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When you came home from school, you made sure to go straight to the bathroom and wash your hands as best you could.

There was a flu going around at your school, and kids were catching it every day.

All of your friends had been affected by it and had to stay home, and you couldn't even visit them in case you caught it too.

"Did you wash your hands?" Your father asked as he came into the bathroom, looking worried.

The flu had began a week ago, and ever since then Trollex made 100% sure that you immediately washed your hands as soon as you got home, he would hate for you to get sick like the others. He couldn't stand seeing his baby Ill.

"yeah, I just did it now" you responded after drying your hands on your personal pink towel.

Trollex seemed relived but still felt a little worried. He couldn't explain why, but he had a feeling that something was going to happen, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it...

Trollex closed the storybook he had read you for your bedtime story and placed it back in the bookshelf before giving you a kiss on your cheek "sweet dreams my angel" he said softly before leaving.

You shifted into a more comfortable positions in your bed, hugging your seahorse plushie close to you. You felt the slight sensation of a soar throat coming on, and you felt your body ache slightly. You frowned and snuggled further into the soft bedsheets, It made you worry just a little, because that's mainly how all your friends felt the day before they woke up with it.

You sighed and closed your eyes, hoping to get some sleep. It was probably nothing anyway, you'd probably just wake up and feel completely fine. At least, you hoped.

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You woke up and felt awful.

The slight aching from last night had grown a lot stronger, your throat felt itchy and dry and a lot worse from last night, and to make things worse you now had new symptoms; such as a headache, a cough, you felt weak, and you were burning up. Not to mention your nose was stuffy and it was already annoying you.

You groaned and began shivering despite feeling quite warm, but luckily the shivering woke up Iris, who had been laying next to you asleep, until now.

The rainbow colored beat drop button fish slowly opened her eyes after feeling you shiver.

"Y/n? Are you ok?" She asked tiredly, looking over at you with a sleepy but concerned expression.

You shook your head and coughed, making Iris wince a little at how rough your coughing sounded. Once you were done with your coughing fit, she looked over at you feeling more worried. Yeah...something was definitely wrong with you...

"I...I don't feel so good..." you managed to say, the coughing had helped clear your throat a little, so you could now speak without sounding horrible, but you still did sound quite raspy.

Iris sighed and looked at you sympathetically, already knowing exactly what you had. Just last night she was worrying when you were going to catch it.

"I'll go get your parents" she said before zooming out of the room and down the LED halls as fast as she could.

You continued to shiver, trying to find a somewhat comfortable posting while clutching your seahorse plushie tightly, hoping to find some comfort.

Ugh...you felt awful, you couldn't remember ever feeling this bad with a cold. Well, it wasn't exactly a cold. It was a million times worse...

"Baby girl, Iris told us you aren't feeling well..." you heard your father say, his voice full of worry.

You looked over and saw your parents looking down at you with a deep concern, your mother was holding a thermometer, some medicine and a towel.

You sighed "I don't feel good at all, it's so hot, and everything hurts..." you whimpered, tears building up in your eyes.

"Oh baby girl..." your father cooed, swimming over and stroking your cheek gently "shhh, it'll be ok..."

he then placed a hand on your forehead and frowned worriedly, you were burning up.

Lily quickly caught on and placed the items she held in her hands on your bedside table, but she placed the small towel on your head, the towel was quite cold and the sudden feel of the cool cloth on your head made you shiver a little more than you were, and it didn't feel too great.

You whined and tried to take it off, but your father gently grabbed your hands and guided them away from the towel.

"It's cold daddy..." you whimpered, holding onto his hands tightly.

"I know my angel" he cooed softly, placing his left hand on your cheek and stroking it gently."but it'll bring your fever down and help you feel a little better, ok?"

"O-ok..." you responded, snuggling into his cheek, you desperately wanted him to hold you but you didn't want to get out of the warm blanket and possibly make him sick.

Your mom came over and gave your tiny hand a gentle, loving squeeze while looking at you sadly.

"I'll go make you some soup to help you feel better sweetheart" she said before swimming out of the room.

After a while, she came back with the soup, your father spoon fed all of it to you, you went sure what kind of soup it was but it tasted good.

It had made you feel a little better and the cool towel helped bring your fever down, but you still felt awful, but luckily your dad was with you for the entire time, Lily had to leave to see to the twins but stayed with you for as long as she could.

As Lily was tending to the twins needs, your dad grabbed a small bottle off of the side and poured some orange looking liquid into a spoon.

"Here baby girl, this'll make you feel better" he said, slowly bringing the spoonful of the weird looking substance towards your mouth.

You immediately felt grossed out and turned your head away from the spoon, sticking your tongue out and whining softly.

Trollex sighed, not out of annoyance but mainly out of sympathy, he knew how you felt and he himself would admit the medicine tasted bitter and sour, and the color did not help at all, but you had to take it ether way...

"Come on my baby, I know it doesn't look good, but I promise it will make you feel a lot better, ok?" He said gently, moving the spoon to your mouth once more.

You thought about what he said for a few minutes and then reluctantly opens your mouth, allowing him to move it in.

You winced as you swallowed the disgusting sticky medicine, wincing at how awful it was.

