Day 1: She's miserable

Alexithymiaa: -Step laid in bed, her back and head all propped up with pillows so she could sit upright in bed even though she was still lying down all fucking day long. She'd been extremely depressed since coming down from all the crazy drugs they had her on in the hospital and all she'd done since being released this afternoon was lay in bed and cuddle the cats. // Bryan stood in the kitchen, a large pot of red sauce simmering on the stove that he made from scratch. Family recipe. He had a frying pan searing some shrimp on one burner, and opposite a pot of boiling water with regular spaghetti in it for the normal humans that would actually eat it. Of course the dogs and Harvey were at his feet, ready and waiting for somethhing to fall.-
Covet: Felix came in the house from his shift at the Library, Rochelle had gone to pick him up, since she was borrowing his car while she was here. She walked in right behind him and sniffed the air, "Wow, that wasn't smelling that good before I left." She said to Bryanm, while Felix b-lined it to the bedroom to go see Steph and put comfy clothes on because fuck pants and all that. He walked in the bedroom and closed the door behind him, walking over to Steph to give her a kiss, "Hey Red, How was the first day?"
Alexithymiaa: -She barely flinched when he came over to her, her eyes just following him. She gave him a death glare because that was a stupid question and she felt miserable inside and out, only holding it for a few seconds before she fell back into her downer face. "Awesome..." // Bryan reached p to grab a few bowls from the shelf, setting the stack down on the counter as he moved about getting the pasta drained. "I have many talents, most of which go unnoticed because everyone sucks." He said as he almost tripped over Penny because FOOD.-
Covet: Rochelle made her way into the kitchen and looked at Bryan, "Well, color me impressed, and here I thought I'd be doing a lot of the cooking. Defintely no complaints from me. Do you need help with anything?" She asked offering, because that's what she was there for. // Felix looked at her glare, and grabbed her face to cover it in more kisses. "Hey, no blue or red faces. Bryan's working on something to eat for you to take your meds, then how about I push you around the neighborhood a little bit tonight. It's really nice out, and nobody will be out and about to bother us either. I'm sure the dogs would enjoy it."
Alexithymiaa: -She gave him a careless shrug and then tried to shift onto her side, letting out a hiss before just settling for staying on her back. "If you want to..." // "You learn what you need to in order to survive." He said blandly because it was just a casua truth to him that his parents sucked and he was pretty over it. "Yeah, move them before I trip or step on someone." He spoke as he pointed at the animals crowding his legs, switching the spaghetti back to the pot so he could add some of his sauce and get it all mixed up.-
Covet: Rochelle walked over to the cupboard she knew where the treats were at, and grabbed a couple for the dogs and one for Harvey's fat ass, then called the dogs, "Penny, Nugget, C'mon let's go outside." She said with a whistle heading out to the back patio. // Felix nodded his head, "Well I figured you've been cooped up all day, I'm sure you'd like some fresh air and some time away from the house."
Alexithymiaa: "Being in the house doesn't bother me, not being able to move does." She said with a sigh, turning her face to the side to let it sink into her pillow. "I don't want to do this." // Filling Steph's bowl with just shrimp with some sauce, he set it aside and filled the others with spaghetti and shrimp, dropping forks into each one. He picked up Steph and Felix's bowls, turning to walk to the bedroom. Without knocking or giving a fuck, he pushed the door open and walked in, setting Steph's bowl down next to her on the night stand and shoving Felix's at him. Grabbing the bottle of antibiotics from the bathroom, he shook a pill out into his hand, watching her. "Have some of that so you can take this."-
Covet: Rochelle gave the dogs their treat then left then outside so that they wouldn't be a bother while peoples were eating. Harvey was inevitable. // "Well, I think it's a litlte late for that, and it's all uphill from here. Slowly.. uphill. but forward momentum all the same."Felix turned around whern Bryan came in, "Hey! I could have been naked." He said, which he was shirtless, sort of, it was over his head and shoulders, he just hadn't pulled it down yet. Then he glared when Bryan got her pills and stood there waiting for her. Setting the bowl down on the nightstand, he pulled his shirt down and took the pill from Bryan. "I'm home now, which means your shift is over, Get out, I've got it."
