Chapter 5 - Red Eyes (1/2)

Chapter 5: Red Eyes

His black, silk-like hair was disheveled and his cheeks were red. When I saw him breathing shallowly with considerable pain, I placed my hand on his forehead in worry.

‘It’s hot!’

I quickly folded my hands and looked around. I wondered if I should ask one of the servants for help, but I don’t think I’m in a position to make a fuss with them.

‘But he’s sick.’

Is he 14? 15?

‘When you have a fever… you need a cold towel!’

I hurried out of the corridor and came back with a cloth and a bowl of water. Although I was running around like a chipmunk, the servants didn’t seem to mind.

‘It’s such a luxurious cloth for a towel… anyways, excuse me!’

I gently placed the towel on his forehead and continued to change the cloth. Even if it would work or not, I stayed by his side until lunchtime. I then walked to my room for lunch.

“Did you have fun?” Annie said as I entered the room.

“Yes,” I replied.

“Come here then.” Annie put me in the table chair. She had been teaching table manners during every meal. Several times have I been asked to point out the order of tableware use and how to handle it.

If I was just Pink Eyes, it would have been very difficult to master, but fortunately, Seo-yeong, who’s a part of me, was there to help me out.

“You’re good!” Annie exclaimed.

Smiling at Annie’s praise, I quickly ate up the pancakes with my fork. I then asked a question while eating syrupy pancakes and salty sausages with lots of boiled peaches.

“Do you have any medicine you take for when you have a fever?”

“Are you feeling bad?” Annie asked with a worried look. She then quickly touched my forehead, but I shook my head.

“No, I’m just curious.”

At those words, Annie stood up as she stared at me. She then took a medicine bottle out of the drawer.

“It’s a fever reducer. You can either dissolve it in water, or you can just swallow it. It’s for kids. However, if you are a girl, you must take a half a pill. But if you’re a boy, you can take one whole pill.”

“I see.”

As I nodded while looking at the brown pill, Annie placed the medicine bottle back in the drawer, but not at its original position. She placed it on a lower shelf this time.

When Annie left after lunchtime ended, I groaned as I reached my hand all the way out to reach the medicine bottle in the drawer. Unlike before, I was able to reach it, using my fingertips to draw it closer to my hands.

I took the lid off and placed a pill onto the palm of my hand. I then placed the lid back on, shook the medicine bottle a few times, and then placed it back on the drawer.

Fearing that the pills would dissolve onto my palm, I quickly put them inside my pocket and headed back to the black-haired boy’s room.

There was still no one present in the room, but only the boy laying down on the bed. I soaked the cloth in the water again, placed it on his forehead, and then took out the poll.

‘How am I supposed to feed this to him?’