I'm a horrible person and I am sorry that this is so late but college is kicking my ass!

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She was late.

She was really, really late.

It wasn't her first time taking Peri to nursery but it was definitely the most chaotic, her mum and dad both had been at work quite often so it usually fell on Leela to take her. She had finished school that year and had no idea what she wanted to do with her life much to her parents chagrin. So until she figured it out she was on Peri duty and her mother definitely didn't approve of that.

Everything that could go wrong that morning did go wrong. First she had slept in, then the kettle had broken meaning she couldn't get her morning coffee, Now she was having at argument with Peri about shoes! All in all it was a horrible morning.

"You're wearing the trainers!" Leela said frustrated. She had been having the same argument for the last 10 minutes and she was seriously considering just taking Peri to nursery without shoes.

"No." Peri replied stubbornly.

"We do not have time for this Peri!"

"They're ugly and I'm not wearing them."

"You picked them!" Leela shouted frustratedly. "You cannot wear wellies in the middle of summer."

"Yes I can."

"No you can't."

"Why?" Peri asked.

"Because I said so!"

"That's not a reason."

"Yes it is!"

"No."

"Yes it is."

"NO!"

Leela had had enough playing around with her and started trying to force the shoes on Peri.

"NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!"

"OK fine." Leela sighed giving up. "But just know that everyone is going to laugh at you when they see you wearing those shoes."

"OK." Peri shrugged not really caring what others thought she loved her new wellies.

After dropping Peri off at nursery she hastily made her way to the local café for her shift. She usually picked up a few hours everyday when Peri was at nursery saving her from going stir crazy and gave her some money for nights out.

"I'm so sorry I'm late." Leela said rushing through the unusually busy café into the back room to put her apron on. "You would not believe how stubborn Peri was this afternoon going to nursery, I really don't want to know what she's going to be like as a teenager."

Tammy laughed from her place at the till. "Leela I don't think there has been a day you haven't been late. If you where actually here on time I would start to worry."

"You have a point." Leela smiled bumping her hip with Tammy's

"So what did you argue about today then?"

"You don't even want to know." Leela said rolling her eyes.

"She's a handful that girl." Tammy laughed. "Just like her big sister."

"Too right." Leela replied cheekily secretly wished that Peri turned out nothing like her. "Why's it so busy in here anyway, someone invite the knitting club."

"Shhh!" Tammy whispered. "They're not that old and can hear you."

"Doubtful." Leela snorted.

"It's a reading group I think, they're hear every Friday."

"I've never seen them."

"That's because for the last 3 Fridays you've been going on nature walks with the nursery."

"You should have told me if it was this busy, those things aren't mandatory there are lots of parents willing to go in my place."

"It's nothing I couldn't handle and I knew how much you love those days and Peri. I wasn't going to be the one to break that little girls heart."

"You are an amazing friend, do you know that." Leela said hugging Tammy tightly.

Tammy laughed squeezing her back with just as much force. "Aww you're just saying that cause it's true."

Despite the fact that there where more customers than she was used to in the tiny café, Leela's shift went by as normal with her spending the majority of her time in the kitchen and Tammy operating the till. She was lucky really that she had found this place.

It was after the first had she had dropped Peri off at nursery and didn't want to be to far away encase they called her to come and pick her up. She ended up spending the rest of the day there. Then it kid of became a habit drop Peri off at 11am and wait at the café till 3.30pm till it was time to pick her up. Eventually Tammy's mother Anna who owned the place had taken pity on her and handed her a cloth to give to tables a once over claiming if she was going to sit there every afternoon she might as well make herself useful.

"Leela you'd better go if you want to get there on time." Tammy shouted breaking Leela's train of thought.

"What? Oh god I'm going to be late." Leela moaned looking at the clock.

"No you won't it's only up the road."

"Yeah and she expects me to be there waiting for her, you know what she's like."

"A diva."

"Well it's not the word I'd use but it will do."

"You're bad."

"I know." Leela shrugged hastily making her way through the café. That was the only way she seemed to get anywhere these days hastily.

"Leela." She heard called behind her but she didn't have time to talk.

"Sorry I'm busy." She called out not bothering to turn around.

"Leela Lomax." She heard, frustrated Leela turned around really to tell the person where to go but was shocked to see who was calling her name.

"Mrs Campbell?"