“Where are you going?”“You can’t just go up to them like that.”“Why not,” the girl asks, looking over her shoulder.“Because...”“Be...ause why?”“I don’t know,” the familiar admits defeat. “Maybe we should treat them like kings.”“But they’re not,” Penelope says. “Besides, the last king seemed to enjoy our presence.”“I know, and then he tried to kill us.”“That was then, this is now.”“That’s what I’m afraid of.”Hazel reluctantly follows the girl through the clearing, right up to the place the two. I explained to the doctors that it was not just sunburn, but the disease that he had caught in Africa while on military duty. They reacted correctly and called in a doctor who was a specialist in tropical diseases.The hour it took the doctor to get to the ER from home (after all, we did drag him out of bed) was hell for us, but not so much for Chris. By now, he was in so much pain that he was doped up on morphine and couldn't care less. When the doctor arrived, he didn't mess around but called. I tried to tell her that I wasn'tlonely at all, she was my best friend but then she introduced Raoul. Hewas tall and he shaved his head. I could tell that he was a bodybuilder because he was so totally muscular. When he said hello, I don'tknow what happened to me. I mean, like Jeannie and me would talk aboutguys and stuff, and how cool it would be to marry some really hot guy,but it was all just silly girl talk. I tried to say something butnothing would come out. All I could do was sit there. Not to mention that both our hands were wandering around over each other's body. Luckily, for us two, my sister and my mother had been so smart to stay in the kitchen, so we could have this little fun time with each other. However, after a while, we heard that somebody in the kitchen got up, and then I could hear that it was my sister that came walking into the living room. Illiana and I stopped touching each other, but she kept on lying in my arms.When Ilse stood behind the sofa that we were.