I yawned to make my ears pop as the rumbling airplane bounced through some turbulence on it's way into the sky. This was probably the stupidest thing I had ever done. Was it worth it?
Well, if it worked out, then yes.
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"Good morning, Stephan," Bella answered the phone.
"Bella," I said. "I'm not going to be in for the next few days."
"Oh," she replied, a little shocked. "Are you sick? Is everything alright?" I hadn't taken a sick day since I opened my little one-man firm - if I caught the flu I sent Bella home so she wouldn't catch it and then worked through the discomfort.
"No, and no, but I'm going to try and make it right. You can take the next couple of days for yourself, just have all the calls forwarded to my cell."
"Stephan, where are you?"
I looked up from the tiled
