Thankyou all for your reviews! 3 I have begun the new semester and my linguistics and phonetics is finally in and complete now to wait for my results. This term its all psychology based and i know im going to enjoy it! 3 i hope my writing is getting better, fanfic is for fun, critical analysis is for uni, so sorry if there is any mistakes!

Hope you like it! Rosie x

Chapter 8

Eddies fourth lesson had come round quickly. He made his way to the office "is she free Janeece?"

"Yeah you can go in, you don't need to ask, ill stop you if she's not"

Eddie smiled and made his way in. Rachel closed her diary as she looked up and stood up making her way over to the sofa and taking a seat with the coffee table in front. Eddie saw that as a cue and sat on the sofa next to her.

"So go on what happened?" Rachel asked

"Abbie wasn't mine" Eddie said straightaway.

"What really? That conniving cow"

"She came a month early too, that's when alarm bells rang, I'm sorry I left you"

Rachel nodded "Kim said you had been doing some supplying recently"

"Yeah I moved away from Mel it was just easier and when I heard about the road relocating I tried to get a job here three years ago and been temping since"

Rachel nodded

"What about you?"

"I am married" Rachel said, it wasn't a lie, she was still married just separated, but she wasn't going to tell Eddie that "We moved together, lived at Kim's for a while and moved house over the weekend"

"No kiddies?" He asked.

"Nope, we've been trying for a good three years now" Rachel gave a weak smile, she had been trying but lying about the seperation, but didn't want him to start thinking that she was a free woman, not yet anyway.

"But the ring? The name?"

"We chose not to have rings and I kept my name because of the teaching I was doing at home as a tutor, I'm Mrs Fleet at home, at school I'm Ms Mason" Rachel lied.

"Makes sense" Eddie smiled. He was a little heartbroken that another man was loving the love of his life.

"We need to be able to work together Eddie, lets start afresh" Rachel smiled

Eddie nodded.

"Ms Rachel Mason, Head of Waterloo Road Academy" Rachel said holding out her hand.

"Mr Eddie Lawson" He said shaking her hand "Deputy"

They both smiled and gazed into one and others eyes once more before Rachel's phone went off interrupting them. Rachel took her phone out her pocket and looked at it.

Hiya, hope your settling okay in sunny Scotland, I still miss you but I know this is the right thing. I've started divorce proceedings and met with a lawyer this morning, I think its right for us both to be able to move on without any hold backs. A x

Rachel frowned looking at the text and moved to her desk sitting behind it.

No problem, thankyou Adam, you have been amazing these last few weeks, but yes this is the right plan forward. I will always love you, but just not on the same terms again. R.

"Everything okay?"

"Hmm?" She asked looking up "Erm yeah sorry"

Eddie nodded knowing not to push her. "Little Michael isn't so little anymore, eight years old he is this year"

"Gosh, that has gone quick" Rachel added as she went to sit behind her desk.

Eddie nodded "Right then I suppose I better get back to teaching" he said sensing Rachel was now preoccupied and not wanting to talk further.

"Yeah no problem, thankyou for understanding Eddie"

He smiled and rose from the sofa "see you later" he said shoving his hands in his pockets and leaving the office. Rachel was quite thankful to have the quiet time back.

Later in the afternoon, Rachel was having a break from her paper work and checking her e-mails. Her phone buzzed on the side. Rachel ignored it reading an important email, but the phone buzzed a consecutive three times. Rachel frowned and picked the phone up again hoping it wasn't Adam or even Eddie for that fact that had torn her away from her work. She unlocked her phone to see four messages on facebook messenger. No one ever spoke to Rachel on messenger so she opened it quickly hoping it wasn't another man trying to hit on her from the look of her profile picture.

Auntie Rach…

Sorry to disturb you

But I need your help

I'm in trouble

The four messages Rachel read and she swallowed hard. She replied back quickly.

Hiya ben, long time no speak, what's up?

Rachel saw the little speech bubble with the three dots meaning he was typing back. After a moment her phone buzzed again.

The doctors have given me some tablets to help with my anxiety, mum doesn't agree and she's not letting me go home she's kicked me out, you're the only person I could think of I'm sorry.

Rachel knew her sister was awful but didn't think she would do this to her own child.

Don't apologise, I'll come and get you after work, its not fair on you x

Rachel found her sisters number and press dial. "Melissa…well what would you care?...You've kicked out Ben, what are you playing at?...So you've kicked him out because your pregnant again, baby number seven, you not heard of condoms?...I don't get how someone who has the gift of a child can just dump them…his not, you've caused the anxiety, he just needs help, but apparently his mum is too interested in getting pregnant…no I'm going to come and collect him and apply for custody because clearly your not fit to be his mother, god help your other five children, how many dads is that now?" At that Melissa put the phone down on Rachel. Rachel threw her phone onto the desk.

"Temper" janeece said walking in with a fresh brew.

"Do you ever feel like you want to strangle someone?" Rachel asked Janeece

"All the time with Cheryl's dad" janeece smiled as she left.

Rachel sighed and got her jacket and coat on deciding to finish early to pick up ben from school in Newcastle, She had precisely 3 hours to get there, it was doable but he would have to wait for a little bit. She left her tea to go cold and left the school.

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