Charles looked down at his mobile and wondered whether he should give Molly a ring or something. He didn't want to seem like he was one of those that would constantly ring but when he hadn't heard from her since they got back to London, which was about three days ago now, he knew that something was wrong.
Rebecca had been doing his head in and why he had said that she could stay was beyond him but there was a part of him that felt sorry for her. As stupid as that sounded. He was meant to be going over his work schedule but he would just stare at his phone and not get anything done which wasn't a good thing when he's meant to be concentrating.
He couldn't stand it anymore and then he picked his phone up before making that call. Charles didn't make a habit out of sleeping with other women in different countries. In fact he didn't sleep with anyone from work at all. He did try to tell Molly that before but she didn't want to know and now he was just listening to the tone and knew she wasn't going to answer so he left a message for her.
"Hi Molly, it's Charlie, I just wanted to ring you to see how you were and because I haven't heard from you for a little while. If you can give me a ring then I'd like to hear from you, bye" he pinched the bridge of his nose before putting his mobile into his pocket and knew that he wouldn't be able to concentrate on anything so he went and had some lunch.
Charles was about to make himself a coffee when there was a knock at the door and he put the mug down on the counter then went and got the door and standing there was his best friend Elvis. Since he had got married to Georgie he was stupidly happy and sometimes Charles wanted to hit him for being annoying but it was mostly because he had been jealous.
Not of Elvis marrying Georgie but of them getting married, he wanted to find someone as special to marry and he thought that he had once done that. His eyes looked up the stairs for a moment then back at his best friend "What made you come all this way?"
"Oh, I don't know maybe to tell you you're a bloody idiot, now are you going to let me in or am I going to freeze my bollocks off standing on your doorstep while the neighbour eyes up my ass?" At that Elvis turned around and gave the woman next door a wave who then shut the curtains quickly. Elvis laughed and then walked in through the door when Charlie moved out the way.
"Will you stop teasing my neighbours I'm the one who has to answer all the awkward questions when they ask if you're popping by any time soon" Charles let Elvis shut the door and had made his way to the kitchen to make two cups of coffee this time, even if the other man wanted tea. He was too lazy to make something different so whether he liked it or not he would be getting a coffee. "So why am I a bloody idiot?" he was wondering just what it was this time that he had done to turn him in to being the idiot.
"Oh I don't know how about the fact your ex is back upstairs?" Elvis took a seat on one of the stools that were in the kitchen and watched his best friend. "I saw the car on the driveway but really I had come over to tell you that Georgie is pregnant"
"Congratulations, mate, what is it you're having?" Charles made the two of them the coffee and then handed the cup over to Elvis before he took his own and took a sip of it, needing it more than he even realised.
"We don't want to know" Elvis put the cup down on the counter for a moment.
"Or is it that Georgie doesn't want to know?" Charles couldn't help but smile because that woman had Elvis wrapped around her finger and it was funny because his friend had been so confident that he wouldn't ever end up like that and then he met Georgie and now he was definitely like that.
"You never told me that Rebecca is back in your life" Elvis had been there for Charlie after he found out about Scott and Rebecca and it had taken him a while to get his head straight and now she was upstairs in his life once more.
"Because I knew what you would say" Charles admitted with a shrug and then put his out cup down on the counter then crossed his arms over his chest. "you would call me a bloody idiot so that's why I never told you"
Elvis shook his head in disagreement because he didn't like the thought that his friend was getting back with the ex that had broke him in two and left him not wanting another relationship out of fear that she too would run off with a friend. "Are you together?"
"Hell no, she's just staying here until she gets herself a place and then I will happily help her pack her bags and get out" Charles was confident that he would definitely be helping her out.
What the two didn't realise was that Rebecca had come down the stairs quietly and was listening to the conversation but she wasn't going anywhere and was going to make sure of that. Rebecca always had a back up plan. She didn't stay around long enough to hear the end of the conversation just in case she was caught down here and now she was heading back up the stairs as Elvis started talking about Georgie being pregnant once more.
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It was later that night that Charles was sat watching TV, and he still hadn't heard from Molly that he texted her to get her to ring him. If she didn't then he would have to speak to her the next time they crossed paths and was going to see if he could pull some strings to get her on the next flight with him which was the next day. He really needed the sleep and with that he turned the TV off and made sure that everything else was off.
He headed upstairs and rubbed at his neck and just as he got to the top of the stairs the bathroom door opened and Rebecca came out dressed in her towel and her blonde hair was against her shoulders and it was dripping water on to the carpet but honest he didn't care.
"I thought you might've been in bed" Rebecca said and looked up at him as he got to the top step and pulled her lip in between her teeth.
"Just heading that way now, got another flight tomorrow so need the rest" he nodded but that didn't stop his eyes from wandering over her towel and he really didn't need to be thinking about those times in the relationship when he would get back from a flight and they would get in the shower together.
He knew it was stupid but his feet couldn't stop and he was moving towards her and his lips were on hers as soon as he was in front of her, kissing her deeply and she didn't even say anything when they were moving backwards into the spare room and shutting the door behind them.