this is probably the sickest iāve been and the worst pain my tummy has ever experienced. I had undercooked chicken at a restaurant yesterday evening and i woke up this morning in so much pain. my tummy is so bloated and it hurts so bad iāve been throwing up so much and it wonāt settle this is definitely the sickest iāve been it hurts so bad i canāt even describe it
i had tocos for dinner last night but i thought the cheese was non dairy because it usually is but it clearly wasnāt.. i went straight to bed after and thought nothing of it however i woke up this morning in so much pain. my tummy is so bubbly and it hurts so bad i feel really really sick i threw up once but i canāt tell if i need to poop or throw up again and i canāt miss school today so idk what to do iāll update tmr if i can š
The bucket landed on the table between them, ominous, steaming hot, and covered in sauce so spicy that Nateās eyes are already watering.
āJesus Christ,ā Darren commented as it landed. Heās served his own basket of spicy wings and onion rings. He pulls it closer to himself as Nate does the same with the bucket, eyeballing it as he tries to decide how best to start tackling it. āThatās huge.ā
āThirty wings in Ninth Circle hot sauce,ā the waiter says. Itās exactly what it had said in the menu, too: The Ninth Circle of Hell Challenge, where a customer has to eat thirty hot wings drenched in the restaurantās hottest hot sauce, Ninth Circle sauce, in under ten minutes. The sauce is reportedly so hot that just being near it is enough to make someone sweaty, which Nate is learning right now, dew beading on his temples. āFinish in under ten minutes and call us over for your prizes.ā
āWhich areā¦ā Darren checks the menu again. āA coupon book, your meal for free, and your picture on the wall.ā He lifts his head to evaluate Nate and the bucket of wings again. āAre you sure you want to do this? Thatās not much.ā
āThe biggest prize is saying I did,ā Nate reminds him.
āOr,ā Darren suggests, āthe biggest prize is not having a horrible stomachache later because you ate thirty incredibly spicy wings in under ten minutes.ā
Nate grins at him over the absurd bucket as the waiter leaves. The glossy red-orange wings are piled high inside, each one glistening with the kind of oily, spicy sheen that could peel paint. They might actually be from the ninth circle of Hell.
āYouāre actually doing this, arenāt you?ā Darren asks, staring down the steaming tower. His tone is skeptical, but not unsupportive, as always. Heās just too good to Nate, Nate thinks.
Smiling, Nate rolls his sleeves up. āFree meal, babe! And a coupon book, and my picture on the Wall of Flame. Plus bragging rights! Itās a no-brainer.ā
āItās a death wish.ā
āIt can be both.ā A few people are watching them now, customers and staff alike. One of the cooks is leaning out the kitchen window with a grin thatās a little terrifying to Nate, while one of the waiters stands by with a milk jug and gloves in case he requests them.
Nate picks up the first wing, Darren sighs and starts the timer on the table, and Nate takes his first bite.
Five wings in, Nate is sweating so badly his face is wet. His eyes are glassy, his cheeks flushed, and heās panting as he eats. He thinks it might be smarter to just try getting them down, and so he powers through wings six through ten like a man possessed, powering through his speed-eating before a spicy burp rumbles up just after wing ten, burning the back of his throat.
āStill think this is a good idea?ā Darren asks, leaning over the table to dap at Nateās lips for him.
āYup,ā Nate mumbles around a mouthful of wing eleven, eyes watering as his eyes dart down to the timer ticking away. āTastes like victory.ā A burning belch rolls up again. āAnd lava. Fuck.ā
āBe careful,ā Darren warns him. āItās not worth getting sick over.ā
āIām already most of the way through,ā Nate argues as if he isnāt only just now dragging wing twelve through the sauce and biting off a chunk. His stomach feels like itās coated in gasoline in that itās ready to ignite into flame at a momentās notice.
With a cough, swallowing roughly, Nate grabs for water before Darren puts a hand out to stop him firmly.
āWater will spread the heat,ā he warns. āBread or milk isāā
āI lose part of the rewards if I have them,ā Nate pants. A low belch burns at the back of his throat, his stomach feeling more than a bit tight. āWings only to win everything.ā
By wing fifteen, the sweat has spread down his throat to his chest. Itās soaking through the collar of his shirt. His chest is starting to heave with every swallow, trying to catch his breath. Each belch that pushes up tastes and burns like lava.
Slapping at his sternum once, then twice, harder this time, he burps himself a bit so he can make more room to force down the next fifteen wings.
Oh, God, heās only halfway there.
āStill good?ā Darren asks. Nate nods, biting into the sixteenth. āBe careful.ā
Nate nods again, focused on the wing in front of him like something bad will happen if he takes his focus off of it. His stomach is already protesting, Darren can tell. With his next swallow, thereās a sickly gurgle, but Nate stubbornly takes another bite, determined to win.
He shoves the next wing in his mouth, wing seventeen, into his mouth. He feels sticky with sweat and it takes hard work to work all the meat down his throat.
By wing eighteen, he hiccups, loud and sharp, and Darren thinks it sounds painful. A harsh burp follows almost immediately, sounding deep and acidic and wet, and Darren grimaces.
āOh, God,ā Nate croaks, wiping his hands off on a napkin so he can put his head in his hands and breathe deeply for a moment. āMy stomachās a little⦠a little sloshy. Like, I can hear it moving. I canā¦ā He pants, then lets out a low, breathy burp that clearly indicates heās trying to hold more back. āI can feel it moving.ā
Darren gives him a flat look. āBabe, youāre basically filling your belly with⦠with molten lava and chicken grease,ā he points out, and reaches for the milk for him.
āNo, donāt,ā Nate protests. His voice is thick. āI⦠I can do it. I just need to keep going.ā
āNate.ā Darren has a note of warning in his tone, but Nate is already tearing into the nineteenth wing.
The timer ticks past the sixth minute mark. The crowd has grown, with more staff and more customers curious to see if Nate will be able to pull this off. Nate seems to be enjoying the attention, but Darren can see the cracks: the way his chest is heaving, the twitch of a muscle in his strong jaw, the aggressive red flush on his face. He keeps moving his hands down as if he wants to rub his belly before remembering heās both in public and covered in hot sauce and stops himself again.
This is definitely going to be a long night.
Darren knows Nate, though, and this is the person he loves. The guy who takes on wing challenges and doesnāt back down. If that means nursing him through a few bellyaches, Darren thinks the deal is more than worthwhile.
Wing twenty seems like itās almost a breaking point. He seems half-delirious, his lips bright red, his eyes glossy, his face flushed like heās running a fever.
The bucket is so much lighter now as Nate gets so much heavier. The mound of wings inside has thinned into a comparatively pathetic little heap of ten. Nate thinks he can survive ten. Heās already survived twenty, and thatās twice that. He can do it one more time. He just has to keep going.
Darren sits tense beside him, scooting his chair closer. One hand braces on Nateās thigh as if to anchor him. Some drunk college kids in the crowd are chanting now, though Darren canāt tell if the chants are encouraging or bloodthirsty.
Wing twenty-one goes down hard. Heās gulping around every swallow, broken hiccups being choked back. Wing twenty-two, however, is worse. A sloshy burp rides up before heās even halfway through chewing the first bite, and his throat convulses so painfully that Darren actually flinches.
āJesus, Nate,ā Darren mutters.
Nate is so close, though. He canāt stop, not now.
He tears through wings twenty-three, twenty-four, and twenty-five like a man possessed, as if he can trick his stomach if heās fast enough. His belly feels like a furnace overflowing with flame, distended tight under his shirt now. Everyone is still encouraging him though. He has to finish.
By wing twenty-six, his stomach forces a gurgle so loud and upset his belly vibrates.
āOh, God,ā Nate groans again. āMy stomach is starting to get a little full, babe.ā
āOf course it is,ā Darren replies, rubbing his thigh to ground him. āYou can stop if you want. You only have two minutes left.ā
āI can do it,ā Nate insists. āIām so close.ā
Wing twenty-seven, wing twenty-eight. The timer keeps ticking.
āI canāt taste it anymore,ā Nate whimpers before he takes another bite. āGod, my stomach feels hot.ā
āYouāre basically poisoning yourself,ā Darren reminds him. He canāt help but be proud of him, his stubbornness both frustrating and terribly endearing.
Wing twenty-nine is a visible battle. Nateās face is blotchy with effort. He looks ready to give up and quit, and Darrenās hand shifts to his back, rubbing steady pressure at his spine.
āYouāre almost there,ā Darren promises softly. āBreathe. Just one more. You can do it, and Iāll take care of you after.ā
Somehow, impossibly, though he swears his stomach doesnāt have a single bit of space left and itās starting to rumble with real anger, Nate shoves the thirtieth and final wing into his mouth, biting off bite after bite, chewing and swallowing until itās empty and he slams his hand down on the table just as the timer blares.
The watching crowd erupts, the staff cheering, the customers excited for his win. One of the drunk college kids whistles. Nate receives his coupon book almost immediately as if itās a trophy, and he grins, though when he leans back from the table in his chair his belly is so full it sloshes audibly to him.
āThe Wall of Flame,ā Nate says, too excited for how sick Darren knows heās about to start feeling. āI won!ā He hiccups sharply, wet and acidic before he belches. āOh, God. Victory hurts a little bit.ā His hand, cleaned from his napkin, rubs at the lower swell of his stomach, so stuffed from how much he ate and bloated from how much he ate it that he canāt believe it really fits inside of him.
The noise in the restaurant is loud, but Nate can barely hear it over his pulse hammering in his ears and the ominous churn in his gut. He tries to relax, smiling, though his whole body is shaking.
A cook claps him on the shoulder hard enough to jostle him forward again. āHell of a run, man! Thirty wings in ten minutes aināt easy! And with the Ninth Circle Sauce! Youāre a legend!ā
The jostling forces a strangled burp out of him. Nate tries to laugh, but his chest burns, like the sauce is trying to climb back up already.
