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The last thing I expect to see is Reid bowed over, an arm across his abdomen His usually perfect hair is plastered to his forehead and he looks pale

"Reid? Are you okay?"

"Yeah No I don’t know I don’t feel so hot, Eot back"

"Do you need oing to go back to bed"

"Why don’t I bring you so--soup maybe--from the café? I’ll be back in twenty ain"

He backs into the roorab the room key, he collapses onto the bed with a moan

"Reid, are you sure you don’t need a doctor?" He shakes his head, and I’ that I’ to eat

By the tiht chicken noodle soup and Sprite, but he doesn’t take more than a sip of either His knees are drawn up, both hands on his stobecause he’s burning up "Are you nauseous?"

"I don’t know," he answers after a ious Tell Richter Ito for me to do is leave, but I can’t abandon hi--a text frorab some taxis

Me: I’m in reid’s room I think he’s sick

Graha his sto up…yet

Graham: Be up in a minute

Me: K, thx

I wet a washcloth under the cold tap, pull Reid’s damp hair off of his forehead, and press the cloth to his head He sighs but never opens his eyes

Graha, "I hope I’"

"S’okay" He takes a disposable ther and s into the room

A few minutes later, I don’t feel so reactionary "One hundred three," Grahaet a doctor up here"

I call the PA, who calls Reid’s personal assistant for the fil to make hotel calls Andrew is one of dozens of usually invisible filht, were pri supervision Tonight, he’s in Reid’s roo Reid’s parents, ent Grahaed to his room When I try to object, he tells o to dinner with everyone!" I say

He shakes his head "It’s no probleo ahead"

When the doctor arrives, Andrew, Graham and I are banished to the hallhile she exa Andrew and me in place, wide-eyed Graha to be fine"

The doctor opens the door to let us back into the room "We need to do a scan to check for appendicitis" She’s already called the front desk to get an ambulance to the hotel "Does he have fa like a man possessed

Graham and I follow the ambulance in a taxi He holdsroo to be fine," he repeats, after we’re told Reid is going into surgery; the doctor was correct in her initial diagnosis "What if you hadn’t checked on hio back to sleep?"

Andrew talks and texts non-stop, pacing by the s and occasionally outside, where I suspect he’s looking for soht up Hospitals don’t exactly cater to smokers I lean my head on Graham’s shoulder, thankful he showed up with a thermometer, that he knehat to do My eyes drift closed, and I realize I’ve been asleep when I sit up and hta roove into the floor in an effort to obtain and relay news about the surgery, Andrew buzzes between the waiting area and the nurses’ station The nurses, at first star-struck, quickly becoery," one of theritted