Buttermen Doesn't Like the City…
Maria woke up the next morning to find herself alone without Manny. She randomly looked around and saw Manny had retreated outside to do some more vomiting. She joined Manny outside to see how he was doing. Manny looked rather ill from all the vomiting but did feel better on the inside but his energy lacked. Manny had thrown up much that he was now tired and low on energy to function. Manny blinked up at her as tiredoulsy as she appeared and let one more blood hurling blotch and fell limp on the railing. Maria picked him up and brought him to the house. Maria placed Manny on the couch and covered him with the blanket. All most instantly Manny hurled again but Maria did a run/slide and caught the mucus in a bucket. Manny looked down at her and shifted around to the other side of the couch and muttered. "Thanks Mom." and shifted off to sleep. Maria wiped her brow and plummeted on the other end of the couch exhausted. "What are we going to do about Manny?"
"Let him continue puking…" Grandpappi emerged from the shadows of the hallway and faced her.
Maria looked up. "What long is this going to last?"
Grandpappi looked at her regularly. "Until his stomach runs out of mucus."
Maria looked up and spoke. "We could give him some Yummy-Tummy…It's so suppose to sooth the child's stomach for Nausea, Heartburn or upset stomachs…"
Grandpappi moaned. "Pashhhhhhhhaaa! That won't cure the boy. What he needs is some lax... It'll poop out all that unwanted candy."
Maria looked stern. "And give him the runs to boot? No I think were going with Yummy-Tummy."
Manny out cried out from the side of the couch. "Yummy-Tummy…"
Maria looked satisfied… "Yummy-Tummy it is!"
Maria went to kitchen and searched the med cabinet for Yummy-Tummy and found it right next to Grandpappi's stash of gummy worm. Maria scoffed at the gummy worms and pulled the YT bottle out and closed the cabinet and retrieved a clean spoon from the sink and bought the medicine back to Manny. Maria gave Manny two spoon fulls of Yummy-Tummy and ordered him back to sleep. Manny reluctantly obeyed and when off to sleep while Grandpappi and Maria sighed.
Maria looked up at from her sitting position on the couch. (She had collapsed there after feeding Manny his medicine.) "What now?"
Grandpappi looked at her. "Wanna watch Underground Empire?"
Maria sighed. "Sure why not? Manny could sleep through that host's speeches for hours… Remember when he was a baby?"
Maria put on a Baby Einsteins video for Manny when he was two and he fell asleep as soon as the host introduced his childhood. Turns out the video was fully labeled. "Baby Einsteins: The Child Genius of Dr. Eugene Buttermen."
Maria and Grandpappi fell asleep as soon as the host introduced himself on the tape as a miffed Dr. Eugene Buttermen spied on them from his telescope from across the street in his building. "I should have never moved to this city…The people sleep too much… I remember yesterday at the Supermarket..."
Flashback…
Dr. Eugene Buttermen turned the person next to him in line at the cahiers and spoke. "Hi I'm Dr.Eugene-?"
The person fell instantly asleep and Dr. Buttermen looked miffed while noticing the cashier had fallen asleep too.
Flashback ends
Dr. Buttermen grumbled again. "I should have never left Ottawa."