Chapter 4

Jude POV:

It's lunch time but I don't think I should eat my stomach started hurting two hours ago. I didn't want to tell Lena because I knew she would just send callie and me away. I find Conor and we walk outside to find a place to eat I pull out my sandwich and my stomach lurched.

" Are you ok do you want to go to Lena?" Connor asks concerned

"I'm fine I just don't like mustard that's all." I lie

"Oh well my sandwich doesn't have mustard and I like mustard so do you want to trade and have mine instead?' Connor asks

"Yeah thanks it's hard in a foster home because they don't really care about your dislikes and likes in food they only care about their actual kids likes and dislikes." I vent

After my little out burst we eat in silence plus I also felt like if I talked more would come out then wanted. Lunch period ends and we get up to start going to class when I feel the bile rising in my throat I swallow it and when I get to my next class I ask if I could go to the nurse to lie down. I get a pass and walk to the nurses when I walk in Lena was talking to the nurse I tried to turn around quickly and leave but it was to late she saw me.

"Hey bud you ok you look green is your tummy upset?" Lena asks motherly

When I don't respond because my mouth is full of vomit she walks over to me and kneels down.

"You can tell me whats going on I'm not going to send you away if you're sick me and Stef are not like your other foster parents. Ok we love you and because of our overflowing love to you we want to adopt send you away we would never want that for you" Lena says

I open my mouth to respond but all that comes out is projectile vomit and it goes all over Lena it got in her hair on her face, and clothes. Lena stays there in shock when suddenly she gets up and runs to the trash can.

Lena POV:

I am covered in puke my stomach started to hurt that's why I was in there when Jude walked in. Oh crap I'm going to be sick and I can not do it on Jude I get up and run for the trash can. The nurse understood what was happening and grabbed the trash can for me and put it under my chin. Everything I ate that day and more appeared in the trash can it just kept coming up and coming up. In the midst of my retching I faintly hear Jude retching and throwing up on the floor. The nurse put my hands around the trash can and ran into the hall to get another trash can for Jude. When we are both done the nurse makes us sit down with our trash cans.

Stef POV:

I'm in the middle of rubbing Callies back as she got sick in the bucket I gave her when I hear the phone ringing. I grab it and answer it with one hand still rubbing her back with the other. It was the school great yet another sick kid to get . I didn't recognize the number as Lena's but pick it up anyways.

"Hello this is Stef." I say

"Hi this is the nurse at anchor beach and I have your foster son and wife with me they both just threw up all over my office and I need you to come get them."

"Can I talk to Lena please?" I ask

"Sure one second" the nurse responds

"Hello" Lena says weakly from the other end

"So you and Jude had an issue and now I have to come with you." I say standing up to go help Mariana

"I feel awful please bring plastic bags or buckets just in case we…"

I hear talking and then the sound of retching followed by a second persons retching it was all too much three people were all throwing up by me Mariana next to me, Jude and Lena through the phone. My stomach gave a lurch dropping the phone I ran to the bathroom barely making it to the toilet. When I'm done I tell the nurse someone will come by to get them. I then call mike giving him a rundown of how we have all caught the flu except for Brandon and that I needed him to go pick up Lena and Jude from school because… I paused for a vomit session. Mike seemed to get it and said he would go get them and help around the house. I thank him hang up vomit some more and lie my head against the nice tile floor and fall asleep.