"Now what…." Oliver sighed as headed over to open the door. There seemed to have been a steady stream of people welcoming him to the neighbourhood since he had got up that morning "Not another meat pie, please!" he begged as he opened the door. "Hi, I'm…Mo?"
"You are?"
"Well, no, I just meant, well…" Oliver stuttered, trying to explain through the shock, "What are you doing here?"
"I said I was going to have to find out what the trains were like up here."
"Well, yeah but that was only…how did you get here so quick? London to Devon, and then Leeds in a day?"
Mo smiled, "I didn't go to Devon."
Oliver shut the door behind her and she walked in, the pushchair in front of her, taking the seat which he gestured towards.
"I thought you wanted to get away, make your own decisions…I thought…"
"I did get on the train to Devon…me and Freddie against the world, making our own decisions. I got as far as Paddington, but the train stopped, some electricity fault or something. So, I was sitting in Starbucks with Freddie, waiting for the train to re-start, and I started wondering, thinking, about us."
"What made you change your mind?"
"Nothing at that point…I got back on the train, back on the way to Barnstable…that's all I remember till I woke up in hospital."
Oliver looked up, taking a moment to notice he was pouring the milk on the worktop, "You passed out, what happened?" He asked, concerned, "What about Freddie?" he thought as he tried to clean up the mess. Mo couldn't help but laugh as he tried to stop the milk from dripping on to the floor, with little success. "He was fine; took him with me in the ambulance and then the nurses took him to the waiting room in the children's ward."
"Do you know what happened?"
"The doctor came to see me when I came round, he reckoned it was just stress, but they carried out some tests just to be sure..." Mo stopped, unsure of how to go on, "Oliver, this isn't why I came here, well, not on its own. I'm not trying to use you or change things just because of this, I just…"
"Mo, whatever it is, I don't care, if it changed you're mind…you're here! I mean; but, hold on, if something's wrong, well, why didn't you go back home?"
"It's not their support I need with this; it's not them this affects…"