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"Only one" I vowed, then reached down and gently kissed her lips "Are you really feeling better?"

Nat scrunched up her nose "I think I’m better"

"Hmm…" I threw off her covers She looked down, her eyes wide as saucers Yeah, she was totally in Alec’s sweats Dairl I’ve seen naked" I joked, trying to make her think I was somehow involved when it was my brother who had taken care of her, my brother who had helped her

"Did you undress me then?" Her voice squeaked

I wish "It was a team effort" Hopefully that would make her feel better

"Both you and your brother undressedillegal in all fifty states?"

"Chill, Nat It’s not like we took turns with you or anything"

Without responding, she tried to get up, putting weight slowly on one foot and then the other "You can’t go around stripping people of their clothes, just because they’re sick"

I frowned Okay so ht it would make her feel better not worse! "But you were uncomfortable Plus, I’ For so" There, totally fixed

"I’ Not fixed I reached for her ar here and that’s final You’re sick You shouldn’t be up and walking anyways Corunt I lifted her into my arms and carried her down the hall towards the stairway

"She try to escape or so at the bottom of the stairs I rolled my eyes and nodded

Alec put his hands in the air "She’s scary when she’s sick"

"She’s also suicidal She wanted to walk home" I snapped

Alec scowled "Nat, you’d make it as far as the kitchen table, pass out, and most likely crack a tooth in the process"

Nat tensed in my arms Daaze flickered from me to Nat

I put her down on the couch and then walked to the doors, locking each of the have they been camped out?"

"Since you came back with the flowers" Alec answered

"Who’s caraphers, news crews, fans Basically everyone in Oregon" Alec cursed and took a seat next to Nat "Thanks to my brother’s heroic kiss in don Seaside, the rumbled and laid her head on the arm of the couch "If they saw me now they’d wonder what the fuss was all about"