For those of you asking about Hunter I can promise you that I haven't forgotten about him. I want to establish a proper background to the story and that mainly focusses on Stephanie and Mikey but with odd appearances from Hunter but as the chapters go on Hunter will be playing a much larger role so please stick with the story. Thank you to everybody for your reviews though, I really enjoy hearing your thoughts and I hope you enjoy this next chapter.

The next morning Stephanie was relieved when she opened her eyes to slits to look at the clock as Mikey bounced on her bed to see that the time was 6:15 so she had managed a total of four hours sleep so far. Sighing heavily she rolled over, "lay down and let Mommy go back to sleep please."

Mikey pouted, "but I wants to go."

"We all wants a lot of things Mikey but we don't all get them. Just lie down!"

Frowning heavily Mikey dropped to the bed on his bum with a bounce before he crawled under the covers but instead of laying close to Stephanie he lay as far away from her as he could get without falling off the bed.

Closing her eyes Stephanie just drifted back off to sleep, she'd apologise later.

Forty five minutes later and she was awake again when the phone rang with her wake up call.

After hanging the phone up Stephanie turned around to see Mikey laying on his side staring at her, sighing softly she moved back to the bed and took a seat on it. Reaching out she brushed her hand over his head, "Mommy's sorry about shouting at you, she's just tired and stressed and she shouldn't have taken it out on you."

Frowning as he sat up Mikey held Bubbles close to him, "Bubbles doesn't like it when you shout."

Moving closer Stephanie ran her hand over Bubbles' head, "well Bubbles I am very sorry, I didn't mean to upset you either. Let's get up and go and get some breakfast because I've got a surprise for you later Mikey."

His head snapped up and his eyes widened and speaking slowly to try and mimick the way his Mom had said it, "su-pise?"

Chuckling at the way he said it she nodded, "a surprise but you've got to be a really good boy and do exactly as Mommy says."

Mikey nodded his head and scrambled out of bed, "I's be good."

Laughing she stood back up from the bed, "even if I say you have to wash your hair when you have your bath?"

His face fell but he reluctantly nodded, "I's be good."

Smiling she moved to his bedroom door, "why don't we pick out your clothes for today and then you can have a bath?"

Running past his Mom Mikey raced to the suitcase in the corner of the room and starting throwing clothes out. As Stephanie turned around and saw that she shook her head, "Mikey stop!"

Immediately he stopped going through the suitcase and sat on his bum on the floor expecting to get shouted at again, "sowwie."

Nodding her head she acknowledged his apology and just let it slide as she went over to the clothes he had thrown out of the suitcase and she tidied them up neatly ready to go back into the suitcase, "what are you looking for? I may not have packed it."

"I wants to wear my spidey shirt."

Reaching into the suitcase she moved a couple of items of clothing and immediately she had her hands on the shirt he wanted and she handed it to him, "there you go. Would you like to wear your jeans with the colourful belt or the ones that with the pattern around the pocket?"

Mikey bit down on his lip as he clearly though the decision over, "bet peas."

Pulling out the jeans with the belt attached she handed them to Mikey also before she put a pair of socks and a pair of underwear on top of the pile, "go and put those on the bed whilst Mommy sorts this out please."

Obediently he got up and went and put all of the clothes on the bed whilst Stephanie re-packed his suitcase, "okay bath time, let's go."

Mikey followed Stephanie into the bathroom as she started to run his bath.

After his bath Stephanie sat Mikey in front of the TV, "now sit here and wait for Mommy as she has her shower."

He wasn't listening though as his eyes were trained on the cartoon on the TV.

Nearly an hour and a half later and Stephanie was showered, dressed and they had both eaten breakfast and were now on their way back to the hotel room. As they walked back to the hotel room Mikey said, "where's my su-pise?"

Looking at her watch Stephanie smiled, "your surprise will be here in a few minutes. We should go back into the room and wait patiently."

Mikey ran to their hotel room door and started tugging at the handle, "open, open."

Stephanie laughed and dangled the key between her fingers, "you need to put the key in the lock first so it unlocks and lets you in."

"Well hurries."

Stephanie pretended to walk in slow motion as he stood there staring at her with his hands on his hips, "Mommy!"

Laughing she walked at a normal speed and was soon sliding the key into the and opened it slowly allowing Mikey the chance to run into the lounge area and jump onto the couch, "I's waiting."

Shaking her head Stephanie shut the door before she walked into the lounge and removed her laptop from the coffee table and took it into her bedroom to work on later.

Hunter had spent most of the night sat up thinking about Stephanie, he couldn't get what Jericho had said about her not actually cheating on him out of his mind. Every time he closed his eyes to get some sleep various visions of her entered his mind making it impossible.

As he turned and looked at the clock for the thousandth time he gave in for sleep of the night. Sitting up in bed his mind was still filled with thoughts of her so there was only one thing he could do, go and speak to her.

Pacing back and forth he stared at the clock not knowing what time was a good time to go and see her. As the minutes ticked by he eventually got sick of waiting and at 8:47 he left his hotel room and went in search of hers, he was sure he could intimidate somebody somewhere in the hotel into giving him the details.

After taking the laptop into her bedroom Stephanie went back into the lounge and sat on the couch next to Mikey and watched cartoons with him waiting for that knock on the door.

Looking at the clock that now read 8:55 she was sure Trish would be there soon. Opening her mouth to say something to Mikey she quickly closed it as there was a knock at the door and she stood up, "this could be your surprise Mikey, are you ready?"

Nodding his head enthusiastically Mikey slid to the edge of the couch, "ready!"

Chuckling as her hand grabbed hold of the door handle she pushed it down and slowly opened the door to tease Mikey but when she looked at who was on the other side it wasn't who she was expecting, "you?!"