Alexithymiaa: "Don't knock or anything. It's fine." She said in monotone, completely unamused. Looking at the bowl of food, she wrinkled her nose, the smell alone making her stomach flip. // "But you're not naked and I've got shit to do. Stop complaining." He turned to look at Steph, gesturing to her bowl. "I made the sauce homemade and it's just shrimp. I didnt use any oil and I didn't even give you that much, okay?" He spoke a little more gently to her than he did to Felix because fuck Felix. Giving that asshole a glare, he turned and walked out of the room, not bothering to shut the door behind him and just going over to collapse on the couch. "Foods ready." He said to Rochelle, running his hand down his face.-
Covet: Rochelle heard Bryan from inside and made her way back in to get herself something to eat, she saw Bryan and gave a chuckle, "You're working yourself way harder than you need to, Kiddo. But It's nice to see at least one of her family members here." // Felix just stood there glaring at Bryan as he walked back out, then turned to Steph, "I'm going to try realy hard not to kill him before the end of this week. I already nearly strangled him last night." He said then looked at her, "He's right though, it's not much and your stomach is going to feel even worse if you take your meds without food. So a couple bites at least."
Alexithymiaa: "Why?" She asked softly, eyeing the shrimp again before looking back to his face. "I don't want it. I dont even think I'll be able to keep it down if I did." // "This is what I do. I take care of my sister and I make offensive comments. That's my entire life." He said with a bit of a smirk, stretching his left leg out to ease some of the ache. "It's always been me, and always will be me. I've accepted it and I'm starting to think she has to. Only took her fifteen years to figure it out. The key to having a relationship with either of them is to just expect absolutely nothing so you're never disappointed."-
Covet: Rochelle nodded, "She's expressed as much with your guys' mother. I've had the pleasure of meeting her once, though I'm sure she's not my biggest fan, however My default is to kill them with kindness. I was pleasant as a peach and I'm sure that just chapped her butt six ways from sunday. But, that's her problem. I think the two of you have become decent adults, considering their style's of parenting." Rochelle said as she got her food and sat at the island to eat it // Felix rolled his eyes, because he wanted to be alpha over your post op care. And I told him that he wasn't even staying here, so what good would it be for him to have it, then I kind of jumped down his throat about considering your feelings for once because it's nice that he looks after your physical health, but he sucks and is failing at considering you mental health and it's bullshit. " Felix said taking a bite, " Do you want me to get you something else, that's going to be a little lighter on your stomach?" He asked her, "Because you're going to have to have a stronger will over your stomach. You have to take these...and you have to take them with food."
Covet: his eyes, " Because*
Alexithymiaa: "I acknowledge that he tries..." She said in a small voice, trying to give Bryan at least something. "I cant even think about food right now. Can't I just lay here and be miserable?" She asked, turning her face into her pillow. // Bryan pushed himself up from the couch, making his way into the kitchen to grab his bowl. "Lucky you." He grumbled, twirling his fork around spaghetti. "I think we're both who we are in spite of them, if anything. I've always just wanted to do my own thing and march to the beat of my own drum regardless of them or what they wanted, and she's always just wanted to prove our mom wrong."-
Covet: "Whas this before or after your mother tried to steam roll her into gymnastics and pressured her into a life long habbit that is detrimental to her overall heatlh? " Rochelle said, she was with Bryan and had gleaned that he was very much the honest and blunt type, so she wasn't going to sugar coat things either. // "Maybe for like two second, then it's all about forcing you to do everything." Felix said looking at Steph, "I'll give him that he's here, and being supportive, but that's it. I know you can't, think about food, so don't think about it, just do it. Because if you don't take these, you will wind up in the same shoe, as your brother." Felix told her intentionally making that singular and not plural, " And no you can't just lay there and be miserable. No wallowing, wallowing is only productive if your a pig in a mud hole."
