"Are you excited about the movie premiere tonight?" Brie asked Maryse while changing out of her ring gear after finishing her match for the house show they were at.

All the WWE Superstars were invited to walk the red carpet at a Premiere to a new movie coming out that night and Maryse usually loved things like that but she hadn't been feeling too hot when she showed up to the arena and she felt even worse after her match .

"Actually I think I'm just going to go back to the hotel and crash for the night."

"Are you okay?" Nikki asked in concern because she knew that she had to be feeling really bad if she was turning down the chance to go to something like that.

She shrugged "I'll feel better after I get some rest. I'm going to go find Mike and see if he'll stay in with me tonight."

She finished packing her things into her bag and went to Mike's locker room.

"Hey."

"Hey." He didn't look up from the phone in his hand.

"I'm not feeling too well so I'm going to skip the movie premiere tonight."

"Okay."

She blinked….that was it? Okay? He wasn't going to even ask if she was okay?

"Well I was thinking maybe you could stay in with me and we could watch a movie or something."

He finally looked up from his phone "Are you kidding? I'm not going to miss the movie premiere."

"Mike we live in LA. We go to movie premieres all the time."

"People are going to expect The Miz to be there. I can't disappoint my fans."

She rolled her eyes. One of the things she had liked about Mike when she first met him all those years ago was that he was a guy trying to make his dreams come true even though everyone around him wasn't showing him any respect and never thought he'd get anywhere in the business. He'd proved all the doubters wrong and finally gained the respect of everyone that saw him as some reality show kid that couldn't hang.

That was something she always admired but it all seemed to go to his head now that he was at the top.

"I think they'll live."

He took out his wallet and pulled out some money. "Here just take a taxi back to the hotel."

"You're not going back to the hotel first?"

"Nah I'm just going to head straight there."

She stared at him for a second, looking for any sign of concern for her but saw none so she just grabbed the money and left the room.

"Hey Maurice."

A smiled grew across her face when she heard the voice of one of her close friend Phil Brooks.

"Hey Phil" she gave him a hug.

"Are you okay, you look like shit."

She rolled her eyes. "You sure know how to charm a girl don't you?"

He chuckled. "Seriously you aren't looking too well."

"I know I think I have the flu."

"You should get some rest."

"Yea I'm going back to the hotel."

"So no movie premiere?"

"Nope, I tried to get Mike to stay in with me but no luck."

"Well you know Mike, you can't keep him away from cameras."

She snorted in amusement. "Anyway I'm going to catch a cab. Have fun."

"Yea feel better."

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Maryse took a quick shower and changed into a pair of shorts and a cami. She wanted to rest but she didn't want to go to sleep just yet so she turned on the tv. She was channel surfing when she heard a knock on her door.

Maybe Mike had changed his mind and decided to at least come see how she was doing.

She was surprised to see not Mike but Phil standing on the other side of the door holding a paper bag.

"Umm hi? What are you doing here?"

"Well I know from experience that having the flu sucks so I thought I'd drop off some soup from a really great restaurant I go to every time we're in town and if you're still looking for company since Mike isn't here I'd be glad to hang out for a bit."

"How about the movie premiere?"

He shrugged "Red Carpets aren't really my scene. It's okay if you just want to be alone and rest though."

"No come in" She moved aside and closed the door behind him.

He pulled out a big plastic bowl on soup and handed her a spoon.

"Thanks but I'm not really hungry."

"When's the last time you ate?"

"I don't know….some time before the show."

"My point exactly…trust me, not eating anything won't make you feel any better."

She rolled her eyes. "Fine." She sat down at the small table that was sitting in the corner of the hotel room and ate the whole bowl of soup since it wasn't that big.

"Happy?" She glanced up at him from her empty bowl .

"Good girl" he smirked and patted her on the head.

"Very funny" she glared at him.

He chuckled and picked up her empty soup bowl to throw it away. "So what are you watching?" he glanced at the TV that was still on.

"I was just channel searching. I was thinking about paying to rent one of the movies off the tv"

"Cool lets see what they have" he propped down on the bed and leaned against the headboard while shifting through the menu on the tv.

