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She glanced over her shoulder to see whether any of the nurses were co care of everybody’s catheters--so gross--which meant nobody else should walk in for a fewshe pulled a packet of cleansing face wipes and her o," she whispered as she carefully washed Riley’s face, wiping around the tubes "That’s better, huh?"

Foundation and mascara would be overkill, definitely But , healthy for the skin, and this one was tinted for just a touch of coverage Kendall pursed her lips as she brushed the lightest bit of shadow onto Riley’s eyelids, then a little blush onto her cheeks

She finished by dabbing cherry lip balm on Riley’s o out like this, totally Well, not your hair, which is, like, seriously unfortunate, but to in soer She looked like herself--the girl who had ruled their high school while still being nice to everybody Kendall wasn’t as nice as Riley, and she knew it; soht be

For aon the lid of the co sister brushed mascara onto her lashes for the first time But that justInstead she patted Riley’s hand and said, "I’ll get some nail polish in here, too, because you’re way overdue for a ht as she heard voices in the corridor Not nor about ccs of fluid or whatever--people shouting People ere afraid

She went to the door of the hospital roo down the hallway Everyone was yelling stuff likeand everyone to the ER stat and so obviously soer on Grey’s Anatomy Kendall wondered whether a plane had crashed outside of town or a gun That was the kind of thing it alas on Grey’s

Elizabeth Pike was hanging around, too, but that wasn’t so weird Kendall had seen her around before Maybe she volunteered here or so

Then as two nurses went past her, one of them stopped in her tracks The other one looked back in confusion "Diana? Diana, are you okay?"

The first nurse staggered against the wall, then slumped to the floor--and that black stuff was all over her, the sa again

"So over the fallen Diana "We’ve got another one right here!"

Another one She said another one Thatinto the ER--

Kendall looked back at the hospital room where her sister lay, between the other two patients, and realized they were only the first three Only the beginning

Faye Walsh was technically supposed to be in her office frole day, but in reality, if she didn’t have a student appointment, a fifteen-minute coffee run was okay with the principal, particularly if Faye brought a latte back for her