A week later and it was almost time for Carla & Peter to head back to the airport so that they could fly home. "Awww Baby I don't wanna have to go back home again….." Carla sighed sadly as she rested her head against Peter's shoulder whilst they walked-along the beach together that evening. Both bare foot and both in a pair of shorts and a t-shirt each as they walked-along the shore-line together, watching as the beautiful Horizon appeared. "Me neither Baby. But we have too so that we can get this adoption process on the way….." Peter told-her both happily and truthfully. "That's True….." Carla trailed-off as she stopped walking, standing infront of Peter and placing her hands against his shoulders. "Infact, that's something that is worth going-home for." She told-her-smiling-Husband happily before she then placed the sweetest of kisses against Peter's lips. "Too Right." He replied.
"I'm gonna miss this view though….." Carla said as she then looked-out at the beautiful crashing-sea. "Me too Baby. I've loved our evening strolls along the beach." Peter told Carla sweetly. "Oh have ya?! Well it suits ya…..We should do this again when we get our child…..I can just picture-it now…..You and out little-kid playing together, and then Me and Si, the more sensible, grown-up ones in the families, sat watching-ya." Carla told-Peter cheekily and he just chuckled before he then sighed as he thought about that son of his, who had been left at home with Leanne. Simon. "Hmmm I've missed having Si here with us….." Peter trailed-off. "Hey you'll see him tomorrow." She told-him sweetly. "Yeah I guess I will….." He replied before they then kissed each-other meaningfully on the lips. "Come-On then. We best be getting back to the Hotel. Our taxi will be waiting for us." Carla told Peter, who nodded-in agreement before they then headed-off, all cuddled-up together as they both then did-so.
Back in the rainy-old County that was Weatherfield, Michelle & Kieron had gone to see Rob, who was in prison. "You look rough Pal." Kieron said as Rob appeared and then took a seat-opposite them, his yellow prison vest covering his t-shirt underneath. "Yeah well Prison isn't exactly the best place to be in the world. Is it Now?!" Rob replied. "Carla and Peter are gonna kill-me for allowing you to do this Rob…..And I wouldn't blame them if they did!" Michelle butted-in angrily. "Dya mean that you haven't told them yet?!" Rob asked. "I couldn't bring myself to do it…..I wasn't going to ruin their holiday like that….." Kieron told Rob truthfully. "But they're gonna kick-off the very-second that they get home I can tell ya that much Rob Pal….." Kieron trailed-off.
"Look, if Carla and Peter try to have a go at you for this then just send them to me, I'll set them straight." Rob tried to re-assure both Michelle and Kieron. "Oh Yeah?! Will Ya Now?! By saying WHAT exactly then Rob?!" Michelle asked-him angrily. "I'll tell-them by explaining that this was fully-my-idea and no-one else's. It means that Ryan can get-off the hook and get himself back on the straight and narrow. And ya know what Michelle, and you aswell actually Kieron…..I'd rather be in prison for doing the right-thing that doing the wrong-thing for a change!" Rob told them both firmly. "Well that's just stupid." Michelle commented.
"It's not stupid!" Rob replied angrily.
"IT IS STUPID!" Michelle shouted, making one of the Police-Officers on Guard give her a glare as some kind-of warning as to not to shout like that in here once-again.
"And I don't think Carla's gonna see this as the right-thing to do. Do ya mate?!" Kieron finished this argument with, making Rob frown at the thought of heartbreak that he was going to cause his Older-Sister…..AGAIN! "Look, I know that this is gonna break Carla's heart, but Carla can get-over me being-in prison. She's done-it before and she can do-it again…..But if Ryan was in prison…..Then I don't know how you would have coped Michelle…..If you were visiting Ryan right-here right now, then you'd be in floods of tears, you wouldn't be shouting-at-him and calling-him stupid like you are with me. You'd be crying your eyes out, and THAT'S Why I did what I did!" Rob told Michelle firmly, but that just made Michelle kick-off then. "BUT WHAT ABOUT WHEN CARLA CRIES HER EYES OUT EY?!" She screeched furiously as she stood-up to make a grab for Rob, but Kieron had to hold-her back as the Security Guards approached to remove Michelle from the room. "You've been warned about doing-that already Love!" The Copper told Michelle as she was escorted-into the corridor. "LOOK what you've done to her Man! I've gotta-go!" The Irish Kieron told Rob before he then also left the room to go and see Michelle.
The next-morning, Carla and Peter had just landed back-into the UK after a long journey through the air over-night. Ken & Deidre had picked-them-up from the airport and they were all now driving back-home again. Peter had given-into the jet-lag on the way home and had fallen-asleep. "So how was the holiday then Carla?!" Ken asked Carla, both himself and Deidre were both still as unaware as Carla & Peter were of Rob's recent actions with Kieron & Michelle. "Oh where was it that you went again?!" Deirdre asked-Carla with a smile as she looked-in the back-seat to see Peter's sleepy-head rest against Carla's shoulder, and she had put her arm around-him whilst he slept. The cute little-scene reminded Deirdre of when Simon used to fall-asleep in her arms when he was only a little-kid and himself and Peter had not long arrived into Weatherfield, Coronation Street Together. "Yeah it was great-thanks Deirdre. We spent most of the time on the beach ya know?! It was absolutely gorgeous out there…..We didn't really wanna come-home but Peter missed Simon AND we wanted to get this adoption-process under-way!" Carla told both Ken and Deirdre excitably.