Covet: *was
Covet: [my typo game is strong tonight
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Alexithymiaa: "How is wallowing productive for a pig in a mud hole?" She asked, not getting the metaphor. She moved her hand to fan it over her mouth as she yawned before reaching for her blanket to pull it up to her chin. "I'll take it tomorrow morning." // "Before, during, after... pick one." He grunted, shoving more pasta in his mouth. "The last seven or so years have been a roller coaster, I can say that much definitely."-
Covet: "Sounds like it. I can relate though, been on that roller coaster myself before. Not her roller coaster, but a roller coaster none the less. " Rochelle said. "I've never been one to get mad at another parent for how they parent, until I met your mother. Disappointment, disgust, anger... soo many verbs I could use to describe how she made me feel. Makes me want to take care of her as if she was my own, that much more." She laughed softly. // "Because if a pig is wallowing, it's because they're hot, and are coating themselves in mud to cool down, ergo... their wallowing has a purpose. Your's does not." He said explaining then looked at her, before speaking with a more serious tone to his voice "Excuse me, did we not discuss, before the surgery, that I wasn't going to be a pushover when it came to you doing what you're supposed to, in order for this to heal correctly without infection? I meant it. I'd like to state, that this isn't me ignoring your feelings, this is me acknowledging them and agreeing that it sucks, but.. you still have to take today's.. Today. Because tomorrow, you take tomorrow's meds. So... you can either stop trying to avoid it and cooperate with me, or I can go get Bryan. Your choice." He told her looking at her. He didn't want to play that card, but she wasn't really giving him much of a choice.
Alexithymiaa: "But..." She started, sort of just losing steam before she even started. "I'm not just being stubborn. I feel like death, Arizona. And that's only going to make me feel worse. I just want to go to sleep... and please don't threaten me with my brother." // Bryan nodded his head as he listened to her, polishing off his dinner and nudging the bowl out of his way so he could grab Steph's laptop on the counter. "I thhink everyones got their own roller coaster at some point or another." He glanced at Rochelle, his back going up just a bit. "Trust me, she's plenty taken care of."-
Covet: "It's going to make you feel worse, but it's going to also keep you from getting worse. I know you feel like death, you just had surgery yesterday. Antibiotics aren't something you can just skip on taking, not when their point is to prefent infection. And if you want to be back on your feet, and not back in the hospital, that's what taking this will do. You're due for a pain killer too, which will help you knock out and sleep through the worst of the nausea. So c'mon. Or It won't just be a threat." // "A brother and a boyfriend, still don't make up for a mother. It's a different kind of love." Rochelle said with a soft smile, " Thank you for dinner, it was really good."
Alexithymiaa: -She rolled her eyes and stuck her hand out from under the blanket, taking the pill and tossing it into her mouth to swallow it dry before pulling her arm back into the warmth. "Then just give me the painkiller so I can go to sleep." // "Doesn't seem like it. I was the one who picked her up after school. The one who took her to practice and taught her how to skateboard and make paper airplanes and to play the bass. I was the one who made sure she was on time for school in the morning and I was the one who was in the hospital with her every single damn time. And paid for her rehab, both times she ended up needing to go. So sorry if I don't really understand your different kind of love whatever you're talking about, because the first and only thing I ever did for myself was take this job in New York." He slid away from the counter, taking Steph's computer with him and waving it a bit. "Tell her I'm taking her computer to update her firmware." He spoke harshly because he was fucking offended, making his way toward the door.-
Covet: "With. Food. " Felix told her stabbing a shrimp in her bowl, tapping it off to get the sauce off so it wouldn't drip, then held it out for her. " Doctor's orders. Then I'll get your pain pill" // Rochelle gave a sigh and nodded her head, the soft smile still on her lips, he didn't get the point she was trying to make, or that all those things he did, he did while still treating Steph like a sister, not a compassionate parent. " Have a good night, Bryan. I'll see you tomorrow. Breakfast will be ready when you get here."
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Alexithymiaa: -Sh enarrowed her eyes on him, leaning over just a bit to reluctantly take the shrimp in her mouth. She pushed it into her cheek, biting off small bits of it at a time to force herself to swallow before turning her head away from him because she felt shitty and she was irritated and she just wanted to sleep. Me too. // "Yeah." Bryan spoke shortly as he stepped out to take Steph's car back to Nick's.-