New chapter! Nothing special, just the aftermath of Zoe's hen party, and then ends with Charley's panto! Hope it's ok, please review it, it means a lot xx
Chapter 54
"Max, I'm just nipping out, I'll be back soon." Zoe said, she was going to the hospital to sort her foot out, she had been trying to cope with the pain. But it wasn't working well, so she wanted to sort it out.
She walked into the ED and went straight into her office to find Connie.
"Ooh, hello Zoe, what's up?" Connie said, bedazzled as to why Zoe was coming in when she was meant to be off.
"Erm, well I was just wondering if you could x-ray my foot for me please? It was on my hen party when I dropped the bowling ball on my foot..." Zoe's voice got quieter as she went on because it was embarrassing, yet quite funny too.
"Of course Zoe, I wondered how long it would take before you asked me this!" Connie laughed, come on. Do you just want an x-ray or shall I examine it first?"
"Well, I'm pretty sure it's broken, but whatever's easiest?"
"Ok, we'll get you straight to x-ray then." Connie and Zoe walked out the office and got the lift up to x-ray.
They got sorted and then were sat in the waiting room awaiting the results.
"Zoe, it is broken, but only very slightly, so it'll be a pot and crutches for 6-8 weeks maximum."
"Oh god!" She laughed. "Wait, why about my honeymoon?"
"Well, if we protect the foot well and disguise it, you should be fine, it should be alright in the plane because it's only a small break and if we pad it enough ten it should be fine."
"Ok, and can I have a boot to wear over the pot please?"
"If you must!" Connie said going into the store cupboard to get bandages and a boot for Zoe.
"There you go Zoe." Connie said finishing off, she put a black pot on it, and then she gave Zoe the boot, so that Zoe could disguise it and walk normally. She didn't want to turn up with a pot and crutches at home or Maia's sake, so she wanted to act normal about it and not make any fuss.
"Thanks Connie, you're a star!" Zoe said getting up and hobbling out.
"Take care Zo, have a nice honeymoon and time off!"
"Thanks Con." Zoe said going home. She put the crutches in the boot and then she managed to hide most of the boot with her trousers but just hoped for the best.
She took Max straight into the kitchen because the girls were upstairs. Charley was very loudly rehearsing for her performance that night.
"Max, to cut everything short, I've broken my foot."
"What?!"
"At my hen party there was an accident involving a bowling ball and my foot. But anyway, yeah I have a broken foot."
"Oh Zoe! why didn't you tell me?"
"Well, with Maia and everything, I just though it would be best to keep it quiet, I wasn't planning on doing anything about it but it started hurting so much so I nipped out to get Connie to sort it." Zoe said, as if it was the most natural and normal thing ever.
"Ok, you ok though?"
"Yeah I'm fine, it's a bit uncomfortable, but I'm not planning on telling the kids because of Maia, I don't think it's entirely fair because she's going through a lot more."
"Ok, that's fine, well, we're going on our honeymoon, to a place not far from here, I'm sure you know it it's ever so near." Max said laughing and teasing Zoe.
"Charley, do you want help getting ready?"
"Yes please mummy!" Charley shouted from upstairs, she was bounding around because she was excited for her first drama performance.
Zoe hobbled up the stairs, with Max behind her staring at her bum, not helping Zoe up the stairs whatsoever.
"Max, thank you so much for your help up these stairs, I much appreciate it." Zoe said rolling her eyes, but waggling he bum at the top because she knew that that was Max was staring at all along.
Zoe went and helped Charley get into her outfit and put her some make up on and did her hair.
"Smile Charls" Zoe said taking a photo of her.
"What time do you have to be there?"
"Half past four for a six o'clockstart."
"Ok baby, you've only got about half an hour before we'll drop you off. Do you want to make a snack or something?"
"Yep." Charley said skipping out and going downstairs.
Zoe went in to check on Maia.
"Are you coming to watch Charley tonight?"
"Of course I am, I wouldn't miss it for the world!" Maia said smiling.
"Ok sweet. Wheelchair or crutches?"
"Crutches please?" Maia asked hopeful.
"Ok hunny bun." Zoe said leaving her and shutting the door behind her.
"Charley are you ready?" Zoe shouted up the stairs
"Yeah I'm just coming!" Charley yelled bounding down the stars with her bags.
"See you in a bit Max I'm just taking Charley."
A few hours later, the show was over, Charley did ever so well, and had made Zoe, Max and her sister proud.
"I love you Charley, you made me so proud watching you on that stage today, all of your hard work payed off!" Zoe said hugging Charley.
Hope that was ok for you! It's nothing special, just something quick to fill it in, but the next chapters are the honeymoon ones, I'm doing it so that it flicks between Zax in Cyprus, and the girls at their grandparents, any ideas for either of them would be more than welcome!
Thank you for your continued support for this story, please review, I would like at least 3 before I update again, and im uploading Zoe's accident today, so I'll put the link in the summary box and in the next chapter xx
