Christmas in the two households were completely different and if someone was looking at them from a TV point then they really could pick out the parts where it actually showed just how different it was.
Due to the fact that his father couldn't move they had to change where they were having Christmas, so Charles ended up staying at the house in the cottage just out of London and was closer to Molly but knew that he couldn't have her. He did text her Christmas morning to wish her a good one and got a lengthy text back that consisted of her thanking him for the present and how she would always remember Lapland and that she hoped in the end he would be happy.
The house was actually quiet and Charles found himself wishing that he was anywhere but here, with Sam at Rebecca's til Boxing Day it definitely was one of those days that he would rather forget but to make it so much more worse was the fact that his mother wanted to know if he was going to marry Elena.
After the conversation he had had with Rebecca the night before he knew that he would have to be careful with what he said to his mother because the last thing he wanted was her sticking her nose in when it comes to what was going on with him and Elena and he definitely didn't want her to find out about Molly because she really would make her life very uncomfortable.
In London at the Dawes place it was a noisy affair with no one getting any quiet and Molly wouldn't have had it any other way because at least then she didn't have time to think about the text that she got from Charles that morning, the text that was burning up space on her mobile phone in her back pocket.
Molly had delivered the presents that she had got her family and they loved it and they had got her presents too even though they really didn't have to. If she's honest she's glad that she was at home; because sitting alone at her flat sounded like the worst Christmas ever and she didn't want that at all.
For Charles Elena came over later that night and they spent Christmas Day night together just watching TV and his thoughts kept going to Molly who was no doubt spending Christmas at her parents and he looked over at Elena who had fallen asleep with her head on a pillow before he reached up and grabbed a blanket and put it over her.
On Boxing Day Sam was spending it with Charles and his family and Molly spent half a day with her family because Nan had turned up and brought some stuff but in the end she went back to her empty flat with everything that she had got for Christmas even though her eyes kept looking down at the bracelet that was wrapped around her wrist.
Molly decided that she was going to go and have a soak in the bath just so that she could relax.
-.-
Unfortunately Christmas was over too quickly and in the end Molly ended up going into to see her new boss and when she got there she realised that not everyone was there but she did see someone that she knew and tried her hardest not to be seen because the last thing Molly wanted was to be seen by Elena because she would no doubt rub it in to Charles that she had seen her at McClyde's.
But more importantly what exactly was Elena doing here; Molly didn't know that Elena knew the boss.
"And if you had been seen?" Darren asked Elena before raising an eyebrow at her.
"I was careful you know, scarf and sunglasses"
"Yes because that doesn't look suspicious" Darren said sarcastically and then sighed.
"Plus it's not like anyone expects you to get any visitors, you're not exactly that popular, Daz" she spoke and crossed her arms over her chest.
"What do you want this time, Elena?" he finally asked and watched her once more. "I did what you asked me to and now you've got what you wanted so I think that we're pretty much done, don't you?"
What was it Darren done and what was it that Elena had? Was this about Charles?
Molly found herself listening a little bit closer but making sure that no one actually saw her and trying hard not to bump into anything or make a noise because of the fact that she didn't want to be found to be listening to what was going on.
"Can't I visit an old friend?" Elena asked and raised her eyebrow at him.
He walked around his desk to where she was standing "Well according to you I don't get visitors so I will ask again, what do you want this time?"
Elena sighed and cocked her head to the right side "I want to make sure that you don't tell anyone what we done"
Darren scoffed and nodded once "So you came all the way to make sure that I don't tell anyone, wow that is really not surprising"
"I need your reassurance that you're not going to mess this up for me because I won't be the only one to lose a lot of stuff, you will to"
Darren watched her for a moment and then finally said "I'm not going to tell anyone what happened but the truth will come out one day Elena, you can't run from it at all and the day that it does finally come out, I won't be the one who loses everything; that will be you"
"And there was me thinking that you still loved me"
Darren scoffed "Even that is fading and fast" he warned her.
Molly was trying to understand all of this, could Elena be talking about the fact that she was pregnant and had Darren McClyde helped her to get pregnant? To trap Charles because she knew that she was losing her grip of him?
She wished that she hadn't heard any of this because of the fact that she really wanted to work here; could she still do that? Could Molly just ignore everything and actually work here?
She move from her spot quietly and then moved in the direction of the doors before she took the steps down a couple of floors and took the lift down the rest so that it didn't look like anyone had been there.
Molly just about made it out of the building and around the corner before Elena stepped out. Her heart was pounding hard in her chest and she leaned her head against the wall and really wished that she had taken a video of this so that Charles could hear what a bitch Elena really was.
So that he could hear everything she had said so he could free himself from the clutches of this horrible woman.
Molly grabbed her phone out and went to start calling him but.. how could she prove this? If Elena has taken every precaution to stop people talking out against her then having Charles comfront her wouldn't do any good. She was going to have to show him the evidence and maybe working here would be the way she could do that. Maybe once and for all she could get Elena out of Charles' life.
So Molly was going to go for that job, she was going to keep an eye on everything this end and see if she could get Debbie to keep an eye on everything her end and maybe they could put Elena to rest for the last time.
