Protective Love

Ch. 17 -- The Circus

I woke up with a bad headache, my throat feels scratchy and my stomach hurts bad. I crawl out of my brother's bed and softly creep downstairs, when I get to the bottom of the steps I hear my brothers talking softly about me, "I know she is getting worse and with her break up, none of this will help her any. Maybe we should just home school her? We can keep an eye on her and she can come in our classes when she feels the need to. I talked to the principle yesterday and she says its up to us." I have no idea who is talking but I'm definitely not getting home schooled! "I think we should give her some time to heal, try out this semester for a little bit and if we see her not improving, we will finalize the home school plan. She does have a small fever from what I have seen yesterday, but maybe we can take her out today? Get her mind off of that kid, what's his name? Chris?" That was definitely Dean. I suddenly feel my stomach turn and run from my hiding spot to the bathroom upstairs. The further away I am, the more likely they will not know I was eavesdropping. I end up throwing up all of my food from last night, wash my hands, face and mouth and make my way downstairs again. This time I walk right into the kitchen, not caring if I interrupted their conversation about me.

"Vi? Are you okay? Here, let me get you some breakfast and your meds." Sam says.

I shake my head and walk up to Dean, I had started to cry a little bit from the pain in my body and also from Chris dumping me. He had a good reason to, but it still hurts a girl because that means no more soft pecks on the lips and no more cuddling and no more soft embraces from a guy. Those are always the best. Dean sets me on his lap and strokes my hair as I cry into his chest. Sam is cooking eggs and waffles for me while William hands me my medication to take. I swallow all of my meds and start eating my eggs slowly after Sam places the plate in front of me.

"Sweaty, we want to take you out today. How about the Circus? Their here for the week and I know you love animals. Wouldn't that be cool?" Damon replies.

I nod my head softly and finish eating my food, then Dean lets me go so I can get ready for the circus. I put on my brightest pink shirt with my jeans and boots and head downstairs. Dean gives me my jacket and scarf to wear since I am sick, he is also carrying a bag with him. That's pretty funny to me. Cody grabs my hand and we all jump into the car to head to the circus. I start to feel nauseous, everything around me started to turn green and black, and I got super light headed. I guess my brothers saw because they stopped the car and Sam got out, carrying me to the family bathroom while the rest of my brothers went to find a parking spot. I am set on the counter, and Sam starts to splash my face with cold water to cool me down. I start to dry heave and after a few minutes of nothing coming out, Sam takes me to our brothers who have finished buying our tickets. I didn't realize we were already at the circus, since I guess I was feeling sick and all, but the tent was so big, it looked like it almost touched the sky! Cody hands me a glass of water and I slowly sip it as we go inside to find our seats.

The clowns' act was hilarious! With the pie throwing and the water and tiny cars. The caged lion was incredible as well as the elephants on their big plastic ball. What am I kidding, everything was incredible. I was starting to get hungry, and when the stand guy was yelling out 'COTTON CANDY! POPCORN! ONLY $2! WHO WANTS SOME?' I just couldn't help myself, I yelled out, "I want some!" Dean quickly turned to me and whispered, "No. You are sick and that food will only make it worse for you." I got angry and stomped my foot, yelling, "I don't care! I want cotton candy! Now!" Dean looked like I had just hit him, "Don't talk to me in that way, young lady! I said no, so No!" I knew I should have stopped there, but I was really hungry and I guess that plus my sickness was getting to my head. I started to yell "I want cotton candy! It's not fair! I haven't eaten anything all day! Your mean! I hate you!" everyone around us was looking at me and some of the adults were starting to give my brother weird looks. I honestly felt pretty bad, but Dean was so embarrassed that he bought me my cotton candy. The sells guy asked if we wanted any popcorn and I nodded my head, already devouring my cotton candy. When Dean was about to say No again, I started to make my eyes water as if I were going to cry and with a 'huff' he bought me some popcorn too.