They take a picture of him for the Wall of Flame, they give them the comped receipt for their meals, and they tell him to come back anytime. Darren keeps an eye on Nate the whole time, and when he knows heās getting close to no longer being able to interact, he leans in and mutters, āAlright, champ, youāve proved your point,ā low and firm in his ear. āTime to call it a night.ā
Nate nods, bringing up a burp so wet he can taste the sauce again. Even worse, Darren can smell it clearly, and his stomach lurches in sympathy.
When the waiter brings over a milk jug to offer before they go, Nate shakes his head. Another hiccup comes up before he says, āI donāt have any room for any more.ā
āItāll probably help with the burn,ā Darren suggests. He doesnāt say that itāll also probably help it come up easier later, but he just doesnāt think that would be very helpful right now, even if itās true. āYou need something.ā
Nate sighs, apparently knowing heās right. He reaches out to take the milk jug with a grateful thank you for the waiter, pouring it into an empty glass. He sighs again when he looks at it, then reaches for the milk and starts drinking it down. Admittedly he manages a good, solid chug before he needs to breathe, and actually finishes the tall glass before he shakes his head and pushes the jug away.
When Nate shifts, his face blotchy and stomach distended, his belly makes this noise, an actual liquid sloshing sound that makes him hunch forward a little over it.
āOh, God,ā Nate groans again. āMy stomachāsā Ugh. I can feel them moving inside me, likeā trying so hard to digest, itās just allā¦ā He belches, deep and low. āUgh. I really can feel it all moving, babe. I think the wings are fighting back against me.ā
āLet me get you out of here.ā Darren helps him upwards, already steering him towards the door. āBefore I have to carry you out.ā
The fresh air outside hits Nate like a wall. He doubles over immediately, bracing his hands on his knees. For a second, Darren thinks heās going to be sick; one of his hands comes up, trembling over his swollen stomach, and he thinks thatāll be it. Instead, though, a long, heavy belch rips out of him, and he groans, his eyes pinching shut.
Darren stays close, rubbing his back. He murmurs low, āEasy. Get it up if you have to.ā
Nate shakes his head, then spits onto the ground. His saliva is tinged orange with the sauce, and it burns like spice in his mouth.
āI can make it home.ā Nate groans, miserable, rubbing at the grumbling center of his belly where the wings are all writhing, bloating up with the spice to wreck him from the inside out. āTell the wings they win, I surrender, they just have toā¦ā He burps again. āSettle down and digest. I donāt want to get sick.ā
āI think that optionās long gone, babe,ā Darren warns him. āJust keep breathing.ā
Nate swallows hard, trembling, and somehow manages to straighten, though one arm stays clinging around Darrenās shoulders and the other wraps around his upset tummy. His stomach is audibly gurgling; Darren can feel the reverberations of his belly attempting to digest against his own side as they make it to the car.
Darren opens the passenger door, folds Nate inside, and gets in the driverās seat himself. A quick glance at Nate shows him slumped back against the headrest, eyes closed, one arm still wrapped tight around his belly. His lips part to allow a soft, pained belch before he groans again.
āIāll get home as fast as I can,ā Darren promises.
Nate nods, keeping his eyes closed. One hand moves on his belly in very slow circles, hoping that he can coax the muscles in his abdomen into relaxing and his stomach into digesting. Itās starting to hurt so much, and heās grateful for Darrenās hand on his knee to keep him grounded, though it is difficult to focus on anything that isnāt his upset belly.
A wave of dizzying queasiness washes over him. His shirt clings to him with sweat, his hair plastered to his skull. He jerks forward with a wet, acidic burp, his stomach churning miserably to force up a second right after it.
āOhhhhh, fuck,ā he moans, pressing both palms into his belly now, pushing harder at the storm. āItās⦠Itās moving. It wonāt stop gurgling, itās getting so upset. I just want it to settle down.ā Another rumble works through his belly and grumbles up into a heavy belch. He grimaces before a hiccup-burp tears out of him, and he rubs at his chest with a whimper. āOw, it burns. It burns coming up worse than going down. That canāt be normal.ā
āNothing about what you did tonight was normal,ā Darren points out. He glances sideways with genuine worry, hearing every churn and gurgle from Nateās overworked and overtaxed stomach as it struggles to digest so much so fast and all at once. āYouāre lucky you havenāt spontaneously combust. Or just burst open.ā
Nate groans again, his head falling back again against the headrest. āI donātā¦ā He whimpers, rubbing at a spot high on his belly and working up a snarl in his stomach that burps up out of him. āOh, I really donāt feel right. Thereāsā Thereās a volcano in my belly. Itās makingā¦ā His hand rubs his lower belly then and says, āItās bubbling. Itās even in my intestines. Thatās too fast, isnāt it?ā
āYou probably ate too fast,ā Darren points out. āPlus, all that hot sauceāā
Nateās lower belly gurgles. He can feel liquid thickly rumbling down there, truly burbling through him. He lifts a curled fist to his mouth, swallowing hard. A burn of thick acid tries to belch its way up, but Nate forces it back down with a guttural belch. āOh, God, nope. Nope, nope, it wants toā¦ā He swallows down another burp, afraid of it now as his stomach grumbles. āIt doesnāt want to stay down. I justā I want to keep it down.ā
Darren slows the car, tells him, āKeep breathing,ā and Nate pants, mouth open, as they pull up at home.
By the time theyāre parked, Nate looks wrecked.
His face is grey under the flush, heās chewed his lips raw, his eyes are glossy and half-lidded. As Darren helps him out of the car, his stomach makes a bubbling groan, and he leans heavily on him.
āEverything feels so hot inside of me,ā Nate complains.
āYou drowned it in hellfire sauce,ā Darren reminds him as he drags him up the stairs and steers him straight towards the couch. Nate collapses right down with a pitiful grunt, curling right up onto his side, arms wrapping around his gut. His shirt rides up, his belly visibly distended, the taut swell peeking out at the bottom.
āI feel so sick,ā Nate says hoarsely, squeezing his eyes shut. āMy stomachās doing this⦠this churning thing. Like itās trying to chew the wings a second time.ā
Darren crouches in front of him, brushing sweaty curls away from his forehead. āMaybe you should chew your food more yourself next time.ā His tone is dry, but his touch is gentle. āYou want water? Antacids? Bed, pajamas?ā
Nate shakes his head against the cushion. āIām justā¦ā He belches into the cushion. āIām just gonna lie here. See ifā¦ā His breath hitches as another wet burp forces its way out. āSee if it settles.ā
āEven if it does, you know youād be paying for it in the morning instead, right?ā Darren reminds him, reaching out to smooth a hand over his side, stroking his storming belly.
Nate manages a faint grin, even as his stomach gurgles ominously under Darrenās palm. āNo, it wonāt. I can take it.ā
Darren presses a kiss to his damp temple, not believing a word.
Beneath him, Nate starts to say something, but heās cut off with a rumbling burp that makes his tummy ripple under Darrenās hand. He tries to catch his breath after, but another heavy, wet belch tears up, long and violent, and his stomach feels like itās trying to climb up with it.
āDo you need a bin?ā Darren asks.
Nate shakes his head again, reaching to rub at the churning center of his belly. He feels a pocket of gassy bloat move, making his lower guts rumble menacingly again. His chest burns, and his stomach actually hurts, aching and cramping with pressure and pain, never mind the nausea that's swelling with every gurgle and churn inside.
āWell, try to close your eyes, then,ā Darren replies. āRest. Maybe itāll all digest while you sleep.ā
Nate nods, taking a deep breath, closing his eyes.
A while later, the apartment is dark except for the faint glow of streetlights through the blinds. The televisionās sleep timer has shut the television off, leaving their home quiet. Darren has dragged a trash bin close to the couch despite Nateās protest. He also tucked Nate under a blanket, though it ended up kicked halfway off again due to the uncomfortable heat radiating off of him.
For a long while, Nate lies very still, curled on his side, one arm clutched protectively around his gurgling belly. Darrenās hand strokes slow circles in the center of his back, and eventually, Nateās breathing evens out a little bit. His eyelids flutter shut. Darren sighs, glad to think he has drifted off.
But then, Nateās stomach burbles loudly in his sleep. A loud rumbling seems to churn through him, and he jerks awake with a wet, miserable burp, his hand grabbing his belly as it gurgles again with a loud, ugly churn that echoes in the dark, quiet room.
Darren props himself up on one elbow, waking all the way up again himself. āEasy, babe. Just breathe. Youāre okay.ā
āSorry,ā Nate croaks, voice hoarse. He swallows thickly with a grimace, audible in the dark. āMy stomach just woke me up, I think.ā He belches again. āIt hurts so much, God.ā
Darrenās hand starts rubbing circles into his back again. āThatās okay. Whatās going on in there?ā
āEverythingās sloshing so much,ā Nate groans, feeling a rumbling force its way through his lower guts as the center of his belly gives a thick, liquidy snarl. āLikeā¦ā He tries to shift and curl up closer to Darren, but his stomach flips in protest. āWhen I roll over, I can feel it all moving inside of me. Itās like Iām full ofā of hot sauce soup. Itāsāā His body hunches tight as another belch crawls up, burning with reflux, and his throat clicks as he forces it back down. āOhhhhh, fuckāā
Darren murmurs, āDonāt fight it if it wants to come up. You ate way too much, babe.ā
āNot yet,ā Nate gasps, shaking his head against Darrenās thigh where his head is pillowed in his lap. His face is sweaty, pale, and flushed all at the same time. āItāsā¦ā Another sick belch rolls up, making a wave of queasiness roll through him. āUgh. Itās just not ready yet. Itās still kind of⦠simmering. Still chewing, I can feel it, I justā I feel so sick.ā
āAlright,ā Darren murmurs, refusing to curse. He keeps rubbing Nateās back in steady circles. āTry to lie still. Deep breaths.ā
Nate tries to obey. He really does. But every minute or so, his body betrays him, either with another burp, or another wet hiccup, or another boiling churn inside that forces him to squirm and groan again.
