Nick really should have told Carla about Simon.
He regretted not telling her the moment they had left underworld.
He regretted it because, Leanne was stood on the corner of the street, looking extremely troubled and as Carla spotted her, He knew it was game over.
"Alright Leanne?" Carla asked as she made her way over to her. Leanne just shrugged and shook her head.
"Not really no Carla, but I'm trying to remain as positive as I can." Leanne said miserably, so lost in thoughts of Simon that she could barley think about anything else.
"Okay..." Carla looked at Leanne a little confused.
"Come on Carla let's go…" Nick began but Carla shook her head at him, She knew something was wrong but she just couldn't put her finger on it.
"Leanne?" Carla said again,
"I'll be okay… Peter's out there looking for him, so hopefully he'll find him and everything will be fine." Leanne said and that was it, Nick knew that a storm was coming.
"Who?" Carla asked Leanne, baffled as to what exactly was going on, She felt as if she had maybe missed something. Leanne looked at Carla, she was also confused too.
"Y'know, Simon…" Leanne said and then she read Nick's uncomfortable expression. "You didn't tell her did you?" Leanne asked, rolling her eyes, the last thing she had wanted was to cause trouble between Carla and Nick. "Oh Nick how could you ave been so stupid?"
"Tell me what?" Carla asked, staring at Nick with her eyes wide, She was already beginning to panic yet she knew absolutely nothing about the situation. "Nick?"
"Simon didn't go to school today and he hasn't come home since." Nick said, not quite looking Carla in the eye as he spoke.
"What?" Carla spat "Why the hell didn't you tell me?"
Leanne shook her head at Nick and sighed,
"I told him to tell ya, he said he would."
"Yeah okay Leanne." Nick said irritatedly "I was just about to…" he lied and Carla knew he was lying.
"No you weren't." She said staring at him furiously, she knew what he was just about to do and it wasn't going to be telling her about Simon.
"I'm gonna leave you two to it." Leanne said as she began walking off. She had a lot more things to worry about than Carla and Nick arguing. Nick watched her as he was left stood on the cobbles with Carla.
"I'm waiting Nick... Why didn't you tell me?" She asked sternly, staring at him in complete and utter disbelief, She was unable to think of a good enough reason as to why Nick would keep something like this from her.
"Carla I didn't want to worry you…" Nick started
"Oh don't give me that." Carla shouted and she began to walk away from him, Nick hopelessly ran after her as she crossed the road.
"Carla please it's true…" Carla stopped walking and looked at Nick
"Seriously Nick, after everything that has happened over the past few days, do not stand there and lie to me… tell me the truth, why did you not tell me about Simon?"
"Because..." Nick started
"Because of what?" Carla asked, getting angrier as the conversation went on,
"Carla... I've barley seen you over the past few days and I knew that if I told you... I knew that you would run off again and I've missed you."
"Really Nick?" Carla was staring at him now "Are ya honestly telling me that you didn't tell me about my step son going missing because you didn't want to miss me? D'ya realise how ridiculous that sounds?"
"I know it sounds crazy Carla but it's true." Nick said hopelessly
"You should have told me Nick, there's no excuse. The kid's still my Stepson for god sake." Carla said and then she began waking, Nick begun following her again, he was practically running after her in fact.
"Carla let's not pretend you two were ever close, I mean you have barley seen the kid recently." Nick said, he knew it was out of order and that it wouldn't help the situation with Carla but he just couldn't help it.
"Yeah well that goes to show how much you know Nick because I saw him last night!" Carla said still storming up Coronation Street, Her high-heeled boots were clicking away against the cobbles as she walked towards The Rover's.
"What?" Nick said "When?"
"I was there when he found out about Deirdre, I was there almost all evening, I watched the boy, I held him when he cried and I promised him that I would help him and his family through this."
"But... but you said you were with Michelle." Nick said dejectedly,
"Yeah well I wasn't" Carla said shrugging "And let's be honest with each other ere Nick, you had some idea that I wasn't with Michelle last night, which is why you went checking up on me in the pub."
"I was not checking up on you Carla..."
"Yes you were Nick, It may not of been on purpose but deep deep down, you didn't trust me and you just had to go and see for your self." Carla said stopping outside Ken's house.
"Why did you lie to me Carla?" Nick asked looking hurt.
"Why d'ya think Nick?" Carla said exasperated "I needed some time with The Barlow's and you aven't exactly reacted well to me hanging around Peter ave you?"
"Well Carla what did you expect me to act like? Yeah I'll be honest with you, I really don't like how much time you've been spending with him, there I said it."
"Why not?" Carla asked although she knew exactly why, Nick sighed heavily and shook his head.
"Because he hurt you Carla, He cheated on you." Carla took a slight step back, After everything that had been going on, she couldn't believe that Nick would throw Peter's affair in her face, just like that. She was amazed that during her first proper argument with Nick that he would even mention it.
