"...WE GOT UP NOT THAT LONG AGO."
"WHAT ARE YOU SIGHING ABOUT ALREADY?"
he immediately snapped around to face me with a concerned look.
i rolled my head to the side and shifted my shoulders about. my bones popped and creaked against each other with each motion.
"..'bout everywhere thoracic and up, i'd say."
"DID YOU DO ANYTHING PARTICULARLY STRENUOUS WITH THOSE AREAS YESTERDAY?"
"nah. i'm gettin' old. random pain just happens with age."
papyrus accidentally knocked a puzzle piece under the couch. with me still on it, he tilted the couch up like it was nothing to grab the piece.
"you never wake up with random aches sometimes?"
setting the retrieved piece into place on the puzzle.
"maybe it'll hit once you're thirty."
"MAYBE IF YOU GOT MORE EXERCISE THIS WOULDN'T BE AS MUCH OF AN ISSUE."
i tossed myself backwards against our pillows, which had yet to be returned to our beds.
pain struck my shoulders and neck once more, sitting me back up.
"i'm gonna go take something. be right back."
"REMEMBER: IT'S THE ONES WITH THE RED LID YOU CAN TAKE."
"THOSE DON'T INTERACT WITH THE DOCTOR-PRESCRIBED ONES."
doesn't matter how i lay or stretch or awkwardly position myself to try and find a less painful spot, it seems.
guess i'll try a cold pack.
pausing his laundry-gathering,
"IT'S STILL BOTHERING YOU?"
paps furrowed his brows as he stared at my unique positioning on the couch.
"and probably will continue to be if none of this kicks in."
"DID STRETCHING HELP AT ALL?"
seating himself on the couch and cracking his knuckles, papyrus then motioned for me to sit in front of him.
"LET'S SEE IF WE CAN POP SOMETHING. THAT USUALLY WORKS."
it did. the sound startled him; sockets wide, looking as if he was unsure whether he'd broken me or not.
stretching with slightly less ache than before.
"SHOULD I KEEP GOING, OR..?"
"you can try, but i don't think any more'll pop without more pressure."
more pressure being getting a certain child
child to walk across my back a few times.
it.. didn't really help, but they giggled like a maniac about it the whole time, so it wasn't entirely useless.
"LAST RESORT IT IS, THEN."
papyrus called up grillby.
medication. laying down. stretching. cold. heat. massaging. back-walking. heat 𝘢𝘯𝘥 pressure massaging...
that's what it takes to cure an aching skeleton.
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