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It's been a week and a half since Aaron agreed to move in with Jackson at Dale head. The boys have been moving boxes into house for a few days now. Chas had another talk with her son, making sure it's what he really wants. The mechanic told her that all he wants is Jackson and thinks this could be the making of them. Jerry even came to the village to help the boys get packed. Thing with Jackson's dad and Aaron were still bitter. But they both were making an effort. Jerry surprised his son with football tickets to a match this Sunday. But there were only two tickets. Jerry made some excuse that they where only two left. The mechanic didn't buy it for one second. Seeing Jackson getting on with his dad, made the teen think about his own. Wondering how he was and if he was still with Sandra. He hadn't seen his father since he dropped off Aaron's stuff at the dingles house. That was nearly four years ago.

After the 20th box got shifted over to Dale Head, the boys and the helpers went to the Woolie for a well deserved pint. In the pub, the teen spots his best mate at the bar. He's been avoiding him since Holly has been back on drugs. He can tell the farm boy was upset about something. He downed his pint and headed towards the Barton boy.

"Y'alright" Aaron greets

"Not really, no" Adam sighs as he stares at his pint.

"Why? What's up" he had an idea what was wrong.

"It's Holly" Adam whispers. "we think she's relapsed.

"Oh mate. I'm sorry"

"Yeah, well me mum has had enough. Thinking about shipping her to London to stay with my Nana"

"That might be the best for her though"

"Yeah, maybe" Adam pushes his full pint away from him. "I'm going to go. Don't feel like drinking"

"I'll call you later" Aaron half smiles at his best mate. Feeling awful that he already knew about Holly.

Aaron is back at the garage working, when he sees Ally stumbling out of a taxi. He stops what he's doing and runs after her. She stops at the sight of him.

"I want a word with you" he says through gritted teeth.

"What now?" the trouble blonde rolls her eyes.

"if you want to mess up your own life that's fine. But don't drag Holly down with ya"

Ally laughs "you think I got Holly into this? Try it the other way about"

"Y'what?"

"It was Holly's idea to get a bit of coke that night in Bar West. Like I had a clue she was a drug addict! She got me into this! This is her fault" Ally is on the verge of tears.

"Oh please. You knew what you were doing, you got yourself into this mess. Just leave Jackson out of this!"

"Or what?" she threatens

"What do you mean or what? For some reason Jackson cares about you and I hate the fact you have hurt him with this. He's a good bloke. He doesn't deserve people like you in his life"

Anger now burning in Ally's eyes. "Did he ever tell you how we met?"

"What?" Aaron looks at her like, what does that have to do with anything.

"Well, has he?"

"He told me, he met you at bar west while I was in hospital"

"Is that all he told you?"

"What are you on about?" the teen was getting bored of this.

"I helped him find out who put you in the hospital" Ally smiled.

"Y'what?"

"Turns out it was his ex, Liam that planned the whole thing"

Aaron now furious "you're lying"

"Ask him if you don't believe me" Ally smiles and heads into her house.

Aaron stands there in utter rage. He marches to Dale Head. He slams the door shut as he sees Jackson emptying some of the boxes.

"you have some junk here" Jackson laughs. He notices the mechanic just staring at him with fury in his eyes. "Aaron what's wrong?"

"Just bumped into Ally there, we had a lovely chat" he says sarcastically.

"what about?"

"You know, about that night I got attacked. Turns out you know who it was all along!" Aaron begins to shout.

"Aaron calm down, I can explain"

"Explain what? That Liam got they guys to put me In the hospital? I'm going to kill him!"

"He ain't in Hotton. He's moved back to London"

"What? How the hell do you know that?"

"because I was the one who told him to go?"

"YOU DID WHAT?" Aaron now screaming.

"See! This is why I didn't tell ya, cause you would react like this!" Jackson shouts back "I told him to go because I knew either you or Cain would end up killing him and I didn't want to be apart of that!"

"Jackson, you had no right!"

"I'm sorry!" Jackson moves closer to his boyfriend, but Aaron pulls him away.

"I can't look at you right now, I need to get out of here"

"Aaron, please" but it was too late. Aaron was gone. Jackson dropped down to the floor in tears. He knew Aaron would act this way if he had told him. He done it to protect Aaron, as he didn't want to see him getting himself into bother. But can the builder fix things? Will the mechanic be able to forgive him?

TBC.