pillow. When they had heard the ambulance, Jayden ran to retrieve them.

When the ambulance got us, Alex called my brothers to tell them about my state. From there, it was all procedure.

They got me and Amanda to the hospital. Hunter called his family's chauffer to drive him and the boys to the hospital, taking my brothers as well.

Amanda was considered fine who seemed to also pass off from heat-stroke but recovered quickly.

According to Jayden and my brothers, the Shelton family arrived with Sophia in tow (much to Amanda's displeasure). There were people filling up and Amanda's mother and Sophia went up to my brothers and the guys for an explanation.

I thought Ms. Shelton was going to be angry but Jayden reassured me that it was nothing like that. There wasn't anything they could explain and they waited for either me or Amanda to explain what really happened.

But the thing was Amanda didn't remember. She only remembered leaving for a break from Track and Field and that was it.

So they waited for me.

But I didn't wake up as soon as they hoped.

My twin older brothers, Ethan and Nathan, stood in as my family till our eldest brothers Xavier and Adrien, came from their university. Or at until my parents came back. They waited for me to wake up but I didn't wake up until Saturday morning.