Raeleigh walked a distance away from Green Jade Garden to call Callis. It didn't take long before he answered. Knowing he was mute, Raeleigh said, "Let's text."
With that, she hung up and began texting Callis as she sat on a bench outside of Green Jade Garden.
Raeleigh said, "I went to the hospital a couple of days ago for a pregnancy check- up and met a pregnant lady who was about my age. I talked to her for a bit."
"How's your baby?" Callis asked. She smiled at his question and replied, "The baby's doing very well."
Raeleigh then continued to chat with Callis.
"The lady said she was sick."
Raeleigh said nothing more after that. Callis asked what sickness the lady had, but she said she had forgotten.
"Let's talk about something else. Are you still in Waverly Village?"
Callis said he had left and was searching for a place. He's planning on doing something.
"That's good. Take care of yourself."
She only ended their chat when it was time for dinner. She went to check on Santiago again after coming into the house; he was getting another treatment session, and she had to be there, so she went in advance.
Jepherson was reading something on his phone when Raeleigh entered, and he locked it after she came in.
"I came to check on Santiago. Louisa will come over after dinner."
"Go ahead. I'm going to take a bath."
With that, he made his way to the bathroom while Raeleigh went to sit down. When Jepherson reached the bathroom door, he turned back around to retrieve his phone. She looked up at him, feeling strange as she didn't have the bad habit of looking into other people's phones.
Closing the bathroom door, Jepherson placed his phone in the cabinet by the bathroom door, took off his clothes, and stepped into the bath. Raeleigh subtly kept track of the time, worried because he had been in the bathroom for two, three hours.
But then again, what could happen to a man like him?
In the end, she still went to knock on the bathroom door.
"I'll be out," Jepherson said as he dried his hair. He then put on his bathrobe before emerging from the bathroom.
Raeleigh stood at the door and noticed he looked a little pale.
It was as if he had lost a layer of skin.
"It's time for dinner."
With that, Raeleigh left the room, giving Jepherson the space to change.
After dinner, Raeleigh and the others made their way to Santiago's room. Louisa had her acupuncture needles ready. After disinfecting them, she brought them over to Santiago's side and began sticking the needles between his nails and the nail beds. Raeleigh was a little nervous as it probably hurt a lot.
However, after two needles, Santiago still didn't react to the treatment.
Louisa was beginning to sweat by then. She gently put down Santiago's hand and said, "I'm not sure whether it'll work; we can only wait and see."
Raeleigh also knew Louisa had tried her best.
"Thank you, Louisa. Get some rest after you're done here."
Raeleigh walked over to Santiago. She believed he would wake up eventually.
Louisa waited for a while before she took the needles out of Santiago and left with Colston. Raeleigh sat by the side and accompanied Santiago for a few more minutes before leaving; after all, it was not her room. She felt a little awkward being alone in the same room as Jepherson, although Santiago was also technically in the room.
Raeleigh got up and tucked Santiago in. In actuality, she sometimes felt she was doing the unnecessary as Jepherson would do it even if she weren't around, but she couldn't help herself.
"Good night."
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