This is set two days after the previous chapters, I hope you enjoy and understand it- all will be explained (hopefully) in the next chapters.
"No"
"Please. Please get him off me. Help me. Please don't. Please."
I let out screams of terror as I thrash around before I feel a pair of hands on my shoulders and my eyes suddenly open.
"No. Get away, please," I cry, running to the corner of the room wrapping my arms helplessly around my body before adjusting to my surroundings.
"Carla, sweetheart. It's me, I'm not going to hurt you. It was just a bad dream."
I turn my head to see Nick crouched in front of me, a worried expression across his face.
"Don't worry, it's okay. He can't hurt you. It was just a nightmare." He reassures me.
"Just a nightmare," I repeat as I steady my breaths.
As a stray tear runs down my face, Nick slowly comes closer before opening his arms to me and allowing me to fall into them.
"Are you sure you're gonna be okay?" Nick asks me as I walk out of the bedroom, having got ready.
"Yeah I'll be fine," I reassure him as I continue to get ready for my first day back at work since... the incident.
"You sure?" He checks again, coming towards me and placing his arms around me.
"Yeah," I smile back to him. I know it's going to be hard but I have to do this. I have to just get back to normal. Going back to the factory is the first step and then... the bistro.
Nick had returned that night and had managed to clear everything up after he'd dropped me off back here.
It's like nothing ever happened.
No one realised. No one will ever know.
Except, us, me. I will know.
I will always know.
It will be forever embedded in my mind.
I will never forget. I can't forget.
"Right then, shall we go?"
As we walk down the street hand in hand, I see the bistro up ahead and I can't help but have my eyes fixated on it, the memories of what happened still lingering in my mind.
"You okay?" Nick asks me worriedly.
I smile in return as we approach the factory.
I turn back to him, next to the factory steps and as I'm about to say goodbye, we both simultaneously turn to the garage upon hearing a shout and start walking closer.
"I want to know what you did to my brother!" A brown haired man who looks like he's in his twenties has Luke pressed against the wall, shouting in his face as Nick runs over to them and tries to pull him away but ends up failing.
"Was getting him fired not enough? You had to smash his skull in too."
"I don't know what you're talking about," Luke desperately shouts back, trying to push him off.
"I found Jamie in his flat with a possibly life threatening head wound."
They continue to struggle as Nick and I look at each other, in shock.
"I'm just lucky I found him when I did and Jamie's still alive and recovering slowly in hospital. If I find out you were behind this, I will kill you."
Alive.
Jamie's alive.
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