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Run. Run. Run.

I run and I run and I don't stop. All I have is Holly, she's all I need.

I know I left the bags there but I just need to go, to get away.

I can here him shouting my name.

"Carla, slow down"

"Carla"

"Carla"

I don't know where I'm going. I just run.

After what seems like forever, I take a right turn into what looks like a small dark alleyway. Gently leaning the back of my head against the cold brick wall, I stop and listen.

Silence.

I can't believe it. How could I be so stupid?

One year. 365 days. One whole year and I seriously thought he wouldn't have moved on?

He's the greatest guy I've ever been with. He was too good for me. Everyone said it. And those who didn't were thinking it.

Of course he moved on. I was stupid to think otherwise.

But, why her? Leanne. Leanne flamin' Battersby.

My ex husband's ex wife. My ex fiancés ex wife, well I guess she's not his ex anymore.

He could have anyone, why her?

I guess everyone always did say.

Not to me but I knew they were all thinking it.

It's what they were all thinking.

Nick is the love of Leanne's life and Leanne is the love of his, anyone who thinks they can get in the way of that is mistaken.

And I was.

Where does this leave me?

How could I have been this stupid?

I flew over 5,000 miles and why?

Because Roy said he missed me.

I guess Roy read the signals wrong. How could I think he could miss me? After everything I did to him.

Cheating on him. Lying to him. Letting him find it out from Tracy Barlow whilst I was lying in a hospital bed.

Tracy Barlow of all people. She must have loved it.

She would have loved to see that.

Me turning up, making a fool out of myself, bags in one hand a baby in the other.

Thinking we could just start over.

"You could always come back, just for a visit, Nick misses you, we all do"

Yeah. He missed me alright. He missed me so much that as soon as I was gone he shacked up with his ex.

Suddenly, I'm pulled from my thoughts as Holly begins to wail loudly in my arms.

What am I doing?

"Come on sweetheart, don't worry it's okay," I gently attempt to soothe my 2 month old daughter.

Eventually, she manages to calm down, only emitting the occasional whimper.

That's when I realise, all my money, my phone, everything is in my bags. My bags I left right outside my exes flat where I earlier humiliated myself.

I can't go back and get them and risk it, risk seeing him.

How could I have been so stupid?

I need to go. I know I need to go.

But, I can't seem to move, move from this dirty brick wall in this tiny little alleyway. I just can't.

It's like all the strength, all my energy, all the love has been drained out of me.

Eventually, I manage to slowly find my way out and back on to the rather nostalgic street.

I feel Holly wriggle against me again and I know she's cold and tired but I don't know what to do or where to go.

So, I walk.

I walk and walk until I sharply turn round a corner at the end of the street when I suddenly crash into an oncoming person.

"Oh my gosh I'm so sorry, sorry I was just..."

Suddenly, I stop talking and, for a moment, stop breathing.

Of all the street corners and all the people to foolishly bang into.

"Nick"

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