–We found love in a hopeless place.
Carla and Michelle arrived back at the flat. Whilst Michelle went and got glasses for the wine and plates for the fish and chips Carla headed to the bathroom to look at her appearance. She had mascara down her face and big puffy eyes, but somehow still looked stunning. "I can't believe you let me leave the factory like this Chell, thought you cared about me?" Carla called out to Michelle who laughed "I do and you still look gorgeous" she replied as she walked into the bathroom to kiss Carla on the cheek. "Yer yer" Carla said sarcastically. "Nah com'on I thought we were going to have a chat?" Michelle questioned whilst gesturing at the sofa.
A few hours, two bottles of wine and a hell of a lot of tears later, Carla had managed to tell Michelle about the night she and Liam had spent their first night together. How passionate, loving and real it had been and how she wishes she was back there and not in this whirlwind that was her life right now. She wanted to be having that dream and not the one she was having continuously when she closed her eyes every night. "Carla do you love Peter?" Michelle questioned. "Yeah of course I do." Carla replied defensively. "Well darlin' I know you still love our Liam but you need to move on, me of all people know how hard it is. After all I have had to do it twice, but it's not like you are forgetting them because I know you haven't forgot our Paul; and you were able to move on from him –with Liam. So move on from Liam with Peter." Michelle was now sat holding on to Carla ever so tightly. "Yer I know but..." Carla sounded defeated. "I just, I don't know. I can't seem to get him out of my head. I keep having a dream where he is stood over mine and Peter's bed crying and shaking his head at me in disgust and I tell him that "I am sorry, miss and love you", and he replies with "no you're not you never loved me!" Michelle do you think he really believes that? Because I did, I do love him!" Carla cried out! "Oh darlin' of course he doesn't believe that. That's your imagination. He knew you loved him, I mean every time he saw you, heard your name or talked about you I saw it in his eyes how happy you made him and how much he loved you back. I just wish you told everyone sooner and not just me. I hated keeping that secret from everyone but knowing how happy you too were it felt right to." Michelle reassured Carla.
Carla decided to go back to work at the factory even though Michelle didn't want her to. She sat at her desk whilst Michelle was on the work floor, she opened her draw to get an order, as she moved it she noticed a mug; but it wasn't just any mug it was the mug that Liam had bought her with 'The Bitch' written on it. She looked at it and smiled whipping the stray tears away that fell slowly down her soft skin. She got up and swung the office door open resulting in everyone's attention being on her now. She strutted out the office with a huge grin across her face and a glint in her eye; she looked for Michelle and just gave her a wink. A wink which Michelle knew that Carla was going to be ok and maybe return to the old Carla sometime soon. Carla walked over to the kitchen with her head held high and with a certain swagger. She made a coffee in THE mug. The factory workers watched puzzled her as she walked passed; "You alright Mrs.C?" Sean asked confused. "Yer thank Sean, actually I'm feeling amazing so if you wana all go home early you can!" Carla replied feeling very generous.