Thirty-One: Surprise!

KAYLA.

“So how are you feeling now?” Christina fell to her knees, checking my pulse with her two fingers pressing into the side of my neck. I sat up on the clinic bed, heaving a deep breath and both our eyes met. There was still a little sleep in mine but that was the only reason I felt a lot better.

“You were right. Maybe taking a nap was all I needed” I yawned and she chuckled softly. “I told you” With a stethoscope around her neck, Christina stood to walk to the table. She took a piece of paper in her hands and wrote something down.

“What is that?” I asked, arching my brows.

“What are you writing down?”

My step sister threw a look over her shoulders back to me before taking her seat. “Your temperature has gone down but we’re yet to see the results from the blood test. I’m going to diagnose off the top of my head and say you just needed some rest—“

“That or you ate something that didn’t really sit well with your stomach. That would explain the nausea” She added and I let out a scoff