Today I Fucked Up
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This happened about an hour ago. I'm on mobile and the bots are running wild today, so ye officially be warned.
My (22F) boyfriend (21M) got up early today to watch soccer. We don't live together, so aside from the fact that he's going to want to call it an early night, all good he can get up whenever he wants. About an hour after the game starts, I wake up to a good morning text from him. I say hello, lament the soccer score I'd just googled, and he follows up with "I feel yucky. My allergies are really bad with throat closings and hives." My allergies have been bad due to weather here also, so I mentioned that. His response is, "I think I might have to go to the ER. It's getting really hard to breathe."
I have asthma and I know that's not a situation to mess around. I'm immediately stressed, but staying calm and level-headed, I ask him if he wants me to bring him my inhaler or go to the ER with him. Then I jump out of bed, brush my teeth, change, and I'm out the door headed to his apartment. Somewhere along the way I see a "Yea..." text but don't bother to read the rest of the messages. Three minutes later I'm at his apartment, inhaler in hand, barging through the door like the hero I am to save my wheezing, helpless boyfriend. Except, instead of finding a wheezing helpless boyfriend, I see him looking confused, sitting on the couch with coffee and a bowl of cereal.
To be clear on the image here, I'd JUST woken up when this exchange happened. When I left my apartment, my hair was a mess, I was too lazy to fully take off my mascara last night so my face resembled that of a hungover raccoon, and there were still pillow lines on my forehead. He, on the other hand, was dressed for and event he was soon leaving for, seemed to be utilizing perfectly functional lungs, and holding a facial expression with some mix of surprise/confusion/amusement/guilt.
I sputter and mumble a series of "but... You said... I thought..." and then check my phone to use the "Yeah..." text as an explanation for my presence. Turns out, the full text was "Yeah... But can you also return my breath? I don't know why you just keep taking it away" with a series of dramatic emojis, followed by a "gotcha" and an "April fool's" gif. He was very apologetic for his silly joke and causing me the panic, but I laughed at it and now I'm eating breakfast at his apartment writing this out.
TLDR: My boyfriend April fool's'd me into rushing over to his apartment with my inhaler when all he really wanted to do was make a corny joke
Edit: thanks to u/chipoatley for the award! All the comments saying this is a cute story made my day. And to everyone asking if we're Liverpool fans, indeed we are-- here's to a better next season! Sorry for being absent in the comments, I'd love to respond to everyone but spelling with numbers is exhausting lmao
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