“Snnnnnk!” Matt sucks snot deep into his nose.
“Wow, you are just so attractive,” Chelsea mocks sweetly. She scrunches her face when her congested travel partner swoops in to kiss her.
Two nights ago, the first night of Chelsea’s arrival in Cambodia, he’d caught a minor head cold, a sinus infection. How do you get a head cold in the tropics? Easy: just blindly turn the thermostat of your room all the way down, causing the air conditioning to blast unseasonably frigid air onto your face all night. The sniffles had started before they left the hostel the next morning.
“I’ll be fine, I’m sure.”