Contagion Frustration

[sexyhankysneeze]

This is my latest work, a majority is already written but if you guys want any thing specific added in (themes, situations, symptoms), or want me to expand on any character's illness, let me know

 

“Oh great, a cold” said Sophie aloud as she woke up. She had had a sore throat since Thursday but she had thought little of it over the last two days. Her boss had been working through a cold for the last three days and had no doubt spread it to the other hairdressers in the salon. 
“ASHOO!!” she sneezed into her hands. It was confirmed. Sophie had caught a cold. Her nose was blocked, and this sneeze had proven that it was also pretty runny. SNNRFF. 
“Want a hanky, Soph?” asked Matt, her husband.
“Do, I’b fide”, she replied. “SNNFFF- ASHOO!!- SNNRRFF”.
Sophie hated colds, obviously she wasn’t a fan of being sick but she had a special dislike for head colds as she both hated blowing her nose and hated the feeling of not blowing when it needed it.
“You sound pretty clogged up, babe”.
“I kdow, I’b sick. But if I start blowig by dose I wod’t be able to stop- HESHOO!!- so I’b just dot goig to, SNNRFFF”. She wiped her nose on the neckline of her pajama top.

“HUH-RESH!!” Sophie turned quickly away from her client and sneezed towards the ground before getting back to her haircut. SNNRFFF. 
“You sound pretty sick”, the client commented. She was a brunette lady in her mid-late twenties.
“I’b okay”, Sophie replied. “Ode of the other girls caught sobethig off her roobbate ad spread it to the rest of us pretty quick”.
“Ahh-Tish!” sneezed Katrina into her hands. She wasn't as sick as Sophie, but was definitely coming down with it as well.
“Looks like I won’t be leaving without the sniffles”, the client said, half-jokingly.
“Sorry if we get you sick SNNFF”, said Sophie.
“Don’t be”, the client responded. “I work as a school teacher anyway so if it wasn’t this week I got sick, it would be next. Just a part of life when you’re surrounded by people with no notion that they should cover sneezes or coughs”.
“Primary age kids?”
“No, senior high school”. 
Sophie laughed, sniffing at her snotty nose

During another hair cut, the last of the day, Sophie had to put down her stuff and cover her nose with her hands as she felt a sudden tickle. “HUH-RESH!! RESH!! ESHOO!! RESHOO!!” There was no arguing with those sneezes, they had been big, messy and very uncontrollable. Sophie pulled her hands away from her face, wiping them on her jeans and giving her nose a big, gurgly sniff. “Sorry”, she said afterwards, getting back to the client and his buzzcut. 
As she made her way home, the sneezes got more regular, “HURRESH!! RESH!! ASHOO!!” Sophie sneezed into her hands, messy and uncontrollable. She pulled open her handbag, hoping to find a lost handkerchief of some sort. SNNFFF, Dabn, I should've taked ode like Matt said, she thought. As buch as I hate blowig by dose I really deed to right dow SNNRRRFF. She had one hand over her nose the rest of the way home, trying to stop the drips. The second she was inside, she ripped open her husband's bedside drawer, grabbed one of the many neatly folded men's handkerchiefs, a blue/grey bordered one, sunk down onto the bed and gave her nose the big, snotty blow it had needed for most of the day. 

The next morning, Sophie was completely clogged up. She got out of the shower and with a second's notice raised her towel to catch a big, messy trio of sneezes that completely overcame her whole body “HUH-RESH!! RASHESH!! RESHIOO!!” She went and immediately pulled open the handkerchief drawer, grabbed a white one with a red striped border, unfolded it and gave her nose a big, wet blow. That felt good, “HUH-RESH! URRSHU!” she sneezed again, into the waiting cloth. Ugghh, a minute later and my nose already needs blowing again. When she was showered and dressed and ready to leave for work, the sick, congested brunette stopped by the hanky drawer again, stuffing her bag with a sizeable pile to get through today.

