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Layla is laying on Gigis bed, eyes half closed, sweating. Gigi is rambling something about how she lost a plushie she stole from the merch store and how she has to go back there to get another one. Or something like that.. Layla isn’t paying proper attention. There is a ringing in their ears and their vision is blurred.
Suddenly Connie pops up. “What’re you guys doing?”, she asks sceptically, as if she hadn’t been watching them for at least five minutes. “Mhh..?”, Layla groans as she slowly sits up. “Oh hi Connie”, Gigi says happily. Connie floats over to Gigi and gives her a small smooch on the cheek. Layla silently tries to sit up. “You look like shit.”, Connie says scoffing. Layla gangles towards the door, ignoring Connies rude comment. As Layla leaves the room Gigi leans over to Connie and says: “Do you have to be so rude to her?”
“They broke up with me two days ago. Let me be mad at them for at least a little while.”
“Fine but do you really think insulting them is helping anything?”
“I wasn’t insulting her! I was just saying the truth!”
Meanwhile Layla walks towards the kitchen to grab a cup of water. Every single noise makes them flinch. She has always been a sensitive toon. Delilah always tells her to just toughen up.. if only it was that easy. As Layla enters the kitchen she sees Sprout washing some dishes. “Can you please give me a cup of water..?”, Layla weakly mumbles as they drop onto a chair. “Oh hey Lay-- Dang you look pale.. Are you okay?” “Water..”, Layla just repeats. Sprout grabs one of the plastic cups he just cleaned and fills it with cold, icy water. After he hands it to Layla he sits down on the chair next to her. “Do you need anything else?” Layla shakes her head silently as she takes a few sips of water. It has always been clear to him what a fragile toon Layla could be at times, even though she hates talking about it. “Okay then.. I’m always here if you need me!” Sprout gets back to washing dishes but still once every few minutes glances over to Layla to make sure she hasn’t passed out in her chair. Layla puts her head down on the table and just groans.
All of a sudden Flutter enters the room, looks around and spots Layla. She gives Layla a very concerned look. “I’m fine Flutter.. no need to worry..” But Flutters knows. Flutter always knows. She has a thing for reading people. (Oh and also.. Layla is a fucking terrible liar lol-)
Flutter gestures to Layla: “Want to come to my room with me?” “sure..”, Layla mutters. She grabs onto the table to push herself up. As she gets onto her legs, her vision suddenly goes black for a moment and she loses her balance. She stumbles over and drops onto Flutter. Sprout jumps up ,“LAYLA!”, Sprout exclaims as he runs over to the both of them. Flutter stares down at Layla in shock, not knowing what to do. “Help me lay her down!!”, Sprout yells at Flutter in a panic. They carefully sit Layla against the wall “Layla!? Can you hear me??” “I’m FINEE.. I just stood up too quickly.” Sprout turns to Flutter and says: “Can you go look for Cosmo? Ask him to bring some kind of migraine or headache meds or something!” Flutter immediately dashes out of the room to go look for Cosmo.
“I said I’M FINEE..!!”, Layla mumbles, “I don’t need help..!” “Yes you DO! Just accept our help for once!”, Sprout yells at her. Layla just stares back at him. Sprout looks around the room, not knowing what to do. He gets up and walks over to the sink to get a towel soaked in cold water to put on Laylas forehead. He has no idea if this would actually help but it’s worth a try, right? Layla is the only toon who often experiences dizziness like this, so usually it gets handled by her toon handler, but right now there’s no one around. He puts the cold towel on Laylas head and just sits next to her while waiting for Flutter to come back with Cosmo. Layla stares up at the ceiling, soaked in her own sweat.
After a few minutes, that felt like a bajillion years to Layla, Flutter flies back into the kitchen, Cosmo and Bea behind her. “Flutter told us what happened! I got some ibuprofen!”, Cosmo calls out. “Someone get her some water.”, Bea says calmy. She has dealt with this many times before. “She just had water”, Sprout answers. “Just get her some more. She probably didn’t drink enough throughout the day”
After Layla drank some more water and took some ibuprofen she starts feeling a bit better. Bea gets back to work and Sprout continues doing the dishes with Cosmos help. Layla still feels a bit dizzy and overstimulated, but at least they can stand up again.
Layla turns to Flutter and mumbled: “So..? Can I still come to your room?” Flutter exitingly nods. Layla starts walking but Flutter quickly picks them up and flies her over to her room and drops her on her bed. “Woah there, be gentle!”, Layla teases, though she was completely fine. Flutter sits down next to her and gives her an apoligizing look. “Cuddle with me!”, Layla jokingly demands. She already know what Flutter is going to say anyway. Flutter enthusiastically nods and lays down with Layla. Layla wraps her arms around Flutter. Flutters fur rubs against her face and she can feel her heart beat. After listening to Flutters calm breathing for some time they both start drifting off.