Morning glory were some weird flowers! Soap looked them up to see if they were, you know, bad, and learned that the seeds had something sort of like LSD in them.
So, you know, don't eat the seeds, and it could be deadly if you ate too many.
Anyway, the meaning of the flowers was affection! Well, affection, love, life, and death. As well as even love in vain!
The last one struck a cord with Soap because of what had been going on with him lately. Soap had no idea what caused it, but he had started to pretty much cough up the petals each and every day. Sometimes he would go a while without doing it, but other times he couldn't get out of bed without feeling that annoying tingle.
He told the others that he came down with something, which is why he hadn't been coming out of his room as much. Sometimes the others would come and see him, which made him have to hide the petals, but right now, he was trying to relax.
His face felt hot, his hands were shaky, and he felt sick to his stomach. It was hard to eat or even drink water because of how much his throat hurt... He hated this.