Supercorp: Unexpected Feelings

Chapter 16

It has now been well over a week since Lena turned Kara down, and currently Natalie and Ashley are at Lena's house with her, even though it is a Monday, because the kids are on spring break at the moment, and of course Andrea has used that as an opportunity to spend less time with the kids. For Lena, she will always take any extra time she can have with Natalie and Ashley, but she is still very concerned about what Andrea is doing, and how she knows she basically plans to phase them out of her life to prioritise the family that she is going to build with Eve. What has made Lena feel even worse about all this, is Andrea has clearly told Natalie and Ashley about her proposal to Eve, and the two girls have been excited to go to the wedding, talking about it nonstop. It's not that the girls have turned on Lena or anything, but it's clear they are just excited to be a part of a wedding, and that in turn has taken away their anger and confusion at Andrea. Lena knows this has all been a tactic on Andrea's part, she is manipulating the kids just like she manipulated her for so many years.

Seeing as Natalie and Ashley are off of school this week, and spending it with her, Lena has decided that she will make the most of this opportunity to spend as much time with her kids as possible, by taking a few days off this week, and working from home on some of the other days. That means that for this entire week Lena will only have to physically go into L-Corp twice, meaning she gets to spend more time at home with her kids. Today, however, Lena is pretty glad that she has the day off, and has no plans to go into work, or anywhere at all, because ever since she woke up, she has been feeling rather under the weather. Lena hasn't thrown up or anything, but she has felt kind of poorly. She just hopes she's not getting sick, because the last thing she wants is to give Natalie or Ashley an illness that she has.

Presently, Lena is laying on one of her couches in the living room, just watching some random movie on TV. Meanwhile, Natalie and Ashley have been occupying themselves by doing their homework which Lena has told them to do now, so they can get it out of the way, and not have to worry about it on the last few days of their spring break. This has been a convenient excuse by Lena so that she doesn't have to do anything physical with her kids, like go out or something, while she is feeling sick.

"Mom?" Natalie says, as she runs over to Lena.

"Yes, darling?" Lena replies, with a forced smile.

"Can we have fish tacos for dinner tonight?" Natalie asks.

As soon as Natalie finishes asking Lena that sentence, Lena's eyes go wide, her stomach rumbles in disgust, and she quickly jumps off the chair, and runs towards the nearest bathroom, where she throws up a few seconds later, just in time.

Lena continues to throw up in the bathroom for a few minutes, feeling absolutely awful, and hating how her stomach feels, all the while being unable to not think of fish tacos, which makes her want to throw up even more. Soon though, Lena notices that both Natalie and Ashley have entered the bathroom, and have worried looks on their faces.

"Mom? Are you okay?" Natalie asks, in a very worried voice.

"Of course she's not okay, Nat, she's being sick!" Ashley says.

Lena then carefully turns her head to look at Natalie and Ashley, all while still hovering over the toilet, just in case.

"I'm just feeling ill." Lena says, with her throat stinging now, "I haven't been feeling well all day."

"Why are you throwing up now? Is it because of me?" Natalie asks, with a concerned look.

"It's not your fault, darling." Lena says, forcing a smile, "It's just, when you mentioned fi...... those tacos..... it made me feel very ill just thinking about it."

"Oh... I.... I'm sorry mommy." Natalie says, with Lena now seeing that Natalie obviously feels guilty, because she just referred to her as 'mommy'.

"It's not your...." Lena begins, but then quickly turns back to the toilet and throws up once more.