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Lily surely has a fever and it seems severe because her body temperature reaches above 40℃.

Abby shakes Lily’s shoulders, trying to wake her up, “Lily, Lily?”

Vaguely aware that someone is shaking her, Lily regains consciousness and opens her eyes faintly. Somehow, she finds the sunlight entering from windows is so blinding that makes her uncomfortable.

But it’s the fever that makes her feel ill, not the light.

Although Lily’s awake now, she feels strongly dizzy and faint. Abby puts a fever cooling pad on her forehead, gets her take some medicine and finally calls an ambulance.

The waiting period is so painful and it makes Abby extremely agitated though the ambulance only takes minutes to come.

Lily’s body temperature is so high that the medicine she took is not working at all.

Fever is not some severe illness while it could lead to many complications with such a high temperature, like pneumonia, pulmonary edema, and meningitis. It’s hard to say.

There’s nothing Abby could do to help while waiting for the medical team besides changing cooling pads and being anxious.

Fortunately, the ambulance soon arrives. Nurses come upstairs with a wheelchair and they pull Lily up from the ground and place her on it, then goes straight into the lift and transfer her to the ambulance.

Everything happens so fast that Abby doesn’t have time to get changed. Then she puts a random coat on hastily and accompanies Lily to the hospital.

On the way to the nearest hospital, the First Hospital Affiliated of J University, a nurse puts her on a drip attempting to reduce her unusually high temperature.

Once arriving the hospital, the medical stuff run a series of tests on her. Abby is literally dazed when she saw Lily’s thermometer which shows her body temperature has risen to —

42℃.

In Abby’s limited medical knowledge system, a fever with a body temperature above 39℃ is rather severe; if exceeding 40℃, it will probably cause a confused state of mind and hallucination. 42℃ is something she never sees before.

she keeps saying to Abby, “Why didn’t you call ambulance earlier? No one could help her if her temperature goes up to

in her head, she answers, “It’s not this serious last

here. You can’t be too careful. Fever is big deal that comes with tricky complications,” the female

a clear sign of her severe illness; Abby feels so

calls, but when he calls a third time, she walks out of the

voice from the phone. He tries to figure out

“Lily’s friend, Abby.”

“Where is she?”

call, acting naturally, “She left her phone in my apartment yesterday. She’ll pick

quiet

her stomach. Abby’s afraid he wouldn’t buy

whether he believes her or not. “Please tell Lily I

sigh of relief, “Sure, no problem.

nurse in white uniform walks over, “You can go and

hurries to the self-service machines to get the results. There are a lot of medical jargons and

fever that your friend has developed. She has mild alcohol intoxication and there’s a fair number of anticholinergic agents and a few atropines, which are ingredients

Abby a fright. She recalls that Lily was being so weak that she could barely speak and move last night. It turns out that it’s someone

fine? What treatment does she need? Is her condition dangerous?”

is too ill when she came. We’ll see after the fever is gone.” The doctor objectively evaluates Lily’s condition. From the diagnose, the doctor has an inkling of what has happened to the two girls, and she consoles Abby,

back to Lily’s ward, with loads of uncomfortable thoughts crowding in on her. She feels utterly angry at the thought of Lily being

the phone

from Ryan, instead, it’s from another person, someone she’s

Rex.

silent about Lily’s condition. After all, the decision to tell him or

soon as she answers the phone,