Hold me tight| Joe & Dianne oneshot series

ill and isolated

This request was by @joeanddiannex hope it's ok?

It was day 14 of isolation for both Joe and Dianne and they'd been getting up at around 7am every morning, in order of having a structured routine. Dianne had been doing live workouts for her viewers to keep active in this difficult time. Today, she needed Joe as they were going to do one of their past strictly dances.

Dianne was making breakfast downstairs and unusually, Joe was still in bed. She was sprinkling the berries over the top of the muesli in the bowl when she heard Joe walking around upstairs.

'good, he's awake.' She thought. 'he can be in my live.'

Dianne placed the bowls onto the counter top and sat down in front of one of them.

"Joseph! I've made breakfast." She yelled up the stairs.

"Ok" he replied.

It had been around 5 minutes since Joe had replied and he still hadn't come downstairs so, Dianne made her way up the stairs to see what he was doing. When she got to the bedroom, she saw her boyfriend, who was lay on top of the duvet asleep. This really wasn't like him.

"Joey. Little One." She said softly whilst gently stroking his face.

He mumbled and rolled over to face her, sitting up slowly.

"Sorry I fell back asleep." He yawned.

"You sure you feel ok? You look a little pale?" She asked.

"Yeah, i'm fine." He lied.

In reality, Joe was feeling awful. He had the worse headache along with stomach ache and just generally feeling under the weather. However, he didn't want to be ill for Dianne whilst they were in isolation as she would get so bored.

"Right come on then, i've made you breakfast and then please can you do the live with me?" She asked jumping up from the bed.

"Yes, of course sweetheart." He said plastering a fake smile on his face.

As they made their way down the stairs, Joe had to stop for a moment to overcome his dizzy spell. He took a deep breathe and carried on walking down the stairs. He got downstairs to his bowl of muesli and the sight of food just made his stomach flip. He shoved a few mouthfuls down and decided he'd had enough, so whilst Dianne was trying to set up her live he secretly threw it into the bin.

"Come her Joe." She said, placing the back of her hand onto his forehead.

"You really don't look well. Promise me you feel ok?"

"Yes, I'm fine, I promise." He lied again.

"Ok, today i've said that we'll do a little part from our cha cha we did in strictly. What do you think, think you can remember it?"

"Well we'll have to find out won't we!" He said trying to make himself look a normal as possible.

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"Hellooo everyone!" Dianne said as the live video started.

Floods and floods of people were coming into watch and learn their dance. Joe entered the shot after changing into some joggers and a t-shirt and stood still taking a deep breathe. As Dianne moved backwards, Joe moved forwards  to look at the comment and there were multiple people asking if Joe was ok. He just decided to ignore them.

"Right then everyone, let's get into it." She said jumping up and down to warm herself up.

"Joey, can you remember any of the dance?"

"Erm not really, I haven't done this dance since strictly!" He replied quieter than usual.

"That's a great start then." She joked.

They were about ten minutes into the live video and Dianne had gone through the basic steps of the dance. They had about another 4 eight counts and then they'd be done.

"Joseph, you're slacking!" She said trying to make a joke about the situation. Dianne knew deep down he wasn't feeling well so she decided to cut the video short and only teach another 1-2 minutes of the dance.

As Dianne was going through a certain step, she looked to her right to see Joe white as a sheet. Suddenly he darted off in direction of the bathroom.

"For goodness sakes, why didn't I realise? What do I do now." She muttered to herself.

"Right guys, we're going to head off because I think the tesco delivery has just arrived. Sorry this was cut short, have a good day."

She quickly ended the video and ran to the bathroom. She pushed open the door and saw Joe just pulling himself up off the floor after vomiting.

"Joe, you promised me you felt ok." She said pulling him into a hug and tickling his back.

"I'm sorry, I just didn't want you to be on your own during isolation because i'm ill. Makes me such a bad boyfriend."

"Joey, you can't help getting sick, now come with me. You need a lie down on the couch."

She took him over the couch and sat him down, placing a blanket over just his legs. Then she headed off to get him some water.

"Here, sip this slowly." She said passing him the glass of water.

"Thank you. Dot, i'm sorry for not telling you I felt ill."

"It's ok. I knew you were not feeling great all day but didn't expect any vomit!" She laughed.

"Shall we just have a chilled day then, so you can get yourself feeling better?"

He nodded and lay his head down onto her lap as she picked a film. Within 10 minutes he was flat out asleep, snoring softly.

"I do love you Joseph." She whispered, whilst playing with his hair.

A/N
word count~ 1007
Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed. Sorry i've been very inactive on here recently but as you may know i've had to go through the difficult situation of my gcse exams being cancelled so, i've been trying to sort things out. I hope everyone and their families are safe and well during this time.
Thank you again
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