I will never take advantage of being able to breath out of my nose again. I woke up early to take Emma to the airport and my sinuses were so bad that I almost crashed us a few times because I was sneezing so much.
Now here I am, locked in my room with a box of tissues beside me, wrapped in a cocoon of blankets because I'm freezing to the point of shivering.
"Do you feel okay enough to help me with math?" Melody asked knocking on the door.
"Even if I felt fine. I couldn't help you with math Mel." I groaned, my voice barley above a whisper.
"Okay, I'll just call mom. Feel better." She said, and I could here her walking back downstairs.
About the same time, I realized that I needed to pee. I groaned and reluctantly unwrapped myself from my cocoon and got up out of the bed, walking towards the bathroom.
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Madison_Matthews: hey yo, been really sick and laying in bed all day watching tiktoks all day, check 😷
Sometime between the time I got up to use the bathroom and me watching Brad Mondo hair fails, I fell asleep. I groaned and stood up out of the bed, realizing that I had a little sister and a niece and maybe another niece downstairs that probably needed something to eat.
"Hey Mel, I don't really feel like cooking. Is pizza okay?" I asked walking in the living room with my hand over my eyes because the lights were really bright.
"Umm yeah." She said, sounding like her mouth was already full of food. Probably chips or something. "Pizza sounds good."
She then chuckled, along with someone else. I uncovered my eyes and saw Melody already sitting there with a face full of pizza, Grayson sitting on the counter beside the box.
"Umm. Nevermind then." I said, grabbing a glass to get water with.
"How are you feeling?" Grayson asked, jumping off the counter and walking over to me, putting his hand on my forehead.
"Never been better." I said, taking a sip of my water. "You can take your hand off my forehead now."
"I'm just trying to see if you have a fever." He said. "I think you're good. Pizza?"
He walked over to the box and grabbed it off the counter, bringing it over to me.
"I'm good. Thank you though." I said, pitching the bridge of my nose because the migraine from my sinuses was intense.
"You need to eat something." Grayson said, laying the box back on the counter.
"Everything taste like cardboard." I whined, laying my head against his chest.
"You still need to eat something though." He said.
"You know, I appreciate you," I said. "But why are here exactly?"
"I needed help with math and you said no and mom didn't pick up." Melody said with a mouth full of pizza.
"Right. And you called Grayson l-"
"He builds in stuff so I figured he had to be at least semi decent at math. Which he is."
"Gotcha. Well I'm going to go upstairs. Thank you for helping her with math and thank you for buying pizza. I'll pay you back."
"Wait." He said, gently grabbing my wrist and pulling me back towards him. "Have you taken anything yet?"
"I took some DayQuil like four hours ago." I said, looking at the clock on the oven. "It didn't really help."
"Have thought about going to the doctor?"
"No. It's just a cold." I said.
"What if it's not?" He said, feeling my forehead again. "What if you have like the flu or something?"
"It's not flu season." I said. "Look, I really need to get back upstairs so I don't get Melody sick. And you need to leave so you don't."
"I've already been here long enough, if I get sick, I get sick. But since I've already been exposed, you might as well let me take care of you."
"I can take care of myself Grayson." I sighed. "No one else needs to get sick because of me."
"Just because you can take care of yourself," Grayson said pausing. "Doesn't mean you have to."
"My god," Melody groaned. I kind of forgot she was sitting there. "Just let him stay. This is getting tedious."
I was reluctant. You know, I take care of my sister all the time now, but I've never been one to really respond when someone wants to take care of me. Not that the previous person I was in a relationship really cared enough to actually want to take care of me when I was sick.
"Fine. Stay of you want. But don't get mad when I tell you I told you so when you get sick too."
"I won't. I promise."
Hi yes. This is short. And it's been a while. Sorry. It's also like 4am 🙃
