Chapter 89 - Fily's Visit

"Gem!!!" Fily said enthusiastically while opening the door to Gem's room when suddenly, Gem fell down on the floor from her bed.

"Gem!!!" Fily shouted once again after seeing the sweaty and now injured Gem after falling down.

"What happened? Are you alright? What are you doing on the edge of the bed?"

"What are you doing here? Ouch." Gem answered back while complaining about her butt that fell down on the floor because of Fily's sudden visit.

"I came here to give you this," Fily said while showing her a glass of orange juice.

"Uhmm…" Gem said while glancing at the food tray beside her bed.

"Oh," Fily said when she saw the table in Gem's bed full of spilled hot chocolate. "What were you doing?" 

"Nothing! I was just, uhh… grabbing my slippers." Gem said and laughed nervously.

But then she got into thinking, Fily doesn't know about her restrictions.

"It's not hurting anymore?" Fily said while putting the orange juice beside her cup of hot chocolate on the makeshift table pertaining to her stomach cramps.

"Uhh, it still hurts. But like I said, it's getting more tolerable- ouch," she said while sweating nervously and holding her stomach. She then lifted herself back to the bed with the pain getting worse now that her five-minute Hot chocolate cure is gone.

"You're moving too much, look at that sweat! I told you to stay still and take a rest, here, an orange juice to help you sleep." Fily said and offered her the orange juice, but instead of taking it, Gem grabbed the empty cup beside it on the table and filled it in with Hot chocolate instead, despite the cramps that were slowly creeping in her stomach again.

"Thanks but I like Hot chocolate more," she said and drank the hot chocolate straight from the cup in just one take even though it was still freshly hot.

"Hey!" Fily said and tried to stop her but Gem signed her to wait.

"Have you been drinking this the whole time? Is that why you're sweating buckets?"

"Uhuh… that's totally it." 

Fily's eyes narrowed the moment she heard Gem's overly defensive response.

"You're lying."

"No, I'm not!"

"You can't fool me, Gem." Fily said with her kind voice and even handed Gem a clean towel to dry herself with despite being disappointed in her for trying to lie.

"Okay, fine." Gem said and plopped herself to the bed, "I was trying to complete my daily task." She confessed.

"You mean, the thing you were saying about your level zero abilities?"

"Yep. But because of this pain, I could only do it once in a while. I haven't even passed the midpoint yet. At this rate, I'm not sure if I can finish the tasks before midnight…" Gem said while sulking and covering herself with the blanket slowly after putting the cup back to the makeshift table beside the orange juice.

Even though she was already sweaty, Gem still felt cold because of the cold temperature in the room that the nurses thought would help her feel better, but contrary to their belief, being under the blanket helped Gem feel warm, and thus, better than staying in the cold.

"We actually made something that could help you," Fily said which made Gem peek out her blanket.

She saw Fily holding the orange juice again and three small bottles of condensed red and yellow potions on the other hand.

"What's that?" Gem asked. Could it be medicine?

"Strawberry and Mango juice concentrate." Fily lied and tried handing the bottle to Gem but she refused.

"How could this make me feel better?" she asked cautiously.

"The red one will help you sleep while the yellow one will help relieve your pain for a short amount of time, thirty minutes maybe? Combining the two would help you get both results more efficiently." Fily explained without actually explaining how it would help Gem feel better.

"So… it's medicine?" Gem asked again, contemplating whether to reveal her restrictions to Fily now or not.

'Or maybe I should just take it to use it if I need it later?' she thought even more.

"Y-Yes." Fily smiled nervously, "You don't need to take it if you don't want to though. We just made these to show you how we actually care about your help-"

"Thank you." Gem cut Fily's kind words by reaching for her hands, "I'll make good use of these." She said and smiled despite the pain that was corrupting her stomach.

At the very least, even though Fily came to her room at the wrong time, Gem was still happy to hear about their efforts just to help her feel better. At least the negative thoughts on her mind were washed off by this sudden visit and she doesn't feel lonely or neglected anymore.

It was funny for Gem, not once had she ever felt lonely when she ran off the orphanage nor when the ice wolves left her at Wayeland. Not even when her old friends died on that border. Instead of feeling lonely, Gem's longing for being strong grew even more. 

But when she thought about Venedette, Petunia, and the others forgetting about her, there was this ugly feeling in her heart that she couldn't describe with words. It was as if her heart was getting crushed and beat into a million pieces ruthlessly that hurt even more than the constant cramps in her stomach.

When Fily heard of Gem's response, a bright smile was immediately etched on her face, making the room feel warmer and the mood much better than when Gem was just staying there on her own.

"Okay, take care then," Fily said and stood up while leaving the orange juice that Gem didn't grab from her back to the makeshift table on her bed.

"Where are you going?" Gem asked while putting the potions under her pillow.

"I'm going to betray Von and Lei." She said while smiling which Gem thought was just a joke before saying their goodbyes to each other.

And little did Gem know that Fily was actually telling the truth, just in a different context that she wouldn't understand without any knowledge of the plan nor about the Prophecy that was going to happen later.