Hey, this is my first corrie fanfic so yeah... In this the ages are kind of messed up but practically everyone is with who they are with now and have their kids but Ryan is doing something with his band so he's not here at the moment but will be, I think thats it, enjoy :) :P

Happy birthday

The 13 year old girl looked down the road, she saw barlow's bookies, that was where she lived, in the flat above it. Or she was supposed to live there, the girl wasn't sure if the website had got it right. Apparently she was a successful buisness woman, why would she live in a flat above the bookies.

It was the 30th of May, today was so important, did she remember? Was she sad? Was she thinking of her? The girl couldn't answer these questions, she didn't even know what she wanted the answer's to be.

The girl was about to walk up to the door when it opened and a raven haired woman walked out holding hands with a man in a battered leather jacket. Was it her, surely it was, they had the same hair, the same raven pulled out the battered photo in her pocket, it was definitely her, albeit in the photo she was a lot younger, it was definitely her. Suddenly the girl was overtook with nerves and realised she couldn't talk to the her, not yet anyway, maybe later.

She still followed the couple, she wanted to see where they went, incase she did want to go and talk to girl saw them go into a pub, the Rovers Return. She then walked down the cobbled street to find somewhere to sit, somewhere to think. Now she had found her the girl wasn't sure she actually wanted to talk to her. Even if she didn't talk to her, the girl knew one thing, there was no way she would ever go back, she couldn't go back, not after what happened.

Carla sat in the pub next to Peter, opposite Michelle and Steve, a glass of red infront of her. She would do anythingh to be back home right now, downing alchohol like there was no tomorrow. It was the 30th May. She was always down on this day, she had been for the last 13 years. No one knew though, she hadn't told anyone, not even Rob, or Peter, or Michelle.

All Carla wanted to do was go home and cry, cry for what she had lost, cry for what she gave away all those years ago. Where was she now? Hopefully she was happy, celebrating her 13th birthday with her new family, the only family she knew, the only family she had ever known.

"Car, you alright?" Michelle asked "You're on a different planet."

"Oh, yeah, yeah I'm fine, just got a bit of headache." Carla replied, pulling herself back to reality.

"Do you wanna go home?" Peter asked

"Yeah, I'll go have a little rest, you can stay here though." Carla said, stopping Peter standing up with her, she wanted to be alone.

"Are you sure?" Peter asked

"Yeah, I just wanna go to sleep, see ya tomorrow chelle." Carla said before stepping out into the cold street.

The girl stood infront of the bookies, knowing no one was in there made her feel more comfortable. Doubts were running through her head, if she did talk to her, would she want to know? Would she send her back to the care home? She couldn't go back there, never, not after what happened.

Carla saw a young girl with long dark hair standing outside the bookies, she had an old, baggy top on with some black leggings. It didn't look like she had much money to buy clothes with.

Carla laughed bitterly in her head, that was all she could think about on a day like this, how expensive a teenagers clothes are.

Carla walked up to her and asked, "Can I help you?" The young girl turned round and stared at Carla in shock. "Can I help you?" Carla asked again. The girl cast her eyes to the ground. "Do I have something on my face or something?" Carla half joked, wondering what was wrong with the girl.

"Sorry, it doesn't matter." The girl mumbled as she turned to walk away. Carla saw something fall from her pocket and picked up a scrumpled up a bit of paper. As she flattened it out she sawa photo she remembered all to well.

"Wait!" Carla yelled as the girl turned round to face her. "Happy birthday." Carla said as a tear ran down her cheek.

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