At one point, his body jolts with a sudden and involuntary dry heave, but still nothing comes. He collapses back into Darrenās lap with a whimper.
āSomething doesnāt feel right,ā he whispers, feeling a little panicky and sweaty. āItāsā Itās like my stomachās flipping over. Physically flipping, Darren. Iāā He swallows thickly. āI think I might actually puke.ā
Darren gathers Nate closer and uses his forward momentum to reach and pull the trash can into reach. He kisses Nateās hairline and murmurs, āIf you need to, let it happen. Youāll feel better once itās out. Thirty of the spiciest possible hot wings arenāt ever going to settle down, babe.ā
Nate trembles, jaw tight, throat bobbing as another acidic surge rushes into the back of this throat, wet and thick. Swallowing it back, he groans, then grumbles, āNo, not yet. Itās still just⦠Ugh. Sitting there. Itās coming up slow.ā
Darren takes in his red face, brushing his damp curls back. āYou said it burns coming up?ā
Clutching his chest, Nate groans, āOh, God, yeah. Itās way worse,ā with a miserable nod.
Keeping a hand firm at the nape of his neck, Darren holds Nate steady as the waves of nausea roll in and recede. They never crest fully, and he hates that worse than if he actually got sick. The drawn-out torture of knowing exactly where heās headed, but his body refusing to do anything but drag it out in its miserable indigestion makes him suffer.
Around three in the morning, Nate asks, exhausted, his voice weak and cracked, āCan youā Can you sit up with me?ā He belches, his stomach rumbling loudly. āIām kinda dizzy. And I think I might throw up.ā
āIām not leaving,ā Darren promises. He pulls the blanket back up around Nateās shoulders and tucks him close into Darrenās lap in the couch. Darren puts his hand on Nateās belly, finding where itās rumbling non-stop in his guts, and starts stroking slowly. Making sure the bin is close, he tells him, āIāve got you, babe. Youāre not alone. Just get it up and youāll feel better.ā
Nateās whole body trembles as another wet burp crawls up. His stomach gurgles violently under Darrenās palm. He squeezes his eyes shut, panting through his mouth, waiting for the inevitable.
Itās coming. It has to, they both know it. For now, though, heās still stuck in this burning, bloated, belching limbo, suffering his nausea one spicy, miserable wave at a time.
Nate melts sideways into Darrenās lap, his head pressing against his thigh, his body curling in tighter on itself. To Darren, the heat radiating off him is unreal. Itās not even a fever, or not even just a fever. Itās mostly the angry glow of capsaicin and the nausea of overeating meat, his skin clammy with queasy sweat. Darren doesnāt think his stomach has stopped making noise since his tenth wing.
A sharp bubble rolls through Nate, making a gurgle thatās audible and visible even through his shirt. Nate groans, palms splaying across his upset belly like he can muffle the noises.
āGod, listen to that,ā he complains. āItās like a swamp in there.ā
Darrenās fingers drag slowly through his sweat-damp hair. āMore like a volcano.ā
āVolcanoes donāt gurgle and slosh, do they?ā Nate argues weakly. A belch rolls up, and he swallows, winces, then swallows again. When he tries to curl tighter around his belly, he groans, āOhhhh, fuck, I can feel it all moving every time I breathe, Itāā A loud snarl works through him, churning thick through his stomach and into his lower guts, and he whimpers. āDid you hear that?ā
āI heard it,ā Darren replies carefully. āAre you okay?ā
Nate shakes his head, holding back a gag. He swipes a trembling hand over his mouth as his whole body shifts restlessly. His belly surges inside and against him. āItāsā ughhhh, itās climbing, Darren, I can feel it right here,ā he taps miserably at the base of his throat. āItās hot. Itās like battery acid. Every burp hurts, and thereās so much pressure and so much heat and justāā He belches again. āSo much chicken, I shouldnāt have eaten so much.ā
Darren presses his palm to the center of Nateās stomach. Itās not even that firm a touch, but Nate still whines when his belly bubbles in response.
āYouāre a mess,ā Darren comments. āThirty wings was suicide.ā
āBut I wanted to win,ā Nate whines. Another wet belch stutters up, burning, and he curls tighter with a shiver. The pressure in his belly is immense. āOhhhhh. It hurts.ā Darrenās hand returns to his belly, stroking in slow, grounding circles even though the miserable churn beneath is refusing to ever quite fully stop. āEverything hurts.ā
āWhy donāt we go to bed?ā Darren asks. Nate groans again. āAt least youāll be more comfortable and we can both try to sleep.ā
Nateās churning belly makes him want to stay immobile, and it takes some coaxing, but Darren finally gets him upright. Nate mutters protests the whole way, but Darrenās patience and firm grip on his arm win out. By the time Nateās tucked under the covers, damp hair plastered to his forehead, his stomach still grumbling, he at least feels glad that his body is in pajamas, horizontal, and quiet, so he tries to relax.
For a while.
Nate drifts in and out of a shallow, uncomfortable doze. Every time Darren stirs even a little bit, he finds Nate curled tighter in on himself, an arm locked around his swollen, rumbling gut, brow furrowed in restless pressure and pain. The air between them stays slightly sharp with faint spice and sweat.
Darren ends up lying awake longer than he means to after stirring one time, listening to every thick swallow, uncomfortable gurgle, and upset rumble that Nateās belly forces in the dark. Now and then, he even burps in his sleep, each one sounding heavier and sicker than the last.
Itās a wet, violent gurgle that finally tears Nate out of sleep hours later, long after Darren fell back asleep.
Nate bolts upright, his stomach snarling loudly. A churning burble growls through his lower tummy and his guts before it bubbles up into the center of his knotted-up, heaving belly and groans loudly there. Another fierce cramp tightens his entire lower belly, the rest of it distended with painful, nauseous pressure, and a queasy, wet squelch roils up into his chest and burns the back of his throat with a splashing slosh.
āOhhhh, fuck, no,ā he groans before a heavy, wet belch comes up.
It sounds like heās going to vomit, or even like he already is, though nothing comes all the way out of him. It just fills his mouth with a burning rush before heās thickly swallowing it back.
āDarren,ā Nate exclaims, his voice high and panicked, and Darren jerks up, squinting at him, still waking up. āOh, God, I didnāt mean to wake you, I justāā He belches again. āMy stomach justāā
He burps again, then again, unable to stop them from coming up in a bubbling string.
"Are you okay?" Darren demands, a little panicked.
Nate's stomach gurgles again, forcing up a thick belch, and he gasps for air afterwards. The next sick burp is wet and heavy and lasts way too long. He's shivering when it ends.
"Nate, holy shit," Darren says. "Are youā"
He's interrupted by Nate's next queasy burp as he rubs at his chest, indigestion and heartburn bloating him and burning him.
"It hurts," Nate gasps out before he burps again, low and rough. His stomach lurches inside of him, then rumbles as he bends forward over it. "Oh, fuck, it hurts, I'm gonnaā" His jaw tightens and his eyes prickle. "I'm gonna be sick, it hurts so much, I'mā"
He doesnāt have a chance to finish, his stomach churning upwards again, and he staggers out of bed in a rush. Darren is up in a heartbeat, trailing him down the hall, but Nate is faster, sprinting and barely making it to the bathroom before heās slamming down to his knees in front of the toilet as his body finally tries to give up.
A deep retch tears out of him, immediate and wrenching. He doesnāt even try holding back, and he feels his entire stomach seems to push upwards inside of him, the whole organ lurching with the deep belch.
āChrist, Nate.ā Darren crouches beside him, steadying him as he clutches the rim of the toilet. āEasy. Just let it out.ā
Shivering, gripping the porcelain with white knuckles, Nate complains, āIt burns,ā then heaves, feeling the acidic spice splash upwards and then swallow itself back down again. āOh, God.ā
Darrenās hand keeps rubbing firm circles in his back. The other braces on his waist, hand splayed on his belly, feeling the non-stop gurgling and lurching inside of him. āI know. I got you. Breathe if you can. Just get it up.ā
Nateās eyes screw shut as a helpless, broken sound sobs out of him, his whole body tightening up as his stomach surges, lurching upwards again, belching up a wet mouthful of hot sauce and milk that burns.
The bathroom light feels too bright, the tile too hard, and the world too harsh as Nate hunches over the toilet, arms braced on either side, body drawn tight like a bow. His stomach lurches again, a molten churn, and the sound he makes it wrecked and guttural and comes from the pit of his stomach.
Darren keeps rubbing his back, feeling the unreal heat radiating off of him as his back heaves and arches.
āGod,ā Nate chokes out between spasming dry retches, his throat raw. āDarrenā Darrenāā
He drags in a ragged breath, only to catch on a hiccup that becomes a rumbling belch. It makes his belly seize again, forcing another scalding rush upwards. Thereās more solid chunks of chewed chicken this time, mostly-undigested with how much his belly refused to process what he ate and how bad his indigestion was, and they hurt coming up almost as bad as the burn does.
Nate spits and coughs, shaking all over. āIt burns so bad, itās so spicy coming back up. It shouldnāt be worse coming back up, should it?ā
āYeah, well, you ate thirty wings in literal hell sauce,ā Darren reminds him, quiet and gentle, but his words are enough to make Nate gag again.
Darren sweeps Nateās sweaty hair off of his face. Pathetic under him, Nate groans as his stomach clenches, and he leans up over the toilet to belch up another thick, spicy wave again.
All Darren can do is hold him as his belly rumbles, upset and tormented, and forces up surge after surge from his tortured belly full of thirty spicy hot wings that he ate in under ten minutes. It burns so badly coming up, thick mouthfuls chunky with chicken and heavy with milk and hot with spice.
