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Chapter Twelve

"Lily! Could I see you for a moment?"

Lily was in the spare bedroom of her flat when she heard Archie shout out to her. She'd been crouched on the floor, rummaging through the secret drawer that she kept under at the bottom of the wardrobe. The drawer held all sorts of sugary snacks, snacks that she'd bought to store away for a binge session. There were chocolate bars, packets of crisps, lollipops, everything that you could possibly think so.

She unwrapped one of the chocolate bars and stuffed the entire thing into her mouth, before shutting the drawer away in the wardrobe. There it would stay until next time.

"What is it, Archie?" She asked, walking into the living room.

"What is this in your handbag?" He asked, holding up a small piece of paper. "A receipt!"

"You...You just answered your own question," Lily replied.

"Do not smart mouth me!" He shouted aggressively. "Who the hell did you go for drinks with?"

Lily recognised the date on the receipt. She'd gone to the pub with a few of the girls from work but it was from ages ago, way before she met Archie. She had a bad habit of shoving receipts into her bag and forgetting about them, something that she really needed to stop doing.

"That was from ages ago," Lily admitted. "Archie, it's nothing so just leave it okay?"

"You are not allowed to see anyone, apart from me," he threatened. "Do you not understand that? You are dating me Lily. Sometimes I don't feel as if you do love me!"

"Don't say that," Lily argued. "I...I went on my own, okay?"

"No." He shook his head at her. "No, you didn't. Because if you did, you bought an awful lot of drinks!"

"Okay, I didn't," Lily sighed. "I went with people from work; Alicia, Robyn, Louise, Ethan."

"Ethan!" His voice grew louder and louder. "So you went with another man, did you?"

"Ethan's my best friend," Lily told him, her lip beginning to wobble slightly. "I can't just stop seeing him."

"You disgust me," he spat. "And you've gained weight as well. Look at the state of you! I thought I told you to lose the weight, not bloody gain it. It's like you're not even trying, Lily!"

"I...I am trying!" Suddenly, she was unable to stop the tears from falling. "I'm trying my best."

"Well you're obviously not trying hard enough," Archie hissed. "Look," he sighed and threw himself down on the sofa, running a hand down his face in frustration. "I'm prepared to drop the receipt, but only if you promise to at least try and listen to me. Lose the weight, stop with the lies, and I never ever want you to see these people without my permission."

Lily was silent for a while.

"You're the best thing that's ever happened to me, princess." He smiled at her, but it wasn't a smile that made Lily feel loved or comforted. "Why don't we sit down together and watch that film that you so badly wanted to watch, hey?"

Lily hung her head and nodded, too afraid to even look him in the eye. "Sure," she answered. "Just let me go to the bathroom first."

She didn't mention the fact that it was to throw up the chocolate bar that she'd just eaten.

"What the hell are you wearing?" Iain chuckled, as he approached the registrar early the next morning.

The ED was packed and the majority of the staff were on the early shift. Iain had been trying his absolute best to hide the fact that he was exhausted from a late night drinking session with Cal and Max, but the site of Lily perked him up straight away.

She'd gone back to the scrubs for starters. Her hair was tied up in a lose ponytail, old worn trainers were on her feet, and she'd returned the glasses to her face. After being told by Archie that morning that she looked too much like a slut, she thought the best option was to wear scrubs. Of course everyone was surprised to see her in them, but she didn't even care.

As long as Archie was happy.

"Where's the usual, pretty outfits that you normally wear?" He asked her.

"They may be pretty outfits," Lily sighed, forcing a smile. "Which means that pretty girls should be the ones to wear them."

"Hey, where's all this coming from?" Iain asked. "Is this about the conversation we had yesterday?"

"Iain, just..." Lily pushed his hand away from her and shook her head. "Just leave it," she finished.

"You did eat that sandwich, didn't you?" He said. "You said that you would."

"Of course I did," Lily replied. "Thank you. I just fancied a change, okay? I was sick and tired of people accusing me of acting and looking like Mrs Beauchamp all the time. I may have been promoted to a registrar, but I should have just kept the scrubs."

"Now, that's not true," Iain said. "You are your own person, Lily. Sure you changed when you became a registrar, but you were more confident and more comfortable in what you looked like."

He eyed her up and down and sighed wordlessly.

"Now..." He gave a small shrug and chuckled to himself. "Now you just look too easy to boss around. Ditch the scrubs, yeah? Because trust me, you looked super hot in that dress that you wore yesterday."

Lily laughed, biting down shyly on her lip. When was the last time that a man had actually called her hot? When was the last time that someone had flirted with her and told her that she looked nice in what she was wearing? She couldn't even recall a time like that.

"I don't want to see these scrubs tomorrow," Iain said. "I will be waiting to see a pretty girl in a pretty outfit, believe me."

"Thank you, Iain," Lily whispered.

"You are very welcome, Chuckles," Iain said. "Now I better go. How about we meet for lunch again?"

Lily remembered what Archie had said to her and knew that the best option was to decline Iain's kind offer. Besides, she'd done so well. She'd eaten the majority of what was in her secret drawer last night before throwing it all back up. Luckily for her Archie had slept at his own house so she was able to do it in secret, without anyone knowing.

If she met with Iain, it meant that she would have to eat a proper meal, in front of him, and she couldn't do that. There was a packet of crisps in her locker, calling her name, for when she had to be sick again and she hadn't planned to do that until one o'clock at the latest.

"Sorry," she apologised, quickly thinking up an excuse. "I'm super busy today. How about another time though?"

"Sure," Iain said.

Lily gave him a fake smile and walked away, quickly breathing out a sigh of relief when she was out of sight.

Iain watched her go with a look of concern. He slowly made his way over to the desk that Lily had been sitting at yesterday and reached underneath to check if the bins had been emptied.

Luckily they hadn't and he wasn't at all surprised when he saw the sandwich, unopened, sitting at the bottom of it.

Drama appears in the next chapter x