Chapter 7 The morning after.
Robert woke up feeling sore, but he felt a lot happier than he had in a long time.
He turned his head to look at Jayne. He couldn't believe someone like her would want to be with him, and the more he thought about it the more he worried that last night had been a mistake.
He wondered to himself if he'd taken advantage of her. She had, after all been drunk, and upset.
God! What have I done?
He was just about to get up when Jayne opened her eyes.
"Morning - now I know why they call you Rocket," she said softly, and leaned over him. She kissed him passionately, and all of Robert's fears were forgotten in an instant.
When the kiss ended, Robert looked at the clock. "I hate to do this to you Jayne, but while you may have the day off - I don't," he said.
"Well I'm afraid you may have to stay at home today Robert." Jayne smiled at him devilishly, and continued, 'Well you see Doctor I think I may be coming down with something."
'Really? Well Miss Grandcourt could you describe your symptoms?" he said.
'Well let me see – I've been experiencing an accelerated pulse rate, and been going weak at the knees. And sometimes, when I'm in the bedroom I suffer from shortness of breath."
Robert raised an eyebrow and started playing with a bit of loose hair that was lying over the top of her face.
"Well it sounds serious - do you have any idea what might be causing these symptoms?" he asked playfully.
"Well Doctor the symptoms always seem to come on when I'm in a room with, or thinking about this little bald man I know - do you think he could be the cause? And if so what is the cure?"
"Little?" Robert said.
Jayne smiled. 'Well not were it counts he's not."
Robert was just about to show her how good he really was when Jayne's cell phone went off. Jayne shot Robert an apologetic look, and then answered her phone.
"Hello? Yes, Mom I'll be right there - no it's okay, I'll see you in about half an hour okay? Bye." She flicked the phone off and turned back to Robert. "Sorry, looks like my Mom and her boyfriend have broken up. I have to go over there and make sure she's okay."
"Do you want me to come over with you?" he said.
"No it's alright. He's gone but he smashed the place up, so I just need to help her clean up and calm her down - it'll be easier if I went alone."
"Well I have a to go to work anyway. Take my car and I'll get a cab," he said.
Jayne quickly threw on some clothes and ran over to the bed to kiss Robert good-bye.
"I think I know what you can do all day - just stay as you are in bed and wait for me?"
Robert laughed. "As tempting as that idea is, I think the ER would be jumping for joy at thought of a day without me. Can't have that now can we? But fear not, when you get home it will not take me long to resume this position. Now get going - the sooner you go the sooner you'll get back."
When Robert heard the front door slam, he got out of bed and decided to have a shower before he went to work and faced the ER.
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Jayne made her way over to her mothers, and wondered how many times she'd made this trip – how many times had her mother let some man pull her life apart? She pulled up outside the apartment and braced herself for what she would find.
"Well at lest there's no police this time' she thought.
When Jayne knocked on the door, it opened to reveal the mess inside. The furniture, or what was left of it, lay all over the place. Jayne stepped in and walked over broken bits of glass to her mother. She could see that her eye was swollen and her lip was cut.
"Do you want to go the doctor?" Jayne said.
"No it's worse than it looks," replied her mother. "Do you want a drink?" she said and took a drink from a half-empty bottle.
"No thanks, I'm driving, and I think you've had enough for the day."
Jayne took the bottle and poured the contents down the sink, and then set to work cleaning her up her mother and the apartment.
When she looked at the clock, next it was nearly 8pm. All she wanted to do was go home and shower! It had been a long day. She'd calmed her mother down and cleaned her cuts - thrown out all the damaged furniture and arranged what was left as best she could. She made sure her mom had enough food to keep her going until the weekend, and said she'd do a bit of shopping for her then.
As she looked at her mother's worn out face her thoughts drifted to herself. All the bad relationships she'd been through herself, she realized she was turning into a copy of her mother, and that thought scared her. Then her thoughts drifted to Robert. She knew they'd been together less than a day, but she knew that Robert was special and would never hit her or treat her like dirt. She also knew that he was not a push over himself and that; together they would get through whatever life threw at them. She gave her mom some money, turned, and left.
When she got home, she could hear Robert pottering around in the kitchen, so she went to join him.
"God you look like hell Jayne," he said.
"And nice to see you too Robert. What are you cooking?" she asked.
"Just some stew."
"Have we got any chocolate ice cream?"
"No, but if you go and take a nice long bath I'll get some - I think I need it as much as you do," he said.
"Bad day too?"
"We'll swap horror stories over dinner," Robert said.
When Jayne came down for dinner, she felt a million times better. She saw Robert sitting at the kitchen breakfast bar playing with his stew. She walked up behind and placed her arms round him
"How about we go straight to the ice cream?" she said.
"Deal - and tell you what no bowls to wash, we'll get it straight out of the tub."
"Robert you're full of great ideas," she said smiling.
Jayne got the tub and sat down beside him.
"How's your mother?" Robert asked.
"Well she has a black eye, a busted lip, and hardly any furniture left in one piece."
"Did you take her to the Doctor?"
"No she wouldn't go – she's that used to it these days. You know, as I sat there patching things up I couldn't help but think how much I'm like her. I go from one bad relationshipto another and nothing seems to change."
Robert put his spoon down, got up, and placed his arm around her.
"You're a lot stronger than your mother is, and things have changed. You have me now I may not be the catch of the year, but I will never do any thing to hurt you."
"Your right Robert, you're not the catch of the year - you're the catch of the century. Now enough about me how was your day?"
"You don't want to hear about that," Robert said quietly.
"Yes I do, now spill the beans, or do I have to walk into the ER and get the info from the nurses?"
"Well my arm malfunctioned and I accidentally grabbed a nurses butt - not that I knew, as I can't feel anything with this damn arm, and even if I could the last thing I would do is mess around with that bitch. Anyway, she grabbed my hand and pulled it off and then Susan hid it. Then I had to tell a young man who'd been raped that he was HIV positive."
"God Robert I don't know what to say," she said squeezing his hand.
"There's nothing you can say - but I know a way where we can both forget about out bad day," he said.
"Really, and what would that be?"
"Well why don't you come up to my bedroom and I'll show you?" he said smiling.
She returned the smile, and they both jumped up and raced up the stairs where they let their memories, like the ice cream - melt away in each other's arms.
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