His stomach canāt stop emptying itself when he starts. Darren keeps rubbing his tummy, and it gets softer, but feels like itās having a hard time dealing, even with getting so much out. Even though Darren reaches up to flush for him a couple of times, it seems like Nate just canāt stop leaning forward, his stomach gurgling again, before heās belching up another spicy, thick, orange wave of meat and hot sauce and vomit.
When Nate finally sags forward with a heaving breath, trying to spit and calm down for a second, Darren is ready for him. He steadies him with a palm against his chest, burning with acid reflux and heartburn and indigestion, and eases him back against his own chest.
āTell the wings they finally beat me,ā Nate rasps.
āThey won hours ago, remember?ā Darren mutters, still rubbing his belly. āYou lost the second you took your first bite, you idiot.ā
Nateās throat bobs as he swallows carefully, testing. He takes a breath, and another small, sick burp forces its way out, sharp enough that he grimaces and presses one shaking hand to his acidic chest, the other to his bubbling belly, the rumbling deep in his guts and squirmy in his tummy and low in his chest.
āEverything still hurts,ā Nate admits with a wrecked voice as soft as a sick childās, holding his belly tight, hand rubbing small, slow circles.
āI know,ā Darren says. āBut itās done now. Youāll feel better now that itās all out.ā
He tucks Nate in closer, supporting his weight against him when he wobbles, then turns them to lay down right there on the cold tile floor. Nate sighs, not fighting against him for the first time since his eyes landed on the wing challenge, and curls up into his arms.
Darren holds him for a long time, rubbing his sick belly, trying to keep him calm and quiet. When he thinks Nate is capable of moving at least a little bit, Darren gets up to wipe him down gently with a damp washcloth, careful around his blotchy face and sweaty tummy. The worst of everything inside of him is probably out, but the spicy vomit smell still clings, sharp and acidic and bitter.
Nate is pliant now, exhausted, leaning heavily into Darrenās side with his eyes half-lidded as he helps him upright. He rinses his mouth in the sink as instructed, then lets Darren bring him back to bed and lower him down.
āWanna get some water in you?ā Darren murmurs, his voice soft.
Nate hesitates, then nods. His mouth and throat and chest and belly and everything are burning so much, it will probably help.
Darren fills a glass and presses it into Nateās hand. He realizes heās shaking, and keeps a hand on the glass with him, helping to guide it upwards so he can take in a sip.
The first sip feels so good and refreshing that Nate tips his head back, taking the glass from Darren to gulp it all down. The glass full slides down into his raw stomach, so much that he can hear it glorp, glorp, glorping into his tummy, and the relief lasts for all of ten seconds before his body feels the need to revolt almost instantly.
A sharp cramp and a bolt of pain flicker through Nate. His stomach rolls queasily, and he clamps his lips shut as his chest tightens with a harsh, tight burn and his tummy bubbling with the inclusion of so much water so fast.
Darren is already moving, tugging the glass away and grabbing the trash bin next to the bed. āEasy. Donāt fight it, itās okay.ā
Nate coughs once, twice, trying to clear the burning pressure rising from his belly through his chest to the back of his throat. He folds forward with a miserable, burbling retch, then belches up a faintly orange mouthful of water and bile and a couple of chicken chunks.
It isnāt violent like before, but itās just as relentless. The water seems to be just enough thin liquid, chugged down way too fast into his upset tummy, that it helpsā āhelpsāā his belly squeeze up most of the remnants of what it had still been hanging onto from the wing challenge. The taste alone of the last rotten, spicy remains of dinner has him gagging again hard, tears springing to his eyes, belching up another heavy wave from the very pit of his stomach.
The water all comes back up, as does most of what seems to be left in his stomach. Darren doesnāt know howā or, he wouldnāt, if he hadnāt seen the overfull bucket of wings at the beginning of the night. So much going into Nate surely has to mean so much coming back out, too.
When itās all overā Darren hopes so this time anyway, and so does Nateā Nate is trembling, breathless, clutching the trash bin with his head buried inside like heās going to fall into the bottom of it.
āGod,ā he whimpers, his voice wrecked. āI thought I was empty.ā
āYou were pretty close,ā Darren says, rubbing gentle circles into the side of his belly with one hand and firm circles into the base of his spine to ease the pressure with the other. āGuess your stomach still had other plans. Maybe you should've, too.ā
Nate lets out a rough, humorless laugh that breaks into another burp when his stomach burbles again. āUgh. God, Itās still not done. I can still feel something⦠just. Sitting in there. Waiting.ā
Itās not a surprise with how much he ate and how sick he made himself, and so Darren says, āI know.ā He squeezes Nateās shoulder, grounding him, taking the trash bin away. āBut you got a lot out. Enough to rest, I think. Lay down, okay? I'll yell at you later, when you're not all pathetic. I think this is punishment enough for now.ā
And Nate, wrung out and shivering, lets Darren lay him back down in bed. He takes the trash can away and comes back with it empty, cleaned, and with a new liner. He also has another damp, clean washcloth in hand, and washes his face again, careful, gentle, and sweet. Nateās stomach gurgles, low and wet, still a molten ache that keeps bubbling in warning that more is likely to come later on, but for now itās not in a constant pressurized spicy churn that he canāt think past.
Also for now, Darrenās steady hands and low voice are enough to anchor him, and he focuses on him instead of the grumbling in his sick belly. Itās enough that he can drift into an uneasy sleep with Darren watching over him and the ghosts of too many spicy hot wings haunting the insides of him, he suspects for the rest of time.
āThe Darren and Nate one is šššš can you write a super spicy wings challenge with them?ā (anonymous)
āYour fics are INCREDIBLE! Can I please request you to write a fic in which Nate overindulges into hot wings and then wakes up with heartburn and is super burpy and has chest pain and it freaks out Darren? So Darren has to console him and even if he scolds him(gently) for being stupid, he takes care of him. :)ā (anonymous)
ācould you maybe do something where Nate and/or Darren has spicy food and maybe eat way too much of it? and so they end up really achy and crampy, with heartburn and acid reflux. and also a lot of pain and nausea. maybe they can try to sleep it off and wake up when their stomach wakes them up beacuse it can't keep everything down and it's hurting? you could include lines like "I didn't mean to wake you, my stomach just woke me up" and "something doesn't feel right" or maybe "it burns as much coming up as it did going down" please!ā (anonymous)
can you do something where luke eats a massive pasta dinner and has a whole bottle of wine or two and eats it really fast and has searing indigestion and ends up so nauseated he can't even sit upright and has to curl up on the couch and try not to barf? just lying there moaning while riley is like "i warned you" lots of stomach noises and full-body clenching pls
Luke leans against the side of the truck as Riley unlocks the doors for them, his cheeks flushed from both the heat of the restaurant theyāve just left and the buzz of two bottles of wine. The night had meant to be a date night kick-off before they both have four days off in a row, a quiet escape after their long shifts lately.
Itād clearly been too long since Luke ate, though. He had charged through the first plate of his bottomless pasta dish like it was an emergency, then the second and the third in rapid order. If Riley hadnāt finished his own single plate meal, he may have even kept going and discovered where the bottom actually is. That was on top of the majority of their first bottle of wine before he polished off a second in a pace Riley still canāt quite believe. It was like heād never eaten before.
Luke lowers himself to the passenger seat with a slight groan, his stomach definitely feeling stuffed as he moves. Riley glances at him from the driverās side.
āI warned you,ā Riley reminds him. āWe both know better. You probably made yourself sick.ā Itās fond, teasing, but thereās a thread of concern underneath.
Luke shakes his head, pressing a hand against his stomach as an overfull hiccup bubbles up out of him. āIām good, Iām good. Really. Just gotta let it all digest, give me a couple minutes.ā
Riley examines him with an arched eyebrow. āYou ate so much, hon. And maybe you shouldnāt have eaten so fast? Pastaās not a race, you know.ā
āHa-ha,ā Luke replies, rubbing his hand across the front of his stomach. Heās usually fairly toned, with a little bit of a belly. Now, his stomach is swollen, definitely rounded under his hand. He canāt tell how much is food and how much is bloat, but itās definitely full all the way up. āIf it was, I wouldāve won.ā He thumps on his chest, works up a thin burp that doesnāt offer much in the way of relief from the overfull pressure inside. āIām good, seriously. You just focus on getting us home, and Iāll focus on digesting.ā
Though Riley gives him a skeptical look, he still starts the truck, and Luke leans back in his seat, a contented sigh escaping his lips as Riley starts the engine.
When they do start to drive, the restaurantās glow fades behind them, and the city lights flicker past the windows in the dark. Lukeās stomach feels⦠undeniably full, almost painfully so, but heās not quite fully uncomfortable yet. A little bit, yes, but itās the sort of heaviness and discomfort that comes from overindulgenceā like the three plates of pasta he shouldnāt have finished, heavy with white sauce, and the wine he might have sipped too much of too fastā and a small, guilty shiver runs through him.
A low gurgle rumbles through the center of Lukeās stuffed belly. Riley glances over, his hands steady on the wheel.
āYou really did not have to eat all that,ā Riley comments. āThey donāt mean bottomless as a challenge.ā
Luke shifts in his seat with a soft groan, trying to stifle it even as it feels like his stomach tries to shift inside of him, but fails, too full and stuck to do so. āI knowāā He hiccups again. āI know. Iām good, I just ate a little fast. And Iām a little full, but I always get bloated after eating a lot. But it wasā ughhhhā so good.ā
He leans back further in his seat, stretching his arms back behind and above his head, just trying to let the fullness inside settle evenly instead of all lumpy and bloated like it feels now. He still believes his belly might actually behave if he just shifts enough and gets everything inside to settle. The tightness in his stomach makes him hum a little, a mix of contented pleasure from eating so much good food and nervous unease from eating so much good food.
