Carl was hating being away from Chas, he couldn't bare the fact that she hated his guts. The couple had been through so much together, and almost a year after they had come to an abrupt end last Christmas, Carl was ready to begin winning his girl back again. The girl that he loved. The girl that was born, and the girl that was meant to be his own. Chas.

Carl approached the Woolpack, where Chas was stood outside chatting to Cameron, Debbie, and Charity. Great. This was just what he didn't need right now.

Jimmy grabbed hold of Carl's arm for a second as they approached the pub.

"Oy. Listen You. I don't want no trouble." Jimmy warned his younger brother.

"And there won't be any brother." Carl told Jimmy sarcastically as he pulled his arm out of his brother's grip. "Nah, honestly Jim, there's nothing to worry about, Chas is there, and I don't want to fall-out with her." Carl told Jimmy in all seriousness.

Jimmy stopped in his tracks and shot his brother a concerned look as he clicked as to what his brother had meant by that statement.

"Mate you're not?" Jimmy questioned, just to double-check that his suspicions were not correct.

"I am mate. I'm getting Chas back. I want her back in my arms and back in my house. I love her Jim." Carl told her before he began walking towards the pub again.

"Oh Carrrlll, she's no good for ya mate." Jimmy moaned. He was forever the protective older-brother, and despite everything that Carl had done to this family, Jimmy still loved-him like he would love any-other family-member. And Carl admired that.

"Jim, I know you're worried about me. But there's no need to be. I'm a big boy now. I'll be just fine." Carl re-assured his brother before he headed over towards Chas, Cameron, Debbie, and Charity.

"Alright there guys?" Carl began.

"What do YOU want?" Chas asked him rather rudely, in her eyes, Carl didn't deserve her respect right now.

"I think we both know what I want Chas…..but I need to know what YOU want first….." Carl trailed-off.

"Ohhh Get-Lost Carl. I don't love ya…..infact…..I don't even LIKE ya right-now, so just leave-me alone and let me get on with my life, alright? We never stood a chance when we were together, and we definitely don't stand a chance now!" Chas snapped at him before she walked-off into the Woolpack.

"Oh Chas come-on!" Carl pleaded, but Cameron stepped in front of him.

"Mate. Did you not hear her the first-time? Move-It." Cameron warned-him.

"I'm not your mate." Carl started-up as he pushed Cameron backwards.

"Uh no ya don't Carl. Come-On. We're going home. I thought we were past-this!" Jimmy finally interrupted his argumentative brother.

"Oh No we're not." Carl argued. "We're not barred, and I'm being pushed out of me own local…..ain't that right?…..Cameron?" Carl teased, before he was shoved into the pub by an angry and fed-up Jimmy.

As the two-brothers wandered into the pub together, with Jimmy subtly ranting at Carl for being so stupid, they were confronted by Chas, Diane, with Aaron following closely behind them both.

"I thought I told you to leave me alone!" Chas threatened.

"Oh so we're not even allowed to come for a quiet drink in our own pub now are we?" Carl argued with the girl that drove-him absolutely-crazy in so many different ways.

"Yeah but it won't just be a quiet-drink with you though Carl will it?" Chas spoke-truthfully, nothing was EVER done quietly, not with the Dingles involved, and especially not with the Kings hanging about.

"She's right Carl." Diane intervened. "Now if you would like a quiet-drink, like you said you did, then please feel-free to take a seat, but if you're here to cause trouble, then please leave, because I'm not having that kind-of behaviour happening in my pub."

Carl shot Chas a glare before he shifted past Diane, along with Jimmy and went to take a seat. "I still love ya Chas." Carl muttered as he walked-away, but Aaron followed him.

"What was that ya scum-bag?" Aaron asked Carl angrily as he caught-up with the two-brothers.

"Ah. Stay-out of this Aaron. This is between Me and ya Mum, it's got nothing to do with you." Carl said, wiping his comment aside as he approached the spare-table in the corner. But Aaron grabbed Carl's shirt and had him pinned-him-up against the wall, before Carl or Jimmy had the chance to do anything about-it.

"I think you'll find that this has Everything to do with me…..Mate." Aaron told-him angrily as he held-him-up against the wall.

"Get-off-of me ya little thug. Before I do something that I won't regret." Carl threatened him, Chas had caught-onto this argument, and charged-over.

"AARON. LET GO OF HIM." Chas shouted at her violent-son, knowing fully-well the damage that Carl could do if he tried hard-enough. Of-Course he would never hurt Chas, and he never had done, but Chas had been Carl angry before, and she knew JUST how much he was capable-of.

Aaron snatched his fingers away from Carl's shirt as he backed-off towards his Mother with a smug-look on his face.

"If you EVER come near my Mum again, and I'll kill ya, you got that Carl. I'll. KILL. Ya. Alright?" Aaron warned Carl threateningly.

An un-scathed smirk spread-across Carl's face as Aaron ordered away by Chas, and the rebel-kid wandered-off.

"This isn't the way to get me back Carl. It REALLY Isn't." Chas told-him harshly as she got-up in his face.

Carl cheekily blew Chas a kiss and then winked at her. "You love me really." Carl whispered to her, before he was dragged-away by Jimmy.

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