sorry it's taken so long to update, but updates will be more regular as there are now 2 writers for this account. But here's an extra long chapter for you guys!
Connie was sat in her car waiting for Jacob to come meet her. Looking over her left side mirror 5minutes later she seen him walking towards her car with his things in his hands and a huge smirk across his face which made Connie chuckle a bit. He opened the boot, throwing his things in, before shutting it and making his way over to the passenger side, all the while he still had that huge smirk on his face which Connie couldn't stop staring at the entire time. Jacob sat in the car and fastened the seat belt not realising the woman beside him couldn't take her eyes off him. Finally he looked over to her and said "Sweet cheeks?" which finally snapped Connie out of her daydream.
"Hmm?" was Connies short reply.
"You okay sweet cheeks?" said Jacob
"Yeah everything's fine, why do you ask Jacob?" Connie replied with a bit of concern in her voice looking reluctantly at Jacob waiting for his reply.
"It's just that we've been sat in the car for the past 5minutes and you've not started it, and in case you haven't realised we're still in the car park outside the ED" a smirk crept along Jacobs face as Connie moved her eyes away from Jacob to look out the window and realise that she was in fact still in the car park. This caused her to let out a little sigh. In no less than 10seconds Connie had her car started and sped out of the hospital routing her way home. They finally reached their destination, and as Connie started pulling her car up into her driveway, Jacob couldn't take his eyes off her house! Thinking to himself how one woman could live on her own in such a massive house was close enough to bringing tears to his eyes thinking about how lonely she must be but no way did he want to bring it up to Connie giving everything she went through, so he left it at that.
They both got out of the car, Jacob went to open the boot to grab his stuff whilst Connie went to the front door and opened it, with Jacob shortly behind her. She waited for Jacob to come in so she could lock her car doors. Once they were inside they took their shoes and coats off, put their bags down and walked over into the living room. Neither of them saying a word to each other. Connie then decided to break the awkward silence between them. "Want anything to drink Jacob?" she asked looking away from him. Jacob noticed the avoided eye contact and just replied back with a simple "Yes please". Connie then went off into the kitchen and left Jacob stood there wondering why she was so upset, he wanted to get to the bottom of it tonight, because if there was one person who he couldn't dare to see upset it was Connie Beauchamp. Jacob was looking around and noticed all the photos Connie had of her and Grace and what seemed to be happy times for them both, then from the corner of his eye he spotted one of him and Connie which was taken at a staff party. This brought a small smile onto Jacobs face but before her could get any closer to the picture he heard Connie enter the room which caused him to turn around and see her stood near the couch with two glasses and a bottle of wine which she was placing on the table.
"Having a good snoop are you Staff Nurse Masters?" Connie asked him as she seen him looking over at the photos.
"Urm no…ye-yes" Jacob stuttered trying to think of an excuse before he carried on "sorry I couldn't help but notice the pictures of you and Grace and just wanted to see what she looked like and boy does she look like you a lot sweet cheeks!" Jacob finished off his sentence and laughed at the end. Connie sat down on the couch before looking up at Jacob.
"Thank you Jacob" she managed to say before carrying on with "You seriously not going to mention anything about the picture of us two?" This quickly made Jacob look down at her locking his eyes with hers.
He then quickly went on to saying "I don't know what you're talking about Mrs B"
"Oh come on Jacob. Don't fool me. I know you've seen it. That smile wasn't spread across your face for no reason when I walked in you know" Connie said with half a smile. This then caused Jacob to laugh. She patted the empty space next to her, motioning for him to come and sit down which he did, rather quickly. Connie then opened up the bottle of wine and started pouring for them both. Jacob on the other hand couldn't help but notice the sadness in her eyes and was eager to ask her what was wrong and to take all her sadness away from her as he couldn't stand to see her like that. But he left it. They both picked up their glasses and drank before Jacob decided speaking. "So then Mrs B what dya fancy doing?" he asked whilst still drinking his wine. He waited for a reply and didn't get one so he looked up at Connie to realise she was sitting there with tears in her eyes staring at a picture of her and Grace which was over on the mantelpiece. Jacob quickly noticed this and put his glass down on the table before reaching over to Connie and moving her face over to look at him. He could see the hurt and pain in her eyes but couldn't bring himself to ask her what was wrong so he pulled her into a tight hug which Connie quickly accepted and started crying harder against his chest leaving tear stains on his shirt. Jacob started rocking her back and forth and rubbed her back. "Shh everything's gonna be alright sweet cheeks. I promise." Jacob start saying to her trying to calm her down.
