Chapter 10

Jess

Abby came and picked me up from the hospital the next morning and when I asked were Becker was she said he was at home and I instantly got worried about his reaction and there was one question running around in my head. Would he still be there when I got home?

"Do you want me to come in with you?" Abby asked when we pulled up in the apartment block car park, I shook my head in responce and got out of the car and grabbed my stuff and started walking up the stairs and when I opened the door Becker was sitting in the living room and looked around at me when I opened the door.

I walked further into the apartment "Are you OK?" he asked quietly on the couch then got up and took my bags off me which were quite heavy.

"I keep having stomach cramps but apart from that I'm OK" I replied and we made our way to the bedroom so Becker could put my bags in there and I could unpack them "Are you still angry at me?" I asked him.

He put the bags down on the bed and shrugged "I'm a little angry you didn't tell me or you couldn't trust me enough to tell me what was going on with you" he said and I was glad that he was honest, someone has to be.

I put a few of my things away "I'm sorry Becker, I really am. I just didn't want you to worry or be upset about it. The abortion was supposed to happen in the same day but because of the time I took them it all got messed up, can you forgive me?" I asked, trying to hold back the tears that were threatning to fall.

He walked towards me and put his arms around me and kissed the top of my head "I love you, so much. We can get through this and anything else" he said, I wrapped my arms around his waist and laid my head on his chest.

"I love you too" I said and then pulled away from the hug "Let's go out tonight and just be a normal couple for once. No anomalies, no dinosaurs... just us" I suggested.

"Sure, where shall we go? We could go to the movies, to dinner or both if you wanted" he said.

When we came out of the movie theatre and headed to dinner at pizza express and then my stomach cramps kicked in "Can I have a drink of water please?" I asked the waiter as he passed, he nodded and came back minutes later. I took the pain meds the doctor gave me, he said the cramps should stop in a couple of days and then everything can go back to normal.

"Are you OK? Do you want to go home?" he asked and I shook my head.

When we got home after we finished dinner we went to bed and Becker kept asking me if I was OK and he was fussing around me which was annoying "Becker, just give me some space. I'm OK" I said.

"I'm just making sure your OK, not that you would tell me if you wasn't because you like keeping secrets from me don't you!" he snapped and got out of the bed "I'm going out" he said once he put some clothes on and moments later I heard the door slam behind him.

About half an hour later I was still awake, I couldn't sleep because I was so worried about him. Where did he go? Who did he go with? He left his phone here and I've phoned Abby to see if she or Connor had heard from him, I phoned Matt and Emily and even Lester, nobody had seemed to of heard from him. He just seemed to of dissapeard and I know I only have myself to blame but he didn't need to walk out on me like that.

I awoke to the sound of a slamming door, I looked at the clock which read 5:39am so I rushed into the living room where Becker was stumbling around trying to take his shoes off "Where have you been?" I asked, trying not to sound to annoyed but I couldn't help it "How can you just walk out on me like that?" I asked.

He just pushed past me and made his way to the bedroom, still stumbling and the the alcohol coming off him was enough to make someone think they were drunk "Jess. Let's face it" he said and stopped hald way through his sentance "We... are on the verge... of a split" he said and went into the bedroom and closed the door keeping me out.

Does he hate me that much? Does he honestly not want to be with me because of this? He told me we could get through everything and anything. I went into the living room and curled up on the sofa, thinking about my options.

When he's been on a night out he sleeps really heavy for hours so if he didn't want to be with me I could pack my things and leave before he wakes up and then he would realise that what we have is special and he will come running after me, tell me everything was going to be OK and tell me he loves me and then we can go back to being the perfect couple that we once were.

After packing my stuff I went to Abby's and it was half 7 so I knew she would be awake because she had work today, I knocked on her door and she looked shocked to see me "What are you doing here?" she asked and let me in "Is everything OK?" I sat on the sofa and put my bag on the floor next to me.

I explained to her everything that happened and she offered me the spare bedroom and said that I could stay as long as I wanted, not long after that when Connor and Abby left and Abby said she was going to personally shoot Becker with and EMD for making me leave my own home.

Becker

I awoke to the sound of the alarm going off, "Jess, turn it off" I said but the alarm kept on ringing. I turned the alarm off and seen that Jess wasn't in bed and when I went into the living room and kitchen she wasn't anywhere to be found, I tried her phone but she wouldn't answer and I tried Abby, she said she hadn't seen or heard form her and that Lester was pissed as I was late to work.

When I finally got to work I went to the ADD to see Jess but she wasn't there it was Connor "Where is she?" I asked him and he tried not looking me in the eye so I knew he knew where she was "Connor" I used my 'threatning' voice as he called it and he shook his head.

"Abby and Jess will kill me, please just leave her alone for a little while" he said and got up off the chair and made his way towards the canteen but I wasn't going to let him get away with it, he was going to tell me where Jess was and why she didn't want to see me.