Tears are rolling down Salem's face. His face was unknowingly facing toward Jasper as he slowly shook Salem awake.
Jasper: "Salem you okay..? You were crying so I thought."
Salem: "No, I'm okay. Thanks for asking."
Salem wipes his eyes and starts slowly waking up. Straightening up his posture to a full sit up.
Vern: "Do you all understand what I'm saying?"
Class: "Yes."
Salem's vision soon gets a little blurry along with his stomach feeling incredibly worse. He also begins to sweat an crazy amount even with the A/C in the room being just as cold as it was before.
He also can't really hear all that well from what Ms. Vern is saying. He can just barely make out that she is saying word from her lips moving but nothing else though.
Jasper sees Salem his skin looks pale. Nearly the same white as Jasper's skin.
Jasper: 'Should I bring this up..?'
Salem raises his hand before Jasper can decide on his thought.
Salem: "Ms. Vern is it possible for me to head to the restroom?"
Vern: "Yes, go ahead Salem."
Everything from getting up from his seat to the restroom is a blur to Him.
He got out of his seat, pulling himself foot by foot toward the door. His body growing ever more hot as he drags himself right in front of the door pulling it open and stepping out.
No one in the class was paying any attention to him, as if he's just a wandering ghost, meant to be ignored.
Salem: 'It's so hot...'
He wipes sweat off of his forehead as he walks down the hallway that looks like it's somehow beginning to grow longer and more narrow.
After what feels like eternity to Salem he makes his way into the restroom.
The restroom is entirety empty not a single soul inside. That would also include roaches and lizards. Thats because the janitors at this school pay a lot of attention to cleaning, they need their paycheck.
Salem: "Anyone here."
His voice is bounced throughout the two urinals, three stall restroom he's in.
Dragging each foot in front of the other, he makes his way into the first available stall. dropping down in front of the toilet and letting out whatever is in his stomach prior to this.
His gurgling so loud and disgusting as some water splashes up and his his face. Making him stop and wipe his face before he went back to gripping his stomach and vomiting.
The water turning into a horrible green, brown color.
He stops again flushing the toilet. Before the toilet can even finish flushing Salem vomits once more again. Gripping his stomach even more. Now, his body feels hot. Like really hot.
Flushing the toilet once more, he stands up and walks over to the sink turning the water on full blast, on cold, body is already hot as is.
Salem splashes his face once, grabs a paper towel that's near the side of the sink, wipes his face. then repeats that process three more times.
Eventually he looks into the mirror. He notices that his skin is pale, extremely pale. His eyes are beginning to become extremely bloodshot. His body burns from everywhere.
Salem: "I'm so tired... I'm going to head home for the day."
Salem does exactly as said he heads home. His ride is usually the bus, but that isn't happening school ends in a few hours and none of the buses will drop him individually. So he walks.
Making his way home passing big two story houses, small one story houses. Sticking closer to the inside of the sidewalk afraid that he'd just faint and fall over onto the road, as many different type of cars drive past him. Benz's, Subaru's, hell even some motorcycles go past him.
The people that he walks, sometimes parallel to and against, see him and try to keep their distance. They can all see him. It's like keep your distance or you could get Covid.
As he walks almost more than fifteen minutes his body starts growing hotter, so he slowly starts undoing his suit. Not enough to be counted as a creep or perv. Just undoing the tie and unbuttoning some of the top buttons. Showing some of his body hair, that he doesn't shave, his body also starts to look pale.
After a long walk, if it could have been considered a walk and not just dragging one foot in front of the other. He makes it home. No one is there yet because his mother always works nights and his younger brother, stays the aunties majority of days, this day the same.
The neighborhood, if considered one. Is just five or six small houses bunched together behind some trees. The trees have been cut down many times before but they grow back again and again. A big hill in the back of his house, with tree blocking it entirely.
Salem follows the road into the "neighbourhood" eventually making his way in front of his house. The front door has two small stairs to make up for the uneven ground that his family lives on. He tries to pull open the screen door of his house. Pulling it up and down.
Locked
Salem: 'Mom locked it...'
Then he goes around back.
His shirt slowly getting more and more unbuttoned. His body getting more and more hot, sweat just continues dripping off of his body and his shirt just keeps absorbing it. Soon his shirt turns more into a towel than into something to wear his body just cant stop sweating making him look like Eddie Brock in the first venom movie.
In the back nearing the incline of the hill and next to a big tree, hides a rock that holds their spare key. Salem grabs the key out the rock and goes to the front again. First he unlocks the screen door to the house and after the main wooden door. Both doors can be unlocked with the same key.
Salem shuts the screen door closing then locking it. Leaving the main door open so that air can circulate throughout the house. Entering the door he makes his way into the livingroom that is decorated with nothing special but one couch that his mom falls asleep on majority of the time after getting off of work. She works as a nursing assistant.
Soon Salem makes his way into his room. Walking past his moms room that she barely enters unless she is going to change or if we have guests sleeping over.
Entering his room, any average teen would have pictures, posters anything cool to decorate their room with instead Salem just has a barren white room with a lone fan, a large mirror and a wardrobe right next to the mattress on the ground, that he flops onto as soon as he gets inside.
Salem: "I need to cool down."
Salem grabs the pulley system for the fan, pulling it once to turn it on. Making it face him to get as cold as he can.
Salem: "It's still so hot."
Salem begins to strip. Taking the tie off completely, pulling it over his head and tossing it beside his mattress then his button up, then his slacks. Leaving him down to his underwear with a pink and green striped pattern, which he keeps on.
Salem tries to stretch his body wide as the fan rotates left and right going up and down his body. His body is still hot, the sweat still protruding from his pores. The aching from before now back again and stronger.
Salem: "I'm going to vomit."
He tries to get up but his body rejects him. Soon he feels him self blackout right on the mattress.
A loud, scratchy screeching sound makes him awake in what appears to be a flaming battlefield.