Solar Eclipse [Seth Clearwater]

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Coral's POV

A couple minutes later, we arrive back at my house finding both Dad and Mom on the living room couch sound asleep. It looked like they had been waiting for me because Dad is sitting up, Mom is laying down with her head in his lap and one of his arms are thrown across her waist holding her.

Seth made a choked sound from behind me and I without looking I reached behind me and slapped his thigh. Well... At least I thought it was his thigh. He let out a loud groan, waking both Dad and Mom.

"Coral what the hell?" Mom sighs as she pushes herself up into a sitting position. I turn to face Seth who is whining, bent over with one hand on his knee and the other on his crotch.

"Christ Seth-" I groan and he lets out another whimper, slowly regaining his composure.

Dad, a person who quite frankly hates to be woken up, lays down, pulling mom down with him and mumbles something that sounded like, "Go to bed Coral."

Mom, from her spot next to Dad, sat up grumbling about perverted teenagers or something like that, "Say goodbye to Seth, Coral." Mom mumbled, though I could easily detect the teasing tone in her voice.

Seth looks down at me, a small smile tugging at the corner of his lips, "Goodbye Coral." He teases, using the same tone as mom and pulls me into another hug, slowly releasing me a few seconds later. I sigh, resting my cheek against his chest and I can feel his fingers running through my curls before he exhales, slowly stepping back. "I'll see you tomorrow then?" He asks, smiling and I nod like the lovestruck fool I am, not even being smart enough to walk him out.

Seth leaves and I swore I could hear him laughing as he walked out to his car.

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The next morning, I found myself with this skull crushing headache. All of my joints were aching and I thought I was dying. That was, until my Dad and Mom came in wondering why I was yelling.

At this point, I had gotten out of bed and was curled up on the floor trying anything to stop the pounding in my head. Mom and Dad had both gotten down next to me to try and figure out what was going on.

"Coral honey, I need you to put the thermometer in your mouth." Mom says softly, one hand on my back and the other trying to force the thermometer into my mouth.

I open my mouth letting the thermometer sit under my tongue until a frantic beeping started alerting all of us that I have a fever. Mom looks over at Dad, both of them sharing some look with each other, I was in too tired to care at this point.

Dad sighs, "Just try and get some sleep, we'll be back up in a little bit. Don't do anything crazy." he says softly, pressing a kiss to my already burning up forehead and then leaves with Mom.

For the rest of the day and into the next I am asleep nearly all the time. And, in the rare occasion that I'm not, I'm groaning in pain while my joints rip apart because my body hates me.

Mom comes up to my room about halfway through the second day, assuming I'm counting right, and starts talking to me. "Seth has been trying to see you. He's really worried." She sighs, sitting on my desk chair while I lay on the floor in pain.

Seth.

He must be losing his shit! I totally forgot to tell him anything! He probably thinks I'm dead or something!

I don't catch a chunk of what she's saying but I do hear, "I told him not to come see you now because you're sick." And suddenly this overwhelming rage comes over me, I feel like I am going to explode.