The new family had seemingly settled into their new life very well, a couple of weeks later, Iain had returned to work full-time whilst Rita stayed home to care for Henry until the school term ended and he could start school. So far, Henry had been good as gold, neither Rita or Iain had needed to 'discipline' him so to speak, and only had to gently remind him of the rules every so often.

Today, however, was very different. It was very obvious to Rita that Henry had settled in and was now busy exploring his boundaries and to top it off, she was now experiencing morning sickness. The two hadn't really done much spectacular throughout the day other than a rather adventurous game of trains. As it neared closer to the time Iain finished work and pick him up, Rita had bundled them both into the car, with the plan to quickly nip to the supermarket to pick up some milk and something for tea. This, however, was definitely not Henry's plan.

"But please" Henry pleaded for what felt like the hundredth time, determined to get the sweets that were in his hand.

"Henry, I've said no, please put them back," Rita told him in a stern confident tone, though internally she was the opposite of confident and felt like she was pleading for an eternity with the youngster to behave. She was worn out and wanted nothing more than to go home and go to bed.

"But I want them Rita" He whined.

"Henry," Rita said, "I've told you nicely, put them back"

Henry crossed his arms disobediently, "No!"

Rita issued the boy a warning, a warning that seemed to fall upon deaf ears. After the typical "that boy deserves a good smack" statement from a judgemental on-looker, she had just about had enough, she grabbed the sweets out of his hands and placed them back on the shelf. She grabbed his hand and marched him towards the check-out, ignoring his ongoing screaming and tantrums.

After hurriedly paying for the small amount of shopping, she left the supermarket. Rita continued to warn Henry that she wasn't messing around and that he was to behave, but he was not having any of it.

"No, No, No, No" Henry shouted ignoring Rita. He stamped his foot for added emphasis. Rita picked Henry up and carried him to the car. After dumping the carrier bag in the passenger seat, she wrestled the boy into his car seat and got herself into the driver's seat. It was only then that she allowed herself to break down and cry, something that she had been fighting all day. Resting her head on the steering wheel she continued to blank the on-going tantrum, Henry was safely buckled in, there was nothing more that she could do other than allow the youngster to calm down.

Around 10-15 minutes later and Henry had tired himself out, his cries, or rather screams, had died down to hiccups and eventually he had fallen asleep. Rita wiped her eyes and checked her phone for the time, 3 missed calls and 2 messages from Iain. She returned his calls, he picked up after the first ring.

"Sorry, we're on our way" Rita sniffed.

"Okay," Iain responded, detecting that something was wrong, he asked, "Is everything ok?"

"Yeah," She sighed, "I'll tell you about it later"

"Okay, see you soon yeah?"

"Yeah" And with that, they put their phones down.

After a quick peek into the rear-view mirror to check on Henry, Rita continued her journey to collect Iain.

After pulling up outside the ambulance bay Rita stepped out the car, leaning against the bonnet, she sent a quick text to Iain letting him know she was there. Shortly after, Iain came out of the building and walked over to the car.

"Hey," He greeted, he gently took a hold of her shoulders. "Everything ok?"

"It is now." Rita let out a sigh. "I think Henry's settled in now"

"How so?" Iain asked,

Rita gave him a one-word answer, "Tantrums"

"Ah" He nodded, "Over?"

"Anything and everything. This time was over sweets, though"

Iain looked into the car window as he wrapped an arm around Rita.

"He looks pretty calm now though" Iain joked.

"Mmm," Rita relaxed slightly into Iain's embrace, "I'm pretty sure there's more to come".

Iain took the keys out of Rita's hand. "Come on, let's go home"

A/N: I'm not even going to make any promises on when I am uploading anymore, hopefully I will post more during the upcoming College/School holidays but I am away on an education scheme, so no promises, sorry guys...