Rileyās eyes flick toward him again, an eyebrow raised. āUh-huh. Sure. āSo good.ā Youāre practically vibrating.ā His tummy growls again, a grumbly noise to signal a sluggish attempt towards digestion, even as indigestion starts weighing on him and upsetting his stomach. āSoās your belly, it sounds like.ā
Luke lets out a small laugh, then winces as his belly sloshes against itself, reminding him that so good and so much good food can have a cost if heās not careful.
He presses both hands over his belly, trying to breathe slowly and deeply. The wine buzz from the two bottles had him feeling warm and mellow when they first left the restaurant, but combined with the sheer volume of heavy food inside of him, itās starting to edge toward⦠something else. Not quite nauseaā not yetā just a heaviness, a fullness thatās almost too much. Maybe too much. Could have been too much, possiblyā or even probably.
Another gurgle rumbles through his belly before he feels a heavy, pressure-filled weight settling in his belly. His stomach feels stretched taut, as if he swallowed a balloon, and it feels like it clenches as a dull, grinding cramp rolls through his lower belly and a wet, unsettled, liquidy noise escapes. The tickle of nausea crawls up his throat a little bit, and he clears his throat to chase it away.
āI thinkāā He burps again, a little deeper this time. āI think I might have gone overboard,ā Luke admits quietly, his voice low and slightly sheepish. He shifts again, trying to find a position where the pressure eases even a little.
The truck feels like it canāt stop shaking around him, every gentle turn and bump in the road feeling like heās on a roller coaster, the fullness moving inside of him like a strange liquid weight.
Riley reaches over, squeezing Lukeās thigh. āI thought you mightāve,ā he says softly, his tone more fond than chastising. āYou have a tendency to go, uhh⦠all-in. I love that about you, though. Even when it upsets your stomach. Or mine.ā
Luke groans again, a low vibration of a sound that comes from deeper than his chest. He tries to sit up straighter now, hoping the motion will actually help redistribute the weight pressing against his belly and slowly churning inside him, but it only shifts the fullness around, a reminder that he might have overdone it.
āI just⦠wanted to eat it all so much,ā he murmurs, leaning back against the seat again, letting his head rest back against the headrest. āIt all tasted so good, babe. The pasta, the wine, God.ā He burps again, thick in the back of his throat.
āYouāre your own worst enemy, honey,ā Riley mutters, a small and indulgent smile tugging at his lips. He glances towards Luke again, noticing the way his hands are subconsciously pressing over his stomach, as well as the slight tremor in his hands as he shifts once again in his seat. āCome on, you can make it. Homeās not far, and then you can lay down and digest, okay? Just hang in there.ā
Luke closes his eyes, curling his legs up slightly, trying to move and redistribute the weight and pressure in his uneven, increasingly upset tummy. He hums in acknowledgment, feeling the subtle churning inside that comes from a belly stretched beyond its usual limits. Only a little painful now, but moreso aware, insistent, and a little bit alive.
Their truck drives steadily forward, though with every slight movement on the road, Lukeās awareness of the wine and pasta stuffing him grows. He presses his hands lightly into his swollen, knotted tummy, trying to rub deeply enough to stop the slow, relentless rolling of indigestion inside thatās leaving him weak and slightly queasy.
Riley keeps one hand on Lukeās thigh. After a bit, he reaches up, putting his hand on the top swell of his rumbly tummy, a quiet promise of support as he starts to rub a slow, firm circle there to try and help.
āI think Iām gonna be okay,ā Luke murmurs, though thereās a slight tremor in his voice, just like there is in his tummy. āJust⦠Just really full.ā Shifting in his seat again, trying to find a spot where his stomach feels less increasingly horrible, stretched, liquid, and alive, he ends up with a low gurgle swirling through. Thereās a tight, heavy sensation in the pit of his stomach, and he curls up a little tighter to himself.
Patting his tummy, softly and affectionately, Riley patiently murmurs, āYouāll be fine. Just⦠try not to move too much. Iāve got you.ā
Luke reclines his seat now so he can lean back more fully, hoping that the weight of his meal in his stomach will settle as best as it can. Itās so full and warm right now, buzzing with wine and heavy with pasta.
By the time they pull into the driveway, Lukeās full and sated contentment, only vaguely rumbling and unsettled, has begun to shift. Itās subtle at firstā a little bit of gurgling, a soft churn swirling inside, an insistent pressure that refuses to stay in one place. His stomach burbles quietly as he climbs out of the truck, indigestion sloshing in his stomach, twisting with a wet, rolling sensation in the pit of his unsettled tummy.
He still has the buzz of wine shimmering through him, but itās too tangled up with the rest of the mess in his belly to be pleasant anymore. Instead, itās adding to the weight in his tummy, giving a liquidy bubbling to everything inside of him.
Riley slips an arm around him as they head up the walkway to their townhouse, steadying him.
āEasy there,ā he murmurs to Luke, guiding him inside, through the front door and to the couch. Luke leans against him, feeling heavy and unbalanced, his knees a little wobbly. His stomach shifts oddly with every step, feeling strange and unsettled inside of him.
Lowering him carefully to the couch, Riley sits him down on the edge, then crouches to take off his shoes for him.
āI told you so,ā Riley teases softly, his voice warm. āYour stomachās bothering you, isnāt it?ā
Luke groans, collapsing backwards onto the couch and then sideways with a grunt.
āA little bit,ā he admits as he curls up, his head resting against the pillow against the armrest. āIt feels like everythingās just sitting in my gut. It feels like itās not really settling so well.ā His belly rolls, and he rubs one hand over the middle of the curve of his bloated stomach again. He finds it heavier than he even expected, turning over itself with a slow, rolling discomfort that seems to ripple through his tummy.
Though the blanket Riley tucks over him is comforting and warm, Lukeās stomach insists on making him uncomfortable and upset. It moves against itself, the food inside pressing low and churning like thick dough turning over inside of him in a sluggish motion. An uncomfortable gurgle squirms through his gut, tight and overfull, and he tries to rub his hand harder into the place he can feel an internal swell, trapped air pressing uncomfortably as a hollow growl tears through his tummy.
Luke makes a low, uneasy sound before an acidic burp bursts up sharply. The wine simmers unpleasantly in his stomach, low and gnawing. When a couple of bubbles rise and pop in his bloated belly, a fizzy reminder of the two bottles of wine, he burps again, warm and sour, the back of his throat hot and bitter with the tang of it.
Riley kneels beside the couch, brushing Lukeās auburn curls back and placing a hand against his forehead. āIāll get you some water in a minute, once you think you can keep it down. For now, just lay here and let your stomach settle, sweetheart,ā he murmurs. His touch feels steady, grounding. āYouāre okay. Just a little upset stomach, we see worse every day, right? Want to try some Pepto or ginger ale before the water?ā
With a shake of his head, Luke tilts his face into Rileyās hand. āNo, thanks. Just⦠ate a little too much, need it to start digesting.ā He curls a little tighter in on himself now that the fullness feels like itās becoming a living, gurgling presence in his belly. Itās so heavy and reminds him of every bite of pasta, every swallow of red wine. Shifting on his side, trying to rub his tummy and redistribute the heavy bricks of weight and sloshing bubbling swamp inside him, he finds only that every movement seems to stretch the tension in his tummy.
Another low moan escapes Luke, and Riley smiles softly, exasperated but fond.
āItās okay,ā he promises him, brushing a loose curl behind his ear. āYouāre gonna be fine. Just, donāt fight it. Let it come if it has to.ā
Luke closes his eyes, letting the warmth of the blanket and Rileyās hand in his hair soothe him. He hums, low and heavy with discomfort, and tries to readjust when he feels a little queasier. His stomach sloshes slightly, the weight of the meal packed inside him past the point of comfort or even possibility, and he presses down a firm hand instinctively in deep ovals, trying to coax something to move through him in the rolling heaviness.
Every small motionā even turning his head, curling a leg slightly closer, rubbing his tummyā sends ripples of nauseous tension through his tummy. When his tummy churns lazily, slow and heavy with indigestion, he groans again. Itās like his belly refuses to settle, gurgling and squelching with ineffective burbles that give no relief or attempts at digestion. The pressure refuses to be ignored, taking over all his attention.
Riley lets his hand come down to Lukeās shoulder, pushing the blanket down to reveal his abdomen. His swollen belly pushes out against his button-down, and Riley swiftly unbuttons each button, letting his tummy fall out.
Even given space, thereās no relief for his heavy stomach. Riley tugs his undershirt up, revealing his bare skin and bloated belly. Setting his hand on his tummy, he starts rubbing in small, circular motions, feeling the heavy, undigested food in him roll sluggishly, twisting his stomach.
āOof,ā Riley comments for him, grimacing in sympathy. When Luke shifts uncomfortably again, even that tiny movement causes a squishy, uneven sloshing in his overfull tummy, along with a sharp, twinging cramp in his lower gut as it protests the food and wine that wonāt settle. āThat doesnāt feel so good. Are you feeling queasy, or just uncomfortable?ā
Another cramp feels like it tightly winds up Lukeās lower tummy. The unsettled feeling inside makes him squirm a little, fidgeting on his side on the sofa before a deep, acidic burp gurgles up.
āOh, I felt that,ā Riley says. āWant me to rub your belly for you, get a little more up?ā
Luke exhales shakily, one hand still pressing low on his belly, against the lower curve. He curls up tighter on himself, feeling the fullness inside him seem to swell up tighter and more uncomfortably, and he nods.
Riley kicks off his own shoes and climbs up onto the sofa with him. Luke shifts again to make room and get comfortable with himā or at least, as comfortable as he can get right now. Heās really starting to regret how much pasta and wine he had now that itās refusing to settle inside of him; it had tasted so good and seemed like such a good idea going in, but that had been when his eyes were bigger than his stomach and he thought heād be able to digest it all.
