Alice rolled over and looked at the clock, urgh can't believe I have slept in AGAIN! And why hadn't Danny woke me? The smell of Nomsa's breakfast made her sit upright in bed. Her stomach rolled and she had to quickly rush to the bathroom. This was also new to her breakfast routine. Alice knew what was wrong. Add the now constant nausea and the fact that she had been short and snappy with Danny the last week or so. All she had to do was confirm it.
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Danny was doing his rounds at Leopards Den, there were animals to be fed and then a full surgery today. Enough for him to handle himself though. He'd left Alice in bed that morning. The alarm clock had rang insistently, he'd turned it off and expected to looking at his blue eyed angel except she was still asleep, for the third morning in a row. He debated on waking her then decided against it. She had been snappy lately and must need her sleep so he had kissed her softly and went to shower. That had been hours ago and still no sign of Alice, he wanted to check on her to see if she was ill, as he strode toward the house he saw a blur of colour and heard the bathroom door slam. Someone wasn't well this morning he smiled a small smile. He was just about to go inside when his first patient arrived and he was called away.
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Alice emerged from the bedroom and went to eat breakfast, she just hoped she could enjoy it, she was still feeling a little queasy. Nomsa saw her and smiled Olivia was sitting at the table sipping a cup of coffee. If anyone had noticed her 5 yard dash to the bathroom they weren't mentioning it, Yet!
Olivia smiled in greeting,
"Where's Danny?" she asked.
"Probably outside dealing with all the animals." Alice answered. " He left me in bed again this morning. I didn't hear the alarm."
"Yeah, he used to do that with mum too." Olivia commented.
Nomsa placed a plate in front of her, it was full of bacon eggs and sausage, her stomach clenched and when the smell hit her it rolled again.
"You know Nomsa, I've got a lot to do so I'll just grab a piece of toast. Thanks for the lovely breakfast though." Alice smiled as she picked up a piece of toast and strode out the room to find Danny. Dupe walked in and motioned to the untouched breakfast.
"Who'd you kill with your cooking this morning Nomsa?" he chuckled.
"You old man if you don't be quiet!" she retorted.
"No but seriously this is untouched."
"It was Alice's" Olivia started. "She looked fine then Nomsa handed her the plate she went abit green then left. Weird huh" she said between sips of coffee.
Nomsa had a knowing gleam in her eyes.
"Yeah, weird." he said before digging in to his own breakfast.