Thought you lovely people should get another update before I go back to college since I don't know the next time I will update.
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"I thought that was you." Mrs Campbell smiled albeit hesitantly.
Leela stood shock still unable to process what was happening. "I, What are you doing here?"
"Lachlan lives no to far from here now," She replied. "I just wanted to say hello, I know that after all that business with Cameron that your parents didn't really want you around us anymore but it would be nice to catch up sometime, if your free of course."
"I don't know." Leela replied hesitantly still to shocked to process what was going on. "Mum wouldn't like that."
Mrs Campbell laughed. "Since when have you listened to anything anyone else had to say, what happened to that rebellious girl who snuck through my sons bedroom window most nights."
Leela looked at her in shock.
"You didn't think I knew about that? Honey neither of you where very subtle, a heard of elephants in my front room would have been more subtle."
"This is just a shock is all."
"I imagine it is, I haven't spoken to you since before Cam got arrested."
"I really need to go." Leela said not wanting to talk anymore.
Mrs Campbell persisted. "I want you to know I don't blame you. You did what you had to."
"What?" Leela said frozen in shock. All that kept going through her mind was 'She knows' Flashing like a neon sign.
"Moving away. I cannot tell you the amount of times I thought about time getting away from there especially after what Cam did. I want you to know that I don't blame you for moving on with your life, it's for the best no matter what Cameron thinks."
"He's asked about me?" Leela asked light-headed from the revelation. She was sure that he hated her because it was her mum that put him away.
"Your all he used to talk about. Ready to blame everyone but himself for where he ended up. "Seeing Leela's face drop she elaborated. "No! He doesn't blame you honey, He's blaming you're mum, saying she's setting him up."
"She wouldn't do that." Not to me, she added silently.
"Don't worry about it, He has no one to blame bar himself, Sometimes I don't want to visit him either but he is my son no matter what he's done."
"Visit him?"
"He sent you visiting orders before you moved? I thought you knew?"
"No, he didn't, I waited for him to reach out to me but he never." Leela replied feeling slightly hysterical. Her whole decision the get Peri to her parents was built on the fact Cameron didn't want anything to do with her, She couldn't raise a baby alone.
Mrs Campbell frowned. "Leela he did, You where all he talked about for the first year inside. He even had Lachlan try to look for you when he found out you'd moved."
"I never got a visiting order." Leela denied. She knew for a fact that he didn't try to contact her. She had spent months sitting by the phone waiting for it to ring. He mother had even pulled some strings and found out where he was and Leela had written him letter after letter begging for an explanation but none came.
"I don't know what to tell you honey, he loves you so much. He wouldn't just leave you hanging like that."
Loves not Loved Leela noted.
"Well he did!" Leela exploded. "He left me, Never once asked what I thought about his stupid plan, did he even take me into consideration? No! He ruined my life the day to got sent to prison."
"Leela he did what he did for you."
"I didn't ask him to rob a bank." Leela blanched. "I spent months going over every conversation we ever had and not once did he even imply he was going to do something that stupid."
"He said he was doing it for you," Mrs Campbell said softly. "That you two where planning on running away together."
"I didn't ask him to do that!"
They had talked about running away with each other,. Away from their family's, away from school, away from all the pressure that they where under because they wanted to be together but she didn't know he had taken her serious.
"You didn't need too, He was stupidly in love with you. He would have done anything."
Leela wanted to dispute what she was saying but knew deep down Mrs Campbell was right. They where stupid kids that fell too hard too fast and as scary as that was it was even scarier the lengths she knew Cameron would go for her.
"You can't change the past," Leela smiled bitterly. "What's done is done no matter how much we want to change that we can't."
"No we can't." Mrs Campbell agreed. "But that doesn't mean it doesn't still hurt."
"Trust me, I got over Cameron a long time ago."
"Really?" Mrs Campbell asked doubtfully. "Cause it doesn't look that way from where I'm standing."
"What you mean you don't have my whole life figured out from the 5 minute conversation with you bombarding me with things from the past? Colour me shocked."
"I always liked that about you." She smiled.
"What?"
"The fact that you didn't take any bull from anyone, even back then I knew you would be good for Cam."
"Really cause it didn't seem that way when you where telling us to stay apart." Leela snorted at Mrs Campbell's rose-tinted version of the past.
"But you never did listen, if anything I think that made you want to be together even more."
"Yeah we were a regular Romeo and Juliette." Leela said checking her watch cursing when she realised she was really late now. "Look as fun as this was I really need to go I'm late."
"Act least take my number, encase you change your mind." She said trying to hand Leela a piece of paper where she had hastily written her number.
"I won't." Leela said walking away.
"You where late." Peri huffed.
"I know baby I'm sorry but I got held up at work." Leela soothed.
"All the mummy's and daddy's had already camed and not you!" Peri said. "You forgot me!"
"I could never forget you, Your far to pretty to forget." Leela said pinching Peri's cheeks.
"Stop." Peri said wiggling her tiny body away from Leela. "I'm going to tell mummy and she'll rest you."
"Well if she arrests me then who'll pick you up from school?" Leela said feigning hurt.
"I'm a big girl I can walk home on my own."
"And you wouldn't be scared?" Leela asked.
"Nope."
"Really? OK." Leela shrugged dropping Peri's hand and walking in the other direction.
"Leela? Where you go Leela?" Peri shouted running after her.
"Well I figured since you don't need me any more I can go and have some fun at the park while you walk home." Leela said innocently.
"I come! Leela, we go to the park?" Peri said catching up with Leela after she slowed down.
"I don't know," Leela said pretending to think. "You're a big girl now you wont like the park."
"No! No I little, See!" Peri said grabbing her hand and putting it on her head. "I little."
Leela just laughed lifting her into her arms.
