Embry...
Jailynn was sick, and I was playing doctor.
Since Jailynn had phased, her temperature had been the same as the rest of ours, so we couldn't take her to a regular doctor, and it wasn't serious enough to make a house call to Dr. Cullen, so I got to guess and check with the help of Google.
"Honey," I whispered, pushing her hair out of her face to check her temp.
She opened her eyes and smiled a little at me, "Mornin," She whispered.
It was 3:30 PM. "Its not morning.." I said, "You hungry?"
She closed her eyes for a second, and opened them again. "No.. I would throw up."
She had been throwing up non stop every time she had woken up, so I knew she didn't have any food in her system. I also knew she wouldn't be able to keep anything down.
I layed down beside her and stroked her face. She had been making me keep kissing to a minimum due to her fear of getting me sick. My immune system was great right now, thank her very much. But I couldn't deny her wishes as long as she was Sam's sister.
"Babe," I whispered. She didn't answer, and shortly afterwards, I heard a soft snore. I smiled and chuckled a little bit under my breath. She was so cute.
I could hear Collin's video game from the bedroom, and was afraid it would wake Jailynn up and cause her to vomit. Again. I stood slowly and left the room to let her sleep. I needed to go home sometime, and talk things over with my mom. Only because I felt bad, not because I really wanted to. She had called a few times, texted a few times, and had apparently been asking around town if anyone had seen me. Not many people had since the day Jailynn had phased, due to the fact that I had been taking care of the love of my life.
I was honestly surprised that Jailynn wasn't over this yet. I mean, you would think illness would be like anything else we could heal from. Could her phasing have something to do with the sudden sickness? Who knew?
Collin and Brady had been my biggest helps the past few days. I knew how Jailynn felt on the topic of Brady and Collin even being shape shifters, she thought it was like turning babies into animals, and now she knew first hand how it was to be an animal.. blah blah blah. That was the one time I had zoned out when she was talking, because honestly I didn't want to hear it. I was a wolf too, and was slightly offended.
"Collin," I said when I got to the living room and saw Collin lounging on the couch with his Xbox live headset on, laughing. He must have been oblivious to the volume of the Tv, but it hurt my sensitave ears, and would surely wake Jailynn up, "Turn it down!"
Collin did as I had said and turned down the Tv. "Dude, I don't even know whats going on."
Collin had been the only person I could talk to the last couple of days, It was Sam's sister, Jacob had imprinted.. and something I learned from Jailynn.. Survival of the fittest.. trust no one. I trusted Collin, though,
"Whats going on, Dude?" He asked, turning the game off to talk to me.
"Jailynn. All of our systems spiked as soon as we phased or even got close. Jailynn phases and the next day she is throwing up."
There was a brief moment of silence between me and Collin.
"What happened the other day when she phased? You had to have made her pretty mad," Collin said, chuckling a little at the end.
I thought back to 5 days ago, and thought about the beach, on our first attempt of a date. Which failed. Miserably.
We had been walking and she told me we needed to talk about something. She said we were moving too fast and I told her that if she was scared then she needed to tell me.. She had paniced a little at the word scared.
"I asked if she was scared," I whispered under my breath, and Collin looked confused. At the moment, I didn't want to explain. At the moment, I wanted to pull Jailynn up out of the bed and apologize. I had set her off, and I had been her trigger. I don't know how I struck a nerve, but it had been a big one, and one that had been on edge.
"Dude, you confuse me," was all Collin said, and returned to his game. Ugh.
On my way out of the room, I turned the Tv down a little more, and could hear Collin grumble quietly.
I went back into Jailynn's room, and her eyes were open, she was just staring at her wall, though. Through the last two weeks, she had cluttered the wall with pictures. Pictures of the two of us, of her and Sam, of her and Emily and Sam, and of the four of us. She studied them closely and smiled when she realized I had came in the room.
"Beautiful," I whispered when I slipped into bed beside her. She rolled over and tucked her face into the crook of my neck. I smiled at the feeling. "You feeling better?" I asked her.
"A little," She replied after a second's hesitation. "Wheres Sam?"
I honestly wasn't sure. He had been running patrol, and working with the pack on stuff that I wasn't able to be a part of the passed few days.
"I'm not really sure. He's been running patrol alot." I said, rubbing her hair.
"Oh.." was all she had to say.
We stayed like that for a while, in our own version of paradise. Calm and tranquil.
Jailynn
I was looking at the photos I had accumulated in the past few weeks when he came in. I had pictures of the two of us taped to my wall in various places. Many of them, though, were in this bed. I smiled when it clicked that he was back.
"Beautiful," He muttered as he slipped into bed with me. I rolled over and snuggled into him, placing my face softly in the crook of his neck. "You feeling better?" He asked me.
"A little," I said. "Wheres Sam?" I asked him. My brother hadn't checked on me much in the last two days...
"I'm not really sure," He told me. "He's been running patrol alot.." He pet the back of my head and made sure I was close to him.
The only thing I could think to say was "Oh.."
My stomach was still churning, but I could tell it would be a little while if I threw up again. I wanted to get up and walk around the house, but I knew Embry wouldn't let me.
"Babe," I whispered after a few minutes, "Can we go in the living room?" I pulled my head back, and snufffed a little bit.
"I don't know, honey. I'm not sure what Emily would think if you threw up on her new rug.." He told me, not joking.
"Emily got a new rug? And I didn't get to go help her pick it out?" I pouted a little, but soon went back to sleep.
Sam
"Okay, guys." I said, looking at all of the pack excluding Embry and Collin, who were at home taking care of my sister. "We have got to get to work, soon."
We were building Jailynn a new photography studio in my back yard, and hoping we were being quite enought not to make her notice.
Leah raised her hand and rudely interjected, "Not a guy."
I felt so bad seeing what I did to Leah. And knowing she has to put up with it that much more than I did. But life goes on, I guess.
"Okay, guys and Leah." She smiled triumphantly.
"So, what exactly are we doing?" Paul asked me.
"We are building a room. The room needs to have.." I thought vaugley, "A door.. and a window.. and I have no idea what we're doing." I admitted. "Abort mission. I'm going to check on my sister."
I turned and walked away from the pack. I hadn't checked on her personally in two days, I had only asked Embry. Honestly, I felt awful about it. So I had to check on her today.
When I walked through the living room, Collin was grumbling quielty about something and I honeslty didn't care what it was. I tapped softly on her bedroom door, and didn't get an answer. I opened her bedroom door softly and her and Embry were sleeping.
I was happy for my sister, but if it had been any one but Emrby. I had seen Emrby throw away girls like trash and then suddenly my sisters in the picture, and he is attatched. It made me watch him more carefully. What was I going to do?