Chapter 103 Penny's Double-meaning Threat

• Penny looks different. And not in a very good way. I don't know what I was expecting her to look like but this is kind of worse than I imagined. I can see why she would refuse to see her clique of superficial friends whilst looking like this.
• She has dark circles around her eyes with eye bags so prominent, I gape at them, unable to look away. Her hair looks worse than I have ever known it. Unwashed and uncared for, stringy brown clumps at her ears, matted in the spots she sleeps on. Her neck is wrapped with bandages. She has on the customary hospital gown and she lies on her bed all covered up to the neck. Her bedside table is suspiciously devoid of anything. Not even water or medicine of any kind. The entire room is blankly decorated. Just an hospital room. It is almost like she is not inhabiting the room. She occupies her lone bed like a ghost in the middle of the huge white room. It is so unlike the Penny I know that I don't even know what to think.
• So I stare at her, noticing from the gauntness of her cheeks that she has lost weight too. Her complexion is dull. Like the glow that shone from somewhere inside her got shut off. It is a worrying transformation so I stare dumbly, not registering what she said.