Karen and Chris both froze at the sound of the voice as they realised they had been caught out, and slowly they broke off the kiss staring guiltily at each other and then turning round to see a figure standing at the side of the rink, hands on her hips. Karen's body gradually seperated from Chris's, and she opened her mouth to give a reply to a surprised and shocked Jayne who had just walked in, exactly on time for probably the first time in her life. "Jayne it's not what it looks like..." Karen said quickly, then realising it was exactly what it looked like."Ok well it is, we can explain though, it could take a while though, we never meant for anyone to find out yet..." "No I shouldn't think you did!" Jayne said not quite believing what she had just seen, "What the hell are the pair of you up to? Does Jill know about this? How long has this been going on?" she was full of questions and wanted them all answered right that moment; she was so confused."Look, I think we should go into the office and we can sit down and tell you the full story," Karen said to Jayne, skating off the rink and pulling Chris along behind her. She then took hold of Jayne's hand and pulled them both into the dressing room. "I'm getting a divrorce from Jill..." Chris started obviously not realising Jayne already knew this part, and then proceeded to tell Jayne the whole story about how he'd gone round to Karen's for advice about the break up and one thing had led to another and before either of them knew it they were kissing and then Chris had spent the night... Then Karen told her part about how Laura had not been happy this morning when she found out and got a bit upset all over again about how she thought she was a terrible mother, but Jayne hugged her comfortingly so she felt okay again and they proceeded with their story. "Oh and Jill is pregnant..." Chris added which totally shocked Jayne she wasn't expecting that news to come out of his mouth. "So your wife is pregnant... and you're leaving her? Have you even spoken about this with her?" Jayne asked curiously, not quite understanding the whole thing. "No I haven't yet we had a massive argument this morning which resulted in me storming out the house, because she wanted to know where I'd been overnight... and when I walked in she was sprawled over the bathroom floor suffering from morning sickness which suddenly came over her, I'm happy I'm going to be a dad and everything honestly I am, but I don't love Jill anymore. Our marriage has been falling apart for god knows how long and neither of us are happy.""If you've been unhappy for that long and not been talking like you've said, how did this baby come along then? You must have some sense of romance left." Jayne pointed out. It was a very valid point that neither Chris or Karen had spotted, and the more Chris thought about it the more confused it made him. He couldn't remember the last time him and Jill had kissed let alone any other activity in the bedroom department, so how was she pregnant? It had definately been longer than 3 months. "Oh Chris I'm sorry..." Jayne said realising he hadn't seen the truth in the pregnancy before, and hugged him."No... no this is a good thing... it means the baby growing inside my wife isn't even mine which doesn't make me feel nearly as bad for walking out on her... oh I'm so stupid how did I not see this before? I should have realised when she told me!" Chris was now a bit frustrated with himself and got up walking up and down. "Chris no of course you're not stupid!" Karen said who'd been a bit quiet over the past ten or so minutes. "How were you to know these things don't generally come into a man's head unless its so obviously staring you in the face, you're not to blame for any of this. But it means you now have another valid reason for divorce.""Okay okay I've had enough talking about all this now can we get some work done please? Jayne you know everything now... I'm going to talk to Jill as soon as I get home I don't care how long it takes I just need this whole thing sorted out... I cannot believe that woman I really can't!" "It will all be okay Chris I promise," Karen said getting up to give him a comforting hug, before all three of them got up together and went onto the rink where there was a small crowd of professional skaters accumilating in the corner waiting for them to start work on the group number for the show that week. It was quite a long day that dragged by, especially for Chris. They got rather a lot of work done for the weekend's show, but Chris kept loosing his concentration far too easily, and everyone could tell he wasn't his usual self, normally full of weird and wonderful ideas, and today not thinking of many at all - leaving the majority of the work to women for once. At 4:30pm he decided to call it a day, much earlier than usual, but his concentration span was shrinking rapidly. Karen and Jayne both gave him plenty of advice and wise words as they all sat and untied their skates, quickly wiped the blades and packed away their skates changing into their shoes. Chris had been rehersing what he planned to say to Jill all day and more so now than ever, he was a nervous wreck driving back and he took a scenic route back which delayed his journey by about 10 minutes. The moment he walked in he just dumped his bags in the hallway and went into the living room to find the three boys occupied by something on the tv, and Jill was sitting on a brown leather bean bag in the corner, studying a maternity clothing catalogue. "Hi kids! Jill, can I have a word please upstairs?" The boys came and hugged him, and Jill then followed Chris upstairs, they went into the bedroom and shut the door behind them. "What is it?" Jill asked impatiently as if she was in the middle of doing something important which she clearly hadn't."We need to talk Jill... about us." "I went for my 12 week scan today Chris.""Oh well isn't that nice?""Don't you want to know what we're having?" "Well maybe I wold if it was even my child! I can't believe you made me think it was mine when it clearly isn't... I can't remember the last time we even shared a kiss let alone anything else passionate in the bedroom... do you think I'm stupid!" "Well you obviously are as its taken you a good few hours to work it out, the whole day in fact, and I bet it wasn't even you who worked it out, you've probably been telling everyone about our failing marriage and they had to spell it out to you...""You know I wish I cared about you Jill, but I really don't anymore and this marriage just isn't working... we used to be perfectly happy but I really don't know what has happened over the past year. I want a divorce.""A divorce!? I'm sure we can work things out Chris, we can book some councelling sessions and make everything better? What about the children? And surely you're not going to walk out on your pregnant wife, what kind of a man does that make you? What does that say about you?""I'm sorry Jill but no amount of persuasion is going to make this whole situation any better than it is now, I've thought about it long and hard for long enough, I've wasted enough time in my life on you, and I'm not prepared to do it any longer. The kids will be fine living with you and I'm nly going to be moving somewhere local, so the kids can see whenever they like, and I hope it will work both ways here, you can't stop me from seeing them.""Oh and were you ever going to tell me when you disapeared off to last night then?" Jill carried on, their voices getting louder and louder with everything they said, things were getting incredibly heated but the boys downstairs were totaly oblivious."You really want to know? I was at Karen's actually! I want a divrorce from you a long time ago so I could be with her, but I thought I'd wait until the boys had grown up a bit to understand, so that's what I did. But you know what, I wish I'd never married you at all, I'd have been far better off spending my life with her! Oh and were you ever going to tell me who the father of this baby is and how that one happened?"Jill was now furious as was Chris, and they were both storming around the room, Jill felt some sharp pains in her stomach but never thought anything of it at first as they were just mild cramps but her emotions were going wild as her and Chris yelled at each other. "Actually no I'm not telling you Chris because it's none of your bloody business!" she screamed and then sat down on the bed quickly clutching her stomach, Chris had had enough and turned his back on her and stormed out the room ran downstairs grabbing his car keys and slamming the front door on his exit.
