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So Grace is fine...for now, and Emily is furious at Naomi so i hope you have liked this story so far and hope you enjoy this chapter :)
If I could rewind time-Chapter 8
The fresh, cold air hit against her as the breeze brushed past her. Naomi walked over to the wall and sat down taking in a few breaths and thinking over what had just happened. She thought about the pain she had inflicted on everyone, what she had caused by being so irresponsible. What was she thinking saying yes to Cooks proposal of looking after his drugs? She never thought something like this would happen.
"Here, god knows you need it" a voice said as a cigarette attached to a hand appeared in front of Naomi's face. Naomi looked and saw Kieran stood over her. She took the cigarette and mumbled "cheers".
Kieran sat down next to her on the wall holding a cigarette for himself; he lit it up before lighting Naomi's. Naomi hesitated for a moment, she hadn't smoked for years. She had stopped smoking because she knew how much Emily hated it as well as the fact it was a dangerous habit and cost a lot.
"Fuck it" Naomi sighed as she took a drag of the cigarette; she needed something to calm her down. It felt good as she breathed in the smoke; it took the edge off of her worries.
"Nice day isn't it…I mean the weather not…" Kieran mumbled before Naomi interrupted him.
"I know what you mean" Naomi stated as she looked up to the bright sun shining down on them.
"To tell you the truth I am never good with these kinds of things, you know family emergences" Kieran admitted as he nervously tapped his fingers against the stone wall.
"You don't say" Naomi replied dryly.
Kieran smirked at Naomi's sarcasm.
"Not very good with people's feelings, I probably killed all of my emotions from being stoned all the time" Kieran pointed out "That's why I don't understand, I can tell what Gina's feeling because she's always happy and cheerful but that's as far as it goes for me reading people" Kieran said.
"Yeah well I am afraid I have screwed all that up, the way my mum looked at me, so…so disappointed" Naomi murmured
"We all make mistakes" Kieran replied
"Yeah but this is huge what I have done, Grace could of died because of me" Naomi objected as she flicked her finished cigarette away.
"But that didn't happen; she's fighting for her life and winning" Kieran stated.
"Emily will never forgive me" Naomi sighed as she closed her eyes, remembering the look Emily had given her before she left the room. It was a cold, spiteful and unforgiving look that Naomi would never forget.
"She will do, she knew you would be out here, and that you didn't actually leave" Kieran informed Naomi.
"I would never leave" Naomi whispered loud enough for Kieran to hear.
"She knew that, that's why she wouldn't let any of us leave in case we came to see you" Kieran mentioned.
"In case you came to see the enemy" Naomi spited herself, she felt like she was the enemy.
"You're not the bad guy in this Naomi; the drugs are, get that in your head" Kieran persuaded her.
"Yeah well I should never have had the drugs in the first place" The blonde girl moaned as she put her face into her hands.
"Why? You didn't expect Grace to find them" Kieran replied.
"Most parents have to hide coughing medicine so they're kid won't find and drink it, but me I hid ecstasy tablet from my child, just shows how fucking messed up parent I really am" Naomi exclaimed.
"I know and Grace still loves you, how do you do it?" Kieran joked as they both chuckled. Naomi felt good to forget about her worries for a moment.
"How did you get out of the room then, if Emily wasn't letting anyone leave?" Naomi asked as she looked at Kieran who raised both his eyebrows, surprised Naomi really wanted to know.
"Made up some bullshit that if I didn't go to the toilet my bladder would explode" Kieran stated casually.
"Nice" Naomi giggled as Kieran grinned.
"Come on" Kieran said as he got up off the wall.
"Where we off?" Naomi asked.
"To see Grace of course!" Kieran informed her, acting as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Emily won't let me" Naomi sighed.
"She's your daughter; you have a right to see her" Kieran said as he began to walk off.
Naomi puffed out a breath of air to prepare herself before getting up and following Kieran.
Emily was feeling a lot of emotion as she sat on the chair next to Katie and opposite the doctor. She was so hurt that Naomi hid the fact that she owned drugs from her, she was also confused to why Naomi had drugs as well as angry that Naomi caused all this to happen, putting Grace in so much danger. She felt like she was drowning in her pool of emotions and no one could save her, so she would have to save herself.
"Emily" Katie whispered as she gently tapped her sister's shoulder.
"Yeah?" Emily said as she came back into the room from thinking.
"The doctors asked you something" Katie informed her sister.
Emily looked at the doctor.
"We are very confused to why your daughter isn't showing any signs of overdose, I mean she's doing very well" The doctor began "That's why we think that…now this is going to sound weird but…we think Grace ate some charcoal, the charcoal absorbs or binds to some substances in the stomach and intestines and prevents them from being absorbed into the body, in this case the ecstasy is the substance" The doctor explained to them both.