She crawled into the bed and sat next to him. She felt like she was starting to get the chills so she pulled the blankets tightly around her and rested her head on Phil's shoulder.

"Are you okay? Are you sure you just don't want to go to sleep?"

She just shook her head and watched the screen as Phil scrolled through the movie options.

"Ooh they have Night of the Living Dead!" Punk exclaimed excitedly.

She rolled her eyes and pulled the remote away from him "No."

He groaned when saw the movie she chose "Seriously The Notebook?"

"What, it's a classic"

"That is NOT a classic"

"Whatever it's a good movie so shut up."

"Fine but only because you're sick …. I wouldn't be caught dead watching this movie."

Maryse ended up falling asleep halfway through the movie. Phil lowered the volume on the tv and changed the channel to AMC and watched with the subtitles on. He didn't want to move just yet because Maryse was snuggled into his side and she would probably wake up.

He decided he'd stay for a bit longer since he wouldn't be sleeping at this time anyway. He must of fell asleep because the next thing he knew, he could feel Maryse trembling and mumbling next to him.

He looked around groggily and saw that it was 7 o'clock in morning. Maryse felt warm against him and when he touched her forehead she was burning up.

"Maryse"

She just moaned.

"Maryse wake up. Your fever is really high and we need to bring it down. Do you have any Tylenol or something?"

"In my bag." She groaned

He dug in her bag until he found a bottle of Advil and he filled a cup with iced water

"Here drink this. Drink the whole thing. It'll help bring your temperature down too."

He took out a bowl from the cabinet in the small kitchen and filled it with iced water to dunk some small towels in.

"Sit up."

She sat up and he put one of the wet towels on the back of her neck and the other on her forehead. He continued doing that until he could feel her temperature starting to go down.

"Phil hand me that trash can!"

He handed it to her just in time. He pulled her hair back and rubbed her back soothingly while she threw up into the trash can.

After that she started to feel a little better. At least her fever had gone down. "Where's Mike?"

"I don't know. I guess he never came back last night"

She frowned. "Thanks for staying with me. I swear sometime you treat me better than my own boyfriend does."

" Are you guys having problems?"

"I don't know. I feel like he's changed so much and we've been arguing a lot lately."

"Why are you still with him if you aren't happy?"

"Because I love him. We've been dating for three years. You don't put that much time and effort into a relationship to just walk away because of a few disagreements."

She was probably right. Maybe all of his relationships wouldn't have ended so quickly if he would have put a little more effort into them. But still he couldn't help but feel that Mike didn't deserve Maryse.

He just nodded. "I'm going to go out and grab some breakfast. Can I borrow your room key to bring you back some more soup for later?"

"Sure" she grabbed it off of the nightstand and gave it to him.

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Phil closed the door slowly. He could see that Maryse was sleeping again and he didn't want to wake her. He put her key back on the table when he heard the hotel door opening.

He came face to face with Mike who was looking at him in surprise.

"What the hell are you doing here?"

"Taking care of Maryse. Something you should have been doing but you were too much of an attention whore to stay in for one night."

"Just get the hell out. She doesn't need you to take care of her."

Phil gritted his teeth in anger. He decided to just leave before this turned into a screaming match and they ended up waking up Maryse. He shoved the bowl of soup into his hands. "Here, make sure she eats that later."

Mike just continued to glare at him until he left the room. "Phil?" He looked over to the bed and saw Maryse starting to wake up.

She looked around the room and her eyes connected with Mike's. "Where's Phil?"

"Really? The first thing you do is ask about him? Why the hell was he even here?"

"He just stayed over to keep me company and…"

"He spent the night here!" His face turned red with anger.

"Relax all we did was watch a movie and then we fell asleep. Where the hell were you anyway?"

" I stayed in John's room because I knew I'd get back late and I didn't want to wake you"

She softened at that. "Really?"

"Yea." He sat down on the bed and pulled her to him "Are you okay? Do you think you'll be able to make the flight later?"

"Yea I'm feeling a bit better now."

"Okay I'm going to go down and work out for a bit. I'll see you later" he gave her a quick peck on the lips.

"Oh and Phil left you some soup" he said with a scowl on his face.