I woke up early the next day to the sound of Ivy throwing up. I sit up and find her throwing up in the trash can. I quickly crawl to her side of the bed and hold her hair behind her hair. She was sobbing. She was shaking. She had me really worried. She finally stops throwing up and she wipes her mouth with her shirt and continues to sob. I rub her back and bring her into my arms. I rub my eyes and yawn. "Here, let's go get you cleaned up baby." I say and she shakes her head. I sigh and stand up, extending an arm to her. She takes it and I walk her to the bathroom. "Here, lean against this." I say, placing her hand on the counter. I walk back into the room and grab her bag, bringing it to the bathroom.
"Take a shower baby. It might help." I say and she nods. "I'm going to sit on the toilet just to make sure you don't fall. I'm not looking." I say and she nods, holding on to the counter tightly. I grab towels from the linen closet and place them on the counter. I turn the water on to the shower and make sure it's nice and hot. She needs to burn this s**t out of her system. "Go ahead and get dressed." I say and she nods, turning around. She undresses and I avert my eyes for her. I hear her clothes drop to the floor and I glance over to make sure she is okay stepping into the shower.
I see her large, plump ass and I notice the scars from a distance, but I look down. "Wyatt, would you hand me my body wash, shampoo, and conditioner?" I stand up and grab them out of her bag, I turn my head and hand her the bottles through the curtain. "Here you go." I say and I hear her soft sniffles. I could tell she was in pain. She hissed under the water. I dig through her bad and place her toothbrush on the counter. I also set her out some clothes. I hear a loud bang come from the shower and I pause. "Are you okay?" I ask and my ears are immediately filled with sobs. I pull back the curtain and Ivy is on the ground. "I got dizzy and my legs gave out." She says, covering her chest. I nod and run a hand through my hair. I take my shirt off and step into the shower with her, leaving my boxers on. I help lift her up and grabs onto me for support. I look directly at her face and with all of my strength, don't let my eyes wander down her body. we switch places so she is now under the water and I give her a smile. "Lean your head back." I say and she nods, holding on to me for support. I wash her hair for her, then her body, making sure I am extra careful.
I cut the water off, ringing out my boxers as best as possible as I step out. I grab the towel, covering her up. I ring out her hair and get her clothes on. I help her brush her teeth and she stops sobbing and it reduces to small sniffles. She was still shaking, but she now had some color to her skin. As I lay her down in bed, covering her, she grabs my face. With heavy eyes, she smiles at me, rubbing a thumb over my cheek. "I love you Wyatt." She then let's go and turns over to fall asleep.I smile to myself and kiss the top of her head. "And I love you Ivy."
I notice her phone on the floor and sigh, picking it up and plugging it in beside her. I walk over to my side of the bed and check the time. It was 8 in the morning. I look at her sleeping form and stretch a bit. I get dressed and leave her sleeping as I run to the store. She needed things she could keep down. She needs something to help with nausea. She needed some small pain med... or maybe she didn't? I don't really know to be honest.I grab everything I could possibly think of alone with some side food for me while I take care of her. I had a feeling this was going to go on for more than just 24 hours. When I get back, she is awake in the bed, shaking badly. I put stuff up, letting her know what all I got and crawl into bed with her.
This became a routine every few hours. I warmed her up some soup in the microwave and got her to eat as much as she could handle. She would go into crying fits every once in a while, it was a different thing each time. Her mind was weak at the moment. One time while she was crying herself to sleep on me, I found myself crying. I texted everyone the lie I wanted them to know while I took care of her. Her brother and father told her to focus on getting better and everyone else was just glad to finally hear from me.
Ivy was like this for 4 days. She had been so bad, I paid for 5 more nights in the room. By this time her father was out of the hospital, back at home. Bruce was taking care of him along with his fiance Raven. Ivy had her high and low days. She was a mess throughout it all. I didn't mind taking care of her. This gave me some purpose in her life. I would stay up with her and talk about incoherent babble and mindless chatter. She just enjoyed hearing my voice.
Whenever Ivy would sleep, I would sit outside the room with the door propped open and facetime Eli to see Venus. She said she missed me but she knew this was important to me. She enjoyed hanging out with Aubrie and Eli. They would alternate between his house and mine every night. Aubrie absolutely loved having Venus over. This made Eli scold me a bit because he didn't want Aubrie to get baby fever even worse than she already had it. This was my connection to the outside world as I took care of Ivy. I wanted to be able to focus on only her when she was awake. Ivy grew stronger each day, in one way or another. I saw it. She was beginning to recover... it was just a slow process. I did research while I took care of her on drug withdrawals. She was able to take a shower by herself by the end of the weekend. Her pain was reducing. She was very affectionate during this time too.
She constantly wanted to be held, loved, and talked to. This was an Ivy I never had seen before. I took naps all throughout the days to catch up on the sleep I lost. It was exhausting. But anything, and I do mean anything for my girl.