"What? Hertha dumped you?" Ethan exclaimed, feeling Alaric's forehead again.

"Whoa, you're burning up. That's one nasty fever." Alaric swatted Ethan's hand away with force, visibly annoyed.

"I'm lying here dying, and you're still in the mood to make fun of me?"

"I'm not making fun of you, man. I'm worried about you," Ethan said, struggling to keep a straight face.

Alaric gave him a sidelong glance. "Since when are you so kind-hearted?"

"You're doing me dirty, man," Ethan protested. Then, leaning closer to Alaric, he whispered, "Bet you never saw this coming. You, the heartbreaker, getting your heart shattered. Well, what goes around comes around, huh?"

Ethan couldn't help but laugh, his chest heaving with each chuckle. Only a true friend could joke about something like this.

"You wouldn't understand love if it hit you in the face," Alaric muttered, turning his head away.

I do know that if you keep this up, you're gonna end up dead. Not from

can't help me," Alaric

Hertha. She lives next door

her," he said, his voice tinged with a sadness that wasn't there before. "She made it clear yesterday that she

joke but stopped short at the sight

really shouldn't go?" Ethan

his head.

memory of their last meeting, Hertha's irritated and disdainful voice echoing in his

dirty and unwelcome: Alaric knew that his

first time, Alaric felt truly

Ethan decided to drop the subject. "Alright then, get up. Let's

like a sulking child, "I don't wanna. I don't want to get out of

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