Chapter 29
The door to number 5 slammed shut with a violent slam. Lauren stormed through the hall way to the kitchen, her bag being thrown to the floor in the process, the kitchen door slamming shut a few seconds later. Cora appeared in the doorway of the living room with Abi, both of them staring at the space Lauren had fled from.
"Everything ok?" Cora asked
Tanya stared at her with a harsh expression on her face "What do you think Mum?" she sighed and walked towards the kitchen "Lauren, come on lets talk about this ?"
"GO AWAY!" Abi winced at the shout
"what's happened Mum? Is she ok?"
Tanya sighed and nodded "yes it's ok Just a little hiccup at the hospital"
The kitchen door swung open, Lauren standing hands on hips in the doorway "A little hiccup? Really?"
"Lauren your blowing this out of proportion"
"oh am I now... ok then, my baby might have to have an operation when it's born because the scan detected a problem with the baby's heart. They think there's a hole in it's heart." Abi gasped and Cora's jaw dropped. "and that's not all... the sonographer was a complete bitch and told me if i'd have taken my doctors advice and stopped taking Paroxetine When I was told to, I wouldn't be in this situation" Tanya was leaning back against the wall of the hallway her eyes on the floor. "and even better... Mum didn't correct her, so now she thinks I'm a stupid unfit Mother who couldn't care less about her baby. Now you tell me if that's a minor hiccup !"
"Is she telling the truth?" Abi asked, having some dignity left she nodded "How could you!"
Cora moved to put her arm around Laurens shoulder "How bad is it darling?"
"It's pretty bad Nan, there's nothing they can do until it's born and even then I'm helpless because of this stupid adoption." she sobbed "I want Joey." Cora pulled her into a hug, as Tanya vanished upstairs. "I just want Joey Nan"
"I can go and get him?" Abi offered
"He wont be there... he'll be at the university open day" She pulled back from her Nan "we were meant to be going together." The tears started to fall for the hundredth time that day.
"Come on Lauren, everything will be fine I promise you that".
*JL*JL*JL*
An hour later and Cora and her two granddaughters were curled up on the sofa. Lauren's head was lay in Cora's lap as she slept, having cried herself to sleep.
Abi smiled as she watched Lauren's tummy "I have no idea how she sleeps through that... the baby's kicking look" Lauren twitched in her sleep her hand settling just above the movements.
"She'll be used to it." Cora said gently.
"They'll be ok wont they Nan?" Abi asked needing reassurance.
"Of course they will... there's Branning Blood and Cross blood in them veins"
so Laurens just been given the devastating news that the baby may have been affected by the drugs Tanya was still giving her... surely it can't get any worse for the poor girl ? Xxx
