Vin got up early and went to the gym for his daily workout while I stayed in bed. When he gets back, he finds me in the bathroom throwing up. The headache I went to bed with turned into a bad migraine.
"Gwen, what's wrong?" he says, coming over to me.
"Oh, this is just great. This is not something I wanted you to see."
"Don't worry about that. What's wrong?"
"I've got a migraine headache and sometimes they make me sick," I say, throwing up again.
Vin grabs a washcloth and soaks it with cool water, putting it on the back of my neck.
"Thanks. There should be a syringe in my makeup bag. Will you please get it for me?"
Getting up, he walks to the bathroom counter and looks in my bag.
"Is it white?"
"Yeah. It says Imatrex on it."
He brings it over and I manage to sit back against the wall.
"What are you going to do?"
"Give myself an injection of medicine. It'll make me go to sleep and my headache will go away."
"Do I need to do anything?"
"Just stay here with me."
He sits down on the floor with me while I inject the medicine into my arm.
"I don't know how in the world you can do that to yourself."
"Honestly, me neither considering the fact that I hate needles. But, it makes my headaches go away, so I'm willing to put up with a little pain instead of a lot."
I recap it and he puts it back in my bag.
I stand up and he asks, "What do you think you're doing?"
"Going to sit in the shower for a little while. Sometimes that helps too."
"I need to shower so I'll get in there with you," he says, helping me to the seat and turning on the water.
He quickly undresses and steps in to bathe, then holds me while the water runs over us.
"I didn't know you had migraines."
"I do, but most of the time they don't make me sick. Every now and then I have a pretty bad one, like this. All I do is give myself a shot and go back to bed. A few hours later I wake up and feel great." I slide down the wall and sit in the bottom of the shower, while Vin holds me. We stay there for a little while, then get out. Vin dries me off and I pull on a pair of shorts and shirt and then crawl back in bed.
"Do you need anything?" he asks.
"Can you pull the curtains together? I need it dark in here."
He walks over and pulls them closed, and then joins me on the bed, pulling me into his arms.
"Is this ok?" he asks.
"Yeah, but you don't have to stay with me."
"Yes I do. It's my job to take care of you."
"Thank you," I say, before falling asleep.
It's noon when I finally wake up. Vin is sitting on the porch and I join him.