"Did you take your vitamin C?" I asked walking out of the kitchen to see Sebastian counting the money in the register.
"I'm fine." He said not looking up. His voice was strained and clogged, a sure sigh of a cold.
"You're sick." I said rushing over to him, and placing the back of my hand on his forehead. He rolled his eyes.
"I'm fine."
"I want to help you." I said lifting up his hair.
"I'm fine." He repeated.
"I could make you soup?" I suggested.
"Soup?" He asked looking up.
"Coming right up." I beamed walking towards the kitchen to make some chicken noodle soup. "You know this is because you go outside without your coat." I called from the other room. "We have to get you into better shape for tonight. Your friends are coming to the bakery."
"Have you told Addy about us?" He asked.
"No I figured we'd tell everybody at once." I said returning from the kitchen with the ingredients for soup.
"She won't like that."
"How come."
"She'll want to know first. She always does." He said leaning back in his chair, letting his eyes close.
"Then tell her to come over early." I suggested. The soup began to bubble and I moved it from the heat to let it cool slightly. While it sat I heated up some water, and made a quick cup of peppermint tea. Then I poured the soup into a bowl, and the tea into a teacup, and placed them both on a tray, bringing them over to Sebastian. He smiled weakly and took a sip from the cup.
"Ew." He made a face. "What is this?"
"It's tea." I said cleaning up the counters.
"Nooooo...." He whined. "I neeeeeed coffee."
"It's peppermint, it'll open your sinuses." I said sipping from my cup.
"I don't want it."
"It's good for you." I said walking around the counter to sit by him. "It'll make you feel better."
"So will coffee."
"Coffee gives you an artificial high, then drops you off, and you feel gross again. Tea helps your whole body fight off the infection naturally." I said soothingly rubbing the back of his neck. His face and nose were flushed red, and his eyes were bloodshot. "Did you text Addy?" I asked.
"No." He said.
"Can you?" I said again. He pulled out his phone and texted Addy to come over for a quick visit. She said she'd be right over. We sat for a few minutes waiting for her blonde ponytail to come waving through the window. Finally it did, and she walked right up to us sitting at the counter.
"What's up?" She asked smiling. I nudged Sebastian lightly.
"We're together." He said with his head down in his arms on the counter.
"What?"