Convincing her (Jen and Lucas)

As much as Lucas was determined to leave the office early, he was not able to. He had squeezed out all of the potential out of his employees but he was not able to achieve the initially impossible feat.

What he had been able to do is completely free up his weekend as opposed to only having Sundays free. As his work day ended, he checked up on Jen as he left his office and was a bit reassured when she told him that she had eaten lunch and was going to take a short nap before making dinner.

Lucas got into the car with a scowl on his face. He looked like he was pissed off at the world and he really was. He just wanted to see his girlfriend, but it was so difficult. He finally started understanding his father's meaning for making him do this work in the first place.

He took off his jacket and removed his tie as his mood gradually worsened. He had a bad premonition even though he had just talked to Jen.

Once the car stopped in front of the campus gates, he walked all the way to his faculty completely empty handed. He did not even bother to bring the symbolic briefcase that he normally went with to class.

When he arrived at the lecture hall, he sat at the centre of the class and patiently waited for the lecturer to arrive. 

As per usual, he did not take any notes and just listened attentively to the lecture. His professors were already used to this to the point where they did not even notice that he had nothing but his phone on him.

He wanted to call Jen to check on her before his next lecture but figured that she would still be asleep and he was reluctant to wake her up, so he bore with it and sat in for his next lecture.

Jen, on the other hand, woke up a little over an hour later. she was not completely back to normal but she was feeling a bit better than she was feeling earlier.

She quickly freshened up and made a beeline for the kitchen. She wanted to make Lucas dinner and even had what she wanted to make in mind 

She picked out simple things to make because of her condition but she still ended up taking longer than usual to finish making dinner.

After putting what needed to stay warm in the oven and the rest in the refrigerator, she started cleaning up the kitchen.

As she was washing the dishes, she suddenly felt dizzy. In no time, she felt disoriented, with her vision blurring and her hearing sounding distant. It all happened so fast she dropped the wooden spoon that she had been washing.

She desperately grappled at the kitchen counter in her attempt to stay on her feet. She shut off the water and looked to the living room. She figured that if she could lay down for a bit on the living room couch, she could wait until the dizziness receded.

Jen tried to walk around the kitchen counter but her body felt ridiculously heavy and it she soon broke out into a cold sweat. At this point, her vision had become so blurry she could only blink rapidly and shake her head in an attempt to recover her sight. She had no strength in her limbs and no amount of willpower could get her body to move.

She was already gasping for air and barely hanging on to the kitchen counter when finally her vision went dark and she collapsed on the cold marble floor.

She could still open her eyes but she could barely see the dishwasher in front of her. In no time, she did not even have the strength to keep her eyes open and she completely lost consciousness.

*

Lucas felt uneasy, the feeling became even worse on the second half of his final class for the week. 

When the lecture ended, the first thing he did was try to call Jen, but her phone kept on ringing with no response from her. This made Lucas feel even more anxious.

He rushed out of the building and almost sprinted to the entrance as he continuously tried to call Jen. He could be overreacting and she could just still be asleep, or in the shower, but he had a nagging feeling that something was wrong so he couldn't rest easy.

When he got into the car, he ordered his driver to quickly drive back to the hotel. He pressured his driver so much that the man was sure that he was going to get speeding tickets soon.

The only reason Lucas did not drive himself is because of his unstable mood. With the driver driving faster than normal, they soon arrived at the hotel.

"Wait for me, don't go anywhere," Lucas ordered before dashing out of the car with nothing but his phone. He left everything else he normally carried with him in the car.

He didn't know of he will need someone to drive him to the hospital, and he was confused enough not to realise that the staff at the hotel could have done it for him too.

He rushed into the hotel and frantically pressed on the elevator button. He became annoyed as he waited for the elevator to arrive and missed the private elevator to his penthouse back home. He would later arrange with the hotel to move to the penthouse suite, if something like this happened again then he would be angered to death.

He ended up waiting for the elevator for three minutes, but for the anxious Lucas, those three minutes felt like three hours!

Fortunately, the staff were tactful enough to stop other people from joining him in the elevator that had finally arrived on the ground floor. 

Lucas got on the elevator and impatiently waited as it got to his floor. He quickly barged into the house while calling Jen.

"Jen!" He called as he made a beeline for their bedroom. What surprised him was that she wasn't sleeping. He went to check the bathroom and the closet but they were both empty.

He tried calling her again and he heard her phone ring from outside the room. He left the bedroom and found her phone ringing on the dining table. He took her phone and wondered if she stepped out for a moment to get something. But it was so uncharacteristic of her to forget bringing her phone along.

As be thought of where she had gone, his gaze landed on the kitchen. It was still a bit messy, and knowing how much of a clean freak she was, it was very abnormal for her to leave the kitchen in such a condition.

He walked around the kitchen counter to get into the kitchen and ended up kicking something soft. 

When he looked down, he felt his blood run cold. His girlfriend that he was looking for, was collapsed on the floor completely unconscious.

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