“Hey, get in here,” Perry called as Gemma passed the classroom he was hiding in early Wednesday morning the following week. “Did you hear what happened?”
“Yeah.” Gemma ducked into the classroom, slightly breathless. “I was with my mom earlier when they told everyone in the admin department about the quarantine. She’s freaking out about not being allowed to leave, and freaking out that she might have made my brothers sick.”
“And you?” Perry asked. “Are you freaking out?”
“I … I don’t know.” She let her bag slip to the floor. “I think I should be, but it’s all a bit of a shock. It’s spreading so quickly and nobody knows how to stop it. And what if … what if my mom or I did take this disease home? What if we’ve made the rest of our family sick? We could all be dead—the whole Guild could be