Katie looked at her sister to see if she knew.
"Well we were at a barbeque yesterday, I caught Grace playing with the charcoal but I didn't think she ate it, but she might of" Emily noted.
"Well then, if that's so Grace eating the charcoal has saved her life" The doctor claimed
"Are you serious?" Katie asked surprised by the whole thing.
"Yes I am" The doctor replied.
"Wow that's great news then, thank god mum had a barbeque!" Katie scoffed then regretted when she realised it was too soon for jokes. Emily put on a fake smile to reassure her sister she didn't take offence to Katie's joking.
"We don't need to do a stomach pump, we will have to do some test's on Grace though, to check the ecstasy isn't in her blood system or damaged any of her Kidneys, liver or heart" The doctor said as he got up.
"Okay thank you doctor" Katie gratefully said as she got up and walked out of the room Grace was sleeping in. Emily kissed the top of Grace's head as she lay on the hospital bed.
"Mama will just be outside; the doctors will make you better sweetie" Emily whispered as she got up and followed her sister out to the hallway where everyone else was.
"She's going to be okay" Emily informed everyone as they all let out a sigh of relief.
Jenna pulled Emily into a tight hug as everyone began to smile as their worries for Grace faded away because they knew she was going to be fine.
"How's Grace doing?" a familiar voice said from behind Emily, she pulled away from her mother's embrace. Emily turned around and saw Naomi, stood now in front of her. She could tell the blonde was nervous as she wouldn't make eye contact with Emily.
Emily brought her hand back then spitefully slapped it across her wife's face as the blonde cupped her now red and saw cheek with her hands as she winced in pain.
"She's doing fine, no thanks to you!" Emily spat out as if the words were venom. Katie grabbed her shoulder.
"Emily!" Katie Scolded.
"Trust me she deserves a lot worse" Emily spitefully said "I don't want her here" Emily announced as everyone froze, not knowing if they should intervene or not.
"It's her daughter as well; she has every right to be here!" Katie stated.
"Oh so you're taking her side now" Emily said as she glared at her sister.
"No!" Katie defended.
"Katie's right love, Naomi is allowed to stay, let's just be happy Grace is okay" Jenna intervened. Katie was taken aback by the fact her mum was convincing Emily to let Naomi stay; it was normally the other way round.
"Yeah okay mother…let's just go back to playing happy families" Emily said sarcastically.
"Ems I'm sorry…" Naomi tried before Emily interrupted her.
"Don't Naomi; I don't want to hear it"
"God Jenna is being nicer to Naomi right now then you are and mum hates Naomi!" Katie indicated.
"I don't hate Naomi!" Jenna screeched.
"I do" Emily said coldly as she gave Naomi a glare. Naomi felt like her wife had just stabbed her in the heart, she couldn't breathe as she tried to speak, no noise came out.
"Don't say that Emily!" Katie spoke for Naomi.
Emily turned to Naomi to say it again because she knew how much it destroyed Naomi when she said it, but when Emily's brown eyes met her blue eyes she couldn't seem to say it, the words just wouldn't come out so instead she stood there for a moment looking into Naomi's soft blue eyes that took her thoughts and anger away for a second before she remembered she was still meant to be mad at Naomi.
"Fine you can stay, see if I care" Emily stated before storming off as Katie chased after her.
Jenna was about to go sit back down but Naomi grabbed her arm and stopped her.
"Thanks" Naomi said as she let out a small smile.
"Just prove me wrong that you don't always screw things up and fix this" Jenna stated before she went and sat next to Rob, Gina and Kieran.
Naomi was suddenly embraced into a hug as she tried to work out who was hugging her.
"Naoms can we go somewhere private and talk?" Cook asked as he tried to avoid eye contact off his friend.
Naomi looked through the window to Grace's room and saw her little girl still strapped to machines and surrounded by doctors, taking samples of her blood and scribbling down notes on theirs boards of Grace's progress. Naomi wanted to stormed into the room, push the doctors away and tell them to 'back off!' But that wouldn't help anything and Naomi knew the doctors were just trying to help.
Cook saw the worried look Naomi had from the thought of leaving Grace.
"Babes the doctor's will call on us when we can go in and see her, it won't matter if were stood here or in the café, it won't make a difference" Cook said reassuringly.
Naomi looked back to Cook and nodded, knowing he was right. They walked down the corridor to somewhere quieter.
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So what d you think? is Naomi doin the right thing for taking the blame for Cook? Is Emily just over-reacting? Should Katie be this understanding to Naomi? if only she knew they were truly Cooks drugs...
