A Few Days Later
Molly looked out the window of the cafe that she was sat in with her cup of tea on the table in front of her and she watched people walk passed and couldn't help but wonder if he would actually turn up.
He was running late but she knew that he couldn't help it as the traffic was crap or he had to do something at last minute but honesty she wished that he had told her that he was going to be late.
Molly hadn't ordered him a drink but she had herself because she needed the tea to steady her nerves, she wished it was something stronger but the last thing she needed was to be drunk sat across from her ex husband and they talked, that definitely wouldn't give him the best impression of her; even if he already knew pretty much everything there was about her.
The small bell above the door rang as the door opened and Charles walked in and over to the table, Molly looked over at him with a soft smile on her lips, "I am so sorry that I was late, I don't make a habit of it I promise" he sat down at the table.
"Working at the MOD today?" Molly asked as she sat up in her seat a little better than she had been when he had walked in.
"Yep" he admitted and then looked up when a waitress walked over to their table "I'll have a coffee please, Molly?" he asked looking over at her.
"Oh, um, no I'm fine with what I have, thanks" she smiled at the girl and watched as she walked off but of course couldn't help but see the other female looking back at Charles, well who wouldn't, right?
There was silence between the two and they looked at each other and Molly wished that he would actually say something because of the fact that it was starting to make her feel a little bit nervous and then he was about to speak but the young girl came over and brought his coffee over.
"Are you sure I can't get you anything else?" The waitress, Emily, asked and looked between the both of them once more.
Molly shook her head and Charles smiled but politely said no before the girl walked back to her station at the front and they were alone again.
Molly leaned forward and put her arms on the table, it was rude to do that but right now she needed to be able to keep herself sitting up like this, and then said softly "Whatever it is, Charles, please can you just spit it out because I would rather get this conversation over with than wonder what you are actually going to say"
Charles took a deep breath and then said "I'm sorry it's taken me so long to get in touch, I have just had a lot to deal with especially finding out that I have another son, I needed to let that sink it and that's what's taken me so long to ring" he admitted and watched her.
Molly was still so beautiful that he honestly wished they hadn't actually broken up but if she wasn't happy then how could he make her stay with him? How could he put her through all of that? But he did wish that she had told him about the fact that she had been pregnant when she left because he would've tried his hardest to work out with her how they were going to share their son.
Molly shook her head and then said "Honestly it's okay, I know that I should've told you way before that and I didn't and for that I really do apologise for that on my part" she admitted and then chewed on her lip. "I know that you have missed out on a lot and for that again I really am sorry" she nodded and him.
He was sure that's what he found hard, it wasn't the fact that they had a son, it was down to the fact that she hadn't told him all that time. That no one had told him that he had another son. Apparently Elvis didn't know about it but if he's honest he found that a little bit hard to believe especially when Georgie and Molly were friends and there was Facebook, there was no way that Molly would've been able to keep Adam a secret but clearly she had, for a long time.
Molly looked out the window for a moment and watched a woman walk passed with her child in a pram and remembered those days, remembered how small Adam had felt in her arms when she first held on to him, how he had looked up at her and how he had held on to her as he grew up. She cleared her throat before looking back at Charles "Have you told your mum about Adam?"
Charles shook his head "I don't really know how to bring it up to be honest, my mother is..."
"Difficult?" Molly asked and let a soft smile pull at her lips.
"Well I would've said something else but sure let's just go with difficult" he muttered to her before smiling and picking up his cup to take a drink of his coffee.
Molly wanted to laugh but she's not sure now would be the right time to actually do that but she did feel a grin pulling at her lips that she wasn't able to stop at all. "Sure, we'll go with difficult" she said with the grin.
She too chewed on her lip for another bit before she finally said "Are you going to take me to court?" Molly needed to know so that she could be prepared.
"No," Charles admitted "that's why I've come to you now so that we can sort this out without any lawyers and without my mother because you know that she would do it that way"
"Even if your child was with me?" Molly asked.
"Even if the child was with you" he confirmed. Maybe that was why he hadn't told her yet because he knew that she would probably go behind his back and go to a lawyer, if they were able to actually sort this out like adults then there wasn't any point to going to the courts so that he could see his son.
"You have to meet him first" Molly admitted and nodded.
It might seem weird but he was nervous about meeting his son because he didn't know who Charles was, Adam didn't know that Charles was his dad but hopefully it wouldn't be so bad.
"You are going to do fine, he loves cars by the way, he gets a new car collection what seems like every day" Molly smiled and then reached down to her bag and grabbed out a brown envelope and then handed it over to him. "I took loads of photos for every occasion so I won't miss anything and I know that you would want them eventually so why not start with these ones" she smiled again when he took the brown envelope from her hands.