"Don't you think I know that? Don't you think I'm reminded of it every time I walk past that factory yard?" Carla cried pointing over into the direction of where Tina died. "I know exactly what Peter did to me."
"It's not just that Carla, It's what he does to everyone, he's poison… I mean let's not forget what else he has done, he's almost killed his own kid in a fire, married two women at the same time… He once locked me in a room whilst clutching a crow bar for god sake... Carla he's really not a good person."
"Yeah well people in glass houses n all that Nick." Carla said bitterly.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Nick said, as if he didn't understand what Carla was getting at.
"Well you're hardly a saint are ya Nick? I mean let's take a look at your wrap sheet shall we? You slept with your brothers wife, You practically poured booze down Peter's neck when you wanted Leanne back, Oh n speaking of Leanne not only did you ave an affair with her, you've even hit her, not to mention you even tried to con me once..."
"Y'know I cannot believe that you are standing there and throwing all of my past mistakes in my face... I'm not the same person as I was back then Carla... People change." Nick said, he was rather thrown by just how much truth Carla had spouted at him. He couldn't help but wonder if she had been thinking about all of these things before hand or if they just so happened to come out now.
"Oh but it was okay for you to stand there and throw everything Peter has done in my face…" Carla sighed "None of us are perfect Nick, I mean I've done some pretty terrible things me self but like you said people change... The past is in the past."
"Well it's not past thought is it Carla? I mean you and him kissed the other day didn't you?"
"Why one earth are you bringing that up? You said you forgave me?" Carla shook her head disappointedly at Nick, once again he was proving himself to be a stranger to her.
"I have forgiven you Carla... but I haven't forgive him, I don't trust him one little bit." Nick said thinking about the conversation that he'd had with Peter earlier, whilst Peter had said he wasn't planning on spoiling anything, Nick still didn't believe a word of it.
"So what if you don't trust him Nick..." Carla began "You should trust me, even if he did try it on or do anything that doesn't mean I would respond to it... Y'know I don't know why we are even talking about any of this, Simon is still missing and that's what's this should be about, not about your lack of trust in me."
"I know that Carla... It just makes me so angry, angry that everything has changed so much between us… in a matter of days." Nick said sadly. He thought about how happy he had been with Carla and wished so much that she hadn't of insisted on going into The Rover's that night. Maybe things would have been different with Carla now. Maybe they would have been alright if she hadn't of had such an emotional reunion with Peter.
"Yeah well... If Peter coming back ere has caused us so many problems then maybe..." Carla began
"Maybe what?" Nick asked agitatedly,
"Maybe we weren't as happy as we thought we were." Carla sighed.
"Yeah… maybe I was just a distraction." Nick mumbled. Carla took a deep breath and shook her head at Nick, she was beginning to get so angry that she could barley control her self.
"Don't you dare say that Nick, you were not a distraction, do you not realise how hard it's been for me to deal with you and Erica having this baby?" She cried "It's been agony, do you really think it would put up with all of that just for a distraction?" Nick shrugged not knowing what to say to Carla. She swallowed, trying so hard to keep her cool.
There were so many things going on in Carla's life right now, things that she had absolutely no control over and things that made her want to run right away, right away with a bottle of wine. She knew exactly how Peter felt last night and she wished that she could just give into that feeling.
She couldn't, it wouldn't be fair. She had stopped Peter from doing it so she had to stop herself.
Carla took a deep breath and tried her hardest to get past the craving she was having so suddenly because she knew that she had to help to find Simon and she knew that standing there on the cobbles with Nick, was wasting precious time. She went to knock on Ken's door but Nick stopped her before doing so.
"Ken and Tracy don't know he's gone." Nick says, "We thought it was best not to tell em yet."
"Okay…" Carla says and she begins walking towards Victoria Court instead.
"Where are you going now?" Nick asks again as Carla crosses the road once more.
"We need to find Simon... We need to find him and make sure that he's okay."
"I agree but where does this leave us Carla... I need to know if you still wanna be with me." Nick said desperately, Carla could see that he was genuinely devastated at the idea of loosing her but she wasn't sure that she could cope with the fact that he had kept something like Simon being missing, from her so easily.
"I don't know where this leaves us Nick... I thought I knew you but you not telling me about Simon has really surprised me... I just... I really don't know what to say to you right now, apart from the fact that family's had enough drama and heartache in their life this week and the last thing they need is Simon going missing so can we please just help to find him? We can sort out our relationship afterwards." Carla said as she got out her phone "Please..." she added before putting her phone up to her ear.
Nick nodded, what else could he do? He knew his relationship with Carla would never be the same again and he also knew that by the look on Carla's face when she hung up the phone because there was no answer on the other end, that he would more than likely end up losing another woman to Peter Barlow... again.
I just finished watching tonight's Corrie, How sad :(
Not impressed with Carla skipping the funeral & the whole Peter no show though.
What are they doing to our faves? They so would have been there!
Cannot wait for Wednesday, I'm legit praying for a reunion,
Oh yeah... Don't forget to review folks :)