Chapter 18 Chapter Eighteen

• It's been days now. I have not been going to school. Alexia was sick, and she needed all my devoted attention. I had taken my time to sit right at her bedside, wondering when she was going to open her eyes.
• "You need to let go, Eli. She is going to be fine, and don't tell me you don't want to go to school tomorrow." Celeste said, looking at me.
• "I need to be here when she wakes up. My face has to be the first thing she sees." I replied, yawning.