Poppy Rose Sencen was your average 16 year old, her life seemed to be going ever so perfect that is until he left. Fast forward to 2 years later and Poppy's life right now is a mess. All her hope in life is gone.
Rhysand Jax Connor wasn't thinking s...
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
-Present-
I woke up the next day, with the thought of Rhy and I cuddling occupying my mind all night and day. It's not like we've never cuddled before, this time it felt different. I forced myself to get ready seeing that I had only 15 minutes before the school gates closed. I reached school and looked around to see if I could spot Rhy or Aria.
I found the latter with the rest next to my locker but Rhy was nowhere to be seen. That's weird, he's almost always earlier than me, the only time he wasn't was when I came early to school to get this book in the library.
Everyone saw me looking around and started teasing me, "Aww is Poppy looking for Rhys? Does Little Poppy miss her boyfriend?". I glared at them as a small blush made its way to my cheeks. Shoving my feelings aside I asked them if they knew what happened to Rhy. All of them shrugged and I assumed he's just having a really shitty morning and will be here soon.
The longer we waited the worse my anxiety got. The last time he did this it didn't end well. My heart rate shot up, my hands became freezing cold and I started sweating. My mind kept overthinking this situation and I could feel the tears threatning to fall and I don't even know why. I got worried really worried and scared too.
The bell rang signalling the start of first period, I walked into AP biology and took my seat. Adam was luckily absent today. I waited, and waited. I even texted him to see if he's okay and he didn't reply.
My anxiety kept getting worse so I did something rather spontaneous. After AP bio, I walked out of school and drove straight to Rhysand's house. I knocked on the door a few times and finally someone opened the door.
That someone was Rhysand, with a blanket wrapped around him. I yelled at him, " YOU HAD ME FREAKING WORRIED." He seemed stunned to see me at his doorstep but that eventually melted away into a smile as he replied, "There's the Popcorn I know. I'm just sick, I've got a really high fever." My eyes shifted from rage to concern at an instant as I ushered him back inside so he wouldn't get sicker.
I got him settled onto the couch with blankets and cushion as I headed to his kitchen to make him some soup. Pulling up a recipe from google, I put in all my cooking skills which I must say are quite limited into making Rhy a soup.
1 hour and multiple kitchen accidents later, I finally managed to make soup. For something that looks really easy, making it was really hard
. Stumbling over everything I took the soup over to Rhy. He was on the couch watching Brooklyn nine-nine. We both loved the series in freshman year. I sat next to his nest of blankets and gave him the soup which he drank up while watching the show. Rhysand is like a 5 year old who's sick. Put whatever you want in front of him and play him a series and whatever you keep in front of him, he'd eat it no questions asked.
I tasted the soup and I'm stunned. It tastes amazing. My clumsy hands just made the drinkable version of heaven. I drank up the soup in no time and washed the dishes.
I came back and turned off the Tv cause he needed to sleep. Life lessons, don't ever turn off the Tv if Rhy is watching. He started whining. Literal whining and he was almost in tears as he asked me to turn the TV back on. I scolded him, "You need to get sleep, Rhy, you're sick you can't watch tv all day." He finally agreed to it under one condition. "Fine. I'll sleep. If you cuddle with me." My eyes widened at his words and I reluctantly agreed cause he really needed the sleep. Not because I wanted to cuddle. He opened his blanket and shuffled to make space for me. I crawled in with my back facing him and his arm wrapped tightly around my waist.
He couldn't fall asleep so I turned around to face him and gently played with his hair. His soft snores slowly filled the room and eventually my snores joined in too.
I woke up 3 hours later and the Sun was shining brightly. It was around 12 now I suppose. Rhy was still curled up to me and peacefully sleeping. His fever had gone down significantly. I decided to order food for lunch because I can't cook complicated stuff. I decided on Ramen so it's something soft and soupy for him.
I ordered the food and walked around the house. I found his room and entered hoping he wouldn't mind. It was exactly how I remembered it. A warm grey and blue smeared across the walls and his trophies and pictures hung all over them. I was stunned when I recognized myself in one of them. It was the both of us on a beach throwing water at each other when we were 12. I grinned at the memory and all of a sudden I heard Rhy behind me, "That was one of the best days of my life."
I smiled and nodded, "We spent the entire day on the beach, running around and remember that weird dude on the pier? The sandwiches, everything was so perfect that day." He smiled at me, but this one was a sad one. He came forward and hugged me and said, "I'm sorry. One last time. I won't ever leave you alone again, you mean too much to me." I snuggled into him and replied, "I know you won't. I trust you."
A/n I updated. YES I UPDATED ANOTHER CHAP IN 12 HOURS. i'm actually proud of myself. This chapter means alot to me. We've hit 350 fammmmmmm :)))) i love you guys sfm and god i cant thank you guys enough.
uwuwuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu hi im back frm the future, i added words for the word count basically just a para showing Poppy's anxiety, I'm not a professional, I don't know exactly how it feels but that's usually what I get and it gets pretty shitty at times. Anxiety isn't a joke and it genuinely sucks, so if you need someone to talk to , im always here :)
