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“We can’t be so sure,” he says.
“We have to remain optimistic. Levi?” I pull his head up and make him look at me. “We can overcome this, we are strong, we will see the other side.” I assure him, even though I have no idea whether or not it’s the truth.
Moments later, I hear footsteps behind me. Janelle doesn’t come near, but the doctor approaches us wearing protective gear and handing us both a mask.
“We will walk along the walls, in order to keep crowd reactions low and to get Levi to isolation.” The doctor says pulling Levi up.
“I’m going with him,” I say.
“Ma’am, you likely haven’t contracted anything in the mere minutes that you have been here, there’s no need.”
“I have it too.” I say simply.
The doctor says nothing and nods.
I look back at Janelle who looks terrified and mouth a thank you as we walk along the perimeter to the side door that attaches automatically to the isolation and quarantine areas. The space is cold, and I see a few empty beds which is promising, but also a few people that I’ve recognized from the first day. I look around the room and notice there’s another door, it’s a secure door that has red around the frame, which I can only imagine is the other quarantine.
“How many people are in there?” I angle my head to that closed door and ask the Doctor as he directs me to an empty bed beside Levi.
“We have two patients in there,” he replies robotically as he removes the gloves he was wearing previously and puts on new ones. He moves quickly as he switches between taking notes, completing practical tests like checking temperature and his blood pressure.
I look over to Levi and he’s calm, but sweaty. He looks over to me and reaches out his hand, I take it.
“Tell me again,” he asks.
Not knowing exactly what he is talking about, I flip through my memory and say the last thing, that sounded pretty confident and smile before speaking.
I squeeze his hand, “we can overcome this, we are strong, and we will see the other side.”
Levi closes his eyes and nods before opening them up again.
“Doc, I want the both of us on the trial immediately.” The doctor looks at Levi and then myself, nods and moves to the other side of the room. He picks up two syringes from the mobile cabinet and two small clear bottles with liquid before returning to us.
“We don’t know if this will work, but this will hopefully lessen the symptoms.” He says, looking between us and then resting on our joining hands.
“Does Colonel know about this, James?” He asks pointing at our connecting point.
“I don’t care one way or another if he does. I don’t want to hide it anymore.”
He closes his eyes and the doctor looks to me.
“Well, you better get settled in. Go to the restroom, before you won’t be able to anymore. I’ll get Mr. James set up and then it’s your turn. I will need to disclose this information to the Colonel, so just to warn you, he may not be happy.”
I’m pretty sure that the Colonel, Levi’s boss will be pissed off, as Levi has been on the clock ever since stepping foot inside this location. But you can’t blame the instant attraction, especially during a time like this, when you’re closed off from the world and you just want some good old-fashioned romance to take your mind off of the disaster happening all around us.
Granted, it’s romance during a quarantine, but it’s real.
22
Levi
This is the worst.
My body is burning up, I feel like I have ants crawling all over my skin. I feel like someone is sitting on my chest and that I could throw up at any minute. I’m showing worse signs than Kendall is, thankfully. Which may or may not be good.
But looking at her, I’m pissed off that I was so careless with my actions of moving between the isolation area and being around Kendall. I should have created a bigger distance, but I was so preoccupied with being with her that I was absent-minded. Or being that the doc said basically we all have this virus living inside of us, and it was just waiting to emerge.
The Colonel didn’t take to my contracting the virus very happily. When one of his top Sergeant’s goes down, especially the one who wanted to break the silence of what was really happening, I go straight into quarantine, and not just alone.
