The shift went by as normal, with no major accidents, just the usual things. This gave me a lot of time to think about how I would explain this to him but I had no idea what to say. When my shift ended I went to the reception as I knew that I would bump into him there.
"Hey Leah," I looked up to see Aoife smiling at me, "what you up to?" she asked. I loved talking to Aoife, she has such an amazing accent.
"Just waiting on my dad," I replied, "you?"
"Just finishing up now. Was that new paramedic your dad?"
"Yep."
"It seems that a lot of people have taken to him, just an hour ago I saw him flirting with a few of the nurses."
"I could really of gone without knowing that Aoife," I laughed, "please tell me you weren't one of them."
"No! No! Of course not, it was a few of the older ones, no offence but he's not really my type."
"I'm glad to hear it, so what is your type then?" I teased, she stopped laughing and became really awkward at this. She shrugged and told me that she had to finish off now and that she would see me later. I was worried, we usually teased each other all the time, I decided that I would speak to her tomorrow to see if she was okay.
I stood there for a while waiting when I saw Charlie.
"Hey Charlie!" I called and started walking over to him. "You haven't seen my dad have you?"
He looked at me with a confused expression on his face.
"I have no idea who your dad is," he replied.
"Sorry, I assumed that it would have gotten round, it's Luke the paramedic, he started here today," I explained.
"Oh, right," he replied, "he went on a shout a short while ago, we used to work together, I don't remember him mentioning a daughter."
"I know, things were... difficult, the only people to find out were Tess and Selena and they only found out because I was brought in." At that time things had been really tough for us so dad decided that it would be better off without people knowing as he didn't want people to ask questions. "Thanks Charlie," and he wandered off to get back to work.
A short while later he finally appeared and apologised for being late. We then got a bus to the hotel he was living at and started packing up until I broke the awkward silence.
"I'm sorry for not telling you, I was going to but you just assumed that was what I was doing so I didn't bother to correct you." He sat down and sighed.
"Come here Leah," he patted the space on the bed next to him. "I guess that I should of asked you instead of just assuming that you had gone into nursing like your mum. You are so like her so I just assumed that you would do the same. I know that you used to say you wanted to be a paramedic, but I thought that you had grown out of it. I guess that I just didn't like the thought of you working in a job that can be as dangerous as this. I love you Leah. I lost your mother and I just couldn't bear the thought that I might lose you as well."
This made me feel guilty, "you won't lose me, no matter what happens," I reassured me, "I thought that I had lost you, you know? You spent years doing this job and you're okay. Even so, I would always worry about you. What if something happened? I really admired you though and thought that it would be an amazing job to do... I really am sorry I never told you sooner."
"I know sweetheart," he pulled me into a hug and we just sat there, happy that we still had each other.
After a while we left the hotel and called a taxi to take us back to Jeff and Dixie's place, where we put his things into his room and then went down for tea.