Chapter 23

Dave left afterwards. He gave Kriss a kiss and went over and kissed Chloë "I love you both" he told Kriss as he left "I love you both very much."

Dave had never felt so good it looked like Kriss was going to split up with Arnold and it looked like Dave would have Kriss and Chloë for himself.

"I've moved out" Kriss told Arnold in the breakfast queue "I've moved back in with Kryten, and neither me or Chloë are coming back"

"When can I see Chloë" Arnold asked panicking

"Don't know" Kriss told him "I'll see"

Arnold could see Chloë right now; she was in Dave's arms at the table. Arnold watched Kriss get her food, go and sit down next to Dave and take Chloë while Dave went and got his food. Arnold was so angry, he had blown it; he had a lovely little family his girlfriend Kriss and his daughter, Chloë. What had he done? Was there any way he could get her back? Probably not. No he had well and truly blown it. Dave came up behind him in the dinner queue and ignored him.

"Why were you holding Chloë?" Arnold asked Dave

"She needed to get her breakfast" Dave told him "she can't hold Chloë and get it from the machine"

"What happened last night?" Arnold asked him

"I found her in the corridor crying, I helped her move her stuff to Kryten's quarters and then I looked after Chloë from 11.30 til 3.00 Dave told him"

"So nothing else happened," Arnold asked

"No" Dave lied "nothing else happened"

Arnold sat at the same table as them but right on the end. He wasn't included in any discussions. So he left them.

"Can you hold Chloë, Dave" Kriss asked him "I need to tell Arnold it's over"

"Sure" Dave answered

"I'm going to tell him everything" she announced "that way I'll definitely get rid of him"

Dave thought about this comment, did she really want sex with him last night or was she just trying to get rid of Arnold? He couldn't make up his mind, but then he thought again and decided that he'd got to have sex with Kristine Kochanski, how and why didn't really matter.

"Arnold" Kriss called "I need to tell you something, can we go somewhere private?"

"We'll go to what was our quarters" Arnold told her. When they arrived Kriss told him to sit down"

"I need to tell you something," she told him "you're not going to like it but I need to let you know"

"Go on"

"I'm leaving you," she told him "I can't take this anymore, you haven't been yourself since Chloë was born"

"having a daughter has made me stressed" he tried to get her to feel sorry for him

"Stressful to you?" she exclaimed "you haven't done so much as change her nappy, Dave's done more for her than you have, you've been getting drunk at every available opportunity and telling everyone about our sex life." Arnold giggled, "It's not funny!"

"Please don't leave me" Arnold pleaded, "I love you"

"No you don't" Kriss responded, "you love having me, and I don't even know if you love having Chloë"

"But…"

"There's another thing" she interrupted

"What?"

"I had sex with Dave last night" Arnold got very angry very quickly

"You bitch" he yelled at her "you slut"

Kriss was very scared "Arnold calm down" she told him "you're scaring me"

"Get out of my quarters" he told her

"Fine" she yelled, "I'll go see Dave"

This made him even angrier,

"Get out" he screamed

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