Update! Don't really know what to say for this one, its nothing special jut a bit of fun for the family after the wedding day?! but hope you enjoy it and please review! xx

Chapter 53
Maia had woken up and was starving, but she couldn't get downstairs, she tried shouting her mum, but there was no reply, so she text her asking her to come and help her downstairs, but Zoe was fast asleep downstairs so she didn't hear any of it. Maia gave up and tried to do it herself, her crutches were at the other side of the room, so she slowly crawled out of bed so she was on the floor. From there she bum shuffled across the floor to where her crutches were located and slowly got herself up and hobbled out of her room and into her mums room to see where she was; she wasn't there.
"Oh just simply great. I've just done bloody mission impossible and she's not even here." She hissed, annoyed. She went into Charley's room, but she was still asleep so she left we and was going to attempt going downstairs. It had been two weeks since the operation so she had to be careful because it was still early days. She sat down at the top of the stairs and then very very carefully bum shuffled down them trying to be as quiet as possible. It took a bit longer than she thought, but she got down! She was pretty impressed with herself, but knew he cpuldnt do that everyday. She was going straight to the kitchen for breakfast but she could hear gentle snoring coming from the living room, so she went to investigate, where she saw her mum and Max curled up on the sofa asleep together. Maia crept out and closed the door behind her to let them sleep and made herself a bowl of cereal and sat and ate it. She thought she was doing well, until she tried to balance the spoon and bowl across the floor, but dropped the spoon and it landed on the floor with a clatter; a loud clatter. Zoe woke up with a start and darted into the kitchen to see what the commotion was.
"Maia. What are you doing?" She said, her heart was pounding with fright as it had awoken her with a start.
"Well, I woke up and was hungry, so I shouted you and then text youf and got no reply, so I shuffled my way downstairs and made myself some breakfast.
"Oh right, sorry, I did the same, but Max was asleep on the sofa so I went and cuddled up with him and I fell back asleep." Zoe laughed.
"It's fine, I'm ok and I'm sorted now. I just could do with you picking up the spoon for my please because I can't quite get down." Maia laughed. Zoe helped her while Maia went back into the room. Charley had also came down by this point, so they all sat in the room when Max made an announcement.
"So, I have a little surprise for you Zoe... I have already booked and prepared a honeymoon. However, I'm not telling where exactly we are going, but we are going for 2 weeks, leaving on Saturday!" He said smiling.
"Oh! Max! Thank you! I love you!" Zoe exclaimed, she loved max so much, and was so thankful that she had him to herself.
"So, girls I'm afraid you can't come with us. So you are going to be spending one week with my parents and the other week with Zoe's parents. Connie is going to look after you on both of the Wednesdays to break up the weeks for you. So I must warn you, my parents are a nightmare! They are awfully posh and picky, as you probably could have guessed from the wedding and the occasional time that you met them." Max said.
"Ok, thank you max!" Maia said, she was happy for them and hope that they would have a nice time. She loved her Nanna and grandpa (Zoe's parents) and they always had fun times with them. However, she wasn't awfully fond of her grandmother and grandfather (Max's parents) and by the sound of it, Max wasn't either! But she didn't want to cause another scene or ruin this for them either.
"Right so girlies, we have today and tomorrow off, what do you want to do?! We go back to work on Wednesday so you will probably have to come in with us for a bit of it, depending on when our shifts fall because we haven't seen the rota yet!"
"Can we go laser quest?!" Charley yelled with a grin.
"Er, well how am I meant to run about with a gun chasing and shooting you all?!" Maia laughed.
"Good point... Max, can me and you go laser quest?!" Charley said grinning still.
"Well, yes I suppose so, but you'd better ask your mum and Maia first." Max said, Charley immediately turned to face her mum and sister with puppy dog eyes.
"Yes yes ok! We'll sit and watch you. Is that ok Maia?"
"Yeah."
"YES! Thank you! I'm so gonna kill you Max!" Charley laughed.
"Yeah... Not gonna happen." Max said getting as excited as Charley.
"Ok ok, calm down people! You're both getting to jumpy and excited." Zoe said sternly but still laughing as Max was chasing Charley around the house.
They arrive at the laser quest zone and Max and Charley got geared up, while Zoe and Maia took their seats in the viewing gallery to watch them. It started off alright, but then Maia got bored and went on her phone and connected to their wifi.
"So Maia, I just wanted to say how proud I am of you. I know these past few weeks have been hard and I know exactly how you feel and I know it's annoying and frustrating for you, but you are coping with it all so well and I am extremely proud to call you my daughter." She said hugging her daughter tightly.
"Thank you mum, but what do you mean exactly?" Maia asked confused.
"That's for another day I think.." Zoe said, not wanting to give her little secret away, nobody knew it, and she sort of wanted to keep it that way.
"Okay." She said, hugging her mum back and turning back to her iPod. A while later Max and Charley came bounding out to them.
"I beat Max!" Charley exclaimed! Max had the sulk on because he had been beaten by a 10 year old.
"Mummy, can I do this for my birthday please with some of my friends?" Charley asked.
"Yeah, of course, I'll go and get some more information now and then we can go and have lunch somewhere." Zoe said getting up and helping Maia.
Zoe went and collected a party pack brochure guide and then they went to Frankie and Bennies for some lunch.
"Mum, so I've been thinking, we could be here a while waiting for the food, tell me the story that is 'for another day' please?"
"Fine fine, brace yourself. So when I was younger, I was a gymnast, like yourself. But I was a level 2 tumbler and the best gymnast in the whole of Holby and was one of the best gymnasts in the country. When I was 16, I went into one of my tumbles and ended up with a double fractured leg and a dislocated knee and hip on the other leg. All of my achievements and success had even washed away. That was my career, gone. So that's when I started training as a doctor instead."
Maia was shocked at this, she actually couldn't believe that her mum was a gymnast.
"Really?!"
"Yeah, I was about to be put in the GB squad to represent Britain in the Olympics and world championships."
"Oh, I'm really sorry, I had no idea about that, you kept it really quiet."
"I know, I shut myself in my bedroom for weeks crying myself to sleep every night. My mum thought she would have to get me a counsellor because I wouldn't talk to anyone or go out the house." Zoe explained, she knew that she could trust her daughter, and Max if he was listening, but he was too busy in a conversation with Charley.
"Oh mum! That's awful, I feel really bad now for moaning because you obviously went through a lot more than me." Maia said, with tears appearing in her eyes.
"Oh Maia sweet don't cry, you weren't to know that, but I trust you with it so feel privileged that I have told you because I haven't told anyone. Even Max doesn't know, unless he's listening, but i don't think he is to be honest" she laughed. Maia smiled and hugged her mum.
The food came just soon after, so they sat in silence while they ate, and then they went home once they had finished.

so i hope this was ok, just a bit of a fun chapter, which i quite enjoyed writing! I've wrote a one-shot on Zoe's accident which i'll upload sometime in the week and let you all know so please review this and i'll upload the one-shot.

Also keep reviewing your answers. As to wether Zoe should get pregnant xx