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Peter got out of the cab and took Carla's hand helping her out. To make sure Carla didn't get overwhelmed Peter had rang Michelle and made sure that Lottie was in pre-school and that it was on a need to know basis that she was discharged. Carla looked up and down the street, her eyes settling on the bookies.

'Is that where you work?' She asked trying to grasp at a memory.

'Yeah, but my step-sister Tracy is working for me so I could keep a handle on Lottie and Simon. She also lives in the flat above it.'

'With Amy?'

'With Amy.' Peter squeezed her hand gently, reassuring her silently that she was doing well.

'Why don't we live there if you own the bookies?'

'Because...' Peter turned and walked still holding Carla's hand to their house. 'We live here. Tracy was living her when you were pregnant but it was too much space for her and there was barely enough space in the flat for you, me and Simon, let alone a new baby.' Peter put his hand in his pocket to get his keys but Carla stopped him.

'I don't want to go in. Not yet.' Carla looked at him with terrifed eyes.

'Okay love' Peter looked at his watch 'do you want to go into the pub? Get to know people again, most of the factory lot will be in there.' Carla nodded and smiled slightly but Peter knew she scared.

'It'll be fine, I'll be here, with you.' He squeezed her hand again before the pair headed towards the pub.

..

'So Peter's gone into hospital to see Carla, try and help her remember?' Sean asked Michelle.

'Yeah with photos and the like but it will take time. The doctors said that because of what she went through her brain has gone into shut down, trying to stop her remembering. It's just lucky that she remembers everything that happened before she met Peter.'

'So she can remember Paul and Liam and Tony?' Maria asked.

'Yeah but after that it's just a blur for her.'

'What if she never remembers? What if sh..' Sean's words where cut short by Peter entering the pub and then to everybody's (except Michelle's) suprise Carla coming in behind him. Michelle jumped up and wrapped her arms around Carla, who greatfully returned the hug. The pub was silent until Carla spoke up.

'Might want to close your mouth love, folk might start chucking pennies in.' She said to Sean, not knowing what an effect that sentence would have on the factory staff.

'You remembered then.' Sean said with a smile on his face, after closing his mouth. Peter took Carla up to the bar.

'Two cokes please Stella.' Carla looked at the woman behind the bars face.

'You helped me, but then you hated me. I did something to hurt you.' Carla said trying to remember what she did but all she could remember was that something intimate was shared, something that, if she ever remembered shouldn't be voiced in public.

'It's all in the past love, all that matters is that your okay.' Peter took their drinks and the pair went to sit with the factory workers and Maria, catching up with the latest gossip, Carla trying to put a name to all the faces she barely remembered.

..

Later on Carla went into the toliets to reapply her lippy when a memory flashed into her head.

'I told you to leave me alone.' Leanne said in a bored tone

'Look i'm not a bad person Leanne despite what you think.'

'Despite what I think? This isn't about what I think, this is about what happened.'

'I've done nothing wrong it was purely innocent, he came back to mine, we chatted, he was in a really bad place...' Carla said, trying to explain her actions.

'Yeah, your flat.' She snapped.

'He asked if he could kip the night, I said yes...nothing happened I promise. I thought I was being a friend.'

'To who? You sat there night after night listening to me pour my heart out about my affair with Nick, yeah, some kind of innosence.'

'I am your friend.'

'A friend who tried to get Peter in her bed, don't lie to me Carla.'

'I wasn't scheming, there wasn't some master plan.'

'And how do you expect me to beleive that eh? When your such a calculating cow.'

'You can't help who you fall in love with Leanne, you and Nick are the living proof of that. So don't come the moral high ground with me.'

'I'll tell you what Carla, take your cliches and stick them where the sun don't shine.'

'You wouldn't be Snow White if Peter knew what you had been up to..'

'Oh just get out my face.'

'Oh don't worry i'm going, the stench of hypocroicy is making me sick.'

Leanne. She was the reason she could remember Stella hating her. Peter was married to Leanne when they found out about her being pregnant. But why did Stella help her? These thoughts were floating round her head when she exited the toliets, almost crashing into the woman herself.

'Woah, slow down I was just checking you were okay you were in there a long time, are you alright Carla?' Stella looked into the younger womans eyes.

'I'm so sorry Stella, about the affair, Leanne, I didn't mean to hurt her.'

'Like I said it's all in the past.' Stella said smiling.

'But why where you so nice to me? What happened that made you trust me?'

Stella took a deep breath 'You will remeber that in time love, and when you do then I'll explain, but for know its not something that you need to worry about.'

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