"No Jacob nothing's ever going to be alright! I've lost my baby girl and it's all my fault! I'm the only one she had around here and it was my job to make her my priority but I couldn't even do that and now look where it's got me?! I've lost her for good and I can't even bring myself to speak to her anymore because I feel like she hates me and who blames her hey? Even I hate myself for letting her go! It's all my fault Jacob no one else's but mine" She cried to Jacob who was now sitting there in shock trying to take in everything she had said to him.
Jacob finally pulled Connie up so she was looking at him. "I'll tell you why everything's going to be alright, because you've got me and I'm always going to be here for you no matter what sweet cheeks you just remember that. From now on you're not ever going to be on your own. None of this is your fault okay?! I don't ever want you blaming yourself you hear me?" And with that he leant in and kissed her forehead and embraced her into another hug. After 10minutes of sitting in silence and hugging each other they decided to break the hug and make their way upstairs to go sleep. Connie got up first with Jacob closely behind her holding her hand. They made their way to the top of the stairs before Jacob stopped. "Urm where's your guestroom sweet cheeks?" He looked at Connie waiting for a reply. She slowly nodded her head and pulled him towards her bedroom. Once they got in she shut the door.
"I'd really like you to sleep in here with me tonight Jacob. I mean that's only if you're okay with it? If you really want to sleep in the guestroom then you can I just feel like having someone with me tonight will make me feel better" she looked at Jacob awaiting his response. Jacob stared into her eyes and could sense the hurt and pain she was feeling and without a second thought quickly shook his head and accepted. Connie went into her bathroom to get changed whilst Jacob stripped into his boxers and sat on the bed. Connie came out of the bathroom and stopped in her tracks when she seen Jacob, on her bed, with nothing but boxers on. This caused a quick smirk to appear on her face but she quickly decided to get rid of it.
"Urm Jacob?" This caused Jacob to look up and see Connie staring at him.
"Yes sweet cheeks?" Jacob asked completely unaware of what Connie was referring to, because sleeping in boxes with Connie Beauchamp was something Jacob didn't look at as a big deal, obviously not. Connie stared down to his legs and Jacob followed her eyesight before realising what she was referring to. "Oh sorry Connie, it's just that I've not bought anything else with me because I didn't know I was going to stay over but-"
"It's okay Jacob, I don't mind" Connie said cutting him off. She walked round to her side of the bed and got in, whilst Jacob did the same. They were both lying awake in dead silence facing the opposite direction.
"Thank you Jacob" Connie managed whisper but said it loud enough for Jacob to hear. They both then turned around to face each other.
"Thank you for what sweet cheeks?" He replied back whilst staring into her eyes the whole time.
"For everything. For being there for me, taking me out to dinner, what happened at work earlier and especially thank you for now. For comforting me and staying over to make sure I was okay" She looked at him with a warm smile across her face. Jacob didn't know how to respond to that so instead leaned over and pecked his lips against hers. Connie was shocked at first but then relaxed into his body and kissed him back. They broke the kiss and wrapped themselves around each other before getting comfortable. In no less than 10minutes Jacob looked down at Connie who was resting her head on his chest, fast asleep. He smiled at how beautiful and at peace she looked cuddled up next to him. He lay there thinking about how much she was hurting over Grace. How she blamed herself for pushing her only daughter away and Jacob couldn't stand seeing her so hurt and broken so first thing he was going to do tomorrow was to ring Sam and get Grace to come back. Anything to make Connie smile again. And with that he wrapped is arm around Connies waist, pulled her in closer, closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep.
