"Sweetheart, it's just for one night." My mom said, putting her hand on my shoulder, "we'll leave at 3:00 today, and be home by 5:00 tomorrow."

"My parents have Sebastian, you just need to make yourself dinner tonight, and lunch tomorrow." Lin explained, "I'll have my dad come and check on you tonight."

"It's fine!" I said, reassuring them, "I'll be great, I'll watch a movie or something."

"Okay, we can Skype you tonight too, if you want." Vanessa offered.

"Sure." I smiled, realizing they were more upset about this, and nervous about me than I was.

"Awesome, our flight leaves in an hour, we'll see you tomorrow Peanut." My dad bent over to give me a tight hug, "stay safe."

"Dad, I'll be okay!" I said, returning his tight hug.

"We'll miss you." My mom kissed my hair, and quickly hugged me. "Don't go anywhere, it's safest just to stay here, I picked up extra groceries, some of those, dried fruit things you like, what it is with my children and dried fruit I do not know," she sighed, "there's coconut water in the fridge." She stopped listing and smiled at me, "I love you darling."

"I love you too, Mom." I said, and she took my hand and gently squeezed it.

"Love you Peanut." My dad side hugged me, and kissed my temple, "c'mon V, let's go." He took his wife's hand, and led her over to the door. "Have fun little one." He waved a little.

"Bye. I love you." I smiled, awkwardly standing in my living room.

•••

After my parents left, I crashed, I was so tired, I couldn't stop yawning for a solid three days. I ended up waking up feeling dry mouthed at around 5:30 that evening. I picked my phone up to check it and I saw a couple notifications.

Dad:
We just landed! You doing okay?
Sent: 5:00

Mom:
There's spaghetti in the pantry...
Sent: 5:02

@Lin_Manuel tweeted;
@Lin_Manuel - @VAMNit and I just landed in Virginia... Disembarking the Twitter plane as well. See you all tomorrow!

Dad:
Your abuelo should be over to check on you in an hour or so.
Sent: 5:17

Dad:
Mija, are you sleeping? If not, reply, and make sure you feed Tobi!
Sent: 5:25

I rubbed my eyes a little, and started to reply to my parents on our three person group chat

Mija:
I'm sorry. I was napping. Have fun. I'll feed the Pupper

Mom:
Oh! That's fine! We're enjoying ourselves.

Dad:
Is Pupper a new internet word?

Mom:
No.

Dad:
Yes it is. I know it is. Thank you Peanut.

Mom:
Mija, don't encourage him.

I smiled a little, then turned my phone off. I laid in bed for a little while, then my stomach started churning and I shot out of bed, and rushed into the bathroom, I threw up a ton of food, then sunk down, curling my legs under me, on the bathroom floor, I let my head rest on the edge of the seat, and then I puked again, holding onto the seat lightly.

I picked myself up off the ground then slowly walked into the kitchen to make dinner. I wasn't hungry, but Lin and Vanessa would fly home if I missed a meal. I pulled the spaghetti out of the pantry and got to work. Eventually I heard keys in the door, and my abuelos voice.

"Hola mi nieta." He said, walking inside.

"Hola." I said, turning away from the stove a little.

"¿Como estas amante?" He asked, walking over to me.

"Bien." I said, then sneezed. "¿Y tú?"

"Honey, I'm fine, are you sick? You sound sick." He switched to English, and pressed a hand to my forehead. "Oh sweetie you're sick. I'm glad I came."

"I'm fine, really." I whispered, wrapping my arms around my stomach.

"Whatever you say, uh, go put a sweater on, I'll finish your dinner." He kissed the top of my head and gave me a little push towards my room.

I walked into my room, and pulled on a Fun Home sweatshirt then walked back into the kitchen.

"Do you know where the key for the medicine cabinet is?" He asked, lightly tugging on the locked door.

"No." I whispered, "I'm pretty sure they took it with them."

"Why?" He asked, then realized, he frowned and pulled his phone out.

"Who are you texting?" I asked, nervously.

"Your dad, asking him where it is."

"No!" I shouted and he seemed surprised, "He can't know I'm sick, he'll worry, they'll come home, no, I'll be okay."

"Abigail? Are you sure?" He asked, confused.

"Yeah, I don't want to bother them with this." I admitted, looking at the ground.

"Honey, they're your parents, you should bother them with this kind of stuff, they want to be bothered with this." He said, "I won't ask if you don't want me too." He sighed and pocketed his phone. "Come along child." He took my hand and walked me over to the couch. "Lay down." He prompted, and I did. "Okay, I'm going to quickly finish dinner, and bring it in." He added, grabbing the remote. He turned Rent on from Netflix, and pulled one of their thicker blankets over me, "don't move from this spot." He gently kissed my temple.

I got lost in the beginning of Rent, it was raining burning paper from the apartments all over Taye Diggs, when my abuelo came back in with a bowl of spaghetti, he set it on the coffee table, he also dragged an empty trash can to sit next to me.

"Just in case sweetheart," he said, and pulled my hair into a loose ponytail, "call me if something happens, bye darling, I hope you feel better."

"Bye! Thank you!" I called to him.

"Of course Nieta." He said and left.

•••

I was halfway through Forrest Gump when my phone lit up.

'Dad' would like to FaceTime

I smiled, sat up and hit accept.

"Hi mi Niñita!" My dad said, smiling at me, from a hotel bed.

"Hi." I smiled.

"How ya doing?" He asked.

"Fine, I'm watching a movie." I added.

"Atta girl." He gave me a little thumbs up. "My dad showed up right?"

"Mmhm, he made me dinner, spaghetti."

"Is that Abi!" I heard my moms muffled voice from the background.

"Yeah V!" My dad called back to her.

"I told you to wait for me!" She accused and came into frame, her toothbrush still in her mouth, "hi sweetheart!" She said, sitting next to her husband in bed.

"Hi mom."

"You feeling okay? You sound a little stuffy." She noted.

"I'm fine, I watched Rent and bawled my eyes out, that may be it." I lied, I mean, I did bawl my eyes out, but that's not why I sound sick.

"Understandable honey." My dad nodded slightly.

We talked for a few more minutes and then my parents said they were tired and needed to go to bed. I said I probably should too, and we hung up. I cleared the bowl from the coffee table, and fed Tobi, then brushed my teeth, and dragged myself into my room. I saw a humidifier on the ground, and smiled a little, I went and flipped it on, then saw a note written on a torn out page from one of my dads moleskins.

Abigail,
Get some rest, feel better, turn the humidifier on. Sleep in tomorrow morning. We love you, take care of yourself.
Love,
Abuelo

I smiled, flipped the light off, and got under the three blankets, and buried my head in the pillows, I felt asleep to the murmur of the humidifier and the heat encompassing me.

•••

Sorry this is so late.

Really.

I'm so so sorry.

I hope you've been enjoying the one shots!

Any suggestions for which one I should post TONIGHT?

Love you all!

Thanks for reading!

- Abi