I think I cursed my self before because my laptop got a missive virus and crashed and it took me three days to get it working again. On top of that I've had trouble with this chapter, especially the interaction between Kirsty and Ruth. So it's not brilliant but I hope its ok.

Kirsty

I couldn't believe it when I heard Kathy's voice in the corridor and I stood frozen to the spot. The more surprising thing though was when Ruth and Charlie lied to her about me speaking. I'm not saying that I wasn't grateful, I was very grateful; it was just a strange thing for them to do unless they knew more than they let on, which I doubted they did.

After Kathy left I stood in the same spot not daring to move unless she returned. Then Ruth shocked me again by coming up to me and placing an arm around my shoulder guiding my back onto my bed. I'd never seem her act this kindly to anyone before, like she actually cared and I turned my head to look up at her. She looked genuinely worried about me; Ruth. I blinked a couple of times but she remained in front of me her eyes full of emotion.

What now? I know she'd seen the way Kathy changed when she realised Charlie was watching her and that she'd made the mistake of thinking that she was just a loony with out a brain but did that mean that I could talk to her about it? After all she didn't tell Charlie the reason behind lying to Kathy about me talking.

Who knew, I was tired of thinking so much about what I should and shouldn't do but still I couldn't afford to make mistakes. I had a plan; it was just going to take a little longer because I was in here.

I looked up; Ruth had moved away from me slightly but was still sat on my bed looking at me her brow crumpled in thought. God knows what was going through her mind. Was she thinking about Kathy? She caught me looking at her; she looked a bit surprised that there was life in my eyes.

"How you feeling?" she asked and I couldn't help wondering if she thought I would reply or not.

"Fine." I said unsurely. She studied me for a second before replying.

"Good."

"How have you been?" I found myself saying. She looked as taken back as I felt.

"I'm getting there." She replied forcing a small smile.

"Good." I replied causing us both to genuinely smile. We sat in silence, me watching her, her watching me. She was shifting nervously under my gaze but I didn't look away because she didn't.

"Who was that woman?" She asked and I was glad that she had gotten straight to the point and not danced around it; though she was Ruth and probably didn't know how to.

"Kathy, Warren's mother." I replied with out thinking.

"And Warren's your husband?" I nodded conformation.

"And I always thought Cinderella had it bad!" We both fell easily into laughter and I almost forgot about where we were and who I was having this very light hearted but at the same time serious conversation with. If you had told me that I would have spilt my guts to Ruth Winter's then I would never have believed you, not until this very moment.

We were chatting like old friends. Gossiping about the ED and Ruth even mentioned Adam coming to see me and I was surprised when my heart jumped a little when I heard how he cared. Ruth seemed to pick up on this and went into extra detail about how he tucked me in and how obvious it was that he cared about me. I hung onto every word wishing it to be true.

Nita

It's been two days since I left the hospital with dad, the worst two days of my life, and neither dad nor grandma will even let me mention mum let alone go and see her. In fact they never spoke to me at all if I did try and start a conversation then I would get sharp short answers and if I asked any unwanted questions they were both amazingly good at changing the subject; sometimes I didn't even realise what had happened until I thought over it later. But I wasn't giving up that easily. I didn't care what mum had done I just wanted to see her and tell her that I loved her no matter what. I'd thought about calling Adam lots of times but I was just too scared of the consequences after what had happened when I came home last time.

I knew mum would never let either of them lay a hand on me but now she wasn't here there was no one to stop them. With everyday I thought more and more of her and how much she must have been protecting me from them and I'd always labelled her the mean one picking on dad and making him feel bad. How could I have been so wrong? I sigh dropping my pen on top of my open math book and headed across the hall to try and convince dad to take me to the hospital. I'd had this conversation with him about ten times now but with each conversation he seemed to mellow a bit suggesting that maybe he was coming round to the idea. This is why I was now tapping on the door to their bedroom. I was holding on to the slightest hope that he would cave and take me to see her.

There was no answer but I opened the door and walked in anyway. Tightly shutting the door behind me not wanting to be disturbed my grandma because then it would never go my way. The curtains were drawn making the room dark event though it was the middle of the day. And I stood just behind the door waiting for my eyes to adjust to the lack of light.

My dad was lying in bad, the covers drawn up to his chin. His eyes were open and he was staring aimlessly at the ceiling.

"Dad." He looked at me with out sitting up or saying anything. I moved closer to him. I cut straight to the chase.

"I want to go and see mum." I whispered not knowing what reaction I would get.

"I know; I want to see her too." I paused, confused; this was more than one step forward.

"Then lets go." I said cautiously. He sat up as if taking me in for the first time. Then slowly he nodded. My heart jumped, did this mean that we were going.

"Ok." It seemed too easy but I wasn't about to question his sudden change of heart and ran off to get my shoes and coat.

Because I'm having trouble writing a chapter of interaction between Kirsty and Ruth I had the idea that anyone who wanted to could write the chapter or give me tips on what you want to happen in the chapter for me to write then pm me with it and then I will post it as my next chapter, of course giving you all the credit. Thanks for reading.