Cookie Gets Sick

"I'm sorry Tetsurou, I feel bad about cancelling our plans..." Cookie said to her boyfriend over the phone, "but I'm sick again."

"Oh, no, is that so?" Kuroo's voice raised in concern. "Then I'll just have to come to your place and look after you today."

Cookie felt her face heat up. "N-No, it's fine... really, you don't have to." She didn't want him to see her in her current state, feeling flushed and slightly delirious from her fever.

"But I want to," he sounded more insistent this time. "I'll be over soon."

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"Cookieee~" Kuroo's voice sounded from the front of the apartment.

"Back here...!" Cookie shouted weakly.

"There you are." the young man smiled upon seeing his girlfriend. "I brought your favorite snacks, and some stuff for your fever."

Cookie watched him as he took medicine and snacks from a plastic bag. "I'm sorry I have to trouble you like this," she stared into her hands. "I know I'm sick more often than others, and it's burdensome..."

"Are you serious? You could never be a burden to me, Cookie." he crossed his arms, looking at her intently. "When you care about someone, that's just how it is."

"Tetsurou, I..."

"A-Anyways, you should really get some rest." He averted her gaze so he wouldn't get more flustered in response. "C'mon, just lie down for a while." Kuroo tucked his girlfriend back into the blankets on her bed, and soon enough, she was fast asleep.

"Seriously, this girl..." he felt the high temperature on her forehead, hoping it would go down. "I wonder how long Cookie was sick before she called me." Pulling his phone from his pocket, Kuroo started to play a game that Kenma recommended to him. He soon got tired of playing it, however, and turned around to face the sleeping Cookie again.

"She looks so peaceful..." he thought to himself. "Not as stressed out as she's been recently." he reached his hand down to pat her forehead gently.

"I'm going to stay here as long as I need to, until you get better." Kuroo declared, then leaned down to give her a kiss on the cheek. Even though Cookie wasn't conscious, he couldn't help but blush a little at his own gesture.

"I'm sure Cookie wouldn't mind if I shut my eyes for a bit too..." With those words, he left his girlfriend's room to go take a nap on the couch. "If she's not better by tonight, I can just stay here... with her... " Kuroo's thoughts drifted away as he fell asleep.

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