Isolation by Sarah K. Stephens

Author:Sarah K. Stephens [Stephens, Sarah K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloodhound Books

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Day 15

Felix

I know I shouldn’t be doing this.

I know that it’s wrong.

But someone needs to do it, and Mom is too freaked out by something she and Tobias found in the woods and Margot’s stuck in her room. I have no idea where Daphne is, which is probably best.

I checked things out from my telescope first. Tobias is in the greenhouse, doing something with the plants. He’s been spending more and more time there, which I figure is probably a good thing, seeing as we’re going to rely on the gardens for food.

I got online last night for a few minutes before Mom came on the intercom and told me to get off. I don’t know how she knew I was on, but she did. She’s been having more and more meetings, sometimes for hours. She goes into that small library that nobody used to use, locks the door (I know because I tried to come in one time), and stays there talking to her screen. I only catch phrases when I press my ear to the door. It’s easier to listen in, now that Margot is laid up with her broken ribs and Daphne is off playing with her imaginary friends. The walls of our house are thinner than you’d think, given that it’s a “historical” home. Early in the morning I’ll hear Daphne’s angel-voice cutting through the air into my brain.

“Now, what did I tell you?” she’ll say. “That’s not how we do things here. Take a sip of tea. Eat your sandwich—it’s peanut butter and jelly…I don’t care if you don’t like it. Now close your eyes, it’s bedtime.” And so on and so forth.

The only imaginary friends I had were kids at school who I thought liked me, but who ended up being liars. It was a whole other kind of pretend.

I walk down the hallway, past the little library where the door is closed and Mom is talking to someone. I have a key card for Dad’s rooms—I borrowed it off the nurse we had before Margot, but then Mom realized the nurse didn’t have her key card and fired her for a breach of security or something like that. I’d felt terrible, but I also didn’t want to be locked out of rooms in my own house. Plus I got to visit Dad whenever I wanted to once I had the key card. I’m very careful about when I go in, so Mom hasn’t figured out yet that I have a copy. Dad won’t tell her. He likes when I visit, or at least it seems that he does.

But I’m not heading to visit Dad. I need to go and check out Darren’s apartment.

I went into the medical wing late last night and got a gown and a mask and some gloves. Besides, when I checked the Centers for Disease Control website last night for those few minutes I got online it said that the virus can’t live on surfaces for longer than twenty-four hours.

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