Chapter 21 : Missing Persons

Vidcund Curious heaved and retched into the toilet of the Beaker family’s bathroom. He hated the pregnancy sickness. It always seemed to rear its ugly head at the most inopportune moments. He continued to kneel in front of the toilet, his face just above water inside of the bowl, waiting for the nausea to pass. There was always the danger that being perched with his face in the toilet might just send him into new spasms of puking. Sometimes it seemed like an endless cycle. Puke, see and smell the puke in the toilet, puke again. He bit down on his tongue, determined to keep it from rearing up and forcing him to throw up again.

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