Hey everyone back with another update. Thanks to Carlykinz, BUTTONS10 and infinityandbeyond1 for your lovely, kind reviews. Starry Skies Up Above thanks for all your individual reviews on nearly each chapter. I took on board what you said and hopefully this chapter is better. The bits in italics are Nicks thoughts. All mistakes are mine and the characters belong to the BBC.
Nick and Zoe are abruptly woken up from their sleep from the wakeup call provided by the hotel. Nick gets up to answer the phone. "Sorry Zo forgot I had that set."
"Typical Nick Jordan" Zoe grunts as she rolls over onto her other side to see a clock. "It's only six forty five in the morning."
"I know but I was supposed to be getting married to Yvonne this morning so I didn't want to be late. Speaking of Yvonne, I need to go and see her before she starts getting ready. Don't miss me too much" Nick says as he bends down and kisses Zoe on her head as he exits the hotel room.
"Good luck" Zoe shouts as Nick leaves and Zoe goes back to sleep.
After getting a taxi, Nick arrives at his apartment shortly after 7. Putting his key in the door, he enters the apartment and finds Linda standing in his kitchen.
"Alright Nick, fancy seeing you here. You know it's bad luck to see the bride on her wedding day."
"Yes I'm fully aware of that Linda, thank you. If you wouldn't mind, could you please give me and Yvonne a few minutes to speak."
"Em, yes certainly. I'll just head into the... bathroom" Linda stutters as she lifts her cup of coffee and phone and heads into the bathroom not closely the door fully so that she can listen in.
Nick finds Yvonne in his bedroom, looking like she has just come out of the shower.
"Oh my word Nick" Yvonne exclaims. "What are you doing here?"
"I think we need to talk."
"Can't it wait? I'm just about to get ready for the happiest day of my life. Also its bad luck to see me right now" Yvonne pouted at Nick.
"No it really can't" Nick simply stated.
Linda already had her phone out to text Zoe.
'OMG Zo, Nicks here and he desperately needed to talk to Yvonne. I'm trying to listen but he closed the door :( xox'
Zoes phone buzzed on the bedside table. With a groan Zoe moved over to reach it and read her newly received text. Instantly Zoe typed a reply.
'I know. He's there to break things off with Yvonne. We spent the night together and decided were going to give things another go. He asked me to marry him today instead of Yvonne but I needed more time. Hopefully sometime this week though :) I want to catch up on my beauty sleep so stop texting me Z xx' Zoe then threw her phone across the room and fell back to sleep.
When Linda received Zoes text she squealed in delight but then remembered that Nick and Yvonne could hear her so she shoved a towel in her mouth to quiet her down.
"Yvonne I don't know how to say this."
"Say what?" Yvonne asked confused.
"We can't get married today."
"Why not? Did something happen? Are you ok?" Yvonne asked more worried now.
"Nothing happened and I'm fine" Nick replied.
"Well then why can't we get married?"
"I've just realised what life is going to be like with you, full of dishonesty and I don't want to live like that. Zoe let me listen to the voicemail you sent her."
"Nick I really didn't mean it. I was just..." Yvonne stammered as tears began to fall down her face.
"Jealous? Scared? Over-protective? Intimidated? I understand. Zoe and I have a very close relationship and that was probably because we still loved each other. I can't apologise enough for what I'm about to do to you but I'm so sorry. It just wouldn't have worked and I'll happily tell people it was me that decided to break things off. That I cheated."
Not being able to hear anything Linda walks into the living room to try and hear something as Nick and Yvonne are in the bedroom so she wouldn't be interrupting anything. Yvonne reached for the closest thing to her which happened to be a hairbrush. Angrily she chucked it in Nicks direction and Nick just about managed to dodge the object. Hearing a bang Linda smiled to herself as she knew know she could hear better.
"Ok I know you're angry but there's no need to start throwing things."
"There's every need to start throwing things. You've just ruined my life. Well I'm going to ruin yours. I'm pregnant."
Hearing this Linda near dropped her phone in a panic as she tried to text Zoe her newly found gossip.
'Shit she's dropped a massive bombshell on him now. Zoe she's claiming to be pregnant :O I'm so sorry xox'
Nick stood there in complete and utter shock. "How long have you known?"
"A few weeks. I was going to tell you tonight in the honeymoon suite. Make today as memorable as possible. Today will still be memorable but for different reasons" Yvonne hissed back at him.
"We'll need to get you to an obstetrician to get checked out and find how far along you are."