Trollex grabbed your hand and gave it a gentle squeeze "I know, it tastes horrible, but it's worth it"

You nodded slowly, squeezing his hand back gently.

A while later your dad had to quickly leave and check of everything was running smoothly in techno reef, he promised he'd be back in about twenty minutes.

Now, you were sitting up a little, the medicine had worked and you felt a little better than earlier. Unfortunately not fully, but you were getting there, the aching had subsided a little.

Then you heard the door open and saw two familiar techno trolls swim in.

"Hey Glow stick, your dad told us your not feeling well, so we came to see you" Synth said with a soft smile, but his eyes were full of worry.

Bliss nodded "yeah, how are you feeling now, Starfish?" She asked as her and Synth both swam over.

"A little better..." you said, your voice sounding a little less raspy than earlier.

Synth gave you a kiss on your forehead "aww, I hope you get better soon Glow stick" he said sympathetically, looking down at you sadly.

Bliss nodded and stroked your cheek gently, also feeling upset at seeing you Ill.

"Oh by the way, me and your uncle both got you a gift to help make you feel better!" Bliss exclaimed excitedly, a smile appearing on her face.

This instantly brought an excited smile on your face "what are they?" You asked sounding raspy but happy.

Both older techno trolls pulled out two wrapped gifts from their hair. synth's had a pink one with multicolored fish on it while Bliss's had a purple one with yellow stars on it.

You smiled and took them both, opening Synth's first, he had brought you a dark pink jellyfish plushie that seemed to glow in your dimly lit room.

You looked up at your uncle with a bright happy smile "thank you uncle Synthie!"

Synth smiled at you lovingly and gave you a kiss on your cheek "your welcome my glow stick"

You giggled and gave him a quick hug, you didn't leave your bed for obvious reasons but he was close enough to hug so you went for it.

After that, Bliss gave you her gift, you opened it and saw that it was a coconut octopus plushie, the plushie was a lavender color and the tentacles were a nice Pearl white color, you smiled and hugged it.

"Thank you aunt Blissy!" You said happily as you held the two plushies close.

Bliss smiled and gave you a kiss on your forehead "no problem starfish, you deserve a few gifts" she said with a smile.

After a while of talking with them, they eventually had to leave, you were saddened by this but they promised to visit you again tomorrow.

Shortly after they left, your dad swam back in, smiling when he saw the plushies in your arms.

"Did your aunt and uncle spoil you?" He asked with a smile.

You giggled and nodded "yeah! I got new plushies" you said with excitement, but you regretted raising the volume of your voice a little, as it made your soar throat hurt.

Trollex kissed you on the cheek and sat down next to you, wrapping his arm around you. You both spent the next few hours playing and talking with each other, until it was time for bed.

Trollex and Lily had decided to let you sleep in bed with them in case you woke up in the middle of the night having a fever again, sure you seemed to be getting better now but they didn't want to risk it.

As Trollex was done reading you one of your favourite bedtime stories, this one being the three little sea pigs and the big bad seawolf.

Your father laid down on the right side of you while your mother laid on the left before she turned off the clam lamp on the nightstand.

You felt their arms wrap around you and hug you tightly, you smiled as you hugged your seahorse plushie, jellyfish plushie and coconut octopus plushie close to you, fleeing the tiredness take over.

In a short amount of time all three of you fell asleep.

Luckily your night was peaceful, you didn't wake up when the babies cried, or when your parents got up to see to them. So luckily you got a full nights sleep.

When you woke up in the morning you still felt a little ill, but much better than yesterday.

You looked over your left to see your mother was gone, she was probably busy with queen duties or caring for your baby sisters.

You didn't have to see if your dad was gone, you knew he was still with you, his arms were wrapped around you and you were snuggled up to him in a comfortable position. You looked up at him, noting that he was still asleep.

You felt a familiar scratchy sensation in your throat and began having another coughing fit, unfortunately that wasn't gone yet.

Trollex slowly woke up at the sound of your coughing, it took his half asleep mind a minute to realise that the sound that had woken him up and was still going was you coughing.

And when the realisation hit, he immediately bolted up, looking down at you in worry and gently patting you on the back to help you stop.

Luckily it helped, and your coughing subsided, you groaned and crawled into your father's lap, hugging his waist.

"I still don't feel too good" you muttered, burying your face just below his chest.

Trollex looked down at you sympathetically, he wrapped his arms and tail around you. "I know baby, but you'll feel better soon" he cooed softly, kissing you on your forehead.

Over the next few days you were slowly recovering, it was a full week when you woke up and realised you didn't feel ill anymore.

You didn't ache, your nose was no longer stuffy, you didn't have a headache, you felt better, you were completely cured.

You immediately shot out of bed (startling Iris in the process) and zoomed around in excitement, relieved that you no longer felt ill.

"Ahhh! What's going on!?" You heard Iris yell in shock, looking around wildly.

"Iris! I feel better!" You said with excitement, zooming around some more.

Iris recovered from her shocked state and chuckled, smiling up at you "I'm glad you are, I was beginning to think you'd never get better"

"Neither did I" you replied still zooming around in excitement, glad to be able to swim around again.

Hopefully you'd never get sick again.