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Louis woke up at 10 am with a dull ache in his stomach. He groaned rolling over on Skyler's side wanting a cuddle. But instead felt the cold sheets and whimpered as the ache in his stomach worsened. He decided to get out of bed and find Skyler for his morning cuddles.

He walked downstairs arms around his stomach. He found Skyler sitting on the couch with a mug in her hand watching the news. He sat down beside her cuddling in her side. She put her arm around his waist kissing his head. "Good morning, darling." The two cuddled on the couch, Louis rubbing his tummy and putting pressure, trying to ease the pain. Louis eyed Skyler's mug knowing there was tea because she hated the bitter taste of coffee. He wanted to have a sip, hoping it would soothe his stomach. He made grabby hands towards her mug. "Aw baby, you want some tea?" Louis nodded and she passed him the hot cup. Once he had the mug, Louis wrapped his hands around it smelling the soothing scent. He took a small sip, feeling the hot liquid travel down his throat. He took a few more sips, drinking almost half of the cup before giving it back to Skyler.

"Do you wanna have some breakfast, darling?" Louis shook his head, the thought of food making his stomach churn. "Not hungry." Skyler frowned at his answer, "Why not? Do you feel sick?" She said putting her palm on his forehead to check his temperature. "My tummy hurts," he said burying his face in her shoulder. "Oh. How bad is it? Because if it's too bad, I can cancel the dinner with my family tonight"

Shit! The dinner, he forgot about that.

He didn't want to ruin Skyler's chances of being with her family. "No! Don't cancel. I'm fine." "Okay then. If you start to feel worse tell me, and I'll cancel."

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Later, the couple was getting ready for dinner. Louis's stomach cramps were starting to get bad, but he didn't want to tell Skyler and make her cancel. He tried to lay on his stomach on the couch when he was ready and waited for Skyler to finish. Soon, Skyler walked down the stairs finding her boyfriend laying on his stomach. She kneeled in front of him, "How's your tummy?" she asked "It feels better. I'm fine." he lied.

The couple climbed into the car driving to Skyler's parent's house. Once arrived at the house, they were embraced by Skyler's nonna and her parents.

The dining room being presented with the large amounts of delicious food, made Louis's stomach churn with sickness. He sat at the table and started filling his plate with minimal amounts of food. When everyone started eating and chatting amongst themselves, Louis stayed quiet moving the food around on his plate and taking small bites. Every bite made his stomach hurt even more and kept rubbing his tummy under his button-up shirt.

"Hey, Louis, why aren't you eating? Don't you like the food?" Skyler's mom asked noticing Louis was not eating. Louis looked up, "No, the food's delicious. I'm just not that hungry." Caroline nodded. Louis returned to pushing his food around as he felt it starting to rise up his throat. He whimpered quietly swallowing the bile back down.

Soon, he felt the strong urge to puke and turned towards Skyler tugging her shirt to get her attention. "What's wrong, Lou?" Louis whimpered, pointing to his tummy. "Oh, are you gonna throw up?" Louis didn't answer, instead leaning to the side and puking up all the food he had eaten in the last few minutes. Everyone was shocked and srunched their noses in disgust at the scene. Skyler cooed and rubbed circles on his back. When he was done, Skyler wiped his mouth with a napkin and asked "Are you okay now?" Louis shook his head, "No, my tummy still hurts." Skyler cooed again and brought his face into her chest.

Then she looked up at her family as they looked at her boyfriend with sympathy. "Why don't you and Louis go to the living room and relax and I'll clean the mess." her mom said. Skyler nodded and whispered to Louis, asking him to stand. He whined as she helped him stand because it made his stomach hurt more. They went into the living room, sitting on the couch, with Louis in Skyler's lap. He buried his face in her neck as she rubbed his tummy trying to ease the pressure.

Then Skyler's nonna came into the room holding a bowl and passed it to Skyler. "Use it, if he throws up again," she said. Skyler nodded and muttered a small thank you. Louis did puke again into the bowl, this time tears streamed down his pale face as he emptied the contents of his stomach. When he was done, he slumped back into her, feeling like shit.

"I'm sorry," he said. "Why are you apologizing? There's nothing to be sorry for." Skyler asked wiping his tears with her thumb. "I-I embarrassed myself in front of your family. And I lied to you when I said I was feeling better before we left." "No, you didn't embarrass yourself. You couldn't help yourself, darling. It's okay, everyone was sympathetic. Nobody is mad, I promise." Skyler reassured.

For the rest of the day Louis sat in Skyler's lap, being cared for by her and his family. He realized then and there how lucky he was to have Skyler and her caring family in his life.