She walked into the building and went back up to the floor and signed all the documents she had to and would be starting up after New Year, at least this way she could get straight to working.
Molly was going to make sure that Charles found out just what Elena was up to. Whatever that was of course.
-.-
It was the day before New Year's Eve and Molly was looking through a magazine at home and it was a new one. She decided to have a bit of down time before she was out tomorrow night because who doesn't want to spend New Years by the Thames and watch the fireworks? Amber had asked her because she had an extra two tickets and apparently she was inviting someone and Molly felt like it sounded like a blind date.
That was a little worrying but apparently the guy had just wanted a good night out and rather than spend it alone she thought Molly would like to go, she had literally jumped at the invitation and that was because of the fact that she just wanted to go out.
She flicked through the pages and she came to a page that she really didn't want to see and that was to tell the world that Elena Donovan was pregnant and it made Molly feel like shit because it brought back the reality of the fact that Charles was actually rich and a little bit famous.
But how did they get hold of this information?
Could this be what Darren and Elena had been talking about a couple of days ago? Or was it something completely different? Molly had to admit that it did get her thinking about just what it was that Darren had done for Elena.
"Ugh" she said and threw the magazine to the side of her and it landed on the sofa next to her.
What made it all that much more harder was the fact that that night Charles had requested to be her friend on Facebook and she sat there for a while deciding if this was the best thing to be doing right now; should she really accept the request? In the end she denied the request and turned her phone off.
-.-
Charles checked the status of his request and found that it had been denied and it felt like he had been punched in the stomach by that and he had put his phone down and as he did Elena walked into the room and he smiled at her slightly and watched as she sat down on the sofa next to him.
"Everyone has been congratulating us!" Elena said with a grin on her lips "And you know that that means freebies all the time which I am so looking forward to and of course the pictures in the magazines"
Charles had dreaded this and when the press had attacked Rebecca he had got angry and told them to back off from his wife and son and he guessed that was down to the reason why Rebecca hadn't been happy and in the end he had let her go. "Great, can't wait" he said with a smile before he looked at his phone when it vibrated.
"Who is that?" she asked and went to reach for his phone but was out of luck when he got to it before her.
"Elvis, he wants to go out for a drink and I said that I would meet him out" he said and stood up "Shouldn't be too long" Charles watched as Elena puckered her lips for a kiss and he kissed her forehead instead before heading out.
Elena watched him leave before chewing on her lip and guessed that it was actually Molly that he was meeting so she decided to follow him and when they both arrived at the bar that he was 'meeting Elvis' at she found that he really was meeting Elvis and she shook her head at her being so stupid and managed to slip out before they saw her.
Charles and Elvis sat at a table away from the bar and they sat talking about everything when Charles finally said "I can't do it anymore" he looked over at Elvis. "I can't pretend that I am happy, now I know how Rebecca felt and in the end I let her go"
"You know that Elena isn't going to be that easy in letting you go, I mean if she was then she would've let you be with Molly by now" Elvis knew how he felt about Molly, hell the whole would probably see it if they were put together in the same room. "Have you asked her to this thing tomorrow night?"
Charles shook his head "I did try to friend her on Facebook but she denied me; so not the best start"
"She probably thought that you were Elena pretending to be you, after all it wouldn't surprise anyone if she had actually done that"
"Nothing about Elena surprises me anymore and that is why I have to get out of this relationship because I will only make myself miserable and that's not fair to a child"
Elvis watched him and took a drink from his beer bottle. "Charlie you just want to tell her out right that you don't want this rather than actually wait for those months to drag on" he then cleared his throat "Charlie..."
Whenever he was like that he knew that Elvis had bad news and this was the kind of news that he couldn't take and Elvis would rather not say it but he was going to tell him anyway. "You might as well tell me Elvis because you know that it's better to just get it out in the open"
"Well," he sighed and put the bottle back down on the table "there has been some chatter, and I know better than to listen to chatter but you know I also like talking, that McClyde has managed to snag someone from your company"
Charles pushed his eyebrows together "No one is leav-" he stopped dead and then looked down at the table "Molly; he managed to get Molly" he shook his head. "That guy is the biggest dick ever and even at school he didn't like me"
"What are you going to do?"
"Well Molly has already left so I can't stop her or even ask her to stay but maybe I could get her to rethink her decision to join that bloody company" he drank up the rest of his beer before he stood up.
"Oh we're doing it now?" Elvis asked and nodded before he too finished up his drink then headed outside. Surprisingly they managed to hail a taxi and took it to Molly's flat on the other side of London.
This was going to be interesting.
-.-
Molly looked up when there was knocking at her front door, well knocking was actually a bit tame because this was banging, and she got up from her sofa before heading to the door. "Alright!" she yelled through the door and opened it up.
She came face to face with Charles and was a little surprised that he was banging on the door because the last person she ever thought would do that would be him. "Everything alright?" she asked softly even though she was a little worried about why he was banging on her door this time of night.
"We have to talk" He said and looked over at Elvis who was at his side before looking back at Molly.
Molly sighed under her breath and nodded before letting them both in and looking down the hallway before shutting the door behind her. She wasn't entirely sure what they were going to be talking about but something told her that this was going to be a conversation that wasn't going to be good at all.