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Just a cough?🌡️

Sickie: Seungmin

Caregiver: Stray Kids

Seungmin's POV.:
A few days ago, during vocal lessons I had first noticed a tickle in my throat. I had tried to clear my throat but to no avail, the tickle remained. The more time passed, the tickle made me cough and I've been coughing ever since. It was confusing, since I didn't feel sick at all, it was just the coughing. My members had already gotten concerned the day it had started, but they believed me that I felt fine aside from the coughing fits, I kept going through. Today my vocal teacher had sent me home earlier with the instructions to rest and to take it easy on my voice, obviously worried I'd come down with a cold. Instead of going back to the dorm however, I went to the 3racha studio. I wasn't sick no matter what my teacher thinks, so resting and skipping out of work didn't feel justified at all and was no option for me.

My three hyungs were very surprised when I knocked at the studio door but allowed me in anyways. "Aren't you supposed to be at vocal lessons?", Chan asked furrowing his brows. "I was, but the teacher didn't believe me that I'm not sick and sent me home to rest. I tried to convince him that I feel fine but it was no use", I replied frustrated. "Well, are you sick?", Jisung questioned. "No! At least I don't feel sick. Yeah, I keep coughing but that's it. I'm completely fine otherwise." – "It's still possible that you're coming down with something and you just don't feel it yet. If you don't want to go home and rest, you could help us with some lyrics, so you don't feel like you're being unproductive. Though it's fully up to you, you could also take advantage of getting some time off...", Chan tried to comfort me. "Yeah, please let me help. Sitting out really doesn't feel justified and if you're right and I might get ill in a few days, I at least want to use the time now." Chan nodded and pushed a stack of scribbled notes in front of me, explaining what they were working on.

But as it had been going all morning, I constantly had to turn away to cough into my elbow. I really tried to keep it to a minimum because I didn't want to be too annoying but suppressing it didn't work nearly as well as I wanted it to. Jisung had offered me some water which I slowly sipped on while pointing out here and there, that could be changed up to make the text flow smoother. We had been on it for two hours already and I was really impressed how my group members produced new tracks and easily came up with new ideas. Most of the times we'd only see the results, so today was very interesting to see how our songs actually come together. It being around lunchtime, Changbin offered to go out and get us some take-out to eat while working. Surely his offer wasn't turned down, so my hyung left while the other two let me listen in on some of the tracks that were close to finished. I wanted to tell them how well they did, but suddenly my breath caught and I pushed my chair away from the desk, bracing my elbows on my knees. This coughing fit was by far the most intense I had had all week. Lasting a few agonizingly long minutes, I was left breathless by the and of it. Being able to pay more attention to my surroundings again, I became aware that the hand patting my back during the entire fit belonged to Chan. As I sat up straight again, I noticed the concerned looks on my hyungs' faces. Jisung uncapped a waterbottle, pressing it into my hand. I gratefully took it, chugging down about half of it before placing it onto the table thanking him. Just as I was reassuring them that I was ok and tried to ignore their looks of disbelieve, Changbin came back.

Placing a few steaming Styrofoam containers onto the desk after Chan had gathered the lyricsheets, Changbin dropped a bag of coughdrops into my lap. "I thought that might help", he smiled and I thanked him, returning the smile as Chan and Jisung relaxed a bit. We weren't working as effectively while eating as we expected, mostly bickering with our mouths full. When we went back to work after our meal, the afternoon went over pretty smooth. The coughdrops Changbin had given me did their job and I finally got a break from coughing every few minutes.