Canley Dates
"Sam, we still on for tonight, yeah?" Jo popped her head round the door of Sam's office as she done up her coat, ready to leave.
"Yeah, course. Wouldn't miss it for the world!" Sam said from behind a mountain of paperwork.
Jo laughed. "No offence Sam, but you look like you could do with a drink or three!"
"Well thanks a bunch!" Sam replied jokingly. "Now you get off home, I expect to be greeted with a drink as soon as I ring your doorbell!" Sam laughed.
"Your wish is my command!" Jo smiled and began to walk towards the exit of CID. "See you Guv!" Jo laughed, knowing Sam hated being called that.
"O, less of the Gus!" Sam called out as she heard the doors slam shut and there was complete silence in CID.
Sam had had enough of paperwork. That's all she seemed to be doing at the moment; sitting in the briefing room, interviewing endless amounts of people, then being lumbered with all the paperwork afterwards. It's a never ending cycle.
Sam got up and went to get a coffee from the machine. She had to admit, it tasted awful, but it was better than nothing. Sam came back to her office to try and finish off her paperwork, but got distracted by the sound of children playing happily outside. She got up to watch and got lost in her own thoughts.
I'm always the last one left in the office. I'm too soft, always agreeing to do other people's paperwork for them. Probably because they all have families to go home to and I don't! Cooking a microwave meal for one, then sitting down with a large brandy and watching Corrie. It's not much of a life is it?
Hey, what are you thinking Sam? You're going to have a great time at Jo's. A whole night of watching films, drinking and gossiping with your best mate; what could be better?
Jo's been there for me a lot recently. It used to be Phil, the one who'd be my shoulder to cry on, the one who'd cheer me up when I was feeling down. But I let him down. Our relationship hasn't been the same since we slept together in Romania. At the time, it felt so right. But now I know that I couldn't have been more wrong. It completely destroyed our friendship. Yes, I know, I was the one who initiated it, I was scared, I thought I was going to die!
It was all going well, I was the happiest I had been in a long time. But then... Phil said that he loved me. I mean, woah! Bolt from the blue springs to mind! Before that day I didn't think Phil knew what the word 'love' meant. I wasn't ready for such a big step. I'd been let down by men so many times in the past, I couldn't give my heart away to him to have it broken yet again.
Dumping Phil, seeing him look so heartbroken, was probably the worst mistake of my life, to be honest.
If only things could go back to the way they were before...
