Moms In Leather Aprons

Don't Bother The Sick

Let's throwback to when Toni was diagnosed with chronic rhinitis, a painful condition that, no matter the time of the year, makes you have really bad allergies. She had recently been taken in by the Serpents, FP had stepped in as her legal guardian, and he was the first to notice the morning sneezes that the small girl had at least a week every month. Then it was the constant eye rubbing and nose scratching. At a certain point, the Serpent King thought she might be getting high, just from how red her eyes were, but it was just allergies. It got noticeably worse around spring and autumn, the girl would be complaining that her eyes were burning. When her nose was so blocked that she couldn't taste food, that's when he decided to take her to the hospital. After doing a CAT scan to her face, asthma tests and allergies tests, she was given medicine that she would have to take for the rest of her life: eye drops, a pill to clear her lungs, a nose spray and ocean water up the shnozz to do every night, and an sos pill for when she has really bad crisis and a very powerful spray that unblocks her nose instantly. The routine was tiring, she always choked with the ocean water, and the sos pills made her sleepy, so eventually she stopped taking them and only did it if really necessary.

Cheryl never knew about this, she might have suspected something was up when Toni one morning woke up with her eyes swollen and red and once she came out of the toilet they weren't anymore. Or when she sneezed 10 times in a row. However, she decided not to make a big deal out of it, because even when the girl walked in school looking like she had been hit by a truck, Toni always claimed she was tired from ''Serpent business''. Almost 20 years later, with two kids and a one year old, Cheryl learned that Toni had been hiding something all these years.

It was supposed to be a normal morning after spring break. When their alarm rang, Toni was supposed to wake up the kids, and Cheryl would make her way to the kitchen to make them breakfast. The redhead did so, but Toni remained unmoved, the covers over her head. When no fuss was heard upstairs from upset 12 year olds, Cheryl went to check that her twins were still sound asleep, and Jamie was sat on her crib, waiting to be lift up. The Blossom rushed to her room and nudged her wife lightly.

''Baby? Wakey wakey, it is getting late.'' Cheryl pulled the covers off her face to see Toni's red nose, lips parted so she could breathe.

''No! I don't feel good.'' Toni groaned and tried to pull the covers over herself again.

''Okay baby. I'm gonna wake up the kids so you can rest a bit longer.'' And so, the redhead took off to take care of the three kids all by herself. She had successfully get them ready and in the middle of breakfast, familiar pink locks poke through the dining room, in direction to the kitchen. Cheryl quickly got up, indicating the children to hurry up eating and putting Jamie down so she could crawl to the living room and play, and went to meet with Toni.

''Hey, how are you feeling?'' Cheryl cupped Toni's face in her hands but quickly let go when she winced in pain.

''My face hurts. My nose feels like it is being pulled off my face, everything is too bright and loud, my head hurts, I can't breathe and finally, my chest hurts.'' Toni did a full description.

''Oh my gosh, my poor baby. Should we take you to the doctor?'' Cheryl hurried to her phone so she could dial Veronica's number so she would take the twins to school.

''No! No doctor. I have to go to work anyways.'' Toni grabbed a cup of warm coffee and dragged herself towards their room.

''No way are you going to work like this, missy. Get your ass in bed, I will bring you breakfast.'' Cheryl scolded and helped the weak girl inside the bed.

''Okay gang, mommy is sick so we have to be extra nice to her okay?'' Cheryl told Jason, Victoria and Jamie.

''What's wrong with mommy?'' Vicky asked worriedly.