Clearly, that was wrong, he realizes now as he curls up tighter under his blanket, every muscle in his body feeling like it clenches as tight as his tummy. The indigestion turns his tummy over again, and he presses one hand to his stomach as the fullness and bubbling and sluggish rolling inside refuses to settle. The pressure is constant now, churning and sloshing in slow, insistent waves.
Letting out a low hum of discomfort, the sound equal parts frustrated and uncomfortable, Luke shifts back against Riley and Riley just spoons him from behind, wrapping his arms around him, his hands settling big and warm on his upset belly.
āHere,ā Riley murmurs, his fingers pressing gentle but firm into Lukeās bloated tummy. āLet me help.ā
Luke hums in tentative agreement, sinking slightly into Riley and the couch cushions, allowing him to start firmly rubbing into his bloated belly.
At first, itās actually comforting. It feels good, even. The heavy, bloated mass sitting in his tummy, sloshing and gurgling with trapped air from the food stubbornly unmoving inside of him, caught mid-digestion along with the gassy bloat of his wine, reacts to Rileyās fingers digging into him. The warmth of his hands, the gentle pressure of his touch, helps coax the tension and the trapped air from his bloated belly.
A deep, rumbling burp comes up from the pit of his stomach when Riley rubs at a pocket of air there. Another comes up with the next pocket, and another, and another. Thereās a fleeting sense of relief, and then Riley finds another rumbling pouch of air, digs into it, and works up a belch so deep and long that Luke thinks he can feel some of the tight, bubbly gas leaving his tummy with it.
Luke lets out a quiet, purring hum, letting himself relax backwards against him.
āSee?ā Riley murmurs softly. āJust what the doctor ordered.ā He kisses the back of his head. āFeeling any better?ā
Luke nods weakly, lips parted in a soft exhale, hands coming up to rest over the center of his belly while Rileyās still working at a gas pocket near the top crest of the swell.
āYeah, a little,ā Luke admits, a slight wobble to his voice. āFeels kinda good, actually. Relieving.ā
The relief is short-lived, though. As Riley continues, rubbing firmly into the burbling gas at the top of his belly until it comes out in a long, gurgling belch, the trapped air still left in his tummy shifts around, sloshing and twisting unexpectedly.
Lukeās soft hums falter, then transform into a low groan as the movements stir the weight inside him. Without the gas and with so much less air, itās as if the churn inside of him has been amplified, the heavy, queasy feeling in her tummy making it feel as if her belly has turned to lead, a solid, stubborn lump that swells uneasily. A dense, unrelenting weight sits thick inside of him as a sticky, slow-motion churn rolls sluggishly and unevenly through his unsettled tummy.
Though Rileyās still trying to help work up air, the tiny pockets of trapped gas remaining roll and press inside of Lukeās belly, refusing to release. The restless bubbles shift uncomfortably, twisting his tummy, tight enough that another cramp clenches his lower belly as the food resists digestion and threatens to revolt with a thick, growling gurgle that crawls through his tummy.
Trying to get more comfortable again, hoping it will help, Luke finds that every movement only slightly stirs the stuck mass of glued-together, undigested pasta, rolling it forcibly with a squelching wine-induced pressure that makes nausea groan in the pit of his stomach.
The gentle, comforting warmth of Rileyās big hands suddenly makes every inch of Lukeās belly feel uncomfortably upset and tight, gurgling and twisting and more insistently protesting what heās had tonight.
Riley pauses, noting Lukeās subtle tensing and groaning. āUh⦠Okay, maybe we should stop? Is this not helping anymore, hon?ā
He removes his hands, and Luke replaces them with his own, wrapping his arms around his belly, hands rubbing into the full, distended sides of his belly. Itās less round in a circular way now, and more round and heavy in a too-full way; he can almost imagine that he can see the outline of the ball of pasta gurgling inside the wine in his stretched, too-big tummy.
Curling even tighter, body clenching tight, Luke lets out a trembly moan, then hiccups.
āIt was helping at first,ā Luke says, miserable. āThen it just started feeling so much worseā Oh, God, Rileyā¦ā Another hiccup shakes him. Itās sharp and bitter with acid, and he closes his eyes again, feeling the fullness and discomfort weighing too heavily on him. Though the circulation of food, air, and liquid inside of him had seemed like it promised a relief from the pressure and nausea for a few minutes, every small motion now seems to grumble thickly and painfully through his overfull belly, no room for anything so much as gas left inside of him. Itās just all rumbling pasta and wine that refuses to settle or digest.
Riley adjusts his hands and pulls back, rubbing more deliberately along his sides and his back, trying to help burp him without touching his stomach directly.
āI got you,ā he encourages. āJust breathe.ā His voice is calm, patient, indulgent, and teasing just enough to try and keep Luke focused on him instead of the swelling discomfort and nausea of his meal.
Luke hums, a shaky, strained sound, curling up tighter around his belly, knees drawing closer. The churn in his belly grows more insistent, twisting in ways it hasnāt so far yet tonight. Gurgles rise and slosh in quiet but insistent waves. The warmth, the pressure, the relief from Rileyās handsā basically, all the things they both thought would helpā no longer do, and he groans again, increasingly miserable.
āGod,ā Luke groans. āItāā A pathetic, nothing burp rumbles up, offering no relief. āIt wonāt settle.ā
The relief from the air Riley rubbed out is gone now. Whatās left is the raw, insistent weight inside of him, twisting and tightening and too much. His stomach gurgles audibly, a low growl that snarls through his lower tummy as ripples of discomfort and fullness burble to press outward, and he lets out another half-groan, half-sigh thatās more like a whine than anything.
Riley kisses his neck, brushing Lukeās curls back with one hand, clammy and slightly sweaty.
āIāve got you. You okay?ā Riley asks, soft and fond.
Luke presses closer back into his touch, trembling slightly.
āI⦠I think itās too much,ā Luke admits. āEverything is justā Ughhhh, fuckā¦ā
The sensation has shifted inside of him, his stomach flopping uneasily as the mass inside squirmed, each movement edging him closer into his nausea. The heavy, sticky fullness rolled unevenly inside of him as everything refused to settle, acid pressing upwards while painful cramps spasm downwards and his belly gurgles throughout, restless and upset as the fullness moves and shifts and grumbles but never settles.
Shifting uncomfortably, queasiness making him feel tingly and clammy, Luke breathes through his mouth. He tries to rub his belly to work something through, but the food just shifts in wet clumping movements, resisting digestion, just squirming around in the wine as he tries and fails to settle it down.
āI know, it feels rough,ā Riley says quietly, unfaltering. His hands keep moving in slow, patient circles on Lukeās back, giving what little relief and reassurance he can. āJust breathe. Iām right here. Youāll be okay.ā
Luke doesnāt quite agree, curled up with a stomach this full and upset under his blanket, his legs curled up tight, his hands pressing hard into his rumbling stomach as if that might suppress the increasing distress within.
Every touch and every movement now only seem to be making the churn inside sharper, louder, and more uncomfortable. And yet, through it all, Riley stays holding him, murmuring softly to him, trying to keep him calm and comfortable even though itās increasingly impossible. All relief is gone; thereās just the growing gurgling as Lukeās stomach twists stubbornly, and Riley really is the only thing grounding him, keeping him tethered to something that isnāt the upset in his belly by reminding him heās not doing this alone.
āSorry Iām ruining date night,ā Luke apologizes quietly, uncharacteristically abashed. āI shouldnāt have eaten so much.ā
āIām happy any night Iām with you,ā Riley answers.
Luke smiles a little as he shifts again, pressing both hands over his upset belly. A heavy, rolling churn grumbles through, the stubborn gurgling seeming to move in cramping waves across every inch of his belly. The pressure feels like itās stretching him from the inside out, taut and relentless, refusing to come out no matter how firmly he rubs at it. Itās painful and uncomfortable and he tries to dig in harder, but nothing will move; heās packed too full now.
Rileyās hands still move in slow circles on his back, firm but gentle, trying to coax tension out of his muscles and gas out of his rumbly tummy. A little bit of the remaining popping bloat shifts and eases as he does, and Luke groans; in response, Riley thumps his hand on Lukeās back like heās burping a baby.
A low, deep, rumbling belch comes up from the very pit of Lukeās belly. He can feel everything packed into his tummy squelch and move in the tight, stuffed space as he does, and thereās no relief despite how much shouldāve come out.
Instead, the movement seemed to stir the weight inside of him. A series of little ripples of tight discomfort squirm through his upper belly while his stomach twists and churns, liquids and solids pressing together in ways that shouldnāt be happening, making his undigesting belly gurgle and slosh audibly.
Luke lets out a low moan, turning to curl into a ball and press his face into the couch, as if this will stop the writhing and squirming in his stomach.
āUgh⦠Riley, itās not settling, it just wonāt calm down,ā he complains. āIām starting to feel sick.ā A thin burp comes up, but it just burns with acid. His stomach feels like itās coming alive in the worst wayā stretched full, sloshing unevenly, gurgling with an uneasy churn he canāt seem to stop or control. Every shallow breath, constricted by his belly and ribs, pushes against the pressure in his stomach, attempting to redistribute the growing unrest and protest inside his tummy.
Frustrated, Luke presses his hands down harder, trying to massage some measure of relief himself. Unfortunately, the heaviness only seems to spread, ignoring his attempts completely, twisting along his sides, pulsing in the pit of his stomach in waves of uneasy, nauseated, rumbling fullness.
āI donāt feel good,ā Luke mumbles, shaking a little. He still rubs at his stomach, firmly, and the motion makes the pressure ripple even more, churning stubbornly in his aching gut. A quiet groan escapes him as he tries to force up a relieving burp that wonāt come.
