You twisted and turned in your sleep. Sweat collecting on your cold body. Even with a blanket on. All windows and doors were shut, no cool air could flow into even the smallest corners of your room.
So why were you so damn cold?
Oh. A fever.
You woke up with a stuffy nose, an aching head, and a sore throat mixed with a high temperature(ME!!!).
Maybe you shouldn't go to work today.
But money...
But getting better...
But money... :(
Eh whatever. Just take some tylenol and you'll be fine.
You woke up at your designated time—
SHUT UP!! I woke uh(up) ah(at) my.. Uhhhh. Deserted time! And.. Ate.. Uhm..
... Will you let me speak?
Uhm.. NO!! I ate.. Uhhhh, someeee Eggo waffles!!! Yurmy.. With syrup bcus.. I like syrup! And.. A cup of orang juice..
Lovely explanation of your morning.
May I speak now?
You.. MaY!!
Thanks. You sloppily trotted around your kitchen, trying to find something to eat. You couldn't even see things right, ughhh. And you were just soooo HOT!! But you got chills at the same time!!
Maybe you should stay home.
NO!! I need... THe mONey!!
Alright. You looked in your freezer, finding some eggo waffles you could munch on. Now for a drink, since you had a fever, maybe some orange juice would help calm it down.
It isn't THAT bad. The orange juice I mean, your health state is terrible.
Mmm... What should I consume next?
Maybe a spoon of honey and lemon? It helps with your throat. Like a lot.
Hmm... OkAYY!!
You took the spoon of honey and lemon, now for some vitamins(zinc and vitamin c, that's what I took) and now you're off!
You were still not right in the head, so you may have tripped on your own feet while walking to your car. You entered it, and sat down with a sigh. So you're not coughing up the workplace, you decided to suck on a cough drop.
They taste gross, but it's worth it. You sat there in your car seat for a few minutes, just thinking about what'll possibly happen at your job. Maybe the other employees will notice and ask if you're okay. Or maybe the Smiling Critters will notice how sick you are and try to take care of you.
Heh.. Little animals taking care of a whole human. How is that even possible?
.
.
.
Pretty possible if I do say so myself. You stepped into work after scanning with your id— This place is always so high with security, it could even have those red beaming laser beams from movies.
Anyways, you said your hi's and hello's to your employees, including toys of course. How could you miss out on saying hello to such cuties?
And those cuties could see how sick you were, but were too busy with the workers or the children that just LOVE receiving some toy attention.
You went over to Playcare, preparing to deal with possibly another headache, even if yours is gone now. Another headache from the kids' yelling and screaming, from their shrieks of joy, much more reasons to make your head throb with annoyance.
Being sick makes you grumpy.
"Hey coworker!" A voice from behind erupted, from how bright and loud it was, you could tell it was a certain dog.
You turned around, slightly closing your eyes from his bright aura, "Hey Dog—" You interrupted your greeting with a cough, "Day.. How are you today?" You had a wobbling smile on your face, trying to make it seem like you were the most healthy person alive.
"Um, I'm good! Are you alright? You seem kind of out of it..?" Dogday asked, he was worried about you and your well being. Kind of similar to that scenario you came up with in your head...
"Yeah I'm—" You coughed, a bit more aggressively compared to other recent one. "... Are you sure..?"
"Yeah—" You fainted, falling towards the ground.
Waiting for a thud to be echoed around the big place, but only a soft one. Including some fur and a vanilla scent. Had he.. Caught you? How? He's like 5 ft?(In his more kiddish form, not his bigger form)
"Oh geez.." He said, calling to the other critters to help him with getting you somewhere where you could rest. As you were slowly falling asleep, you could hear many worried voices. But by the time words could clearly be said, you were gone.
You were slightly waking up, slowly blinking your eyelids. You wanted to go back to sleep, but you have a job to do.
OH SHOOT YOU HAVE A JOB TO DO!!!!
You abruptly woke up, fully awake or not. But the sudden motion really messed with your head. The whole world was blurry, even the colorful blobs that were small in your vision.
"Oh my!" You could hear a soft pitter patter of paws hurrying over to you. Why's the red blob getting bigger?
"Mmm... Muh?" You couldn't properly possess words at the moment, so whatever came out your mouth was unauthorized sounds.
"You should rest! Sitting up that quickly can mess with you!" A paw gently grabbed your hand.
"Buh.. Bear?" You sounded like a 3 year old trying to pronounce words..
"Oh! Yes, I'm a bear.." You couldn't process the face right, but it looked like the bear was smiling. Why was the bear red? Aren't they supposed to brown? Or white, or black and white..? Or something.. This sickness is really messing with your head..
"Now rest, please..." The worried voice calmly said to you. Not pushing you, just holding your hand.
"Work.. I—" You leaned forward and fell cheek flat on the bear's face.
"Ee—!" They made a slight squeak at the contact. "Alright. That works." They chuckled.
Hours later, you finally woke up. You could hear conversations while you blinked your eyes open.
"And then— they fell on me!" Laughter was spread around the room from different voices and tones.
You figured that whoever was speaking, was talking about you...
One of them looked over and saw you—
"Guys, they're up!" They said.
They all looked over at you, as you slowly but surely sat up. Your head wasn't as woozy, still had your stuffy nose and hurting throat though..
Now that you didn't quickly get up, and were more rested, you could finally clearly see the animals that were once blobs.
"Oh.. Hoppy? And Bobby—" They all rushed over to you, wanting to see if you were okay to even get out of bed. You weren't sweaty, your voice was kinda ehh.., your nose seems stuffy, you didn't have a headache because they would've noticed the second you sat up.. But you're still not in the right condition to work!
"Are you okay?" What was this one's name again..? Dogday?
"Uhhh, yea Dogday, I'm okay."
"No headache or anything?" A soft voice said, that was Craftycorn, right?
"Luckily, no. I took a tylenol so I was fine when I woke up." You let out a cough, covering your mouth while doing so(no spreading germs!!).
Throughout the day, you had little animals taking care of you and your sickness. You had a couple of spoons of honey and lemon, took some vitamins, ate, and had a humidifier on all day. Also you were secluded in their little room they all had. So the 'sunlight' was on you all day, as if you were some sunflower..
You were wondering if the employees were even thinking about your disappearance.
At the end of the day, you ended up sleeping in Dogday's bed, cuddled up to him. He said, "It'll help with your sickness! And make you feel better!"
You woke up the next day, and yeah— it did make you feel better.
A/N|| I apologize for not including all of the Smiling Critters, I did try to include at least some of the ones that weren't always in the spotlight(I mean the ones that aren't talked about too much).
Another A/N|| Hip hip hooray!! I'm back ^_^