Jim awoke in the rovers without Liz, though he felt they should have been together. They should have woke together enjoyed married life that day. But all chance was gone.
Getting up he was sure he had never felt so lonely in his life. How could she have done it to him.
Had he not been on his best behaviour with her since he had come out. He had not been paranoid, he hadn't doubted her once.
It was all so unfair.
Putting on a shirt and jeans he headed down where he saw Violet, Betty, Sean and the twins all getting ready for the shift .
"We can go if you want." said violet. She had been there yesterday. It couldn't be easy for him right now.
"No." he shook his head. He had to go on as if nothing had happened. As if he had not just lost the love of his lie to a low life scum bag. Though by the sounds of things Liz sill wanted him and not Vernon.
"Did yer see yer mother yesterday?" he asked the boys and they nodded.
"She was pretty low!" said Steve.
"Is she going to bed coming home today?" he asked and they nodded.
Right, he thought to himself. That was ok. She could have the big room and he would go in the spare. He couldn't be with her like that right now.,.
"I can go pick her up if you too have other thing stuff to do, so I can." He said. He wanted to go get her any way.
"Alright" said Steve.
"Good." He said to them finally. "Any one want a brew?"
-
Liz was shocked when she saw it was Jim and not one of her sons who had come to get her.
"How are you feeling?" he asked. The tension could be cut with a knife.

"Pretty sick." She admitted. "With myself."
"Not here Elizabeth." He said under his breathe. They would talk about them, when they got back. "The baby?"
"Its doing ok, but I have to get more rest, and avoid stressful situations." She laughed. How was she meant to do that?
"Alright then." He said as he went over to her and helped her off the bed.
"Are we still together Jim?" she asked.
"I dunno Liz. Things have changed so much now. I don't know what is going to happen between us any more." He could here how broken he was just in his voice.
She nodded guessing that was a fair reply.
-
Amy was still with her dad while all this was going on and it couldn't have upset her more.
Her nanny was ill and her grandpa was upset, worse still her dad and her uncle were telling her nothing.
"I am not a kid. " the six year old said.
"Amy, you really are hunny." Said Andy as he gave her a hug. "What you have to understand is nanny Elizabeth and Grandpa Jim are going through a really, really bad time right now."
"Does this mean I wont get to have a new aunt or uncle?" she asked.
"No kiddo the baby is fine but I may mean that the baby lives with nanny Liz and granddad has to visit or vice versa."
"That won't be nice for the baby though." Amy protested. She wished she could live with both her mum and her dad and it was unfair she couldn't.
It was just then that the door opened and her grand parents back from hospital walked in.
"You alright mum?" asked Andy.
"yeah I am love, just I'm a bit tired. I might go up for a bit of a rest." She said and Jim nodded.
"I can do you a brew if you want." he offered.
"No, its ok Jim. I need a bit of sleep." She said to him and she didn't want him, running about after her any more. It was not fair on him.
Walking up, m she took off the suit she had worn to the ceremony yesterday. It had been every thing she had dreamt of.
Every time she thought on it though she just felt so guilty that it made her feel physically pain.
She had thrown so much away in the moment she had succumb to Vernon.
Steve waned down to the Kabin. His mum and his dad needed some milk and despite her betrayal it seemed Jim was unable to leave his mum, not while she was in such a state. He had to be there for the baby's sake he said. Just encase, till Liz relaxed a bit more.
Opening the door he sighed. Then he heard it gossiping. He should have known.
"Well it was always going to happen with that woman as the bride. She's a hussy, always has been."
"Don't be so unkind." Bit back Rita. "You can tell she loves him, it just didn't go to plan." He said.
"Yes of course it didn't she got caught."

Steve felt his blood race as he released they were talking about his mum and his dad. They had no right to!
"Oh Norris you are a scenic, just cause your marriage didn't work out." Said Rita.
"Just what I was thinking." said Steve as he appeared making them both look rather embarrassed.
"Oh Steve. How's your mum?" asked Rita.
"She's recovering." He said as he shot a look that could kill at Norris.
"And, the baby?"
"Well its still there so it's a relief,. She hasn't lost it." he reassured Rita.
"Send her my love." She told him as he paid for his milk.
!"Will do."
-
Liz woke at six that evening hungry. She had slept a lot of the day. It was time to get up.
Going down and straight in to the back room she saw it was for deserted, for which she was grateful, and she wondered in to the kitchen.
Making her self the tea that Jim had offered her early, she took it through to the sofa with a bit of toast and sat down.
She wished she knew what was going to happen now. Every thing had been going to well for her. Why had she had to go and screw it up?
It was then the door opened to reveal the man who should have been her husband by now.
"How are yer feeling?" he asked her worriedly.
"Not wonderful but better than was I guess." she said to him. "and guilty." She admitted. "If I could turn back the clock Jim, you have to know I would."
"I do, I do Elizabeth but you see I was trying to figure out when all this went on." he said and she shut her eyes in pain. He had done the math. He had put two and two together and he had ended up with four. "You see we've been together every night since I've been out, except when I was burying me dad." He said and she couldn't look at him for guilt.
"I didn't plan it to happen I didn't want it to happen Jim it just did." She said to him.
"Right." He nodded knowing his worse fears were confirmed. "Was it in our bed?" he asked trying really hard not to let his temper get the better of him.
She said nothing.
"Some times actions speak than words. Aye?" he asked as he got up and left the room.
What he had left of his had now been broken.
-
The next day Liz got up on time, put on her face and went down to open up. She had hid long enough.
She had hated awaking though to find Jim wasn't there. She hated him being in the spare room and not in there.
"You should be resting." He reminded her as she walked in to the bar.
"I want to face every one. Show them that I'm ok, and so the baby." She said and he nodded.
"Alright but go put your feet up till we open." He asked and she nodded.

"Thank you." She added, just as she left.
"For what?" he questioned her.
"Not leaving me, you would have every right too. most men would has have been gone by now." She added.
"Do you remember the night of the party, when I got home?" he asked. She nodded.
"I promised you I would never leave you again, so I did." He told her and she nodded understanding.
"Thank you any way Jim. You're a prince."
-
Liz decided to go out for a bit on the night shift so at seven she braved the bar. Every one fell silent as coronations street scarlet women came in to view.
"What can I get you derider?" she asked her friend trying to act normal as the bar stared at her.
"G&T please Liz." Deirdre said supportively to her friend.
"Coming right up!" She said as she went to get it,
Every one marvelled at how Liz and Jim still seemed together. Every one had thought he would scarper. His boys were proud of him for the way he was taking care of there mum. He had had a moment of weakness, but that was all it was when he had gone to the river.
She was doing well on the shift.
Till Vernon and Michelle came in. She clearly knew, and she looked furious.
"You COW LIZ!" she said to her. Jim was intensely on the defence.
"Don't you dare talk to her like that." He said to her. No way was he going to let a gobby little cow like that say those things. Especially to a pregnant women.
"What the hell are you doing sticking up for her? You have been betrayed to mate." She reminded him.
"Thing is she I love her. And I am not going to let you talk like that to her when she is pregnant." He added.
"The brat probably isn't even yours." She accused Liz. "It'll probably be Vernon's. My Vernon's."
She was really pushing Jim to his limits now. He loved Liz. He promised her to look after to her.
"It is." He said to her as he wrapped his arms round Liz's bump, holding her for the first time since the wedding, despite the anger he felt for her in those moments. "now get out. You're both bared." He told them.
Vernon shook his head. "I have to talk to you Liz." He wanted to be part of the child's life if it was his.
"No you don't. This is Jim and my baby. Not yours. So leave us in peace. Its like Jim said, you're both barred."