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It's an early Friday morning; Aaron is standing in front of Jackson's grave. It's been almost a year since Aaron and Hazel helped Jackson end his life, leaving Aaron heartbroken. He loved the brown eyed builder with all his heart and although he broke two of his promises to Jackson, he would never break the last one "please never forget me" the final words to come out of Jackson's mouth.
After twenty minutes of staring at the headstone in silence, the mechanic walked out of the empty graveyard and heading to the woolpack, where he and his mother lived. Aaron walked into the lounge of the pub where he saw his mum sitting at the table with her mobile phone. Chas looked at her soon with worry and relief.
"WHERE THE HELL HAVE YA BEEN? IM SITTING HERE WORRIED SICK!" Chas shouted in her high pitched voice
"I went for a walk"
"And you didn't think to tell me?"
Aaron walked to the kitchen to make himself a brew and toast.
"You were sleeping" the blue eyed mechanic answered
Aaron sits down to his cuppa and toast while Chas sits down after him
"I'm just worried about ya, love. You were doing so well with that rugby player and all of a sudden you lost interest"
"mum, can you just drop it" Aaron was now on his feet, he didn't want to listen to this over and over again, he was sick of his mum butting into his business . He met Ed a few months ago, everything seemed to be going well but when things started getting serious he realised that all he wanted was Jackson, It didn't hurt like it did, when he thought of Jackson all he thought about was that day, the day he helped his boyfriend end his life. But the guilt wasn't There anymore, it was just the memories of Jackson, the good ones, like the holiday they took together and all the other special moments together, they way Jackson would tell him off for being a Muppet, the way he made Aaron feel. All the good memories were coming back and it made the mechanic miss him even more. So he ended things with Ed as he knew he would never feel the same way about him as he did for Jackson.
Aaron is at work in the garage with his uncle Cain. Aaron's phone has been ringing nonstop for the last twenty minutes.
"Can you either answer that or turn it off? It's doing me head in" Cain moans.
"I'll put it on silent" Aaron moans. Grabbing his phone out of his overalls, he notices he as a txt and 20 missed calls all from Ed. He opens up the txt, it reads.
I need to talk to u, pls call me bk. ED x
Aaron decides to turn off his mobile phone off, he can't be annoyed with ED, not right now anyways, all he wants to do is finish off this car he's working on.
"Trouble in paradise?" Cain asked with smirk on his face.
"Do one Cain"
"Alright sunshine, I was only asking"
"Well don't"
"ay'up, here comes trouble" Cain nods as he sees the figure walking towards them.
"Alright" Chas greets her brother and her son with her high pitched voice
"What do you want?" Aaron moans
"Oi you, I was just asking if you fancied some breakfast" says Chas
"I'm busy"
"Lunch then? In the café?" Chas wasn't giving up; she wants to know what is going on with her son!
"Fine" Aaron sighed
"Great, see you in there at half 12" Chas smiled
"She worries about you" Cain says to his young nephew as Chas walks away back to the woolpack.
"There's no need, I'm fine"
As the morning drags on, Aarons mind wanders back to the night he ended it with Ed.
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Ed sits down on the couch in the lounge of the woolpack, looking up at Aaron standing next to the door.
"What do you mean, you can't do this anymore? Are you finishing with me? Ed asks with a hurt look on his face
"It just doesn't feel right, I like you but" Aaron doesn't know what to say after that, he's never been good with words.
"Is this because of the other night?" Ed asks
"No"
"Aaron?"
"It might be, I like you, I do but I'm not ready for that, IV only known you a few months"
"Is this because of Jackson?" Ed regretted asking the question but he needs to know.
"y'what?" Aaron was angry at the fact that Ed even mentioned his name"
"Well, I know how you felt about him and he was your first boyfriend so I can see how freaked out you are"
"You know nothing about me and Jackson!" Aaron raised his voice, realising what he just said, there was no him and Jackson, Not anymore.
"You should go" Aaron puts both hands on his face; he didn't want to hurt Ed.
"Aaron you shouldn't feel guilty, Jackson would want you to be happy to move on"
"Don't! Don't you dare sit there and tell me what he wanted; you don't know anything about him! Aaron raised his voice getting even angrier
"I didn't mean anything by it, I'm sorry. Aaron, you know how I feel and I think I know how you feel but your just scared"
"I'm not scared and you're wrong, you don't know how I feel"
"Then tell me!"
Aaron didn't want to be in this position again, the last time he told someone he didn't feel the same way, ended up getting hit by a train!
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"AARON?!" Cain shouts, which brings Aaron back into reality.
"What?"
"It's nearly half 12, you're gonna be late meeting yer mum"
Crap he thought to himself, he put his tools away and headed towards the café.
Aaron enters the café, great she's late he thought to himself, he walks up to the counter and orders a coffee.
"Can you hear that?" Brenda asks him?
"Hear what?" Aaron asks in confusion
"Dunno, sounds like a car horn" Brenda goes back to making the coffee.
Aaron stands still to hear what Brenda was on about, he then hears the car horn from outside he then also hears shouting, the closer the voice gets the clearer the voice is
"AARRON!"
"Mum?" Aaron says out loud.
All of a sudden it's like life went into slow motion, the customers ducking out the way, hiding behind the counter and the van coming through the café window. It all goes black.