Leo followed the man in the white coat until they entered an office written Doctor, on the door.
“Doctor, what’s wrong? Is Rachel alright?” Leo said soon after sitting
“Your relationship with the girl?” the doctor said
“I just me─” he gasped, “She is my friend”
“She mentioned your name several times in her sleep”
“Meaning..?”
“Two possibilities,” the doctor cleared his throat, “When people are unconscious they call the people they fear the most or the people they love the most.”
Everyone is suspecting me, Leo scowled
“She ate something she shouldn’t”
“Like..?”
“I should be asking you”
“I didn’t do anything destructive to her”
“Didn’t say you did”
“Why do you keep interrogating me like a perpetrator?” “A life is in peril”
Leo panted, his hands clenched
“She suffered anaphylaxis”
“What’s that?”
“Life-threatening allergic reaction”
“Will she endure?”
“She has”
A smirk blushed on Leo’s face, “Really?” “Epinephrine did the magic”
“Thank you, doctor..!”
The doctor held up his hand, “what did she eat?” “Not much, coffee and peanuts”
The doctor wrote in his notebook, “She’s peanut-allergic!”
“Didn’t know that”
“Now you do”
“Can I see her?”
“Probably the nurses are discharging her by now,” the doctor said, peeking at his watch. When a doctor raised his head, Leo was already at the door.
He hurried to the patient room where he found the class representative assisting Rachel to walk out.
“Let me help you,” he said
“Can handle it by myself!” the CR replied
“Where were you, Leo?” Rachel said, a smile on her face
“Lot of stuff happened while you were on the bed”
Leo followed the two till they entered in Rachel’s room. CR laid Rachel on the bed and helped to keep her room in order. Leo never stopped ogling at CR’s face. She had a telegenic look and a statuesque figure. His mind forgot everything he had stumbled upon a moment ago.
“Thank you, CR. You can go, I’ll be safe with him” Rachel said
“Want me to leave you with this jerk?” CR snapped
“He is my friend!” Rachel said and Leo nodded
“Your─”
“I’ll escort her out, Rachel,” Leo said, pulling CR’s wrist and walked out of the room.
“Better don’t do anything dim-witted to her” CR snapped when they were out
“Who do you think I am?”
“A jerk who kisses girls without their consent”
Leo smiled, “Was just trying to thwart dirty words coming off from those pretty lips”
“Don’t smile, I haven’t forgiven you and I don’t trust you”
“Didn’t ask for any”
“You will lament your decision”
The girl left and Leo returned to the room. He sat, hands on his cheeks. Because of Rachel, he had been through a lot on that day. He didn’t censure, he knew that was human nature, it wasn’t his first time. When a problem occurs, people always find someone to throw the blame to.
“Aggravated again?” Rachel said, trying to sit on a bed
“Why did you do that?”
“What?”
“Eating peanuts… Knew it was perilous, didn’t you?”
“It was giving and take”
“It could have kill─”
“Wasn’t your fault, so don’t feel guilty”
Leo panted
“You are my friend, aren’t you?”
“Going to take some fruits…” Leo stood, “so get some rest”
“Don’t take so long, don’t want to remain like a lonely puppy” she snapped and both laughed
Leo hit the road back to the school canteen, where he bought some fruits and packed them. On his way back to Rachel’s room, he met about five men standing on his way.
“Look at our scholarship student” one man from the group who looked like the American martial artist Billy Blanks, shouted causing others to giggle
Leo pretended not to hear. He had just survived from one trouble and another trouble was inviting him. He forced his way but he found his neck tightly stuck on one’s man hand.
“After messing with my girlfriend, thought you would walk out alive?” Billy blanks doppelganger who seemed to be the leader said in a cracking voice
“What are you talking about?” Leo murmured, struggling to remove his neck from the man’s hand
“Forgot what you did to Isla?”
“Isla? Never heard such a name before”
“Jerk..!”
Leo grunted, “Don’t know her”
“You don’t know her?” Billy Blanks chuckled, “then we will help you remember her”
