When she asks you what's in it, you'll tell her "It's
all natural" and she, in her lovely trusting way, will take you at face
value on it. She'll believe that you
actually know what the fuck you're talking about. It'll be her mistake.
When she starts drinking the tea, she'll nod up at you
thankfully at first. Then she'll cough -
a gentle, iffy thing, almost like the tea tastes terrible, but you know that
it'll be sweet, possibly oversweetened. As
her coughs grow more and more violent, she'll grab her throat, gasping,
wheezing. You'll try to force more tea into
her mouth, but she'll push you away, fingers scrabbling a word out in the dirt
on the ground:
Aspirin.
"Oh, yeah," you'll tell her as her eyes begin to
swell and redden. "Aspirin's all
natural."
As she dies, you'll see something in her eyes, a sort of
pure, animal hate that you never thought you'd ever actually experience. You'll feel sort of touched that someone
could hate you that much. You'll also
feel like she should've let you know about her allergy instead of just asking
what's in what you're giving her. I
mean, seriously, who does that?
Congratulations on Giving Her Willow Bark Tea!
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