No Good Deed

It has been a week since my last post, and I am glad to report that I am still alive. I am only barely there, but I am alive nonetheless.

Happily, I managed to pull off a successful Valentine’s Day with April. After much worrying, my sister finally too pity on me and reminded me that “girls like flowers.” So I had a dozen red roses delivered to April during the day, and I took her out to a quaint local restaurant for dinner. With all my worrying, I was glad to find that was all April really wanted after all.

We did have a tense moment when she started to see through my indecision. I of course wanted everything to be perfect, so I always prefer a solid plan to last minute decisions, and I think it showed.

Despite my success on Valentine’s Day, I believe the gods of this world (or whatever superstition you would like to choose) have it out for me. Whether it was some bit of food or alcohol or someone I came in contact with, I woke up on Wednesday morning completely incapacitated by illness.

I could go through the long list of unpleasant symptoms I exhibited over the course of the next few days, but the list, as I said, is long. And unpleasant.

The worst part was both April and Madison had school, so I was left on my own for a majority of the days I was home. I will admit that I spent most of this time either in the bathroom or asleep in bed, so there was not much that either of them could have done, but I would have appreciated the moral support.

April later pointed out that this is flu season and something is going around the school. This does not make me feel any better about working within what amounts to a germ farm. I honestly do not know how humans do it. People get these viruses so often that there are seasons for them. If such a thing were a regular occurrence on my home world, a pandemic would be declared and our entire system would be quarantined.

I suppose that is one more advantage humans have should other aliens decide to invade again. Though biological warfare has been outlawed, there can be no preparing for natural contagions in the environment. I am glad I am on their side.