Hey guys thanks for all your reviews again they are much appreciated. Really, really sorry it has taken me forever to post this chapter, I had sooo much uni work to do that I didn't have much chance to write and then there was Christmas but I hope you will enjoy this one..

Chapter 25 At the drive in

Melinda was more than surprised by the revelation Emma had made to her earlier on that day. She didn't have much experience with psychics and the latter but she was glad that Emma hadn't assumed she was crazy when she mentioned ghosts.

It was almost 1 and time for Melinda to finish up, she could see Jim on his way across the square now so she called Emma up front to cover the counter until Delia arrived.

"Okay, you need to call me if anything strange happens." Melinda said as she slipped her coat on.

Jim then walked into the store right on queue. A huge smile plastered across his face for no apparent reason.

"Hey Mel are you ready to go?" He asked sweetly.

"Just a minute I have get my purse and say bye to Emma." Mel replied.

"Emma remember, if you see anyone or anything strange happens you have my number and I'll send someone over." She said again, this time whilst collecting her purse.

"Yeah I got it don't worry." She smiled.

Melinda and Jim then left the shop arm in arm, Jim had finished early to give them both the chance to decorate the house for Christmas. There was only a week to go and they hadn't had the time to decorate anything. First however, lunch was on the menu.

"So where are we going today." Mel asked as they drove along in her red Jeep.

"It's a surprise." Jim replied cheekily.

"Jim you know I hate surprises." She whined slightly.

"No you don't, plus this is a good surprise and you will be finding out soon enough." Jim added, he wasn't going to tell.

Melinda eventually gave up asking questions about the destination and sat back in the car seat. The baby was playing havoc in her stomach which made it difficult for her to sit comfortably so she fidgeted around slightly restless.

"We're almost there now Mel." Jim said noticing his wife's discomfort.

"You know I still have no idea where we are going." Mel said as she stared out the window seeing nothing she recognised, they had only been driving for 15 minutes and Mel didn't have a clue where she was.

Jim just smiled as he turned Mel's car around a corner into a parking lot that was completely empty apart from an opened top vehicle. As they got closer Mel could see that there was a huge projector on the wall opposite the front of the other car.

"Right we're here Mel." Jim said as he pulled the jeep to a halt.

"Jim is this, did you make a private drive in move theatre?" She asked sweetly.

"I did." He replied with a smile as he led his wife toward the open top car.

Knowing that it would be cold out he had insisted that she wrap up warm when she left the house this morning and he had placed a woollen blanket in the front of the roofless vehicle just in case she got extra cold.

Mel's eyes began to well up with tears, she was so happy that she had found someone as great as Jim and with her emotions all over the place the littlest things would set her off.

"Are you alright Mel?" Jim asked noticing the tears in her eyes.

"Yeah.. it's just… you're so great… and…" She sniffled.

"Hey, it's nothing and Mel you know I did this because I love you." He replied pulling her close to him and brushing a tear off her cheek with her soft touch.

He then led her over to the car and waited until she was fully comfortable before he went to retrieve lunch from the Jeep.

"Jim what are you doing?" She called from the car.

"Just getting food." He replied as he made his way over to Melinda carrying a huge picnic basket.

"Well if that basket is full you're not going to be short of it." She joked when she saw the size of the basket.

Jim climbed into the car next to Melinda and started the movie on the screen using a remote for the projector. It was one of Mel's all time favourite films 'My fair lady' and even though Jim really couldn't stand the film, he was willing to sit and watch it for his wife.

"So you hungry for cold pizza or cold pasta?" He asked pulling one of each out of the picnic basket.

"Jim." She giggled at the look on his face as he pulled out items from the unconventional picnic.

"What?" He laughed pretending to have no idea what she found funny.

"Nothing, it's just where are the sandwiches?" She asked still laughing.

"Well I though you might like something a little different" He replied sweetly.

Melinda smiled again and gave Jim a sarcastic look, "We ran out of bread didn't we." She stated in a sweet voice.

Jim rolled his eyes and nodded, he was about to say something when Melinda interrupted.

"I'll have Pizza." She smiled.

"Alright."

Jim then handed Mel a slice of the cold pizza, it was all plain because Jim had selected it and she knew he had issues with pizza toppings, but seriously frankinpizza is taking things a little too far.

Jim put an arm around his wife as she sat contently eating her food and watching the film, her head leaning slightly into his chest. Whilst Melinda was intently glued to the screen, Jim was paying no attention to the film at all, his eyes were firmly fixed on the woman that sat next to him. In his opinion she was much more interesting and far more beautiful than anything in the movie.

Once the film had finished Jim made a call to arrange for the car and projector to be cleared, it was almost 4pm and they still had to get home and do some decorating.

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The front door of their home swung open and Mel rubbed her hands together and blew warm air into them to relieve them from the cold.

"My God it's freezing." She said as Jim followed her into the hallway and closed the door behind him.

"I agree why don't I make some tea." He suggested.

"Sounds good, you do that and I'll start sorting out the decorations." She replied then playfully kissed him on the cheek and went off to the living room.

"Jim did you get the tree down from the attic?" She called.

"Yeah it should be behind the sofa, give me a sec and I'll come and sort it out, and don't lift any boxes." He called back causing Mel to instantly drop the box that she was currently holding.

"Me, lifting." She said innocently.

"Yes you." He replied as he came through into the living room carrying two mugs of tea.

"Alright you got me." She said sarcastically as she began sorting through one of the boxes.

As requested by Jim Mel did the non-manual part of the decorating and spent most of the evening untangling Christmas lights and showing Jim where to hang the decorations or put the tree. He did let her decorate the Christmas tree as far as she could reach though.

Eventually the house was finished to Melinda's high standard and so they both fell back onto the sofa.

"Looks good." Jim said satisfied at his evenings work.

"Yeah it's perfect." Mel agreed. She turned to face her husband and gave him a long, passionate kiss.

"What was that for?" He asked pleasantly surprised.

"Jim I really love you, I had a wonderful time today and I just want you to know that I really appreciate everything you do for me." She stated lovingly.

"I love you too Melinda." He replied, pulling her closer to him and hugging her sweetly.

Minutes later Mel let out a small yawn that Jim spotted immediately.

"Mel you're tired I can tell." Jim said lovingly.

"I'm fi….ne" She replied, yawning a second time mid sentence.

"Mmmhmmm." Jim rolled his eyes at her failed claim.

"Fine, fine I suppose I'm a little sleepy, I'll go up to bed." She replied.

"Good, and I'm coming with you." Her said cheekily and followed her up the stairs.

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Sorry again that it took me soooooo long to update, I will try to make them more frequent from now on. Thank you for reading and if you have a second please fell free to review xx