AARON LIVESY
-The Chase-
"Small World"
"So are you alright then? You don't look so good" Jason asked.
"Oh yeah, yeah I'm fine" Aaron smiled sheepishly.
"Don't lie" Ruby chuckled.
"Ah cheers Ruby" he told her with the roll of his eyes.
"What happened?" Jason asked.
"I felt dizzy and my head isn't getting any better, they had to sit me down" he explained as he picked up his coffee and then took a sip
"Right come on, we're going back to the hospital"
Aaron frowned. "I don't think so mate, I've got work"
"And that makes it more important than your health?"
Aaron sighed. "If it makes you feel any better I'll go when I finish, not now it's my first day back, I want to make a good impression and that won't happen if I disappear"
Jason sighed and watched him. "Hmm, you won't change your mind will ya?" Aaron shook his head. "Alright well I'm free so I'll wait with ya"
"No, you don't have to do that, do you not have mates to spend time with, family, a job?"
"Not today, today it's just you" he smiled. "And I want too and anyway I wanna get to know you a bit better"
Aaron smiled. He had no idea why he would, still even now. "Alright then"
…
A while later, back at the garage Jason was sat on a bonnet of a car next to the one Aaron was working on. "So these Dingles? Big family?" The name rang a bell from somewhere.
Aaron chuckled. "Oh yeah just a bit, there's just a few in the village"
"So Aaron Dingle then?"
Aaron laughed. "Nope my mum is though; still got my waste of a space dad's name, good job I quite like it"
Jason chuckled "Well spill then"
Aaron stood up from underneath the bonnet and looked at him with narrowed eyes; he was going to wait for some kind of wind up. "Livesy"
Jason pouted, he liked that he really did, he nodded at Aaron and smiled "Sexy" he told him with a grin.
Aaron smiled and shook his head at the same time before going back under the bonnet. "Right then your turn"
"Alright, not as exciting as yours, Murray" he told him
"Oh got two here now then" Aaron told him.
"Ah well, don't I feel special?" he asked as he laughed.
Aaron chuckled as he worked away "Right, so come on then we're you from? Cause it's not here, not that I'm complaining that southern accent is to die for mate I'm telling ya"
"Originally from Jersey but I moved up here a while back with some mates, we finished college and now I'm working so it's all good"
"Jersey eh?" Coincidence? He asked himself "What do you do?"
"Oh I'm a police officer"
Under the bonnet Aaron's eyes widened and he swallowed hard "Oh, ah right cool, you like it?"
"I love it" Jason told him with a smile.
"Ah for god sake!" Aaron winced again in pain and clutched his head.
Jason got off the bonnet quickly and stood beside him. "Aaron this is no good mate, come on I'll drive you to hospital"
Aaron sighed and looked at him. "Is it just me but I can see two cars waiting and no other staff, no can do I'm afraid"
Jason sighed. "You're so stubborn" he told him with a sparkle in his eyes as they were looking at each other.
Aaron blushed slightly and looked away. "Yeah so I'm told"
"Right well just take it easy, I'll go and get you a drink from the shop"
Aaron nodded then rummaged into his pocket and put a couple of quid into his hand, to which Jason just frowned at. "What? Should be enough" he told him.
"It's just a drink Aaron, I can manage that"
"Yeah well I pay my way" he told him with a smile.
Jason chuckled "Alright won't be long" he told him then walked off.
A few minutes later Aaron finished that car and closed the bonnet, filled in all the necessary paperwork and signed it off, then he checked the details for the next one, it was just changing the tyres, and so was the last one he remembered. As he walked over to the car Flynn rounded the corner and started walking along the forecourt.
Aaron sighed, rolled his eyes and turned back around heading into the garage.
"No! Aaron wait, please…" he pleaded.
"Go away Flynn, I don't need you right now, or ever so jog on"
"Look just let me explain!" Flynn continued as he stopped a few metres away from the garage.
But that sent Aaron over the edge and he spun round and angrily slammed the tools he had in his hands to the floor. "I don't want to hear it! I wanted you, and yeah at first you were weird with me understandable but you carried it on! Why did you have to do that? I tried, and I would have tried harder but no one talks about Jackson behind my back! Especially to a stranger!" he yelled at him and stepped closer getting in Flynn's face.
"I-I didn't tell him!" he sighed. "Alright I talked about you and him a bit but he recognised you anyway Aaron, from the paper" he took a breath. "Aaron please I'm sorry I was making you wait, see how long you'd go"
Aaron scoffed and shook his head and turned back around away from him. "I would have waited for as long as it took Flynn! But he pushed me too far last night, you both suit each other"
Flynn scoffed and looked down at the ground. "Well obviously not because he finished me"
Aaron turned to face him. "So what? You expect to come here and everything will be alright, we'll be together? I don't fucking think so, Flynn…" he sighed and his closed his eyes tight. "Just go please I don't need this!"
"Aaron?" Flynn frowned in concern and stepped closer.
"I'm fine!" Aaron argued as he held onto the desk for support.
As Flynn got closer it was clear he wasn't. "No you're not"
Aaron frowned and held his head; it was hurting him every single nerve, vein everything seemed to be thumping. "JUST SHUT UP!" he yelled then he started to step back, he felt weak and everything faded.
Flynn ran to him as he started to fall but he didn't make it in time. "Aaron?" he asked as he shook him gently and he leaned down to him to make sure he was breathing.
Jason stopped in his tracks as he turned the corner onto the forecourt, he dropped the drinks that were in his hands, and he bolted along the gravel to the garage. Flynn heard someone coming and turned to see who it was. Flynn got up quickly but was pushed out of the way by Jason. "I-I didn't do anything he just fell!"
"Yeah I bet he did"
"He did!" Flynn spat angrily.