“HAH-SHESH!!” Katrina sneezed into her hands. SNNNRRRDFF.
Chloe, the boss, was back at work today and the store was busy. Chloe only had the sniffles now but both Sophie and Kat had raging head colds with explosive sneezes and noses almost bubbling with snot. 
SNNNRRRFF, Katrina sniffed again. Her nose was running now so she lifted her sleeve over the back of her hand and wiped the mess as best she could. “Sorry”, she said to the man whose hair she was cutting. “I’b so sick today”.
At the chair beside her, Sophie was sniffling up a storm. She needed a good nose blow but had left her hanky over by the basin. SNNFF SNNFF. She needed to finish this cut fast so that she could go take her of her nose. She grabbed the thinning scissors and working quickly, accidentally managed to send a stray hair flying up her own nose.
“HAAH-”
“What was that?” Her client asked.
“Snnnff dothig- HEHH”
“Are you alright?”
“Fide, tha- snnfff- HAHH”
Sophie quickly put the scissors down, grabbing the table in front of her for support. “HEHH-HAASHOO!!! ESHOOO!! ASHOO!! HASHOO!!” she sprayed uncovered in no particular direction. SNNFFF- she glanced in the mirror and saw the mess that had sprayed from her nose. “Ode bobedt please”, she said as she ran to the basin, grabbed the handkerchief she had left there and gave her nose a long, wet blow, filling the cloth with gurgly, infectious moisture.
“Dow, where was I?” she asked as she returned, slipping the hanky into a pocket and picking up her scissors. 
Not two minutes later, Sophie felt another massive tickle brewing in the back of her runny nose. Pausing again with the scissors, she put a hand to the side of her face to shield her client, turned to the side and “HAAAHHH!! HESHHOOO!! ASHOO!! HESHOO!!” 
Sophie whipped the brown and white handkerchief from her pocket and emptied her messy nose into its folds. “SNNRRFF- sorry about that”, she said briefly as she repocketed the damp cloth and carried on with her haircut. 

Jessica hadn’t had a cold in almost a year, since leaving retail and becoming an executive assistant for the CEO of a major real estate corporation. She was too busy for anything like that, to begin with. Today, as usual, she was mostly in the office, with a few meetings, and a 45 minute break for a hair appointment. Her day was full, with back-to-back work from 6am-9pm. 
“HEH-ESHOO!!” sneezed one of the two girls working as Jess walked in. The girl gave her nose a big, snotty blow into a greyish mens handkerchief that she pulled from her jeans’ pocket, then looked up and saw Jess.
“Hi. Jessica?”
“Yes, that’s me”.
“Take a seat over here, Kat wod’t be a bidute”.
As Jess sat down the girl gave her nose another vigorous blow with the damp hanky before stuffing it back into her pocket, one corner still sticking out. 
“HAH-RUSH!! HAH-ISHH!!”
That was the sound that announced Jess’ hairdresser, followed by SNNNNRRRFFF.
“How cad I help?”, asked Kat.
Jess explained what she wanted done to her hair. 
“SNNNRRRFFF okey dokey”, replied Katrina.
“I can wait a second if you need to go blow your nose”, offered Jessica.
“Dah, I’b okay”, responded Kat. “I just- SNNFFF- blew it about ad hour ago- HAH-OOSH!!”
Kat had caught the sneeze in her hands then gave her dribbling nose a quick wipe along her sleeve.
Ugh, gross, thought Jess. “Well then, get on with it, I’ve got a busy day”. She probably wouldn’t get the cold these two women were cursed with, she seldom caught anything. 

It was 6pm and the girls were cleaning the salon in preparation for going home. 
“SNNNNRRRFFF- this cold is kickig by butt today”, Katrina said as she swept. “By dose is- SNRRF- so ruddy”. 
Sophie blew her nose in a handkerchief with a maroon/grey striped border. “There hasd’t beed a siggle poidt today where sdot hasd’t beed bubblig out of by dose”, she replied to Kat. “I’ve used up about 8 hadkies”.
Katrina brought her hands to her face. “HAH-IISSH!! HEH-ISSHHU!! SNNNNNRRRFFF- I kdow what you beed, I’b godda deed to blow by dose agaid sood. Fifth tibe today”.
“Hodestly, Kat”, said Sophie. “I do’t kdow how you cad badage to control your dose without blowig it. I wish I could”.
 

[william]

what a great story! loved it, please keep going! :-)

[thatfly1ngcow]

this is absolutely amazing! I can't wait for more

[Simon]

I love this piece!:) especially the very overused tissues.

Please continue!

[macrotwentytwo]

This is great

[NickG1998]

Please continue this amazing story and keep up the good work 

[CPrime97]

Great story.

[Jettous]

Such a great story. I love big messy colds.