"Oh Carla that's excellent news!" Ken replied as he pulled-up outside their house at Number One Coronation Street. "Oooh here we are!" Deirdre said as Carla gently shook Peter until he began to stir. He slowly opened his eyes and then tiredly looked-up at Carla. "Hey Baby. We're home." Carla told-him softly as he awoke from his sleep. "Yeah so I see." He croaked from where he had been asleep.
The four of them all got out of the car together and were greeted by Kieron and Michelle at the Doorstep of Ken & Deirdre's. "Hey You Two!" Michelle called as she ran-over and then hugged Carla and then Peter in turn, with Kieron trailing-along behind-her. "Did you have a good-trip then?!" Michelle asked Carla. "Yeah it was great wasn't it baby?!" Carla said, looking at Peter who smiled slightly. "Yeah….." He trailed-off distantly. "What's up with him?!" Kieron asked. "Oh ignore-him he's only just woken-up. The jet-lags probably kicking-in. Why don't you go inside ey Baby?!" Carla suggested to Peter, gently kissing-him on the lips before he then headed-on inside towards the living-room of Number One Coronation Street. The very home of Peter Barlow's Father & Step-Mother.
"Anyway, where's Rob gotten too?!" Carla asked, making Michelle frown as she did-so. "Yeah Carla about-that….." Michelle trailed-off. "Oh No. Michelle what's happened to our kid this time-around?!" Carla asked as Kieron then stepped-in. "Why don't we go inside ey?!" He suggested. "NO just tell-me!" Carla requested worriedly to the both of them. "Okay but don't shout at me okay?!...Rob handed himself into the Police to save Ryan's skin after the whole drugs bust-up between Ryan & Cam….." Michelle revealed to Carla sadly. "YA WHAT?! I mean…..WHY?! HOW?!" Carla shouted, very-tearfully now as she then stormed-inside, closely-followed-by both Michelle & Kieron.
She sat-herself-down-onto the sofa and then cuddled-upto Peter tearfully. "Carla…..Baby…..What's wrong?!" Peter asked-her worriedly. "I'll explain in the car…..But listen…..I need ya to take-me to the Prison…..Rob's there….." Carla trailed-off sadly. "Ya What?!" Peter asked in pure-shock at this very surprising bit of news. "As I said Baby, I'll explain in the car…..But can we just go please?!" Carla asked and Peter just nodded as he then stood-himself-up and then took Carla by the hand, leading-her-out towards the front-door.
"Carla, you're both jet-lagged, it's probably not a good-idea for Peter to drive just yet…..Why don't I take ya ey?! Or Kieron?!" Michelle offered to the both of them but Carla suddenly turned-around viciously. "I don't want you anywhere near-me, let-alone in the same-car as me! And you're boyfriend can get-lost n all. You both knew about-this and you both chose to keep-me in the dark until I got-home…..So NO you can't take-me & Peter to the Prison…..Because we'll be just fine, and probably much better-off, if we just go by ourselves thank-you very-much." Carla told both Michelle and Kieron both harshly and sternly before she then climbed-into the passenger-seat of the car, slamming the door shut behind.
Michelle just burst into floods of tears as Kieron hugged-her whilst he looked-at Peter. "Peter. Mate. Please try and talk-her around. Michelle just didn't wanna ruin your holiday…..That's all….." Kieron told Peter sadly. "I know that Pal…..And I'll try and make her see some sense…..But I think it would be for the best if you both just left-us alone for a little-while Okay?!" Peter told Kieron in both a calm but a sad-way as he too then climbed-into the drivers-seat of the car-himself, shutting the door behind-him before he then drove-off.
Peter was a little-bit stuck in the middle-here. I mean, yeah he would support Carla 100% of the whole-way…..But he didn't want to fall-out with Kieron & Michelle. He had fallen-out with Kieron not so-long ago and he hated every-minute-of-it. But their best-friendship was stronger for-it, and he didn't want to go and just wreck that all over-again unless Peter and Kieron themselves had a very-good-reason too…..Peter just sighed as he drove, and then took a quick glance at Carla, who was silently crying her eyes out, eh moved his nearest-arm down from the steering-wheel to place his left-hand onto Carla's leg, rubbing-it soothingly. "Hey. I Love You." Peter whispered to her looking-her directly in the eyes when they reached a set of red-traffic-lights. He shot her a cheeky-wink and Carla weakly-smiled at him. "I Love You Too. Thank-You for sticking-by-me my Gorgeous, Handsome Man." Carla sweetly but tearfully told Peter. "That's Okay." Peter replied, leaning-over to kiss Carla on the cheek before the lights then turned-green and he moved-off in the car-again, edging closer towards the entrance of the Prison Car-Park and he could physically see Carla's whole-frame tense-up as they did-so. This was going to be extremely-tough for Carla, and Peter knew that just as much as Carla did at the moment...
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