Rafe woke up earlier than usual from the increasing pain in his body. He tried his best not to make too big a deal out of it, as Tayla was still sound asleep. Before going to the bathroom to get more pain medication, he peered over to the other side of the bed.

He found his fiance, comfortable resting with her dark hair splayed over the pillow. Her lips were parted slightly as she breathed, Rafe couldn't think of anyone who could sleep more peacefully.

He couldn't find a logical reason as to how he could have been so lucky to have Tayla in his life. His focus went to the girl's left hand, the elegant ring still on her finger, Tayla promised to herself to never take it off. Rafe's thoughts almost made him completely lose all thoughts about his aching pains.

After softly kissing Tayla's forehead, Rafe stalked over to the ensuite bathroom, finding the bag of pain medication from the hospital. He swallowed the pills with the cup that always rested near the sink.

Walking back towards the bed, he accidentally stepped on the wrong floorboard, emitting a loud creak from under Rafe's foot. He cringes at the sound just when he notices movement under the covers.

"Rafe?" the tan girl's gentle voice was laced with concern. 

Tayla sits up to find her fiance coming over to her "I just needed to get some pain meds, go back to sleep". 

Her brows knit in worry, taking his hand in hers "Are you feeling okay?".

Rafe smiles slightly at her unnecessary panic, he rubs his thumb against the back of her hand "I'm fine baby, please go back to sleep". 

She scoffs playfully "Not unless you're coming back to bed too".

Creating a fake sigh, as if it was an inconvenience to him, Rafe goes back to his side of the bed and pulls Tayla's body towards him. 

Tayla laughs and turns her head to softly kiss his lips "I love you". 

He couldn't stop himself from smiling whenever those three words came out of her mouth "I love you".

Two hours later...

Tayla was now the one to wake up, starting to feel extremely hungry, she went downstairs to make some waffles. As she began to mix the batter, the noise from the kitchen made Rafe decide to wake up as well.

Taking the first waffle out of the waffle iron, she sees the tall, dirty blonde out of the corner of her eye "Good morning again" Tayla says with a smile. 

Rafe smiles back, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes "You could have asked me to help".

She laughs while pouring more batter into the hot press "You seemed like you were in a deep sleep". Rafe takes out the butter, fruit, and syrup. As he begins to put the syrup on the first waffle, something about the smell completely came off as revolting to Tayla.

Her face turned into a disgusted expression as she stared at the brown, gooey liquid pouring from the plastic container. Tayla's stomach turned more and more as the smell became more apparent. Before Rafe could ask what was wrong she was already off running to the nearest toilet.

Rafe soon caught up with her to help hold her long hair back. While rubbing Tayla's back, he thinks for a moment "How long have you not been feeling good?". 

Tayla's brows furrow together in confusion as she flushes the toilet "What do you mean?".

He scoffs at his fiance's attempt at acting fine "Don't bullshit me, you had a headache and felt dizzy the other day and now you're throwing up". 

Tayla shrugs as a response but there was no way Rafe would take that as an answer "You've been a little off recently, I can tell you're trying to conceal it but I know you better than that".

Tayla gets up from off the floor and gets mouthwash from one of the sink's drawers "I don't know Rafe, I thought I was dehydrated or something but I've been drinking a lot of water and nothing is getting better". 

Rafe's face turns more worried "Well you should probably eat something, first of all-".

She puts her hand up as a gesture to cut him off "I can't be around that syrup smell right now, it's so disgusting". 

Rafe tries his best not to judge her "Umm... okay, what would you like then?".

"Pretzels" she blurts out. 

The man in front of her couldn't have looked more confused "Pretzels? ...for breakfast?". 

Tayla nods rapidly "Not the ones in a bag, like one of the big ones that they serve with cheese" her eyes close as she imagines it.

Rafe chuckles a bit "That's what you want?". The brunette nods as she swishes the mouthwash in her mouth before spitting it out. 

He puts his hands in the air "If that's what you want, that's what you shall get my love".

He kisses Tayla's cheek "I'll be back as soon as possible". 

As he walks back to the kitchen to grab a waffle and his keys, Tayla follows behind "Are you sure you're comfortable driving already?".

He waves her off "The pills are doing their job, I practically feel nothing" he says before taking a big bite out of his waffle. 

Tayla tries her best not to focus on the waffles, or more specifically the syrup smell "You're sure?".

Rafe nods confidently "Yes I'm sure, now go somewhere else while I clean this stuff up, we don't want your head in the toilet all day". 

She smiles gratefully "Thanks babe, I would do it but..." she swallows the nausea down as she smells the syrup again.

"Go! Don't worry about it, I got it, you'll have your pretzel shortly" he states, starting to put the ingredients away. 

Tayla looks at the ground in an embarrassed fashion "Or pretzels?". 

Rafe grins "Okay, pretzels". She smiles and goes to the living room, leaving Rafe shaking his head and laughing.

♡ by WheezieSneezie, Tay_Mads, TopThornton, Sarah_Cams, LilahPatey, and others

Rafe.Cameron: Juice commercial coming soon...🧃

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Comments:

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Tay_Mads: Healthy reminder of the day, keep your thirst quenched

TopThornton: All those La Croixs better be for me