บท 98: Despite Situation

"Should I?" She asked herself. Isn't it considered as taking advantage of someone's situation if she will do it? Will she be too vulgar if she will do what she has thought?

Nickel is still shivering underneath the multiple layers of sheets above him. What else can she do? She already turned off the air condition of the room to make his body temperature stable but he is still the same.

Zoey wanted to give her brother doctor a call but there is a half of herself that is stopping her in doing it because she thought on how will she going to explain to her brother the reason on how she ended up staying in her condo unit at this desperate times. Zick has this detective side that once he sees one tiny detail that doesn't fit certain situations she will try to ask and ask deeper questions until you will tell him the truth.

There was a time when they were young when Zoey gave her favorite teddy bear to America when her ex-best friend told her that she was lucky that her mother is willing to give her everything she wishes.

That teddy bear was a limited edition of a popular teddy bear company. It was a commemorative edition to a famous artist that everyone is idolizing. At the tender age of seven, Zoey was already a fan of that famous artist.

Those who can be able to have that limited edition bear were considered the best of the best.

When Fatima saw the advertisement of the limited edition teddy bear, she right away reserved one for her daughter.

"To my little Zoey, Mommy brought you a gift from being the top one student of your class and a good child to mommy and daddy."

That night, Fatima and her husband didn't know that Zoey had a little guest who heard her saying her loving words to her daughter.

America that time first felt jealousy from her so-called best friend.

Zick hasn't seen that teddy bear for a week so, he start interrogating his sister.

"Zoey, I haven't seen your teddy bear, where is it?" Zick started his interrogation

"Oh! I think you left it somewhere in the playground. Maybe someone took it and thought that it was abandoned stuff there." Zoey casually answered her brother from asking where on earth is her bear.

"Really? You played there despite this typhoon?" it was in the middle of August and at that time typhoons passed by the Philippine area of responsibility. And because of that, it was already normal that Metro Manila will experience heavy rains on those times.

"I mean, yeah! I played there when it wasn't raining." Zoey was already lost from her fear that her brother is busting her from lying in his face.

"Okay! If that's what you said. But I must tell you that I saw America carrying the same teddy bear you got. Mom told us how hard it was for her to buy that teddy bear because it only has ten bears for that edition."

Zoey knew that her brother would sense if there is something off because she even opens her mouth so to save her from long explanations she will just try to solve this by herself.

She put a hand towel on hot water and swipe it ups to Nickel's body. Nickel instantly regain from that hot hand towel compress but Zoey is still worried because Nickel is still below the normal body temperature.

"What should I do?? What should I do?" she repeatedly asking herself. She was rubbing her hands and press it her ears but still, his body is still the same.

"Ahhhh! Whatever!" Suddenly Zoey removed the sheets and lay beside the shivering man. " I will only do this to give you my body heat. Zoey disregards the fact that Nickel is not wearing anything except his wet boxer shorts. His bare torso touched her delicate skin which gave her electric shock from somewhere in her chest. "I will stop this after you regain your normal body temperature.

Minutes after minutes, the two was quietly hugging each other under the layers of blankets. Zoey, on the other hand, didn't feel hot from laying underneath the blankets on a summer night because Nickel's body is already cooling her. They were like the opposite of each other. Nickel being the cold one and Zoey the latter and because of that Zoey feel asleep under that situation.