When You Go Away
“ When she was done folding the laundry, Carly made herself stand up and walk back into her mom and Brooke's room, and again she tried to conjure something, Brooke's fever down, gone, her sister's skin back to its normal pasty pale white. Each time she'd checked on her sister during the day, Carly had closed her eyes, hoping for this very thing, but each time instead, Brooke's fever was up, 100.4, 100.9, 101.3, the skin under her diaper boiling. Finally around four, Brooke had dug through ...her mother's medicine cabinet and found the baby Tylenol, reading the bottle and measuring enough into the syringe. Brooke hadn't even noticed her pushing the medicine into the peg, and for a couple of hours, Brooke seemed better. And with the cool washcloths Carly put on her forehead, Brooke almost seemed normal. But then, her temperature began creeping up, her skin hot and red. Carly searched her sister's body for an explanation. There was none, just those strange round red patches. Her peg was fine, no red streaks, no hardness. Only her breath seemed different, deeper, full of something wet and sticky.MoreLess
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