Forever Two (Pearlina Oneshots)

Pearl's Not Okay Pt1

(Authors note at the end that gives more context to this story)

Marina's POV

I was out of the apartment shopping for gifts for the holidays. Pearl's home doing, hell knows what. Of course I covered my tracks by telling Pearl I was out playing Salmon Run. Pearl stopped playing Salmon Run after she raged quit when she dropped down from profeshional to part-timer.

I had already gotten her an ugly sweater that had a cute lil octopus and squid on it. As I was on my way to another shop in the square I got a call from Pearl so I clicked accept.

"Hey what's up?" I asked stopping in my tracks.

"Mar I think I'm gonna need to head to the ER." I heard Pearl groan through the phone.

"How co-" I was interrupted when I heard her throw up.

"Oh jeez.." I responded when she finished throwing up. "Here I'll head home to drive you."

"Hhh, okay come quick" Pearl groaned again in pain.

"Gotcha, love you." I finished, ending the call. I quickly started making my way back to my motorcycle, aware of my surroundings.

Then I opened the seat compartment placing the bag with Pearl's gift in it and hopping onto my motorcycle. As I was buckling my helmet I checked the straps to make sure it was secure. After taking off, thoughts of what Pearl might be experiencing flooded into my mind.

She's probably just sick, I thought. But maybe it might be worse... Maybe there's something wrong with her.. Possibilities of what Pearl could have invaded my mind. I tried swatting them away like a fly but they kept buzzing back.

"Shit." I cursed as I came back to my senses, almost crashing into a car. "I gotta stop thinking about what she might have and get home already." I thought out loud and continued driving until I got back to our apartment.

After parking my motorcycle I walked up to our apartment with my helmet on because I knew Pearl and I would be coming right back out to go to the hospital.

Unlocking the door led me to a sick Pearl laying on the couch with a trashcan next to her, assumingly with throw up in it.

"Hey Pearlie, let's head to the hospital," I exclaimed as I walked up to her and crouched down rubbing her cheek.

Pearl coughed, "Okay, my stomach is screaming in pain right now." She explained.

"Well then let's get to the hospital," I stated, picking her up from the couch. Her head laid on my shoulder, legs around my waist. "While we're driving there you're gonna have to sit behind me," adding as I walked over to grab Pearl's pink helmet while holding the cute gremlin herself.

I put her helmet on, she continued to groan in pain. Once we had made it back to my motorcycle, I looked down at Pearl and spoke softly to her, "You need to get up Pearlie so I can get on the motorcycle."

"Aghhhhhh," Pearl grumbled standing up as I set her down on the floor. I got onto the motorcycle and told her to sit behind me holding me tight.

Then we drove off, I tried driving as fast as I could without going above the speed limit. After 15 painful minutes of hoping Pearl won't fall off and hearing her say how much her stomach hurt we made it to the hospital, specifically the ER.

I picked her up and placed our helmets in the seat compartment. "You have to walk," I told her, setting her down on the floor. We started making our way to the entrance, hands holding.

When we made it inside we approached the counter where we were greeted by an octoling who had light green tentacles that she wore in a bun, "Hello, how can I help you?" she asked.

"Hi, my girlfriend here has been having extremely bad stomach aches and throwing up for the past couple of days," I started explaining to the lady. While I was explaining I could hear her typing on her computer.

"Okay, you and your child can take a seat in the waiting area, we'll be with you when we are able to." The octoling concluded.

"I'm not-" I cut Pearl off thanking the lady at the counter. Pearl and I made it over to some seats in the corner of the waiting area. "Mar I'm not a child, especially not your child," She finished her sentence I interrupted.

I giggled a bit, "You basically are." I joked trying to lighten up the mood. Pearl only grunted and laid her head on my arm. I took out my phone and scrolled through social media as we waited for a nurse to take us to a room.

One hour passed, Pearl was fast asleep on my arm but nothing. Two, then three hours pass, nothing. Finally, four hours later a different nurse walks into the waiting area and calls us up. I wake up Pearl and we followed the nurse who happened to be an inkling with pink long tentacles.

The nurse brought us into a room so that Pearl could be cat scanned. "Ma'am you're going to have to wait outside in the waiting area," I was told by the nurse.

I nodded complying with the nurse. Pearl then clung onto my arm, "Noo Rina don't leave me," She pleaded.

I looked down at her, "C'mon Pearl I'll just be right outside, I'm not going to abandon you!" I started laughing shaking Pearl off my arm.

The short inkling crossed her arms. "Fine," She agreed and watched as I walked out of the room. I made my way back to the waiting room as the nurse instructed me to do.

I sat down in the seat I had sat in before we were called up and grabbed my phone out. I decided to look through one of Pearl and I's tags on Squidagram. As I scrolled through the tag I saw multiple questionable posts by users who seemed to be obsessed with us.

I looked straight into the eyes of the viewers who are reading this right now, "Y'all need to stop it with your horny posts, like can't a girl and her gf live in peace?" XD(Okay don't take this paragraph seriously, I'm sorry XDDD)

"Cod.. people can be so weird," I muttered, closing out of the app and shutting off my phone. I sighed as I continued to wait, 'at this point, I'm sick of waiting. Hospitals always take forever to actually put you in a room and get you help, and even after you do there's still so much waiting.'

I continued to ramble about waiting in my mind, not realizing the nurse was calling me. I looked up and got a bit embarrassed as I stood up and made my way to the room Pearl was in.

Once I had made it inside I saw Pearl laying on the hospital bed looking like she was about to puke so I sat in the chair next to the hospital bed. The nurse sighed, "Pearl seems to have a blood clot and will need emergency surgery..." After those words, my mind tuned out the rest. E-Emergency surgery..? B-Blood clot..?

".....Marina," My attention was once again snagged by the nurse. "We will have to load her up on the helicopter immediately." The nurse declared.

So basically during my absence I have had some important people in my life go into the hospital for life threatening stuff. Recently I had a family member that got a blood clot in their stomach and basically had this happen to them. Luckily they are back at home resting from surgery but it was very stressful. Nevertheless I hope you enjoy my first chapter back! I'm still getting back into the habit of writing so please be patient with me