"Bee, what the hell are you talking about? You already have a job."
But then, Olivia's eyes started to open completely, her sleepiness wearing off. She looked around the room and saw Bambi's 'outside' clothes on the laundry basket consisting of dark sunglasses, a hoodie, and tracksuit pants.
She immediately knew what happened.
"Oh god. Don't tell me you went to that party. Please tell me you didn't risk your life for a job," Olivia said, grabbing onto Bee's shoulders and giving her a stern look.
Bee tried to squirm away from her sister's gaze, before she eventually looked up with a look on her face that Olivia had never seen before.
"Liv…I…I" Bee struggled to say the words out loud, wondering if she should tell the truth. "I… I think my disease is cured."
Olivia looked at Bambi and slowly guided her to her bed, where they both sat down.
"Okay," Liv said with doubt in her tone. "Tell me everything."
Bambi told her everything that occurred last night: her sneaking out, getting into the party, miraculously finding her disease cured, and getting that promotion that she had always wanted.
Strangely however, she kept her little bump with Lionel Liberty a secret.
"This…I don't believe it. You really talked to other people you didn't know?"
Bambi nodded her head.
The two sisters looked at each other, with their eyes watering up, before Olivia rushed into Bambi's arms and gave her a big 'ol hug, one that was incredibly tight, making Bambi a little bit uncomfortable. But still, the warmth of her sister was enough to counteract all of that.
"Uwwuuu…"
Olivia started to shed tears, bumbling like a little kid. "I've dreamed about this for years," she said, sniffling.
"No need to overreact," Bambi joked. "I can just finally live a normal life, no big deal."
Her sister hugged her even tighter before she immediately pulled away. "Let's see if it's really gone. Let's call Doc. Smith," Olivia said.
Doc. Smith was their family physician, one that diagnosed Bambi with her disease. Without his express word that Bee's disease was finally cured, then Olivia wouldn't get her hopes up.
Without a second later, Olivia opened up her phone and dialed Doc Smith's number. Soon after, the doc picked up and Olivia explained what had happened.
As expected, even the doctor was interested in the strange phenomenon so he immediately agreed to go over to the Bourden's house and meet up with Bambi.
About thirty minutes later, they heard the doorbell ring from below, followed by the sound of Amelia Bourden calling out to the sisters from the living room.
"Girls? Did you call Doc Smith?" she asked.
Soon after, both Bee and Olivia came rushing down to the first floor, where their parents were standing in front of the couch, where a bespectacled and bearded man wearing a white coat was sitting.
Their parents were subtly holding each other, feeling quite nervous about the doctor's appearance.
"Did something happen to Bee?"
Doc Smith rubbed his beard. "Amelia, Henry, please calm down. I'm not here because something bad happened…you know what, I'll just let the sisters explain."
The two sisters eventually reached the living room, with Olivia subconsciously putting herself in front of Bambi as a force of habit.
"Is it true?" Doc Smith asked the two.
"Can you please tell us what is happening?" Henry demanded. He was getting nervous.
Bambi slowly stepped out of Olivia's shadow, slowly approaching the doctor.
Now, though Doc Smith could be considered a close acquaintance of the family, even he had always triggered Bambi's disease every time the two interacted. That was how severe her affliction was.
"Bee?" Amelia asked, holding her husbands' hand, as she saw her daughter walking over to Doc Smith.
Bambi continued to approach the couch, feeling no itchiness or no shortness of breath.
Doc Smith's eyes widened, realizing that Bambi was actually walking over towards him without any symptoms!
"You…—" he muttered out, calling to Bambi.
But just as she reached within a meter of him, she suddenly felt a hotness in her chest. Her skin started to turn red, making her feel itchy all over. Her symptoms had returned.
Bee's eyes stared in horror, realizing that her disease had returned! She quickly stepped back, before eventually darting off back to the staircase in her room.
"Bee!" Olivia called out to her, rushing to her side.
Meanwhile, Doc Smith looked at where Bee had approached him.
When they told him over the phone that her disease had magically been cured, he couldn't believe it, which was why he hurried here over from the hospital.
From all the tests they had done throughout the years, all the physical or mental therapy they did never lessened the severity of her disease. There was no sign of it being cured.
But today, even though her symptoms had returned, she had miraculously come within one meter away from him! This was unprecedented and made him think that there really was something that happened last night that magically turned off her disease for a limited time.
Meanwhile, back upstairs, Olivia tried to enter Bambi's room but found it locked shut.
"Bee…I know you're disappointed, but…"
However, even Olivia couldn't hide her own disappointment. If she felt this way, then she could only imagine what Bambi was going through.
"I'll let you alone for now," she said, leaving Bambi's room, but not before knocking on her door four times in a rhythm—their own secret code as sisters.
Olivia went back down to the living room, where her parents were talking with Doc Smith.
"What happened doc? Why were you here?" Henry asked.
"It was just a routine check up," Olivia said, giving Doc Smith a look.
The Doc immediately nodded, and corroborated Olivia's story. "It's true. I'm not going to be able to attend her monthly check-up, so I visited early," he said.
Finally, Henry and Amelia heaved a sigh of relief.
Olivia looked back at her parents and gave them a pained smile.
"Oh Doc. About our payments for the month. Can you please give us one more week? My construction work had an unexpected delay," Henry asked.
Doc Smith immediately nodded. "Of course, Henry. Take all the time you need. I find it admirable that adoptive parents like you do everything you can for your adopted child despite your limited means."
"Don't worry, dad. I'll try to cobble up some money to help," Olivia promised.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the stairs, Bambi sat on her knees.
Her eyes focused, a look of determination painted on her face.