Saturday, February 20, 2016

Today's Horoscope (Virgo): Don't leave home today. You'll regret it.

Morning

I wake up at half past eight. My guts are rumbling...

I head to the bathroom, taking my phone with me to check Canterbook. My horoscope for today is...ominous.

I'm feeling very sluggish this morning. When I'm finally done in the bathroom, I open the door...

Twilight hauls me out, throws me aside, and dashes into the bathroom, slamming the door behind her.

I blink. "What the hell?" Shaking my head, I shuffle downstairs to get a glass of juice. I don't think I want breakfast...

I find Pinkie in the lounge, nursing a Mr Peppy. She looks green in the gills. Cadance is sitting next to her.

"Pinkie? You okay?"

"Baaaaad tummyache," Pinkie moans, sipping her drink.

Cadance winces and looks at me sympathetically. "It hit everybody," she says. "I've been calling and checking Canterbook. The pizza place got a note from their supplier about an hour after we left about some bad mushrooms."

Oh god...

There were mushrooms on two of the pizzas we had...and the salads the adults and Rarity ate...

"It's not serious," Cadance says. "Nobody in the dorm needs to go to the hospital or anything. But..." She lets out a particularly acidic-sounding belch, then covers her mouth and groans. "I don't think we should go to Zodiac today. Or anywhere we can't get to a toilet."

Pinkie suddenly shoots to her feet and zips upstairs. "Not AGAIN!" she wails. We hear her pounding on the bathroom door. "RARITY! GET OUT OR I'M COMING IN!"

I facepalm. "Wonderful."

"Well, on the bright side," Cadance says, "I saved the receipt from last night. Next time we go, we'll get a half-off discount because of this." She grimaces. "If anybody even still wants to go back to that place after this."

I shrug. "It was just the mushrooms, right? So we just...don't order mushrooms next time." I drink my orange juice. It hits...hard. "Oh god..."

"Yyyyeah, drink some milk or a Mr Peppy," Cadance says. "Orange juice is just going to make it worse."

"Thanks for the warning." I shake my head, then go to the kitchen to pour out my juice and get some milk instead.

Daytime

With everybody sick from the bad mushrooms, we're all irritable and lethargic. I spend the day taking stomach medicine and drinking fluids, making frequent trips to the bathroom, and watching TV.

Evening

We have a late light dinner. Everybody's pretty wrung out from our bout with food poisoning. All in all, it's been a shitty day.

Literally.

Hopefully, we'll all feel better tomorrow so we can go to Zodiac...