āI know,ā Riley says. āI did warn you. Youāre okay, though. Youāre going to be okay. Iāve got you.ā
One hand comes around to settle on his bare, distended stomach. A gurgling snarl ripples under his palm, and still his thumb just rubs a slow, patient circle into the churn, trying to give any kind of relief he can.
Luke curls tighter, almost fetal around his belly, pressing his face harder into the cushion below. His stomach twists and sloshes with a life of its own, stretched and tense and so horribly upset. Gas squirms in tiny bubbles that havenāt yet escaped, shifting beneath the surface in small waves that push uncomfortably against their hands. Low gurgles keep rumbling through him, unending and reminding him that his belly doesnāt wantā and maybe just canātā digest everything heād eaten and drunk so quickly at dinner tonight.
āKeep taking deep breaths,ā Riley whispers to remind him. āJust let it move through you. Itāll be okay once you can.ā
Humming shakily to acknowledge him, Luke closes his eyes. The discomfort and queasiness continue to pulse and roll inside of him, protesting how badly heās overdone it. His stretched, tense belly rolls against itself, stirring up more movement and more gurgling all on its own, a self-fulfilling cycle.
He presses back into Rileyās warmth and comfort, letting him anchor him as he shakes and fights against the slow, relentless churn of his own unsettled stomach.
āI really donāt feel so good,ā Luke mutters, voice muffled by the cushion.
Riley kisses his shoulder, hand stroking slowly over his belly, trying to help quell the restless pressure, the bubbling gas, the uneven churn, the rolling nausea, and the growing audible gurgles that are starting to be non-stop in the center of his tummy. Every breath or twitch seems to set off another snarling ripple in his stomach now, and he lets out a strained groan.
Luke shifts again, curling tighter into himself. He canāt help but press his hands hard into his upset stomach as the fullness, indigestion, and churning seem to intensify. When it first started getting worse, it had mostly been heavy and dense with some liquid sloshing slowly with every movement, but now the pressure and fullness is getting more upset and more insistent, becoming a twisting, restless, rolling gurgle that refuses to stay still but also is barely moving.
His tummy makes a low, wet sound that gets louder as the liquid and gas gurgle together, struggling to grumble their way through the food packed inside of him. Luke groans softly, rocking a little, but the motion only stirs the contents of his stomach further, the sloshing now accompanied by twisting churns that feel like theyāre rising and falling in his belly.
āOhhhā¦ā Luke groans before he burps again, shallow and acidic. āUgh.ā He presses one hand into the center of his belly. There, the heaviness has a pulse of its own, a throb like a heartbeat that belongs only to his belly.
A slow wave of queasy discomfort rolls upwards, stretching him tight from his guts through his belly and up further still, pushing out at his ribs just as much as his lower tummy.
āThat sounds awful,ā Riley comments. āYouāre worse than some of the patients weāve had, you know that?ā Thereās a little bit of a laugh in his voice as he reminisces, āRemember that woman who came in because she got food poisoning after eating those two pots of chili with the bad meat? Like one wasnāt bad enough without the other.ā
A wet, twisting gurgle burps its way through Lukeās stomach and out his mouth at the reminder, rumbling roughly inside of him.
āDonāt remind me,ā he mutters, just as his stomach gurgles again, louder, more urgent now. His cramping muscles nudge the overfull contents inside into new, insistent, upset churns, the sounds now low and wet and continuous. āOh, God, fuck. I shouldnāt have eaten so much, what is wrong with me?ā
āHow much time do you have?ā Riley asks. Luke pouts up at him, eyes still squinted shut. With a laugh, Riley says, āIām just kidding, sweetheart. Itās okay.ā
It doesnāt feel okay. The sloshing is shifting more now, the packed contents inside seeming to roll uncomfortably over themselves from side to side beneath his rubbing hands. They twist and stretch from inside his upset, squirming belly, as if trying to escape, and Luke presses harder, curling tighter, arms wrapped tight over his grumbling tummy.
The discomfort is sharpening more by the second into something queasier and queasier. A slow, insistent nausea builds from the pit of his guts, through his stuffed belly, up through his chest. Every small twist, sudden pressure, or shifting movement seems to make his stomach pulse thickly, coiling tighter and gurgling more insistently.
With a low moan, Luke trembles, the groan vibrating through him and echoing the churning in his tummy. The insistent fullness is restless inside of him, rising in his throat like a rolling tide before he swallows it back.
A wet, sloshing noise reverberates through him in time with the uneasy quivering of his belly. Each gurgle makes the nausea rise a little higher and a little sharper.
Luke canāt seem to calm his stomach at all anymore. Itās just getting more upset, and no matter how tightly he curls around his tummy, he canāt protect it from how much itās protesting everything packed inside. The gurgling grows louder, wet and twisting and squelching. The queasiness climbs, thick and insistent and horrible, his belly stretched too much, his muscles too tight and tense, his stomach just far too upset to contain it all.
āOh, God, I feel so heavy,ā Luke mutters, voice small and strained. āMy stomach hurts so bad, Riles.ā
The motion of indigestion inside refuses to settle now. He almost misses when it was sticky and slow and sluggish inside of him. Now, itās twisting and churning and wet, his stomach making a string of gurgles ring out with the rising tide of nausea. His belly is making it increasingly clear he canāt keep down everything he ate, no matter how badly he wants to.
Another low rumble pulses through his belly, rippling along through the thick churning contents inside. His next sigh becomes a trembling groan, low and desperate and gurgling as the heaviness presses upward in a wave inside of him.
The gurgling, twisting, sloshing, burbling, and uneasy rolling of his stomach fill his body and mind completely. Every sensation is magnified times a thousand: the fullness, the cramping, the upset, the nausea, everything.
The nausea coils tight in the pit of his rumbly tummy, and Luke shivers slightly, curling more fully into himself, trembling through the next wave of queasiness.
The fullness seems to twist and churn in one slow, wet, heavy wave inside him after another. The heaviness is relentless and horrible, stretching to fill his whole belly, making it slosh with every small movement and roll and twist over itself constantly now.
His stomach gurgles again as it twists, an audible sound thatās low and liquidy at first before it becomes thicker and more insistent, almost urgent, seeming to echo through his ribs and intestines at the same time. Luke makes a groaning hum of a sound, shaky and trembling before it breaks into a low moan just as the nausea rises up again.
The restless pressure inside Luke is impossible to ignore, uneven churns shifting the wine and pasta inside his belly.
Rubbing one hand over the top swell of his belly and the other over the bottom curve, Luke starts to say, āFuck, I feel so sick,ā but he doesnāt make it far before the stubborn sloshing grows louder, making the nausea twist higher.
He presses his hands harder into his belly, trying to rub more firmly into the solid, grumbling mass, but it doesnāt help at all anymore. It only stirs him up, and the sloshing gurgles that writhe through him make him groan and squirm again, unable to stop moving as much as his stomach.
āEvery time I move, it feels worse,ā Luke complains. āI feel so gross. Itās like my belly isā is bubbling and twisting, I swear, it wonāt settle no matter what I do.ā
His stomach makes another loud sound, and he grimaces, hating how many noises his belly is making right now. Too upset and too nauseating and too loud, making him feel like a balloon filled with soda and dough thatās been shaking until it pops.
āIt is very vocal right now,ā Riley comments with a slight smile in his voice.
āDonāt laugh at me,ā Luke groans, feeling every single bite and sip inside of him. āIt hurts so much. And Iām embarrassed.ā
āOh, youāre embarrassed?ā Riley asks. āBecause you ate three huge plates of pasta and drank two bottles of wine?ā
Said pasta and wine turns over itself with a rumbling gurgle inside of him. A surge of the undigested food squelching around and squirming in his tummy sloshes audibly, attempting to force its way upwards with a deep belch.
Tense and nauseated and desperate for release, Luke presses harder into his tummy, but the sloshing and queasiness refuse to relent. The unsettled gurgle of his stomach churns more heavily, and he groans as it surges inside of him, the worst itās been so far.
Luke rocks a little side to side, squeezing his belly as his hands clutch at his grumbling tummy, rubbing in a desperate attempt to calm and digest and keep everything down. He can feel himself flushing hot and red, sweat beading as his nausea swells up as much as his tummy. A belch brings a burst of acidic saliva to the back of his throat, and he gasps, lurching upwards as a cramp stabs low and sharp when his stomach gurgles audibly, sloshing violently upwards as everything he ate threatens to make a very sudden reappearance.
āI thinkāā Luke starts, then burps, deep and brassy and turning wet at the end as it tries to pull something up. āIām going to be sick.ā
āGet up, come on, get up,ā Riley tells him. He hastily clambers off of the sofa, grabbing Lukeās hands in his and hauling him upright. The couch creaks under him as he rocks onto his feet, a groan spilling out of him as the nausea surges upwards again and he belches heavily. āYou can make it, come on, move with me.ā
Luke belches again, then gags. He takes off at a sprint, running for the bathroom as his stomach clenches like a fist and forces up another thick burp that he swallows back down.
The pressure explodes in him, and he barely makes it to the bathroom, shoving up both toilet lids, before the first burst erupts out of him, a hot, thick wave of undigested pasta and sauce and acidic wine burning his throat. The creamy pasta, once so rich and delicious and indulgent, is now curdled into a pale sludge streaked with deep red wine, splattering into the bowl with a sickening splash.
Another deep belch rolls up out of him as another wave pulls with it. Riley finally catches up with him, stroking his curls away from his forehead as he curls forward with another retch, trying to bring more up.
His throat burns as the acidic sludge inside surges upward again. The next convulsion wracks his entire body, an obvious punishment for what heās done to his stomach. The wine, once so velvety and bold, now tastes sour and metallic as it burns its way back up, coating the back of his tongue in thick, disgusting bitterness. Chunks of half-digested noodles stick in his throat and inside the toilet bowl, his stomach contents swirling inside the toilet water and also inside his tummy in a gross stew.
