My eyes snapped open, and I saw Wendy and Toya staring at me from the end of my bed, and Sterling’s back running out the door. “No!” I screamed after him. “Come back.” But I heard my front door shutting, and I wanted to cry.
“What do you need, Amy?” Wendy came closer. “We will get you anything.”
In my mind, I knew she was trying to be helpful, but my heart, my body, wasn’t listening. I just started crying. “It hurts.” The heat became unbearable, and I rolled over my bed, doing my best to relieve a tiny bit of of the pain. I snapped my eyes open to my friends. “Water.” I was parched, the need was burning through every ounce of actual thought. I just needed to be cooled. To get relief in any way possible. Wendy nodded and ran out of the room. She came back with a big glass of cold water a
