Chapter 31
"What do you mean by that?" Angela
asked, suddenly awake.
"Think about it. I haven't
heard of any virus that's going around. The guys haven't been sick, I
haven't been sick, and I don't know anyone at school that's been sick. It
just seems a little weird to me," Krista explained.
"Who's to say that we just to
happen to know anybody who has this virus?"
"Yeah I guess you could be right,
but I still just have this feeling...." Krista trailed off.
Angela just shrugged it off for now.
She plodded behind her best friend out the door of the office thinking
about her bed.
***
"My poor Princess is sick. I order you to get lots of rest and to
get better soon!!"
"Yes sir, Dr. Littrell,"
Angela giggled. "I'll do whatever you say."
"Good. Then I will be
coming over to talk to you for a few minutes since you are so willing to do
whatever I say."
"Yay!! I can't wait to see
you!"
"On a serious note, I do need to
talk to you and that's why I'm coming over," Brian said in a more serious
tone.
"Why? Is everything
OK?" Angela asked, very concerned.
"Yeah, everything is fine.
I'll be over in a little bit. OK?"
"OK. Bye."
"Bye."
A little while later....
"Angela," Krista yelled down the hall. "Brian is
here!!"
"Send him in!!"
Brian made his way down the hall into
his girlfriend's room. "I don't know if I should go in there; You
might get me sick!" he joked, peering into her room.
"But I really, really wanna see
you," Angela pouted.
"Alright, I hate to see you sick
and pouting. That's just not right."
Brian walked in and sat on the edge of
the bed. "So how are you feeling?"
"I'm still a bit stuffy and my
stomach hurts right now. But OK. So what did you have to talk to me
about?
Brian took her hand in his and said,
"It's not a bad thing Princess. I'm just gonna be going on tour in a
couple of weeks." He watched her face fall. "But here's
the good part; I'll only be gone for a month on the first leg of the
tour. The I get two months off before I leave again. The bad part
is the second leg is five months long. But it won't be as bad as we
think. "
"Well I can handle the part with
you being away for one month, I don't know what I'll do for the five months
that you'll be gone."
"It's not like you won't ever see
me. It's a US tour. When we come around here, I'll come see you.
I mean, I tried asking to see if you could come on the tour, but because
we haven't been together that long,
management won't let it happen. They're afraid it's just a fling or something.
But I promise that I'll call you all that I can and I'll write. I
promise."
Angela blinked back the tears in her
eyes. " Brian, I'll miss you so much."
"I'll miss you like crazy too,
but we can get through it. We're meant for each other; I can feel
it." He smiled at her and gave her a huge hug. He heard her sigh and
then yawn. Brian saw that as his cue to go and let her rest.
"I'm gonna go now. I want you to rest up cause as soon as
you're better, we're gonna spend every minute together."
Angela smiled at him as she felt her
eyelids grow heavy. Brian blew her a kiss and turned to leave.
A few days later....
"Are you sure you're feeling better Angela?" Brian asked with worry
all over his face.
"Yeah, my stomach just hurts a
little bit."
"I really don't think that this
is healthy. I mean, I haven't see you really eat in the last six
days."
Angela sighed realizing that Brian was
right. They were out to dinner and Angela had run to the bathroom twice
afraid that she was going to throw up. Not only that, but she had eaten
very little as Brian had
pointed out. "I guess I'll make an appointment to see the doctor
again tomorrow."
"I know you really don't want to
see the doctor again Angela, but do it just to be on the safe side."
"I will Brian. I
promise," Angela said.
"I just want you to be OK.
I hate seeing you like this."
"Hey! I hate feeling like
this. I'm just a bit nervous to go back to see what it is because Krista
has this weird feeling about my stomach problems."
"I'm sure that it's
nothing," Brian reassured, giving her a warm smile.
"Yeah, you're probably right.
But for now, let's go to the beach or something and just be with each
other."
Brian smiled again at Angela. He
was really sure that everything was going to be OK with her. And even by
that slight chance that they weren't, he knew that all of this was meant to be
for the two of them.
***
