𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙀𝙙𝙜𝙚 // 𝑺𝒊𝒅 𝑽𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔

𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝟏𝟎

Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew...

"shit! Shit! Shit!" The voice of John had reverberated through the house, cutting through the calm music that played.

Althea and Patricia sat at the kitchen table eating their breakfast with their spoonful of food only to hear the sound of poor John puking. They dropped their spoons and pushed aside their plates.

"He's really not feeling well." Patricia said furrowing her brows as Althea agreed. "We'd have to tell his friend when he comes by to pick him up."

"Friday, right..."Patricia scratched her head as she lost track of the days.

After a while John joined them at the table. Both girls glanced at him to notice how pale and sickly he was really compared to yesterday.

"Hey guys... sorry for uh me being in the bathroom while you guys are eating...." john said as he noticed their unfinished plates put aside before they shrugged it off and assured them it was nothing.

He reached over for the boxes of cereal looking at them each. "Raisin Bran? Ah fruity pebbles" he sat back down to pour himself a bowl and look at the comic print at the back. Until he noticed the girls reeling back from John without a word.

"What?" The oblivious boys asked Patricia before turning to Althea. "What?"

Althea cleared her throat. "John when you up there did you.."

"Did I what? vomit every last cell in my body? Yes I very much did" he forced a smile.

"Oh by the way I think i might've clogged up the loo...it was a lot..." he looked elsewhere as Althea's face dropped.

She snapped out of her shock. "No the smell?"

"Did you kill a fucking skunk in there or..." Patricia asked him immediately.

He shrugged. "No I just got out of the shower, then I felt nauseous"

They gave him a look as he took a whiff of himself. "Huh that's really..." he looked up frozen just as he sprung out of his seat to sprint to the bathroom once again.

"Oh no"

They both noticed that the smell had not left, almost like it decided not to leave right next to them. "Jesus it's still here. Like it's everywhere in the house".

They both ran to open the windows in the house, the smell was everywhere they turned. They decided to check up on poor John in the bathroom.

"Hey John maybe it might not be you"Althea assured John before she reached the doorframe and shook her head. "oh nope nope.."

"Fuck oooffff" he groaned as with his head in the toilet bowl.

She didn't know how to help him as he sat there with his head in the toilet until she approached him and noticed something unusual. "Huh...John that's not a normal color for vomit"

"How'd you know? You vomit this much to clog the loo, lovely?"

She was caught off guard by the nickname John called her as he refused to move his head still from the toilet. "...well nooo but that's just an unusual color there's gotta be something wrong".

She noticed how the awful, pungent smell John was releasing in the toilet was just half of it, it was just genuinely him.

Althea had no time to tell John. "Did you eat something with that fucking sauce???" Patricia blurted out behind them at the doorframe.