Stephanie was woken up Thursday morning by some kisses to her neck and the side of her face, "mmm that's good."
She slowly opened her eyes to see her husband sat by the side of her, "good morning Steph, I brought you breakfast in bed."
Smiling she sat up in bed as she was starving,"wow, aren't I lucky today? What did I do to deserve this?"
"Nothing, nothing at all, I just thought you deserved a treat especially after I kind of got on your back about going to the Doctor's. . ."
"And everything came out clear, no pregnancy, no serious illness just a stomach upset of some sort. You can treat me to breakfast in bed any time you like though, I won't complain."
Paul laughed and kissed her quickly before retrieving her breakfast from the floor and placing it on her lap so she could eat it.
Once Stephanie had eaten and had gotten up she went to work at the offices as she had an all morning meeting with Vince and the other writers about the next weeks show.
When she arrived at her office she was greeted by both of her parents, "Mom, Dad, what are you both doing here?"
Linda laughed, "nice way to greet us both."
"I'm glad to see you yeah but why are you sat in my office?"
Vince stood up to look his daughter in the eyes, "young lady I believe there is something you are keeping from us."
"Like?"
"Like the fact that you are ill. Why did you not mention the fact that you went to the Doctor's yesterday?"
Stephanie sighed, "who told you?"
Linda spoke up, "we have our ways, before you go off on one at Paul it was not him that told us. What was wrong and what did the Doctor say?"
Stephanie ran her hand through her hair, "the Doctor ran some tests and it all came back negative so you have no need to worry as there is nothing wrong with me. If you'll excuse me I have things to do before the meeting later on, I'll see you later."
Vince and Linda both got up and hugged Stephanie before they left her office leaving her alone.
For the next week everything was fine, Stephanie had forgotten all about the problem she had had with her stomach and she was enjoying being back at work and mixing with the guys again and having fun doing what she loved, that was until Friday morning.
Stephanie had just gotten out of bed as Paul wasn't around, he was off working on Blade 3. Having been on the phone until late into the night with him the previous evening she decided to go into the office later than normal and work late into the evening as there was nothing important that she had to see to and she had no meetings so it was about 8:30 when she went downstairs to make herself some coffee.
She was waiting for the kettle to boil while she went through her mail sifting out the junk, as soon as the kettle boiled she went back into the kitchen and made herself a cup of coffee, she picked the cup up and the smell of the coffee wafted up her nose immediately sending a wave of nausea through her which made her drop the cup spilling the contents all over the floor and shattering the cup into many pieces as she ran for the bathroom, she just made it to the toilet in time before she threw up the contents of her stomach.
After a period of about ten minutes passed where she had just been throwing up everything she'd eaten in the last month she felt safe enough to get up and go and clean up the mess she made so she flushed the toilet and went downstairs to pick up the broken coffee cup and clean the coffee off the floor.
Once she had cleaned the mess up she realised she was thirsty and not wanting to repeat the mistake of the coffee she grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge and opened it before she took some bread out of the packet and put that in the toaster to make herself some toast. Stephanie made herself some toast and ate it dry with nothing on top as she was still feeling slightly queasy, once she had eaten that she went to have a shower.
Before she had had chance to get in the shower she was sick again and brought straight back up the toast she had eaten, "man I'm really sick today, I can't keep anything down. I must have just eaten something that disagreed with me I'll feel better later."
She decided to still go into work anyway even though she hadn't managed to keep anything down and she was still feeling quite unwell.
Once Stephanie got into work she was greeted by Jennifer, "good morning Stephanie, how are . . . you look ill."
Stephanie laughed, "thanks for the compliment."
Jennifer stood up and went over to her, "I mean it Steph, you look really ill, you're all pale and you don't look good."
"Thank you for your concern but I'm fine, I just ate something last night that disagreed with me, I'll be fine soon."
"Have you eaten this morning?"
Stephanie shook her head, "no, well actually I tried but I brought it straight back up. Don't worry about me just go on with your work and I'll be fine."
Stephanie headed into her office to get some work done and to avoid the Spanish inquisition and for word to get back to her parents.
Stephanie had been sat down and had started her work when Jennifer brought her in a cup of coffee and sat it in front of her, as soon as she did that and Stephanie smelt the coffee she got up and bolted for the door because she was going to be sick again.
After throwing up everything she had left in her stomach Stephanie slowly walked back to her office where Jennifer had removed the coffee and had put a bottle of water in its place. Sitting back down at her desk Stephanie took a swig of water before putting her head down on the desk to rest a minute and regain her bearings after being sick for the third time that morning.