He texted Karen as soon as he got in the car and told her that he was on his way over to hers, he didn't want to spend anymore time with Jill than he had to and considered staying at Karen's that night as well but thought he'd decide when it got to it. On the way over he thought things through in his head about the whole divorce thing and then with Jill's mysterious pregnancy, he couldn't stand to be in the same house as her let alone the same room, he just needed some space. When he pulled up on the driveway outside Karen's he suddenly thought that maybe he should of rang first to check if it was okay, he hadn't even waited for a text message in response, but he'd just remembered the way Laura had reacted to Chris being there that morning and knew she wouldn't be impressed to see him again, and what if Emma was there too? He was sure his appearance could cause some disagreement between the the girls and Karen but it was a bit late now, they'd probably seen the car pull up. His heart beat raised a little, he knocked on the door hoping and praying that it would be Karen to answer not one of her daughters. It turned out to be Emma, but she didn't know about Karen and Chris's relationship yet, so she thought nothing of it when she invited him in the house thinking it was something to do with work. "Hi Chris, how are you?" she said as opened the door and then called Karen telling her there was someone here to see her. "I'm very well thanks Emma, yourself?" he replied surprised at how Emma had reacted to see him at the door asking for her mum. "I'm good, tired though... Mum are you coming?" she shouted upstairs, and only half talking to Chris as she had her phone in one hand texting her boyfriend, and gesturing Chris to come in and take a seat while Karen was bust doing something upstairs, she hadnn't yet recieved Chris's text so she wasn't expecting to see him come through the door, and when she did see she automatically went to go and kiss him, not thinking whether Emma knew about them or not. "Erm, Mum? When did this happen?" she asked, not mad but in fact happy for them both, of course she didn't know the full story."Oh sorry sweetheart, me and Chris see each other a little differently now... and he's going through a tough time at the moment so he might be staying here occasionally for the next few weeks, I hope that's okay with you?" "Yeah that's fine just don't make too much noise and do all your lovey stuff around me... okay I'm going to Josh's again, I'll be back in a bit," she said happily hugging her mum goodbye."Okay baby don't be too late will you, remember you've got work in the morning," Karen said hugging her back and then going to wave her off at the door. "Well this is a nice surprise to see you? And she took that very well!" Karen said to Chris, giving him another quick kiss and then taking hold of his hand and sitting on the sofa snuggled up next to him as she switched on the tv. "She did didn't she? Sorry to surprise you like that but I couldn't stay in that bloody house any longer, I did text you but I guess you didn't get that! Where's Laura?" Chris asked thinking he'd better check before he started filling Karen in on all he'd found out from Jill."Oh she's sleeping over at her friends, she went over straight from college. Did you talk to Jill this time?""Yes yes I did..." Chris said remembering the argument far too well. "Jayne was right, the baby isn't mine, but she won't tell me who it is, she said it wasn't any of my business. I said I wanted a divorce and she agreed with me the marriage wasn't working out for either of us, but she didn't want a divorce despite the whole baby thing, but I'll keep working on it because there is no way I can live with her much longer, not with all this lying.""No I shouldn't think its much fun... Does she know about us?" Karen asked nervously."Yeah she does, I just went for it and told her the truth because that's what I think she deserves from me while we are still married, but now I definately regret telling her because she lied to me in the first place and won't tell me who the father of the baby is and doesn't look like she ever plans to tell me... she will at some point though I suppose she can't keep it forever, not if it ever turns out to be a serious relationship for her...""Maybe she doesn't know who the father is, she seems like the type.""Right now nothing would surprise me you know Karen... god knows how many affairs she's had in the time we've been married." Chris said sadly, not realising whow unobservant he had been. "Chris is that your phone ringing?" Karen said getting up to see where the sound was coming from. "Oh yeah I left it in my coat pocket out there..." he said making his way to fiddle around eventually finding which pocket it was in, he had 6 missed calls from Jill, which he was going to ignore but as it rang for a seventh time his finger accidently hit the button and she was on the other end."CHRIS! CHRIS! I need you please come back its the baby..." she said panting heavily in agony, clearly distressed and had been trying to get through to him for a while.