Today was a holiday celebrating the founding of the school, it was also a Saturday. Even though she made plans to go hang out with her friends a week ago, she ended up staying inside today.

“My head hurts.”

She was sick to the point of sweating like a waterfall yesterday. Today was a lot better thankfully, probably because of the medicine and the sleep from yesterday. She wished she could jump out of bed for some fresh air. Alas, her body didn’t want to take a single step out of the bed.

“How’s your temperature?”

Her mom stepped inside and put a hand over her forehead, she said she was fine to put her mom at ease.

“You should stay as warm as possible. Do you have anything in particular that you want to eat?”

“No, I don’t. You should rest, mom. This isn’t anything serious.”

“You should’ve taken care of yourself, to begin with. You took your medicine?”

“I did.”

After her dad passed away, she did her best to never show pain in front of mom. Because once she did,...