5 months later
It had been 5 months since I'd last seen John's face. Sure we'd spoken to each other on the phone but I hadn't actually seen him. Now I was sitting on a train, pulling up in a station in west Wales. It was cloudy overhead but the clouds were white and the sun's warmth still reached the ground. The station had several buses waiting for passengers to use. They were white ones with a purple stripe down the side. Not like the red England ones in London. I checked the sheet of paper with John's direction's on it and sat at the back of bus 305. thirty minutes later and the bus pulled up outside a small white house.
I thanked the driver and hopped off the bus. I knocked a little unsure on the door. I was quite surprised when a woman around the same age as me answered the door. She was a living version of Snow White. "Yes?" she sneered at me. Shame she didn't act like the fairytale.
"Um, I'm here to see John. I'm Amy."
"Oh yes. He did say something about an English girl coming to visit. Come in." she moved aside to let me in and yelled down the hall. "John! Your friend is here to see you!" her voice had become remarkably softer and kinder when addressing John.
John appeared at the kitchen door. "Hey Amy." he grinned at me and squeezed past the other woman to give me a hug. "Take it that you've already met Marie Mae. She's given me permission to live here for a while." he seemed to notice the glance me and Marie shot at each other and quickly changed the subject. "Tell you what Amy. I'll show you some of the sights round here. There's a lovely hill just up the road. C'mon." he bundled me out of the house and down the garden path. "Why do I get the feeling that you and Marie don't like each other?" he asked as we were walking up the dusty lane.
"Because we don't." he laughed and rolled his eyes.
"Females. Always arguing." I sniffed but didn't answer his statement. We rounded the corner and I found myself on the top of a large green hill. There was the odd daisy and buttercup dotted around and in the distance you could make out the bright blue expanse of the sea.
"It's beautiful." I breathed.
"I know. We'll sit here." he sat us down in the middle of the field. The sea stretching out infront of us ans the town behind us.
"How's work been?"
"It's been okay I guess. It's rather slow but when someone does come in, it's normally serious. We had someone who'd managed to chop his own hand off the other day. Now that was messy." I suddenly felt a bit queasy so decided to change the subject.
"What about Marie?"
"What about her?"
"I don't know. What does she do?"
"She's a senior member of staff down at the hospital. She deals mainly with adults cause she doesn't have the patience for children."
"That's not hard to believe." I muttered, but unfortunately John heard.
"Amy, are you jealous? You are aren't you!" I looked at the ground, embarrassed. "Amy, you have nothing to be jealous of! If any one's jealous, it Marie."
"What's she got to be jealous of?"
"Everything. You have two men after you. Well before one tried to kill you anyway. Your smart, your lucky and your beautiful." I looked up to meet his gaze and I found him smiling warmly. "And I love you. Wouldn't you be jealous?" I smiled and nodded. "Good. So no more trying to stab her in the back. Got it?" I nodded again and he cupped my cheek in his hand. He brushed his lips against mine gently. I forgot for a brief second about Marie Mae down at the house. That was until John checked his watch. "C'mon. Let's go and get food."
We walked into the house hand in hand to find Marie in the kitchen. "I hope you have somewhere to stay tonight Amy, because we have no spare rooms." she turned to face me, fire blazing in her eyes.
"It's fine. She can stay with me." John answered for me.
"No." Marie shot him a glance and he blinked a few times. "No sharing rooms under this roof."
"Then I'll sleep in the living room."
"you paid for your room, you can sleep in that room. I'll only allow people to sleep in bedrooms under this roof."
I thought John was going to object but instead her merely said; "Okay. C'mon Amy. I'll find you somewhere to stay."
John led me out of the the house and down the road. "Stay here until 9 o'clock. She goes to bed then so I can come and get you. You can share my room if you want tonight. There's nowhere else to go. I'll tell her you've gone home. She should believe it." I nodded and he kissed me on the cheek.
When he had gone back to the house I laid back in the grass and gazed up at the sky. My life had deffinatley turned around. Or so I'd thought.