Thank you for the reviews, made me smile!
Couple of questions to answer, 1. A dongle is like a USB stick you put into your computer that you can get mobile internet through. The company I have it through is crap though! 2. the reviewer who wants the Peter/Carla story, please can you get in touch with me directly because I want to talk to you properly.
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The following morning when Sian and Rosie turned up at the hospital they were greeted by Sally, 'Hi girls, you sleep ok?'. Rosie smiled, 'Yeah Mum, probably better than her!' she nodded at the still sleeping form of her sister, 'We bumped into Rita before' she continued, 'we told her that Sophie was going to be ok and she said she would pop in later to see you'. Sally was please at the thought of having her 'substitute' mother's support, 'Oh good, that'll be nice'.
While they were talking Sian had sat herself in the same chair she had been sitting in for most of the previous day and was once again holding her girlfriends hand. 'Hey Soph' she spoke gently, not wanting to wake her up before she was ready, but still needing to let her know she was around. 'I think she's better today love' Sally told her, 'They've taken her off the machines monitoring her.'
'Yeah I think she's lying more comfortably too.' Sian smiled as the door opened behind them and Kevin entered with a guilty look on his face and his baby Jack in his arms. 'I'm sorry about this' he said as he indicated his son, 'I'm not going into work today and so I thought I might bring him with me, see if he can cheer her up a bit. If it bothers you I'll take him to the childminders'. He spoke directly to his wife who took a deep breath, obviously weighing up the pros and cons of having the child that had, in a way, caused the break up of their marriage, in the room against having another argument. 'He can stay,' she said eventually, 'she deserves a chance of happiness and if he can help then...' She trailed off, not quite knowing how to finish the sentence.
Everyone had been so caught up in this small exchange that no one had noticed that Sophie had woken up and was watching the little scene with interest. 'Bring him over here then' she said making them all jump slightly. 'Good morning!' they chorused before all five laughed as they realised they had spoken together. Kevin did what he had been told and brought Jack over to his daughters bed and sitting him on the edge.
Sophie's family spent most of the day enjoying her company, taking it in turns to spend time with her, simply talking, even though no-one wanted to approach the subject of why she had gone up to the roof in the first place. Kevin stayed until dinnertime when Jack's fascination with the needle in the back of Sophie's hand had finally taken it's toll on her and he was removed, screaming from the room. Her Dad promised her he would return as soon as he found someone to take of him before he left. Sally and Rosie left shortly after to pick Rita up who had rung saying she'd had enough of Norris and Mary and wanted to know if she could come and visit Sophie.
Sian wasn't going anywhere though and sat talking and giggling with Sophie for a short time before the conversation turned to the serious subject of the fall. 'Can you remember yet?' Sian asked.
'Bits and pieces, I'd think it was a bad dream if I wasn't here,' Sophie tried to joke as she looked round the hospital room. 'Don't Soph', Sian pleaded, 'I know you don't want to talk about this but, you kind of have to you know, I need to know what happened, we need to communicate better, stop this from ever happening again.'
Sophie sighed, 'I know, it's just hard to think about it. Never mind talk about it.' Sian took hold of her hand and gazed into her eyes, 'I know babe, start at the beginning, they say that helps!' she grinned.
Smiling back Sophie began, 'I don't really know what happened, I just know I was sad at first, everything that happened with my Mum and Dad splitting, he'd lied to me for so long and it was so – bitter. But then it changed, I got angry, I wasn't angry at him or Mum for arguing or splitting, I was just angry and, and frustrated.' She stopped and looked away, fiddling with her fingernails. Sian nudged her to remind her to start talking again.
'I think that's why college started going wrong, I couldn't concentrate and it seemed pointless even going when everything at home was so messed up. So I stopped going and only you noticed but I think I knew you would. I knew you cared so I didn't need you to show you cared.' Sophie's voice was getting slightly strained as she tried to get her girlfriend to understand. Sian kissed her gently on her hand, 'I know babe, you needed your parents to see you were hurting.'
'But they didn't, even when I got kicked out they didn't seem to listen, to understand, neither of them asked why I'd stopped caring about college and I think so many things had gone wrong by then that I started looking for other things that were also going wrong. That's what happened with you and Chloe. I couldn't believe that with everything else going so badly wrong that you would want to stay.' Sophie finished talking.
'So why did you go to the church the other night?' Sian wanted to know the whole story now that she had started.
'I wanted answers to why it was all so crap, it just seemed to make sense that that was the place to get them. For ages I enjoyed being there, but once I was there it just seemed like another thing that had gone wrong and it made me feel worse, not better.' Sophie pulled her hand away from Sian's and brushed it across her face, 'I still don't know why I went up to the roof, I just wanted answers...'
Sian began to cry, 'I should have realised, I just didn't know why you were pushing me away, I just thought you were being silly!' she laughed once through her tears, 'I'm so sorry, I knew things weren't going well for you and I shouldn't have run away'.
'I was being silly babe' Sophie comforted the blonde, rubbing her arm, 'I love you.' Sian lent over and gave her a kiss, 'I love you too'. Sophie gingerly shifted her body away from her on the bed, 'Come here, give me a hug!' Sian lay down on the bed and wrapped her arm round the brunettes waist, 'At least your parents have promised to change, they're going to pay more attention to you and stop arguing, that's good isn't it?'
Sophie chuckled, 'They've promised that before, so we'll just have to wait and see.' The two girls drifted into silence as they thought about their conversation, comforted by their closeness.
About an hour later Sian was disturbed by Sally and Rosie's return as they brought Rita back with them and she got off the bed, 'Sorry,' she whispered, looking down at the bed noticing that her girlfriend was asleep again. 'Not to worry love, I'm just glad she's ok' Rita replied.
'We've got some news too, the doctor says she can come home in a few days, but he did say that even though she didn't jump he did think she was suffering some kind of depression so he's referring her to a therapist for her to talk to' Sally brought her up to date.
3 months later
Almost true to her words Sophie had returned home 4 days later, Sian coming home with her to nurse her back to full health and, finally, having the support of her parents who had actually stopped arguing, and her weekly visits to the therapist, she began to deal with her insecurities.
'Want to watch Jumper?' Sian glanced at Sophie from the floor where she was looking through her girlfriend's DVD collection, 'Oh don't!' Sophie groaned in response, 'You know I don't like that title now, I thought you were going to get rid of it anyway'
'I did. Ages ago. You're so easy to wind up' she laughed, ducking as a cushion went whizzing past her head then putting a DVD in the machine and cuddling up to the other girl on the sofa, 'Who'd have thought...'
'Thought what?' Sophie poked the blonde girl in the ribs when she didn't finish her sentence. 'A simple fall off a church roof would make everything ok again!'
'Make everything perfect again you mean' Sophie replied before she lent over for a kiss, the DVD forgotten about.
Any story ideas would be much appreciated please :)