"Don't go all doctor mode on me. You said how you feel so don't let a baby change your decision. I'm sure I'll be fine."
"Yvonne, don't be like that. If I had of known"
Yvonne cut Nicks sentence short. "You wouldn't have broken things off with me and not stopped our wedding. Make your bloody mind up. I have and I'm going to do this on my own. So go back to Zoe and leave me alone. I'll be out of here by the end of the day" Yvonne screams as she heads back into the bathroom.
"I want to be a part of our baby's life. You can't stop me. I have a right" Nick whispered through the bathroom door and walked out of his bedroom into the living room to be faced by Linda sitting on the sofa typing furiously on her phone.
"Look after her please" Nick said to Linda as he left his apartment. Nick wandered out of the main building and headed to the nearest off licence. When he reached the WineMark he realised the shop was shut as it was only eight o'clock in the morning. Nick pushed the shutters of the shop with his hands in frustration. He then decided to head to the nearest Asda and get some alcohol from there. In Asda, Nick grabs the first bottle of whiskey he sees and heads to the till. He pulls out a twenty pound note from his wallet and throws it at the shop assistant and leaves the shop before the shop assistant can produce him with his change. Nick spots a bench a few hundred metres from the shop and sits down to drink his whiskey. At first Nick screws up his face at how foul the drink tastes but after a few mouthfuls he begins to enjoy it as he slowly forgets his recent revelations.
10 minutes later a tipsy Nick looks at his near empty whiskey bottle and mutters to himself "I need another drink." Getting up from the bench Nick makes his way back to Asda. This time at the alcohol section Nick pondered over what drink to choose. Nick thought to himself. 'Zoe always raves about vodka, let's see what all her fuss is about.' Nick lifts a bottle of vodka from the shelf and heads back to the till. Luckily he got a different shop assistant and he proceeded to do the same thing again as he produced another twenty from his wallet and threw it at the woman quickly as he exited the shop not waiting for his change.
Nick headed back to his bench as he opened up the bottle of vodka and downed as much as he possibly could. 'God, that's rough' Nick thought as he took another mouthful of his drink. 'How does Zoe drink that? Oh God, Zoe! How am I going to tell her Yvonne's pregnant. I can't hurt Zoe anymore. Aww man I need to tell everyone the weddings off for now.'
Leaving his thoughts behind him and managing to get up off the bench, Nick staggers slowly making his way to the ED. Tumbling through the main entrance, Nick makes his way up to the reception desk.
"Mr Noel the receptionist" Nick says half laughing at himself.
"Mr J, are you drunk?" Noel asks worried.
"What do you think?" Nick replies stating the obvious.
"I don't really want to answer that" Noel replies a little more scared now.
"Mr Noel, will you help me make an announcement to everyone that works here. I'll just use the speaker thing you always use."
"Are you sure? I thought email or staff meetings was more your thing."
"This is important Noelllll" Nick slurs as Charlie and Big Mac enter the reception area.
"Mr Jordan, you alright mate" Big Mac says as he looks at Nick and then to Noel and then back to Nick. Noel does a drink jester with his hands to Big Mac and Charlie.
"Yeah, you don't say Noel. I can smell it off him from here. Let's get you into your office, hey" Charlie says trying to usher Nick towards his office. Nick stumbles into his chair leaning back fully.
"Is something wrong? You're supposed to be getting married in a few hours. Do you want me to ring Yvonne?"
"Noooooo" Nick shouts at Charlie. Charlie throws his hands up in defence. Nick realises Charlie meant no real wrong doing, so relaxed in his chair and decided to confide in the wise human being.
"Yvonne and I aren't getting married today. She's a liar and I'm a cheat. I want to be with Zoe" Nick smiled at the thought of her name. "Now though Yvonne's told me she's pregnant and I have to do the right thing, don't I?" Nick asks Charlie.
Charlie stands there dumbfounded at the mess his boss seems to have gotten himself in. "Nick you're a strong and kind man and deserve all the happiness you can get. I can't possibly tell you what to do but all I'm going to say is speak to Zoe. She's usually the only one that can get through to you" Charlie says looking sympathetically at Nick.
"Charlie I need to tell everyone the weddings off. Will you help me spread round the message?"
"Do I get a pay rise, as this isn't in my job description?"
"I'll think about it" Nick states as he muses over it for a moment.
Nick and Charlie leave Nicks office with Nick heading back out the ED entrance and Charlie making his way to the staffroom to tell the overly dressed doctors and nurses that the wedding is called off.
Hope you enjoyed it :) and it wasn't too out of character :S Anna x