I once heard that Ian Beale broke his leg and started spying on everyone with his binoculars up in Lucy's room. (A/N; Yeah it was an actual episode like... ages ago, remember it?)
Maybe I could have a go at it, but who had binoculars? Charlie maybe? He was the bird watching type.
I went downstairs to grab the phone because I just felt too lazy to go round there's myself but that was when I saw Tiffany holding onto something which was just what I needed.
"Tiffany, are those binoculars?" I asked
"Yeah I think so I found them on the fl-"
"Can I borrow them for a quick second?" I interrupted.
"Well I was going to go use them in my room to- HEY! Give them back" she cried.
I was not one for snatching things off little kids, but this was an emergency and I was going to give them back eventually.
I grabbed a seat and put it by the window these binoculars were a pile of sh- I mean crap. They didn't work as well as I would of thought but they were good enough, I kept my eyes on the launderette and the cafe and the pub I was feeling even more stressed maybe that was their own way of killing me off. I kept my head held high and thought positively; being stuck in the house really didn't help me at all I just felt like Dot.
I could see Jean holding a big bunch of flowers walking across the square looking perky as usual, I opened the window with much strength Jean caught that movement straight away and put the flowers in front of her face.
"Alright there Jean?" I asked very loudly
"Oh yeah yeah I am fine as anything, I got to go" she answered in her usual perky tone trying to make a run for it.
"not so fast"
She paused still holding that big bouquet of flowers up to her face
"What you hiding?" I asked curiously.
"Oh it's nothing Oh! Charlie is calling me bye!"
I pegged it down the stairs, she was hiding something, by the time I was outside – barefoot I should point out, jean was juggling the flowers and digging in her pocket for her keys at the same time, I went up to her standing behind her.
"Jean!" I shouted.
She jumped in surprise dropping the flowers which land outside the Branning's doorstop.
"Oh! Now look what you made me do!" she shouted angrily
Now was a bad time to attack on her she was getting aggressive.
"What am I going to do now?" Jean shouted "they were a special delivery and they looked perfect and now they are ruined, I spent ages on that"
Now I realise what she was hiding, she had a bright pink plaster on her face.
"I-I'm sorry jean I didn't mean to, what happened to your face" I asked.
"Just leave it will you? Leave it" she shouted getting all panicky.
"What the bleeding heck happened out here" said dot coming out of her house to see flowers all over her doorstep.
"Mom, you alright?" Stacey asked walking over from the square to Jean, giving me dodgy looks.
"I'm sorry Dot it wasn't my fault Pat scared me and the flowers fell" Jean said to Dot.
While Stacy was giving me the evils, Dot shouted "I don't care who did it, I don't want it outside my house by the time I get back from the launderettes.
She stepped over the flowers and walked down to work.
"What do you think you were doing scaring my mum like that?" Stacey asked me.
"Look I'm so sorry Jean I didn't mean to I was just looking for something I'm really worried about them" I said.
Jean's face turned from anger to sympathy for me.
"Oh its okay I could always make a new one, I'll help you find Bianca's kids if you would like?" she asked with a smile on her face.
"Bianca's kids? No no no Jean my earring box, it's gone missing" I corrected her.
Her smile disappeared.
"Nana pat can I have my Binoculars back now?" Tiffany screamed from the front house window.
"Your earrings? You scare my mom into dropping her flowers in front of Dot's house and knick a little kid's binoculars just for some poxy earrings?" Stacey interpreted.
"I gotta go" I said.
Stacey knew how to blow my horn and I wouldn't of let her talk to me like that other days, today was just not the day that I could be bothered to argue.
I look at my house to see Tiffany still waiting for my reply "It's in my room alright?!"
Dot was on her way back from the launderettes after some reassuring that the flowers were all removed from her front door step that meant only one other person would be in that place at this time.
I tried to make my entrance quiet but my noisy outfit wasn't helping that, I pushed down the handle to see no-one in sight, maybe she was out back. The noises from the washing machine made my entrance even quieter I walked down to the back to see someone who I would have never guessed to see working here.
"Billy?" I asked
"Oh pat" he said in surprised. "What um what are you doing here" he was wearing dots uniform.
"I could ask the same thing" I said trying so hard not to laugh.
"I had to wear this alright! I-I'm running low on money Dot said she could help" He said all nervous.
"Does that involve dressing like her" I joked
"What do you want?" he asked coldly.
"Where's heather?"
"She's off sick, something about chips and chocolate and mustard being a bad combination" he replied.
Darn. That was probably why Dot wasn't in the brightest moods this morning.
"Alright I'll catch you later Billy and if you need to borrow my clothes you are more than welcome to them except my earrings" I said.
"Why did you lose them" Billy said laughing, was it meant to be a joke?
"Why? Have you seen anyone with them?" I asked curiously.
"I was joking Pat" he said.
Or maybe he was covering for the culprit... or himself.
"Ha. Right" I replied in a boring tone.
I walked out of the laundrettes and headed home, because I had a plan.
"Hey Pat! What can I do you for?" Patrick asked as I walked into the Minute mart.
"Hey Patrick, I just need to borrow a space in the window"
"Yeah yeah sure" he said.
I put my piece of paper in the window and walked to the front of the window, this could work.
"So what did you lose?" Patrick said coming to the window.
"Something very dear to me" I replied and then headed back home waiting for phone call that could help me in any way.