Charles opened the envelope and pulled the pictures out and there was quite a lot of pictures and they went from when Adam was born to now and he looked down at the picture of Molly and their son, she was smiling even after giving birth she still looked so beautiful. His heart ached because these were pictures of all the times he had missed out.
There was a picture of Molly holding Adam on her hip and she was dressed up as a pirate and he held it up to show her and couldn't help but grin.
"It was Halloween and we went to a party and I went as a pirate" Molly admitted and if she was being honest then it was the most fun she has had in a long time and even now was glad that she didn't miss it.
"Well you look cute" he put his eyes back down to the pictures and started to go through them once more and would look at them properly when he was at home and then he slowly slid them back into the brown envelope before putting his eyes back on her. "When can I meet Adam?" he asked.
"When do you want to meet him?" Molly took a drink of her tea that was cold now but that didn't seem to matter to her because unfortunately she could drink it either way.
"Tomorrow be too soon?"
Molly shook her head "Nope it's not too soon, I was hoping that you would say that because you two have been separate for too long and now I want you to meet him" she put her cup back down on her saucer and crossed her hands over each other. "I'm glad that we could actually sit down and talk"
"Didn't think that I would?" he asked and watched her. For a while he wasn't sure what he was going to do, he had spoke to Elvis and knew that he would have to sit down with Molly and have a talk and that's why they were here today because he would rather do this face to face and without anyone else there than have this go to court where they wouldn't be able to talk face to face without lawyers getting involved and that wouldn't be fair on Adam at all.
"I thought I had finally pushed you away enough that we couldn't come back from this" Molly didn't want to think about that but there was this huge weight lifted off her shoulders now that she had finally told him about their son and now that they were sat down at the table together talking it made her feel like everything would be okay in the end.
"I'm probably an idiot but nothing you do can really push me away because you are still special to me" Charles wasn't sure if he should say that to her especially with how much weight it actually had underneath it.
"Ditto"
The two of them watched each other for a moment before Molly looked away and down to her tea before she grabbed hold of the cup and finished her drink up. The two of them said more with their stares than they ever did with words so they always knew they were on the same page without having to actually say anything but she knew that it was there, the tension, between them.
The sexual tension that made Molly want to reach across the table and pull him by his shirt and put her lips to his, just to see if they were still as soft as they had been when she last kissed them.
The noise of the cafe pulled her out of her thoughts and she looked towards the windows, her cheeks tinting slightly. The last thing she needed to be doing was undressing Charles, with her mind, while they were having a conversation about their son.
"Unfortunately I have to get back to the MOD" Charles said sadly and watched her, she looked so cute when her cheeks tinted like that so clearly what she was thinking wasn't something that should be said out loud.
"I'm glad that we had this talk and I will definitely see you tomorrow" Molly said with a smile when she looked back at him. She reached into her bag for her purse so that she could pay for her half of the bill but Charles held his hand up, he didn't want her to pay because he was such a gentleman and wanted to make sure that he paid. She rolled her eyes and put her half of the bill down anyway and then said "That stays where it is"
"Yes, Ma'am" Charles grinned before putting his own money down and grabbing the pictures before standing up "You leaving too?" he asked and looked down at her still sitting in her seat.
"Yeah, I have to get back too" she grabbed her bag after putting her purse back away and then stood up, putting the strap of her bag on her shoulder.
The two of them walked out of the cafe together but sadly the walk to Molly's car wasn't long enough and he couldn't help the disappointment inside of his chest but he would get over it. Molly unlocked the door and he opened it for her and held on to the door. "You going to be alright driving back?"
Molly put her bag onto the back seat before she turned to look at him once more "Yeah, I think I'll be alright but I will send you a text when I get back so that you know I'm safe" she liked the fact that he still worried about her. It was cute but at the same time she knew that he worried about her even when they were together.
"Please do, so I know that you got home safe"
Molly nodded once before she cleared her throat "I should let you get back to the MOD, sounds like it's a busy time at the moment and you really don't want to get in to trouble for being late"
He smiled before nodding "Yeah because I don't want to make any one angry" he teased at her before patting the top of the door for a moment before he then dropped his hand "I'll let you get going"
Molly moved and then hugged him gently and held on to him for a moment before she pulled back and watched as he leaned in and kissed her cheek softly, his lips definitely felt soft from her cheek but she still wanted to make sure but out here probably wasn't the best idea. She got into her car after her pulled away and then put her seat belt on and he shut the door. Molly used the electric windows when she turned the car on and then said her goodbye before she pulled out on to the main road and she felt the disappointment in her chest that she hadn't kissed him but they had their son to think about and the last thing they wanted was to hurt him if it went wrong.
Charles watched her driving away and he sighed under his breath before shaking his head and walking in the direction of his own car. One thing was for sure, he definitely wasn't over Molly and knew that he wouldn't be for a while and if he played his cards right then maybe they could work things out so that they get back together but first he would just take time with his son as a start.