"Stephanie honey please eat something. You've barely eaten for a week, it's not healthy please just eat something." Danny says sitting next to his daughter on the sofa a plate of food in his hand.
The days had been ticking by and she was still not communicating with her family other than to ask them to help her move, but she was not moving from her comfort spots. She went between three places, her bed, the sofa and the toilet. She refused to do anything more or to speak to them about anything more.
"I don't want anything, I'm not hungry." She says snapping at her father, at this point she would normally have stormed off upstairs as she was so angry, but she had no ability to do it. She just turned her head away from him, not giving him any form of further communication.
"I don't care Stephanie, you need to eat." Danny says trying to stay calm but wasn't he was frustrated that she was acting like this. He leaves the food on her lap and gets up to go into the kitchen joining the rest of the family in there. They were all keeping their distance unable to know what to do or say to her.
"Steffy play." The twins say coming into the living room later with their doctors jackets on, stethoscope round their necks, boxes with other toy medical equipment in their hands. Ready to start playing doctors with her.
Both boys start playing with her, using the various different tools making up their own minds what was wrong with her. But not once did she respond to them or play with them. After a while the boys were getting upset as she wasn't answering their questions nor helping them with their game.
"Steffy no fun." Nicky says jumping off the couch.
"Steffy mean now." Alex says copying his brother and jumping off the couch to join him.
"Steffy mean, Steffy mean, Steffy mean." The boys chant as the two of them walk away from her and into the kitchen.
"Boys that's not very nice to say that to Stephanie, you know she is still not well yet. Maybe she doesn't feel quite well enough to be playing with you right now." Rebecca says as the boys came into the kitchen saying that Stephanie was mean.
"Boys go say sorry to your cousin and give her a hug and kiss." Jesse says to them having been in the kitchen aswell.
"She could do with as much support she can get right now." He says more as a self thought but says it out loud.
Rebecca leads the boys back through to the living room to go and do as their dad had requested of them to do.
"Sorry Steffy." Alex says as he runs over to her and climbs on the couch next to her again.
"We love you Steffy." Nicky says placing a kiss on her cheek and then bringing her head in for a hug along with his brother.
When the house was quiet and everyone was upstairs in their bedrooms, Stephanie was back on her new bed in the alcove. She lays there hugging Mr Bear, feeling confused. She had been ignoring how she was feeling, not wanting to feel anything, not wanting any of this to be a reality. But it was catching up with her.
"Mr Bear I'm scared, everything is wrong, I can't move my legs, I can't even feel them anymore. I can't understand it. I just want everything back to normal." Stephanie says holding him tight in her arms finally crying on her own letting herself feel for the first time. Now no longer able to fight back the emotions ensuing her mind.