By the time she removed it, Billy was quite stiff and grateful to be lying on his stomach. “Ahaa! Just as I suspected, young man. Your temperature is completely normal at 98.6.” “I don’t understand, Belinda, I really do feel like I’m coming down with something.” “Let’s just see how Johnny’s temperature is. Something tells me he’s going to be normal too. … No, stay on your stomach and don’t touch your pjs. They’ll need to stay down for a while longer if Johnny’s temp is normal like yours.” Belinda took the thermometer back into the bathroom, wiped it off with tissue, and washed it carefully. She then returned to the boy’s room, collected the vaseline, and moved over to Johnny’s bed noting he had already rolled over onto his stomach. She then repeated the procedure and soon pronounced Johnny fit as a fiddle too. “All right, you two. I want the truth out of you and I want it right now.

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