Samuel didn't let her go. Instead, he pushed himself on her closely and started kissing her rudely on her red lips.
After a long while
They made out under the dim light of the street lamp, and both wanted more. Samuel's phone suddenly rang, startling them. They separated.
Ella's legs felt like jelly. Samuel reached one arm around her waist and with his other hand he answered the phone call.
"Grandmother."
Grandmother? Ella was puzzled. It was about eleven o 'clock. Why wasn't grandma sleeping?
"Sam, Jerry is having fever. Your father has taken him to Chuck's hospital. You'd better go there as soon as possible." Melody's voice appeared extraordinarily loud and clear in the night. And Ella heard her too.
Her son was having fever? How come?
When Samuel hung up, she asked, "How come?" She was too worried for her son to be still angry with him. She clutched at the corner of his dress, eyes full of anxiety.
He opened the door of the co-pilot and picked her up. "No one knows what happened yet. We'd better reach there as soon as possible." He buckled her up and closed the door.
He got into the driver's seat and drove away.
On the way to the hospital, Samuel called Chuck several times. But none was answered.
Chuck called him back when they reached the hospital.
"What's up?" Chuck spoke in a hoarse voice.
Samuel ignored his abnormality, "Come to the hospital. My son has fever."
"Okay, I'll be there soon." Chuck took his coat, walked to the compartment door, opened it and went out, as if he didn't see Daisy lying there.
He went outside the door and told the waiter in the corridor, "Don't let anyone in."
The waiter nodded and stood outside. He put on his coat and hurried to the hospital.
After ten minutes or so, Daisy walked out of the room and left KTV quickly with her head down, hair messy.
In the hospital
They found the children's room. Ella painfully looked at her son's fever-gripped face.
She held her son in her arms. Jerry seemed to feel his mother's smell, opening his eyes slowly.
He looked at Ella, caught a thumb of Samuel's and closed his eyes.
The doctor on duty came in with a thermometer and handed it to Ella, "Take the child's temperature first."
Five minutes later
39 degree Celsius. Ella almost cried out.
She looked at her son's red face and felt a deep sense of guilt.
When Chuck arrived at the hospital, he went straight to the ward and heard the doctor on duty say that the temperature had reached 39 degrees.
He gave a box of antipyretic drugs, and then asked the nurse to bring his stethoscope and examined the other physical aspects of the child.
"Normal fever is my preliminary judgment. Affix the child with antipyretic stick, feed him with some antipyretic medicine, and wipe his body with warm water." Chuck removed the stethoscope and the nurse ran to get the medicine.
"Why would he have fever?" Ella asked urgently.
"There are a lot of causes, colds, bacterial infections and so on. Don't worry, it's nothing serious." Chuck's words comforted them. They were relieved.
Chuck affixed the child with antipyretic paste, asked Ella to feed him a little of antipyretic medicine, and then left.
Jerry had been sleeping. He did not cry or make a scene.
"Dad, you go home first. We'll stay here." Samuel looked at the watch. It was over twelve o 'clock.
Vincent nodded, "I'll come back tomorrow morning."
Samuel accompanied Vincent to the hospital door. Only Ella and Jerry were left in the ward.
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