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CHAPTER EIGHT
SURPRISE SURPRISE….
Sometime that night Yuna had managed to fall asleep. She had tossed and turned the whole night, and when she woke up at 6:30 in the morning the following day after only 3 hours of sleep she felt wretched, and called in sick. Even though she felt physically awful, she was much more cheerful than the day before. She couldn't understand what had gotten to her, but it didn't seem to matter any more; all was well. Except for the tiny, insignificant detail that she could barely walk, her head pounded so much.
She crawled back under the covers and awoke again at 10am, not feeling any better. Slowly getting out of bed and stuffing her feet into her slippers she half shuffled half tripped into the bathroom, found the medicine cabinet and popped two aspirins in her mouth, grabbed her duvet and settled herself on the couch.
When she was a little girl her dad used to make a giant fuss about her whenever she was ill. He'd call her his princess, and make her chicken soup. He'd skip a day of work and they'd watch cartoons together. She'd always be sad when Bugs ended, and he'd remember parts of the show off by heart for her, then imitate the characters. He loved making her laugh and often over exaggerated. When the cartoon hour was over, he'd get out the paints and they'd paint paintings for mommy and gran. He always insisted she had a nap, and then they'd do all kinds of random stuff. Sometimes they baked cookies, and she got to stir the dough while he added the ingredients. Sometimes they played Barbie dolls. Sometimes they pretended she was a real princess and that Daddy was prince charming coming to rescue her. He'd always read her a story before her second nap, and always remembered to wake her up so she wouldn't miss out on Sesame Street.
Yuna smiled at the memories. She turned on the TV, and flicked channels until she reached cartoon network. Just for old time's sake. She smiled to herself as Bugs came on, shortly followed by Tom and Jerry. At mid day she switched the TV off and wished she had someone to feed her chicken soup. At 5 minutes past 12 she thought about re-conciling with Squall so he could feed her chicken soup. At 6 past 12she immediately scrapped the idea. At 7 past 12 she thought about Tidus. At 10 past 12 she fell asleep and dreamed about him. And at 3 past 2 she woke up again. This time, feeling much better.
Her head still hurt, but it was very minor, compared to how she felt before. She took another aspirin, just in case, and decided to get dressed. Just because she couldn't go to school this morning, doesn't mean she couldn't show up at the Wertterz's place this afternoon. She stayed under the shower longer than was necessary, enjoying the feel of the hot water soothing her skin. She stepped out of the shower, wrapped herself in a bathrobe and started towelling her hair dry.
What to wear today? Examining her wardrobe she pulled out a pair of turquoise shorts that stopped half way to her knee, and a white button up shirt, that was slightly too big for her. She put on her butterfly pendant, with matching purple butterfly earrings, and blow dried her hair so it would stick out on the side, giving her a just-out-of-bed-look, like in those advertisements on TV. After letting her sparkly turquoise nail polish dry, she examined herself once more, checking that she didn't have anything un-lady like on her face, such as dried up drool or something, and headed outside, knocked on the Wertterz door, and nearly had a heart attack.