Ashes to Ashes: Forgotten Memories
Chapter 4
After Ray helped his friend up and helped by accompanying him to one of the other rooms. It didn't take too long for him to start worrying about his friend as he was now watching him anxiously pacing around the room like a peeved, forgotten about, Tiger, he was walking back and forth around the same spot. He was clearly proving himself to be a nervous wreck and was annoyingly starting to test Ray's patience. "Will you bloody stay still for christ sake, you're getting more nervous like Chris does when he checks the other football results on Match of the Day" he sighed in annoyance.
"So Chris is around here somewhere then?" Gene's mood soon softened upon hearing this.
"Of course he is, him and Shaz always visit me every weekend, they've persuaded me to start watching this show called Britain's Got Talent. You know I reckon you'd love it once you watched it Gene." Ray said, smiling as he knew his friend wouldn't like seeing the head judge's smug face.
Gene wasn't exactly sure "Why am I getting a feeling that one of the judges would really piss me off if I gave it a go in watching it." It was as though he had cleverly read Ray's thoughts. Being back in The Railway Arms still felt rather out of the ordinary for Gene. So much had changed, the saloon bar had been transformed into a futuristic, technology obsessed bar, one thankful thing that hadn't changed was that the wine, whisky and scotch bottles were stacked together in the way Nelson preferred.
"Christ I really have been away for far too long haven't I." he commented.
"Yeah you have, but at least you're finally here now and that you're willing to make up for the lost time with all of us." Ray encouragingly reminded him, trying his best to cheer him up.
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In Cardiff, Ruth and Rhys were now looking after Alex back at their house. Ruth had requested that they'd both chat in their refurbished kitchen with the door closed. "What if she's a missing person Rhys, her family might have reported her missing" she expressed some worry as she believed that they should contact the police, if her husband chose not to then she knew should would almost certainly panic because someone might not believe them.
" Will you bloody calm down love. if you haven't noticed she's got hypothermia and she's in shock. I think she may have amnesia as well because I get the feeling she doesn't exactly know how she ended up on the beach by the pebble-stones. Look please just don't continue argue about this, for the moment she needs as much rest as possible before we can think about contacting the police." Rhys was approaching this differently from his apprehensive wife. He knew this quite well because he was an off duty paramedic with 10 years experience.
"Better let her sleep downstairs, just for tonight then." Ruth suggested as she was quietening down, feeling that her husband was right. "I'll go and get some extra pillows from upstairs." she told him before going to leave the kitchen and quietly wandering towards the main living room to check on their house guest for the night. She sensed that Alex looked reasonably exhausted and pale faced while she was sleeping on the sofa.
"What are you doing?" Rhys asked as he saw his wife spying on Alex.
"Oh sorry, I was thinking in the morning, we should make sure she gets seen to by the station doctor. Because I know they have them in most police stations nowadays." Ruth said.
"I thought you were getting the bed pillows love, make sure you get one of the blankets as well." Rhys suggested to her, he found himself agreeing with her on what she just mentioned.
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Back in the pub, Ray was now expertly teaching Gene how on to play Fifa 08 on the one of the widescreen televisions in the modern day living room. It wasn't precisely going as well as originally planned. "Bloody Hell I can see this is definitely going to take ages to teach you on what button to press when your player on the screen to actually pass the bloody ball." They were playing as Manchester City and Manchester United.
"Who the fuck is Wayne Rooney? and why does he look like a fairy gorilla when he tackles a player." Gene said, as he still didn't have a full clue, his clueless looks were making Ray laugh out loud. He was continuing to press the wrong buttons on the control device.
"Bloody Hell you have got so much to learn about, Gene. By the way it's good to see you cracking a joke again." Ray smiled, he was glad to see his friend looking slightly relaxed, he was also smiling because Manchester United were beating Manchester City 10-0 on the screen.
"Raymondo I know you're trying your best to cheer me up but I don't want to waste anymore precious time, I want to find Alex now." Gene said.
"Oh alright, suppose we can leave this Fifa game until another day" Ray said, he could tell that Gene couldn't stop thinking about her and that it was driving him crazy as he was missing her so much. He picked up the games box and quickly switched it off. "We'll go and find Alex right now"
End of Chapter
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