When I got to Grace's ward, her face was ghostly pale and her lips were dry and she was still asleep just as I had left her! I asked a nurse who came in to note down her temperature and condition.
"Did she ask after me when I was away?" I asked, hoping for an assuring response but she only confirmed my suspicions. She shook her head, "No, she has been asleep since you left."
With my throat closed tight in panic, I went in search of the doctor. I found him stepping out of another ward. I ran to him, "Why is she still asleep? I was gone for quite a while!" I left the formalities and went straight to the main reason why I was before him.
He arched a brow, "The patient in room seven?" I nodded, then he smiled calmly, "Don't worry she'd be fine."
I relaxed a bit. The doctor's smil
