One time Happy got sick. Derpy came home and he was lying on the bed in a ball and his face was scrunchy and his breathing didn’t sound good. Derpy got scared because she didn’t know what to do, and she had never had to take Happy anywhere before and she wanted to ask someone what she should do but there was no one there but Happy, and when she asked him he sounded so sick that Derpy was so scared she threw up. When she was done she picked up Happy and flew up high and went to the vet, on account of she was flying with Happy and her neighbour saw her and told her where to go and she felt so much less scared and wanted her neighbour to come with her but she was scared to ask him so she went by herself.
When she got Happy to the vet, the vet said it was good she brought Happy because he was very sick. Happy would need a lot of care and attention to feel better, and he might not feel better at all. That made Derpy feel worse but also better because she had flown really fast. The vet had told her that they would watch Happy overnight and she should come back tomorrow, and Derpy had gone home. She had looked at her bed and saw a little bit of fur and the spot that Happy had left and she had cried and hit the wall and bit her tongue by accident on purpose and it hurt a lot and Derpy was really mad. She yelled at herself and then took all the blankets and threw them around because she was mad at them too, and she was mad at everything but she couldn’t afford to be mad because if she was too mad she would hit something and it might break and she wouldn’t be able to fix it. So she tried to calm down and her face felt hot and her eyes felt hot and wet and then her cheeks burned up but got cooled off by her eyes when they cried, and she bit her pillow and fell asleep.
When she went back the next day, Happy was okay. The vet said he would get better, but she would need to give him some things, and Derpy had nodded and felt better and the vet had said take all these bottles. There were five of them. The doctor had said goodbye and then Derpy had remembered to pay for bringing Happy in and the person at the desk of the vet had asked Derpy for a lot of money. She had some because she’d been saving, but the visit was a lot, and Derpy remembered she was going to buy a new bed or a new book or a trip to somewhere that was sunny and Derpy could sleep in all day and stop delivering the mail for a week but she had Happy and Happy had come first so she paid the money and hugged Happy and the vet desk person had said not to hug him because his stomach was hurt, and Derpy had apologized and felt very bad and her stomach hurt too. She carried Happy home and put him on the bed and Happy looked upset, but he also looked better.
Derpy had tried to give Happy all five of his medicines, but Happy didn’t want them, and Derpy had cried when he wouldn’t take one. She had yelled at Happy, and asked if she was doing something wrong, and Happy had just looked scared like he didn’t understand what Derpy was saying. And Derpy had cried some more, and finally gotten Happy to take his last medicine, and she had fallen asleep right then. Her work called later asking where she was and she said she was sorry and fibbed about where she was because she felt bad she was only at home because of Happy, who was starting to feel better.
Derpy didn’t sleep very much for a few days. She gave Happy his medicine, and one time she hugged him even though she wasn’t supposed to.