Chapter Twelve.
Confused.
Smithy knocked on the front door, he had been driving round for what seemed like hours. His head going round in circles.
A light came on in the hallway, and the front door opened. "Smithy! Do you know what time it is?"
"Sorry Gina, didn't know where else to go"
"You'd better come in then" Gina stepped to one side and let him in.
She watched him sit down at the table as she put the kettle on, his head in his hands. Gina placed a cup of steaming coffee in front of him and sat down opposite him.
He looked up "I'm a father" 'bloody hell that sounds weird' he thought to him self.
Gina looked at him, couldn't believe what she had just heard "What? When?" She was asking the questions that he could barely answer him self. He started to explain how he had met Chloe and their life together, the day she walked out and what he had found out at the hospital.
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Smithy pulled up on the drive, and looked up at the house. The sarge hadn't been too pleased to be a member of the team down but there wasn't a lot he could do about it Chloe was sick and Smithy had finished early so that he could pamper the woman he loved. He got out the car and picked up the roses he had stopped to pick up 'Her favourite flower, this should help cheer her up a bit'.
Smithy smiled as he got out the car and walked towards the house, in 2 months time they would be husband and wife.
He opened the front door and called out her name, no reply 'she must be asleep' he thought.
Walking up the stairs called out her name again, still no reply. Smithy opened the bedroom door and looked around, no sign of Chloe.
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"Wow, I knew that Chloe was SO19 trained, and that there was a possibility that you two may of met, but here you are telling me that you were in a serious relationship with this woman and that you have a child together."
"Gina, I never knew that I even had a child till tonight" There was a tone of desperation in his voice, he looked at her. He had been through so much in the last few years of his life, Chloe walking out on him, Kerry being killed by a nutter, and then losing Louise, and now being told that he was a father – nothing made sense anymore his whole world was being turned upside down again.
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Chloe sat in the room watching Amber sleep, the memory's of the last few hours running through her mind. He looked so angry at her, how could someone she once loved so much show so much hatred towards her. It seemed liked an age away from sitting in the pub with his arms around her, so close. But she had ruined that now.
Amber stirred in her sleep and turned over. 'You look so much like your father' Chloe thought to herself.
Getting up she walked out of the room, "I'm just going to get some air" she told the nurse on the station.
Stepping outside, the night air was a welcome breath if fresh air, she leant against the wall , taking deep breaths of cool, Chloe tried to clear her mind and figure out what to do next.
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"So, did you find out why she walked away when she did?" Gina asked
"No, she just kept saying she was sorry, and that she was scared. But we were getting married, how much more could I of done to prove how much I loved her. Yes I know I said that I didn't want kids, but I never said never. If she had only just told me, yeah true it would of meant changes, but ….." he trailed off, and broke down crying.
Gina got up and placed a hand on his shoulder "Come on" She helped him up and took him through to the front room, "I'll make up the sofa, you stop here tonight, and in the morning we'll try and figure this out some more". By the time she got back with the blankets he was asleep. Placing a blanket over him Gina walked out the room and turned the light off, 'He's going to need all the sleep he can get, his life has just changed forever'.