Luna is still pretty sick.

When I went over, Donna was out, and I don't know where her dad was. (I don't often interact with Luna's dad; though he's usually around, he's also usually preoccupied with something or other.) I let myself in, since I've become accustomed to doing so. 

Luna was upstairs in her bedroom, sitting up in bed with the blankets pulled around her, though it was hot out and her house isn't air-conditioned. She had her stuffed animals lined up along the end of her bed, and she was staring at them intently when I walked in. It was a little weird.

I said something like, "Hey, I just came over to check on you," and that seemed to snap Luna out of it. She looked at me, blinked several times, then laid down with her face turned away from me. I walked around to the other side of the bed. She'd shut her eyes and was already breathing deeply, as though asleep.

"Luna?" I said. I didn't get a response.

I stood there for a minute, feeling worried and wondering if there was anything I should do, before she slowly opened her eyes. "Jack?" she said, her voice raspy from illness. "Hi."

"Are you okay? I came over to see how you were doing."

Luna shook her head slowly from side to side. "Sorry," she told me. "I thought you were someone else when you came in."

"So you pretended to be sleeping?"

"I wanted them to go away," Luna said. Her eyes looked glassy — you know how sick people's eyes look sometimes, almost like they aren't real. "I thought they'd leave me alone if I pretended I was..." She trailed off. "It's nice to see you," she added. "It was nice of you to come over."

"You seem really sick. Can I get you anything?" I didn't ask her who she wanted to go away. The whole thing was starting to creep me out a little.

"Just water," Luna said, rolling onto her back and closing her eyes.

I got her a glass of water from the kitchen, but when I returned to her room it looked like she'd fallen asleep for real. I left the glass on her nightstand.

To be honest, the entire incident gave me the creeps. I know people sometimes have delusions when feverish, but it's strange seeing a friend like that. The whole experience felt kind of surreal.