HOMECOMING

Chapter 21

I pushed myself up in my bed and leaned on the headboard. Fiona flung herself down beside me." Goddess, Ellie. Don't ever scare us like that again! We have been going crazy with worry."

"What happened? I remember feeling really sick at the table, then I don't remember anything else."

"You said you wanted to go to your room, but couldn't seem to walk. So Gavin carried you upstairs. You passed out in his arms before we got to your room. All hell broke loose when you stopped breathing. Good thing mom is a healer. She had to do CPR, then had to use two Epipens on you. Dr. Quinn even came, dressed in a hazmat suit as he was concerned about the infectious mono virus."

"OMG! What the heck', I gasped. "Why would I stop breathing?"

"Apparently you had a severe allergic reaction to the herb mom