"Oh man, Lydia might have gotten the wrong idea. This could be a huge misunderstanding," Ethan muttered to himself, feeling the weight of the situation.

He quickly called out to the room, "Alaric, man, you're sick, and I was just trying to help by getting a doctor. And now you're giving me grief?"

It was his roundabout way of clearing the air, stressing that Alaric's illness wasn't his doing.

"Ethan, come on, dude. I bust my butt every day for you, and you hit me with this cold talk. Have you got no heart for me anymore? Cough, cough..." Alaric, delirious from the fever, starving and miserable, had been lying in bed waiting for Ethan to come back for what felt like forever.

His feelings of neglect were mounting.

After years of being tight as brothers, Ethan wouldn't just leave him in the lurch, would he?

Thinking about their long-standing friendship only made him feel worse.

Alaric's heart was a wasteland of disappointment.

His words couldn't help but get a bit dramatic.

Ethan felt a wave of embarrassment. Alaric's accusations were getting more outrageous by the minute.

in sight, he stepped aside to let Lydia enter the

him, she shot him a look filled with amusement

just

on the other hand, felt utterly downcast. Great, first branded a troublemaker, and now caught in

asking, "What's making you

moment Alaric opened his eyes and saw Lydia, he was shocked. "Lydia! Dr. Funke's

you?" Lydia

feel terrible all over, anxious, feverish, my stomach's growling but I can't eat..." After a day and a night of fever, Alaric felt close

doctor, he felt like he had seen a lifeline

thermometer out of her medical bag and handed it to

said to Lydia, "He's just been fighting with Hertha, and then he fell sick.

needing heart medicine

heart problem, right?"

to make sure Lydia understood Alaric's sickness stemmed from a quarrel with a girl, not

a disdainful glance, "I'm talking to the patient,

shut, not uttering another

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