A cough burst from her lungs so heavy and powerful that her chest and head were thrown forward and half of her body now rested on her lap, when she sat up blood was seeping from her nose profusely and Justin found himself frozen. He was completely immobile, all he could see was familiar scarlet blood racing from her nose and swiftly dripping onto her lips. Her hands scrambled across her face, cupping below her little nose where the crimson liquid solution continued to swarm in her tiny palms. "Shit!" She shouted, a tress of her almost black hair escaping the mermaid plait and dipping itself into her blood -- not that she neither noticed nor minded right now. Justin found his movement, his hand digging into his back pocket of his jeans and pulling out a mini-packet of Kleenex tissues. He jumped forward, kneeling in front of her and tugged a tissue from the little semi-circle hole of the packet. "Try not to swallow the blood." He said, nodding with satisfaction as she tilted her head at an angle to avoid any blood getting into her mouth or throat. He pulled out a few more tissues, layering them over and pinching the tip of her nose with the thick number of sheets of tissue beneath her nostrils. She smiled with gratitude, but moved her fingers to overtake his and Justin quickly snapped his hand away, tucking the little plastic packet into his back pocket but remaining in front of her with concern etched into his expression. "Nosebleeds like this don't usually happen." Nova ...
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