Chap 13

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Carla made her way to open the door after reapplying some make up an shaking her hand through her raven hair.

"Why didn't you use you're key love"

"Oh it's on my other set"

Carla gave Peter a brief kiss on the lips as she tried to settle her nerves, she didn't know why she felt so nervous tonight.

After dinner of a take away Peter had brought including a bottle of wine for Carla which she had insisted he shouldn't have brought the pair decided to to move to the sofa. Peter lay with Carla's back resting on his chest as his legs wrapped around her waist.

"Baby can we talk for a minute" Carla asked as she cocked her head to look at Peter while he was gently massaging her shoulders.

"Of course sweet heart is something wrong?" Peters expression conveyed his worry to Carla.

"Yea it is... I'm just a little worried that I'm not... Oh Peter I don't know to say it" Carla frowned as Peter shifted so he could pull Carla onto his lap, as her head rested on his chest, his hand gently rubbing up and down her arm trying to comfort her.

"Baby say whatever it is please you have me worried"

"I'm afraid that I'm not everything you want" Carla frowned.

"What makes you think that"

"Well I mean in the bedroom Peter" Carla blushed.

"Carla don't be daft we've slept together already and it was amazing.. Is this what I said earlier about the stuff in the drawer?"

"Yea. Well no not really but it was just that got me thinking was all"

"Thinking about what?"

"Well you know I haven't been with anyone in ages peter, I mean come on I'm a little out of practice"

"Carla sweetheart" Peter began as he pulled her closer to him closing off any space that was between them "I am sorry if I made you feel uncomfortable with what I said sometimes I can be a pillock and just say the first thing tat pops into me head, Christ you probably think I'm some weirdo"

Carla giggled as she remembered telling Michelle how she thought peter would feel the same about her. "Carla I can assure you I haven't been with anyone lately either right and even when I was with Leanne believe me things were far from exciting on that side of things"

"Really?" Carla was curious about that side of Peters relationship partly due to the fact that she knew when she was with anyone in the past it was always exciting, fun, spontaneous, romantic... But now she was nervous. Maybe hearing this might put her mind at rest. She toyed with the collar of peters shirt waiting for him to respond.

"Yea.. You want me to tell you?"

"Only if your comfortable taking about it?" Carla leaned into peters chest.

"Well there's not much to tell the last year and a half of our relationship she were carrying on with bistro boy but even before that we only did it like once a month if even and if I ever tried to yano initiate anything she shot me down so I didn't bother then.. I mean there was only so many times a man can be rejected right?" Carla nodded her heart aching listening to the sadness laced in peters voice.

"I did love her and I guess I just hoped things would improve but she made me feel horrible and disgusting anytime I tried to have a bit of a laugh with her"

"What do you mean" Carla asked.

"Well I'd send her the odd text message suggesting stuff and she'd go mad at me... Like one day I was in the bookies and she was at a meeting about some PTA event in town and me dad and Deirdre had Simon over night so I text her saying pop into Ann summers on your way home ill meet you in the bedroom gorgeous - and when she got home she started shouting at me and she threw a cup of coffee over me and stormed out"

"Ok Peter that's enough" Carla was nearly crying listening to the way Leanne had treated him

As the pair sat and talked for another while Carla felt a weight lifted off her shoulders she understood Peter was genuinely joking with the text message but the more she thought about it the more she realised maybe it might be fun to play around a little.

hope that was ok for people to read I just wanted to highlight how unhappy these two were until they found each other... It's a major part of this story

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