Thank you so much for your reviews, I really appreciate them. Sorry this is only a short chapter but I have a few chapters ready to post so they should come through in short bursts rather than long posts with a long gap between them.

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As soon as he'd left he knew he'd done the wrong thing. She hated being alone, she hated him raising his voice and the sound of slamming doors sent her into a blind panic. He grabbed his phone from his pocket and his finger rested on the key labelled '2' it would send him on speed dial straight to her phone. He shook his head and pressed down on '3'. He waited for a few moments before picking up the phone.

"Cooper?"

"Violet, I messed up" he looked at his feet, even though she was curled up at home he could imagine his friend looking at him like she did at Lucas when he's drawn on the wall with his crayons.

"What did you do?" her tone was resigned

"My mum wanted to send Jenna over to stay with us"

"Why?" she cut in "Jenna's way too young to be travelling on her own to be seeing you guys and don't your family know that Charlotte's not in the right state to have anyone over?"

He sighed "First, Jenna's looking at UCLA so wants to stay with us for a bit. Second, they don't know"

"They don't know?" he could hear her disbelief and disapproval

"Don't start Vi, Char wouldn't have wanted them to know. The thing is…" he got the conversation back on track "Char flipped out"

"I don't blame her"

"But she wouldn't say why she wouldn't…" he began to pace in frustration "And I yelled and slammed the door. I left her all on her own"

"I think you know what to do Coop" and he heard the call being disconnected.

"Damn it Violet" the rain was soaking through his jacket and trickling down his back. He sighed; he did know what he had to do. He turned and headed back for home.

He could hear her crying before he unlocked the door. Charlotte hardly ever cried. Guilt rose from the pit of his stomach and formed a heavy lump in his throat and he closed his eyes, trying to get up the courage to walk in. He opened the door and stood in the living room, their bedroom door was still closed and the noise was coming from there. The thing about Charlotte was that she never did things by halves, when she actually cried, it was these terrible, gut wrenching sobs which he found hard to bear. He closed the front door, double locked it as he'd got used to doing over the past few months and strode toward the bedroom door.

She was curled up on the bed in the foetal position, every few minutes she took a huge gasp for breath before curling up even tighter. He knew she'd realized he was there but she hadn't bothered to turn around. "Charlotte" her cries stopped, her privacy had been interrupted and, as always, she didn't want to cry in front of him. He saw her sides heave shakily as she tried to regain composure.

"Go away" he had expected venom and bitterness in her voice, maybe even resentment. But it was almost a whisper.

"No" he pulled off his jacket and slid on the bed next to her, attempting to put his arms around her "Charlotte…"

"No Coop no!" she tried to wriggle away but he held her tightly, his arms around her waist. Her sides began to heave again and without warning she turned over and buried her face into his chest "I'm sorry… I'm so sorry. I'm a bitch and no wonder you want to leave"

"Don't be stupid Charlotte" he squeezed her softly "I love you, I just don't understand why you…"

"I'd humiliate you" she hiccupped "I'd wake up screaming and your family would think I'm mad because I'm a mess Coop… I'm such a damn mess"

With his free hand he stroked her hair "You haven't had one of those in over three weeks, though you'll probably have one tonight because I've been an ass…'

"I know why you'd get frustrated…."

"And Char, you would never humiliate me, got that? If it does happen we'll just say you had a nightmare, Jenna doesn't want to do psychology so she's not likely to ask what about. It's two weeks at most, she'd sleep on the couch- out during the day and we feed her in the evening and watch some TV with her, ready to send her off in the morning"

He felt her nod "Okay" she murmured "okay"


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