Three days had passed since the flight that seemed to never end. It seemed as the days passed by Stephanie became more distant. Eric didn't know what to do, or what to say for the matter. She wouldn't go anywhere with him, or even let him touch her. Finally he decided today would be the day he'd somehow bring it up.

"Wanna go out tonight?" He asked, leaning against the kitchen counter, looking across at Stephanie sitting on the couch.

She contemplated it for a moment, "Not tonight.." She replied softly.

Eric looked down for a moment and wondered what her excuse was this time. "Are you sick?" He asked as he walked over to her and put his hand on her forehead, then put his arm down. "On your woman thing? Cause if that's it, then now I completely understand why the past few nights you didn't want to-"

Stephanie gulped for a moment. "No, I'm not on my woman thing..." She choked back the tears.

Eric leaned in toward her and touched her hair gently. "What's wrong?"

Stephanie pulled away from him and stood up, quickly wiping her eyes. "Can I borrow your car? I need to pick up something at the store." She walked toward the kitchen.

Eric was curious now. "What do you need at the store? I can get it for you." He stood up and walked up to her, touching her arm. "Something you want to eat or, uh, tampons?" He tried to keep a straight face.

"Um, actually I need to get this.. I mean, these things on my own Eric.." She kept a straight face on.

Eric had a knot in his stomach, he knew something was wrong. "Steph, I'm very worried about you." He said before taking the keys out of his pocket then handing them to her. "I could go with you." He said calmly.

Stephanie put the keys in her purse and smiled. "It's okay Eric, I can handle going to the grocery store. It's only 5 minutes away." She insisted before walking off.

Eric watched her walk away and sighed to himself, he couldn't help but try and come up with reasons why Stephanie has been acting so strange.

It didn't take Stephanie long to pull into the parking lot of the store. She picked a spot closest to the entrance and put it in park. She stepped out of the vehicle and shut the door, nervous about being recognized by anyone there at the store.

She quickly walked in and headed toward the Pharmacy area. She walked down all the isles until her eyes searched down to the condoms and pregnancy tests isle. She let out a deep sigh then slowly grabbed the pregnancy test and reading the back for a moment, reading the directions. She finally decided it would be too embarrassing going to a cashier to ring it up, so she found the farthest u-scan and made a b line straight for it.

Stephanie rang it up and put the money in the machine, waiting for her receipt and her change. One the change came out and her receipt was printed she grabbed both and shoved them in her purse, then took the bag with her pregnancy test into the closest bathroom.

30 minutes later

Stephanie walked in the door to find Eric sitting on the sofa closest the front door. She smiled as she entered the room and sat next to him, handing over the keys. "I'm back."

Eric nodded. "Find what you needed?" He asked.

Stephanie then realized she didn't buy anything other then the pregnancy test while she was at the store. "Um, they didn't have what I wanted." She half-laughed.

Eric's eyebrow went up suspiciously. "Hmm." He said to himself.

Stephanie moved closer to him and leaned in to kiss him, but he stood up suddenly and looked down at her. "What's wrong Eric?"

"Stephanie, are you trying to avoid me?" He asked.

"No, of coarse not." She stood up and walked over to him, trying to reassure him.

"Well, you've been very distant lately." He touched her cheek gently. "Did I do something wrong?"

Stephanie was hit with guilt just then. She knew he was concerned about her, and now he thought the reason she's been acting so strangely was because of him. She leaned in to him and he hugged her gently.

"Eric, it's not your fault at all." She said.

"I was just worried about..." She paused.

"Worried about what Steph?" He asked, looking her in the eyes.

Before she could open her mouth her cell phone went off. She quickly walked over and answered it, hoping it wasn't her Father. "Didn't know you had long distance." Eric said.

Stephanie answered. "Hello?"

"Hey Princess." A familiar voice said.

Stephanie sat down. "What do you want Chris?"

Eric walked over to Stephanie and sat down, putting his arm around her waist. Stephanie giggled as Eric started kissing her neck and shoulder blade, running his hands up her shirt. Stephanie tried to concentrate on her conversation with Chris but Eric was successfully distracting her. "Stop it." She warned.

"Stop what?" Chris asked.

"It's nothing, I'm just... a little distracted." She playfully glared at Eric, who in return just smiled in a cocky manner.

"Stephanie, there's something I have to tell you, I've tried saying it before but it's been way too difficult but -" He continued.

Stephanie laughed as she felt Eric's fingers against the curve of her stomach.

"Chris, if it's about a match, I can talk to you about this on Monday. I'm a little.." She glanced at Eric. "Busy right now."

Chris sighed. "Well, it's pretty important, I don't think it cant wait till..."

"I'll see you Monday, Chris." She replied quickly.

"I don't even know why I bother with you Stephanie." Chris said before hanging up.

Stephanie pressed the power button down till it shut off. "Well that was rude." She rolled her eyes. "I can't stand Jericho."

Eric moved closer to Stephanie, putting his hand on her right leg gently. "You said that about me quite a few times but look at us now." He grinned proudly.

"Yeah, well.. I still can't stand you sometimes." She joked.

Eric laughed. "Touche, Princess."

In the back of Stephanie's mind she wondered if she should tell him the truth. The real reason she went to the grocery store was to get a pregnancy test and take it there, so he wouldn't find out. She wasn't sure how he'd take it though.

"So, Steph....about a little while ago, I just.." He began.

Stephanie knew he was going to bring up the grocery store incident, she had to change the subject or she would surely crack and tell him the truth. "We should go see a movie." She quickly suggested.

"Well." He leaned forward to the coffee table and grabbed the newspaper, turning to the movie section. "Let's see what's playing." His eyes scanned the movie theaters that were closest to them.

Stephanie moved closer to him, leaning against him affectionately. Eric turned his head toward Stephanie and smiled to himself; either she was trying to act cute, which wasn't very hard for her, or she was trying to avoid the topic of conversation he was trying to strike up.

"This one looks good." She pointed to it.

Eric tried not to laugh to himself. "Shall We Dance? You've gotta be kidding me!"

Stephanie sat up and glared. "Richard Gere is a great actor."

"Riiiggghhtt, you just think he's hot, like most women." Eric rolled his eyes.

"Eric! I'm serious. Let's see it." She grinned.

"Alright, alright. We'll go see it. But that means next time - I get to choose the movie." He grinned.

"Great. Violence, gore, and a random naked woman in the movie." She rolled her eyes this time.

"Not always." He scoffed.

"Riiiggghhtt." She mocked him.

"We better leave soon if we're going to catch the 4:30 showing." He took Stephanie by the hand and pulled her up with him off the couch.

Eric grabbed Stephanie's jacket off the coat rack and helped her put it on, taking her by the hand as they headed out the door.

Author's Notes: Sorry if that chapter was a bit short, I was just getting a little ahead of myself on where I'm going to take this. Is Stephanie pregnant, or isn't she? I have a few other things coming up in the next chapter, it will probably take place at the next RAW to make it more interesting. Thanks for the reviews!