I quickly reach for the lock as I turn it, enclosing us inside.
Running back into the main part of the bistro, I panic.
"Nick! It's Leanne, she's outside!" I yell in a haze. "Oh god Nick, what are we going to do?" I ask him, shaking with tears falling down my face.
"Don't worry, alright? Everything will be okay," he tries to reassure me. I can tell he doesn't believe the words he is saying.
Nick quickly walks over to Jamie's body as he reaches down and places his hands round his ankles as I start at him, in shock.
"Nick what are you doing?" I exclaim whilst he slowly drags the lifeless body towards the office, the blood splattered across the floor.
"Carla, come over here and open the door." He says, gesturing towards the office door.
I stand still and I try to move but my legs just won't carry me, this is all too much and I can't handle it.
"Carla!" He suddenly shouts as I flinch. I know he won't hurt me but any feelings of safety quickly left me after tonight.
I look into his eyes but I can't get over the feeling of fear.
The loving, comforting look that was normally in them is gone.
I rush over and hold open the door as I watch him continue to drag Jamie into the office.
As he comes back out, we hear the noise of someone trying to open the door outside and we know we have very little time.
"Hang on, I'll be one minute." Nick desperately tries to buy us more time, praying she'll realise he is in there and go or wait until we've cleared up.
I see Nick quickly run over to where the cleaning supplies had been carelessly abandoned as he picks up a mop and starts to attack the floor with it.
I try to help him but I can't. I can't move. I can't breathe.
As I look down, I see the little remanence of blood left on the floor as he hides away the blood drenched mop in his hands.
I can't help but feel queasy at the sight of it.
Nick looks round and I can see how panicked he is as he tries to scrape the glass from the table to the side.
He's desperately scraping at the floor and I know how much he's trying but he can't get rid of it.
"Nick! It's Leanne. Open up, I need a word."
He looks up as we make eye contact and we both know our time is up.
We need to do something, anything. We need to do something fast.
Before, I even have a chance to think of anything we can do to clean up the mess we made, I made, Nick's already on his way to the door.
As he grabs his keys and closes the first door behind him, I see him slowly and slightly open the second to reveal a very confused Leanne.
I creep closer towards, trying to listen in to the conversation as I anxiously wait beside the door.
"I just have some paperwork which needs your signature too," I hear Leanne's voice.
"Yeah, don't worry I'll do it now." I hear Nick reply as he scribbles down his signature onto a piece of paper on top of a folder in Leanne's hands.
It may be through the small window in the door but I can see his hand shaking.
"Are you okay?" I hear Leanne asks in a caring but worried tone as Nick looks up.
"Yeah, I'm fine." He answers and she looks satisfied.
I breathe. Slow, calm breaths.
Maybe everything will be okay, just like he said.
I look to the left as I hear and see Nick coming through the door before leaning back against it and letting out a deep sigh of relief.
We both stay there for a minute, trying to get our heads round everything that has happened.
After we've caught our breath, Nick turns slowly to me and I know what he's wanting to say. I know what we need to do. I know that if we don't, we'll both pay the price.
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