Jason was shaking; he checked he was breathing aswell. "Come on mate…" he said almost in a whisper. "You'll be alright, call an ambulance now!" he barked at Flynn.
…
Aaron sat up in his hospital bed and watched as Jason walked in, he smiled at him and he smiled back. "You were right" Aaron told him
"Overdoing it?" Jason asked as he sat beside his bed.
Aaron nodded. "Along with after effects of the fall yeah, I feel like such an idiot"
"Well don't…alright, I don't think you are…I feel like one actually"
"Why?" Aaron frowned.
"I thought Flynn had hurt you or something, it wasn't the case"
"No but I didn't need him coming to see me, didn't help matters"
"What happened?"
"He tried to explain, said sorry…he told me him and Chris are finished…I told him it's tough…he can't expect to come and have me"
"And why's that?" Jason smirked as he reached out and held his hand.
"Because…because I'm with you" he said nervously. "We can see how it goes?"
Jason grinned. "We certainly can boyfriend" he said with a wink.
Aaron smirked. "Sounds good"
"Does doesn't it?" Jason smiled. "I was so scared Aaron, I care about you so much already and I've never felt like this so quick but when I saw you when I passed you that night…I just knew, and I had to see you again…and all of this with Flynn and us…I-It's just fate I suppose but I'm glad cause it would have been hard letting you go, even though I said I'd help make him jealous"
"I'm glad too" Aaron smiled. "Is my mum here?"
Jason nodded. "Yeah she looks pretty pissed though mate…I-I've not introduced myself yet"
Aaron nodded. "There's time" he said with a smile. "Is the garage okay? Oh crap…" he said in a panic and quickly moved the bed sheet off him and attempted to move but felt Jason's hands on both of his arms stopping him.
"It is fine, when the ambulance got there it drew some attention and some guy came round, C-"
"Cain?" Aaron asked.
Jason nodded. "Yeah that's him, he's dealt with the garage, and he's fine, not mad…not that he should be it was hardly your fault"
Aaron smiled. "He's my uncle, works there too"
"Ahh right, cool"
"He wasn't horrible to you was he?"
"No, he was more concerned about you mate" Jason told him with a smile.
….
After being cleared to leave, Chas smiled at Aaron and gave a strange look to the stranger. "Where is he?"
"Who?" Aaron asked as he sat on the edge of the bed waiting to be picked up.
"Cameron"
Aaron sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Don't Aaron"
"Well what do you expect…"
Chas ignored him. "Anyway who's this because you've not introduced us or anything?" she was sarcastic and blunt with it.
Aaron glanced over at Jason and smirked; Jason smirked back and gave a nod. "He's my boyfriend actually"
Chas was surprised, caught off guard. "Oh, oh…well…n-nice to meet you"
"Mum this is Jason, Jason this is my mum Chas"
They both said hello to one another but from a look Chas gave him Aaron just knew she'd be having words. "Ahh finally!" Chas exclaimed as the door to his room began to open.
"Yeah…" Cameron spoke as he made his way in.
Jason perked up and frowned.
"…sorry I'm l-" Cameron stopped in his tracks.
Jason had just laid eyes on his older brother; the atmosphere changed immediately, an awkward tense silence. "Cameron…" Jason said in greeting.
"You two know each other?" Aaron asked.
"Uh…" Cameron looked away from his baby brother and nodded at Aaron. "You could say that…"
"Oh my god! Your name…" it all clicked then for Aaron.
"Someone wanna let me in on this?" Chas asked.
"Cameron he…-he's my brother" Jason told her.
Chas just looked at Cameron in shock, Aaron was too. "Small world...eh?" Jason asked with a smile.
"Could say that yeah…" Aaron's words trailed off, he couldn't actually believe it.
…
Once back in the village after not talking the entire journey back, Cameron and Jason went their separate ways and he walked into the pub with Chas and Aaron. "Bit frosty there?" Chas asked.
"Uh yeah you could say that" Jason replied.
Aaron started walking up the stairs. "You coming?"
"Uhh…Is it alright Chas?"
Chas scoffed. "Do what you like love he does"
Aaron rolled his eyes and carried on up the stairs, Jason followed behind. Once at the top he spoke. "I get the feeling she doesn't like me"
"Nah it's not you Jason it's me, I'm due for some words I think"
Jason chuckled. "Ah right" he said as he followed Aaron into his bedroom. It was simple and very bare.
"So Cameron then eh?" Aaron asked as he sat on the bed.
"Yeah…wasn't expecting that one…haven't seen him in a few years"
"What happened between you two?"
"Wasn't just me it was all of the family really…he left his wife for some younger bimbo…shamed us all…my mum wasn't happy and I still believe to this day that, that's what killed her"
"Ahh mate I'm so sorry"
"Nah you're alright" he told him with a smile. "We never spoke after that, we got into a bit of a fight, I was a bit younger obviously, thought I could take him on didn't I?" he chuckled. "He hit me, got a very violent streak has Cameron" he explained with a shrug.
Aaron sat thinking as he spoke, and something else clicked and he sighed.
"What's up?"
"Erm, this younger bimbo…"
"Yeah?"
"When was it when he left exactly?"
"End of February last year"
Aaron nodded. "See thing is…that bimbo…well she's my cousin…"
Jason looked horrified. "Oh I-I.."
Aaron just laughed. "Don't worry…yeah my cousin Debbie…also my business partner"
"Right…well then, how weird is this?"
Aaron chuckled. "Doesn't change anything though does it?"
"God no" he said quickly as he moved closer to Aaron. "Course it doesn't, I like you a lot Aaron, every day it gets stronger and nothing could come between us, I wouldn't let it"
Aaron smiled then nodded but at that moment he remembered once again that he worked for the police force. That however could be a problem, a very big one.
TBC…