Lukeās eyes water, his noise stings, and his breaths come in ragged gasps before he heaves, belching up another huge wave of pasta and wine from the pit of his belly.
This next wave is worseā violent and forceful, as if his insides are being squeezed up from the bottom up like a toothpaste tube full of a bubbling, horrible, swampy stew. His knees ache from the tile below, and he grips the toilet bowl for dear life, sweat dripping, belly churning as it tries to empty itself.
āThatās it, just get it up,ā Riley encourages him. āYouāre okay. Youāll feel so much better so soon, you know it. Just empty yourself out, hon. Almost there.ā
It doesnāt feel like Lukeās almost there, nor is his stomach. He grips the bowl like itās the last stable thing in his spinning, nauseating world; his stomach is a churning cauldron of regret, thick with cream and dough and wine. The next surge of vomit he burps up wonāt stop coming, making him feel spotty and dizzy with breathlessness as a torrent of mostly-undigested pasta surges up. It comes up with so much force it splatters against the inside sides of the bowl with wet slaps, the red wine turning everything a grotesque mauve like heās throwing up a cursed stew instead of so much pasta and wine.
When it ended, he gasped, trying to suck in air as Riley told him, āJust breathe, baby,ā but the storm clearly isnāt done.
Another wave is instantly clawing its way up, though this one is slower and more acidic. It burns its throat as it sticks, and he has to cough violently to force it up, the remnants of garlic and cream and pasta plopping into the water.
It keeps going like this, surges and waves that belch up from his belly. It wonāt stop rumbling, gurgling the entire time, a boiling and bubbling stew that forces up a heavy burp when he finally sits back after what seems like dozens of waves of vomit.
Riley catches him, holding him against his front and in his lap. Luke curls into him with a groan, rubbing a hand over his upset belly.
So much came up, but not everything. He can feel it still, heavy and stubborn, some of his dinner still sitting in his gut like a huge brick soaked in wine and sauce.
His lower belly snarls, and he lunges up again, his body heaving as he chokes up a thin belch. A dribble of vomit trails down his chin as he groans, his abs aching, his knees sore. He spits, then sucks in a breath before he belches up a stringy mess of noodles, tangled and sour and acidic. They cling to his lips for a moment before he spits them out, too.
Still, he can feel that something remains as he stays there, panting over the bowl, unwilling to try laying back again. A final, mocking lump of pasta sits defiantly in his stomach, liquidy acidic wine gurgling around it. His mouth tastes bitter, acidic, and he hovers over the bowl for another minute, two, just listening to his churning stomach groan inside of him, waiting for the rest of it to finally come up.
āI think youāre done,ā Riley finally says, rubbing his back in slow circles.
Luke shakes his head, one hand still clinging to the toilet while the other settles slowly against his sensitive stomach as it squelches again.
āNo, I can still feel it,ā Luke argues. āThereās still some in there, I still donāt feel good.ā
Even when he lingers, the rest still wonāt come. He wishes it would, so he could be done with all of this.
His ears are ringing. The room is still spinning, though itās quiet now. All he can hear beyond the ringing is the sound of his own panting and his noisy stomach gurgling and the bathroom fan over their heads.
āLean back,ā Riley encourages him.
Luke gives up with a sigh, collapsing back against him again. Riley takes him in his arms, flushing the toilet and lowering Luke down to the floor, holding him close as he curls up again right there on the tile floor.
His stomach feels strange still in the aftermath of what just happened. Itās not empty yet, though itās emptier. Itās still heavy, and now itās tender and raw from the vomiting and how much effort it took. The queasiness is still lingering, deep and impossible to ignore, low and persistent. It rumbles through him with a slow roll that has him breathing in careful, shallow breaths, like taking too deep a breath will make him vomit up twelve more plates of pasta somehow.
Thereās still something left unsettled churning in his upset stomach. A thick, hot weight refuses to move up or down in his tummy, sitting uneasily in the pit.
As he lays there, trying to catch his breath and calm his pulse and steady his stomach, another faint gurgle rises. Itās quiet, wet, strange-sounding. Itās almost hollow, though not quite. The sharpness has become a dull, painful cramping, an unhappy reminder that heās not quite done yet. The nausea pulses faintly with each beat of his heart, queasy waves coming with each pound still.
Riley keeps holding him, quiet and steady. One of his hands rubs slow circles over the soft, restless, rumbling swell of his gurgling belly. The motion doesnāt fix anything, but it does help just a little bit. Itās grounding at least, and Luke hums weakly, letting his eyelids flutter shut, exhausted and sick and worn out. His muscles ache, his skin is clammy, his head dizzy. His limbs are heavy and his stomach growls. Every part of him is so tired, but his stomach still keeps tugging, shifting, turning, snarling, uneasy, as if still deciding what to do now.
Shifting a little, Riley reaches to grab two towels. He uses one to wipe off Lukeās sweat and the vomit from his mouth and chin before tossing it aside, and the other gets folded up and tucked under Lukeās head as a makeshift pillow to keep his face off the tile floor.
āJust keep breathing, hon,ā Riley murmurs, low and soft. āYouāll be alright.ā
āSomethingās still in there,ā Luke complains, hand rubbing low over his grumbling guts. āIt doesnāt feel so good still.ā
āWhatās leftāll settle,ā Riley promises him. āJust close your eyes and let it digest. The worst is over.ā
Luke hums a faint note of agreement, though he isnāt quite so confident or sure. The queasiness is still curling heavily beneath his ribs and in the pit of his tummy, thick and sluggish and not quite finished with him.
However, the warmth of Rileyās hand, the momentary reprieve, and the quiet room around them help dull the nausea and upset enough that he can drift into sleep, just a little bit.
Luke exhales through his nose, hating the bitter taste in his mouth. A shaky, fluttery sigh escapes him, and he lets some tension escape, melting backwards into Riley. His stomach grumbles once more, uneasy and low, but he doesnāt even try rubbing it this time. Too tired. Riley rubs it for him, and he smiles slightly.
As Luke fades towards a brief doze before Riley makes him move to bed, the lingering heaviness stays in his tummy. Itās the slow, queasy rolling of something unfinished, though softened now by the gentle press of Rileyās hand, the amount heās managed to bring up thus far, and the promise of a few moments of rest.
āSleep,ā Riley tells him. āIāll bring you to bed soon, and youāll feel all better in the morning.ā
āSwear?ā Luke asks in a mumble.
āSwear,ā Riley promises.
Another low gurgle squelches its way through Lukeās tummy, and Rileyās hand chases it, firm and kind. Luke lets himself drift, trying his best to ignore his upset stomach and how much pasta and wine he crammed in it tonightā though the rumbling doesnāt quite let him entirely forget, even as he slips off a little.
Before I ask, just thought I would let you know that wow, you are gifted. Could you work a Free fic with Makoto attending a childrens party with his lil bro and sis and really overdoing it with the kids activities and junk food buffet, later suffering epic bad indigestion and nausea whilst exhusted, que care from your choosing please.
He stood out from the crowd because he was the tallest person there; and that included the handful of mothers hovering anxiously in the background, watching their children play. Makoto was used to towering over people, but this was a bit much.
He wasnāt fretting over his siblings, because he wasnāt that kind of big brother. He trusted them to be able to be responsible, even at a childrenās gym like this. With so many kids running around in party hats, it was near pandemonium; but Ran was doing backflips in the bouncy castle, and Ren hadnāt strayed from the rock climbing wall for fifteen minutes.
He wasnāt worried about his siblings, but the sheer pandemonium throughout the gym was raising his anxiety levels in general. Putting so many small children together in the same place was a scary idea.
Okay so I've read all your MatsuHana Fics and I'm a slut for Mattsun. In one of your fics Hanamaki says that digestive issues aren't uncommon for Matsukawa, so could we have some more of that? Like are something that he can't digest properly at a restaurant, and before long, these really gross sounding burps make there way up and are really painful in his chest. Maybe taking place on the way back home from dinner, so in the car? And Hanamaki is just sympathetic but he's driving. ā¤
Anonymous asked: matssun with indigestion and an upset gurgly tummy
Okay, so maybe they didnāt go out much for a reason.
It would be unfair to blame Matsukawa for all of it. It wasnāt his fault that he has such a terrible digestive system, or that some foods reacted really badly with his stomach. When he was a mess of cramps and gurgling, releasing low belches into the air, it was hard to blame him.
It was also hard not to be embarrassed when it happened in public.
So I'm gluten intolerant, not allergic, but it's just really uncomfortable bloating and tension. Usually I'm pretty good at curbing on eating glutinous foods, but today I caved and had two burgers, plus lots of soda.
I regret that every time I lay down I've got acid splashing up my throat and I'm gassy as fuck lol, can't stop burping and my chest hurts like crazy.
May I ask: Does eating gluten bread almost always feel like the bread is "too much"?
Bc it does to me so I was wondering if I might have an intolerance, been avoiding gluten for a few weeks now to see if things felt different. Which I haven't specifically felt anything different, but then I ate a hot pocket and my stomach felt weird and gassy all the next day so I'm like ?? >_>
I just suck so much with understanding and recognizing symptoms lol
Me personally yes, I tend to eat way less if it's gluten cause it makes me feel full and bloated after my first bite. I've completely given up on gluten as of this month and I've never felt better š just generally too, I didn't notice until I gave up gluten that my daily/unusual tiredness also were connected to my intolerance.
Itās been a minute since I posted anything decent; I donāt think this counts a decent but wtv. Ate a shit ton of kbbq today, trying to get back to stuffing myself but moneys tight lol
So I'm gluten intolerant, not allergic, but it's just really uncomfortable bloating and tension. Usually I'm pretty good at curbing on eating glutinous foods, but today I caved and had two burgers, plus lots of soda.
I regret that every time I lay down I've got acid splashing up my throat and I'm gassy as fuck lol, can't stop burping and my chest hurts like crazy.