The Force (The United Trilogy Book 1) by Paige Clendenin

Author:Paige Clendenin [Clendenin, Paige]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hydra Productions Online LLC
Published: 2019-01-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

I still feel really bad. I’ve been asleep in Jake’s bed off and on for five days now. He stays in the chair every night.

I wonder if he even sleeps, or if he just watches me.

I can’t even find the strength to walk on my own, but he helps me when it‘s absolutely necessary to get out of bed. He helps me move in bed, he helps me sit up… he just helps me.

Under normal circumstances, I would have never accepted this much help, from anyone… I think he knows that, though, because when he does help me, he doesn’t do it in a sympathetic way. He does it as if he knows that the very second I could take a step alone, I would, and he would let me because that is the kind of man that he is.

I really hate for him to see me this way. Weak and disgusting.

I woke up this morning, and Jake was nowhere to be seen.

In the past five days, I keep checking on my family, and Jake keeps me updated with any new news about them.

At this point, my brother has fought the fatigue, but can’t walk without holding onto stuff. Jake told me that Eli came to see me yesterday, but I was asleep. He sat by my bed for three hours, then made his way back to the dorm.

Mar is awake also, but like me, she is unable to walk under her own power. Even through his weakness, Eli is taking care of her, as best he can.

Shawn, however, has not woken up one time since he went to sleep nearly six days ago. Jake sounds hopeful for him, but I’m not sure what I feel is going to happen.

Shae and Syl are awake and in a similar state as Mar and me, but Zac is like Shawn… unresponsive.

Magi and Paul are working overtime, just to keep the unconscious phase members hydrated through intravenous therapy.

They have recruited the help of the phase members that seem unaffected by the Methrodine. Oddly enough, that includes Malachi, Levi, and Sampson.

I start to fall asleep again, after waiting for a long while on Jake to show back up. Just as I start to let sleep call me its way, he slips into the room.

He is sweaty. Only the kind of sweaty you are after extreme physical exertion.

He comes to the bed side holding a piece of paper. It looks like it has been crumpled, and then flattened out again.

“You’re sweaty,” I say

“Hey, I was hoping you were awake,” he smiles. “I went for a run.”

“Yeah,” is all that I can say, because I am so exhausted.

It doesn’t seem to matter how much sleep I get, I always feel like I have run a marathon and haven’t slept in days.

Jake looks at me intently.

“The other night,” he says. “when I came to get you from the dorm, I was wanting to tell you that I got the captain to agree to some rule changes. But now with everything that has happened, the rules have been revised… yet again.

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