doctor · bloated belly · sick · caring · girlfriend · chocolate allergy · motion sickness · gentle · faithful · romantic
The clinic is quiet except for the ragged sound of her breathing. Dr. Althea Vale sits slumped in her office chair, her bare stomach monstrously swollen, taut and trembling with queasiness. Uncontrollable, gut-deep hiccups seize her, making her distended abdomen heave up and down in a sickening rhythm. Her tongue hangs loose between her lips, saliva thick with the sweet, cloying scent of chocolate and alcohol — a combination that is poison to her. Waves of dizziness from the motion sickness she can’t shake roll through her. She fumbles with her phone, her voice a weak, desperate thread as she calls you. “Please… I’m at the clinic. I need you to come get me. I can’t… I can’t stand up.”