Chapter 26: 25

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Jasper:

Ugh, waking up was a pain in my ass. I groaned as Darien shook me, telling me to get up. I sat up but was hit with a wave of nausea almost immediately. "Fuck-" I was quick to throw the covers off and dart into the bathroom, where I found the closest toilet and puked without closing the door. "Oh, shit, dude." Darien was standing in the doorway behind me, looking mildly concerned. "What the fuck happened yesterday? It's hazy..." I asked him, and he shrugged. "I mean, you regressed during breakfast and then pretty much stayed that way until you went to sleep." I sighed and rubbed my hand over my eyes, letting it all come back. Jesus, you would think I went on a bender or something with my memory and how shitty I'm feeling right now.

I realized after a moment that I had eaten a shit ton last night, even dessert. Which would certainly explain why I just puked my guts out. "Are you sick?" I leaned against the wall and looked at him, returning the shrug. "Nope." I stood up again and flushed the toilet before walking to the sink and washing my mouth out. It was quiet until a leader walked in quiet abruptly. "Was someone throwing up?" Ms. Sammy was standing there, looking very accusingly at us. Darien and I exchanged glances. I nodded and said it was me after realizing that Darien wouldn't rat me out.

She looked very concerned and I realized she probably thought it was on purpose or something. "I woke up really nauseous. I had to run here to make the toilet. I think dinner just upset my stomach or something." She still looked pretty skeptical, but she nodded. "Okay, well go ahead and get dressed if you're able and then someone can take you to the medic." I shook my head. "No, I feel fine now, I really think I just ate too much or something last night."

"Well, even if you are fine it is policy that you go to the medic's office if you throw up. I'm sorry, but if you really are fine then it shouldn't take long." I sighed and nodded before getting ready with everyone else. When it was time for us to go to breakfast, I followed the group until we reached the main area and a leader took me off to the side, where I then realized was the way to the clinic. We went in and I explained to the nurse what happened after the leader left.

"So, has this happened before? Just throwing up randomly?" I shifted in my seat, very uncomfortable.

Ezra:

I was sitting in the cafeteria when Darien and the rest of their group came in. I was quite anxious to see Jasper after last night because I wanted to see how he was processing yesterday or even if he was still regressed. I was pretty confused when he didn't sit down next to Darien. "Where's Jasper??" I asked him. "Uh, he had to go to the clinic-" My eyes widened. "What?? Why? What happened?" He glared at me. "He had to go because he puked, if you would let me talk." I was a little less worried. "Is he sick?" He shrugged. "I don't know anything other than that. If you wanna know more, maybe you should-"

I stopped listening because I realized I could just go there myself. I got up and went over to my leader and asked to go there because that's where my sub is. He said yes, but that didn't matter because I was going anyway. It took me a second before I realized I didn't know where it was, but I was able to figure it out when I saw the building with the big medical cross on it.

I walked in and asked one of the doctor people if they knew where he was, and they pointed to one of the closed doors so I walked up and knocked. When I heard someone say come in, I opened the door to see Jasper sitting in a chair with a nurse in the room. He looked really tired of whatever was going on, which I'm assuming he has concluded is 'bullshit' by the look on his face.

"Hey, uh I'm his Dom. Is he okay?" He scowled at me, which kind of hurt but I ignored and the nurse lady nodded. "He seems to be okay, he just threw up this morning so I'm just making sure everything is alright." I nodded, feeling better. "You don't have to be here, I'm fine." I turned and looked at him and at this point he looked beyond annoyed. Which is fair considering everyone has kind of been speaking over him since I walked in, which I now feel guilty about.

"Uh, yeah, sorry. I just heard you were sick and I wanted to make sure you were okay..." I almost felt embarrassed, but he just nodded and looked away from us. "I was just asking him some question, actually." She turned to him. "Do you want him to stay here or wait in the hall until you're done?" I almost smiled when he looked downright offended, just as I predicted he would. He said the hall so I nodded and stepped out and sat down to wait.

Jasper:

I inwardly sighed as I remembered the conversation we were having before Ezra walked in. He had almost saved me, honestly, because he arrived just after she asked her first shitty question.

"Okay, well, as I was saying before, does this happen a lot?" I decided to play dumb. "Throwing up? No." I shrugged and she seemed patient as if she was determined to get a different answer. But I knew she wasn't going to hear one. "Are you sure? Do you know why it happened today?" I shook my head. "No. I honestly think it was something I ate last night." She stared at me before nodding, seeming to accept her unspoken defeat.

Just then there was another knock, and this time it was a different doctor from earlier, which caused me to remember previous events with an annoyed and embarrassed pang. "Mr. Andrews's sample is clean. He tested negative for all substances." She looked both pleased and again secretly disappointed as she was starting to think it really was sporadic mystery nausea. But I was fucking lying, of course.

After another couple minutes she had to let me go so I walked out to see Ezra again. Oh great. Another weird conversation/atmosphere. (Considering yesterday.) "Hey, so, are you good?" I nodded as we walked. "Yeah, I don't know what happened. I guess just something I had last night." He nodded this time. "So..." Here it comes. "Other than that, are you feeling alright?" I was quiet for a moment. "Yeah." I could tell he was beating around it, as if he would scare me off. Reminds me of my parents these last couple months.

"Look, I feel fine after yesterday. It's all good." I glanced at him to see he was smiling and felt my ears turn pink. "Define good?" I sighed as my reddening worsened.

I know the chapters have been short, sorry, but if I keep working on them until they are longer then they will be out less often. (Hope y'all like it tho) :)