"Just those please, you know you didn't need to come I can find my own way back" Sarah said to her colleague as she passed a list to barman.
"It's alright, I wanted to get out the surgery anyway Jenny was doing me head in" they laughed in unison.
"That's why you should never get involved with someone you work with. Do you want a drink whilst we wait?" Sarah grinned her colleague
"Oh what like you've never gotten involved with someone you work with, Yeah go on the I'll have a pint" the man made his way to a table.
"Mines a large red wine please" a voice said behind Sarah, which made Sarah turn around.
"Hello you" Sarah and Emma gave each other a hug as if they'd just been reunited after a long time.
"How have you been?" Emma sat besides Sarah at the bar.
"Good yeah, how are you? Sorry I've been meaning to call you and then.." Sarah didn't want to sound like she was making excusing but it had been a pretty hectic few days.
"It's fine you don't have to explain yourself to me, if you don't want to go for a drink then we'll just leave it" Emma interrupted
"No, no I really do. Let me explain over dinner tonight night, 8'o'clock at the Spanish restaurant in town. Please" Sarah fluttered her eyelashes at Emma making her laugh.
"Ok, anyway I don't want to interrupt so I'll let you get back to your friend"
"Come over, he won't mind" without giving Emma the chance to answer Sarah grab the drinks and headed for the table.
"Johnny this is Emma. Emma this is Johnny" Sarah introduced them to one to another.
"Nice to meet you, I hope you mind I did say I didn't want to interrupt" Feeling awkward Emma focused on Sarah.
"Course I don't mind, any friend of Sarah's is a friend of mine" Jonny teased Emma.
Sarah kicked Johnny under the table "shut up"
As the conversation flowed they were interrupted by the waiter who called out Sarah's number for their takeaway.
"Thats us we'd better get going" Johnny sipped the last bit of his drink and went to the bar
"One second Emma" Sarah smiled at Emma and followed Johnny to the bar
"Johnny you go ahead, I'm going to stay and talk to Emma" sarah blushed.
"Ok, don't do anything I wouldn't do, bye Emma" Jonny turned around to wave goodbye and left.
Walking back over to Emma with a bottle of red wine Sarah couldn't help but smile.
"You haven't got afternoon surgery have you?" Sarah said as she poured the wine.
"Oh no, just paperwork that can wait" Emma sipped her drink
"So whilst I've got you, i wanted to explain that I really wanted to call you but it's been so exhausting with work and family and I want to focus on us rather everything else" the thought of there being an us between them made Emma blush.
"Honestly it's fine but I'm glad I bumped into you and it'll be nice to get you know..." just as Emma was finishing her sentence, Sarah's phone bleeped.
"Sorry I'll be one second" Sarah left Emma sat by herself whilst she attended to whatever she'd seen on her phone.
10 minutes had past and a man sat at the bar stumbled over to Emma.
"I wouldn't get your hopes up with that one" he slurred his words out.
"Excuse me" looking confused as she inhaled the smell of too much booze on the man.
"Look she's outside, make of that what you will" be pointed to Sarah who was outside the icon hugged a woman around the same age as her.
Suddenly a hint of jealousy overcome Emma, she couldn't believe how silly she was being considering she's know Sarah for all of 4 days.
Sarah made her way back to their table and could see that Emma was getting ready to leave. "Hey where are you going?" She asked worryingly
"I should've known we were nothing more than whatever that was the other day but oh no I had to keep pushing, well you're not going to make a fool of me" Emma raised her voice slightly at Sarah, when she'd finished her rant the pair heard a man chuckling behind Emma.
"What have you done?" Sarah looked disgusting at the man who could barely stand.
"I merely told this lovely lady here that she's better off not knowing you" he put his arm around Emma.
"Get off her" Sarah toke hold of Emma's hand pulling Emma towards her
Hearing the hatred in Sarah's voice Emma said "will someone tell me what's going on"
"This is the sorry of excuse of my father" Sarah turned towards Emma "I don't know nor do I care about what he's said to you but whatever you think was going on I can assure you that it wasn't. The woman you saw me with was my sister, she's been having a hard time recently which is why I've been so busy..." Sarah toke Emma's hands in hers.
Emma interrupted "and I'm just supposed to trust you am I?"
"Whatever it is we have, I don't want to lose and I want to continue exploring what it is we have, come back to mine and I'll explain I promise" Sarah searched for answers in Emma's face.
Emma lead the way to the car leaving Sarah's father at the icon.
Back to Sarah's apartment. They both made themselves comfortable on the sofa next to each other.
"Emma I'm so sorry about him, he normally only bothers with me when he needs money or bailing out" Sarah said with a hint of anger in her voice.
"You said you'd explain, we'll I guess you'd better start from the beginning" Emma didn't look directly at Sarah after the encounter with Sarah's father.
"My dad has always been an alcoholic, Well for as long as I can remember and he's never been ok with the fact that I'm into women which is why he does things like he did at the icon and the woman you saw me with outside is my baby sister, she's pregnant again and wasn't sure how to tell her boyfriend so, I'm here for her mini breakdowns I guess"
"So That makes up for just leaving me sitting there does it?" Emma laughed in disbelief.
"No, I know I should've handled that better but I meant everything I said about us" Sarah caught Emma's eye and lent in for a kiss.
"Are you sure about this?" Emma said fighting the urge to kiss Sarah back.
Sarah kissed her again to show she was, Emma deepened the kiss and lead Sarah to the bedroom.