Fourteen Saturday afternoonHiding under the covers definitely isn’t working. I’m not feeling any better, the pain doesn’t seem to be moving any further away, and it’s definitely hot and harder to breathe in here. But I’m sticking it out. It’s only been a few hours. I’ve got to give it at least a few days. Maybe, eventually, it will work. “Knock, knock.” I groan at the sound of my brother’s voice. He usually avoids my room like a jellyfish swarm. Like there are some mystical female protection spells surrounding my personal space. Let me tell you. If I could cast a protection spell around myself right now, I would have already done it. I would have surrounded myself with an impenetrable wall of ice and field of electric eels as an extra deterrent. I’ve heard rumors about a powerful sea

