Marathon

Chapter 17

A week after her mom left, Veronica was sitting in the kitchen with Robert and Addie on a Sunday afternoon. It was after she had gotten home from the show and Robert was making some food for everyone. He was making something that had egg in it. As soon as she smelled the egg, she jumped out of her chair and sprinted to the bathroom. She threw up everything she had eaten that day. After a few seconds, she heard Robert come into the bathroom. He held her hair back as she puked. When she was done, he helped her sit on the edge of the tub and got her cleaned up.

"What the hell? Are you getting sick?"

"I don't know. I fucking hope not."

"What did you have to eat today?"

"Hardly anything. I had the French toast you made for breakfast and I didn't eat anything for lunch."

"I hope the breakfast didn't make you sick."

"Nah. It would have been sick a lot earlier if it was that."

"You're right. Let's just get you into bed for now."

"i'm not tired."

"Yeah but you have a show tomorrow." Robert helped Veronica stand up and let her over the the bed. She laid down and he covered her with the blanket and kissed her forehead before leaving the room and closing the door.

"Is she ok?"

"I'm not sure. She's going to bed now though."

"Its only 5."

"But she has a show tomorrow. She needs to be rested and feeling better."

"true. Do you want to watch a movie?"

"Sure!"

"Ok, we can go scary, funny, Rom-Com, Action"

"Avengers?"

"Which one?"

"The first one. Duh."

"The first avengers it is. I'll go grab it." He got off the couch and went to the dvd cabinet that was next to the tv. He looked for a few seconds before making a small noise of triumph and pulling out the DVD.

Halfway through the movie, he heard a thump from the bedroom. Addie looked at him as he jumped up fro the couch and walked into the room. The room was dark but the bathroom light was on and the door was slightly ajar. He could hear Veronica throwing up again.

"Babe?" He said, walking into the bathroom. "Are you going to be ok?"

"I don't know." Veronica sat back on her heels as a thought popped into her head. "Rob grab my calendar off the dresser please. I need to look at something."

"ok." Robert walked out of the bathroom and grabbed the calendar off the dresser. He handed the little book to his fiancée who was still on the floor. Veronica opened the calendar and looked at it intently before snapping her head up to look at Rob.

"What?" He asked.

"I'm late."

"What do you mean? You don't have another sho-"

"No! I mean I'm late late."

"What does that mean Veronica?"

"Robert Manion. Use your head and think for a second."

"I don't underst- wait. Ok. I get it now. Hold on wait. For real? Like how late?"

"4 weeks. How did I not know? I mean I have this shit on a calendar! How did I miss that?"

"I don't know honey. What do we do?"

"I need a test. A good at home test."

"i'm going right now." He jumped up off the floor and helped Veronica back into bed before racing around the house to find his shoes.