The next morning, Tina woke up in Tommy's embrace, and it was very comfortable. Nothing was wrong with the baby, now she was just in pure shock. Her phone went off.
*Why are you ignoring me? C x*
She quickly texted back: *Stop texting me!"
"Who could be so urgent to text at least time of the morning?" Tommy yawned.
"Tommy! I didn't know you woke up!" She plonked her phone down and clambered back into bed, facing Tommy.
"It wasn't that doctor was it?"
"No, no."
"Tina... be honest."
"Seriously! It was nothing. Sales. I'm going for a shower." She gave him a kiss and quickly retreated with her phone in hand. Tommy frowned, then went back to sleep.
"Okay, I'm going to work." Tina called out to Tommy. "Try and look for a job that fits the hours around me, so we can see more of each other." Tommy resigned from the garage, as he and Tyrone were no longer speaking.
"Yeah, will do. Bye babe." Tommy called back then Tina walked out. Then he realised she left her book behind. He rang her. The ringtone came from the table, then he picked up Tina's phone and a thought struck him. Who was it that text her that morning?
He knew he shouldn't do it, but how would she find out? He quickly scrolled through the texts and they were all from Carter. The texts ran along the lines of 'meet up tonight at 7' and 'i love you so much' and one of them, which hurt Tommy the most, said 'don't waste your time with him, i love you and you and i both know you love me too xx'.
"What are you doing with my phone?!" Tina appeared suddenly and snatched the phone. She looked at the ground.
"...You... left it here, so... so I was going to give it to you. What are these texts doing on your phone? You said this doctor thing was over with!"
"I was trying to protect you! I didn't actually realise you were going to read through them!" Tina exclaimed.
"You lied to me... after all we've been through in the last month - you lied?!" Tommy was outraged.
"Look, I'm sorry..." she walked up to him and rubbed his arm.
"I'm going out." Tommy barged past her and hurried to the Rovers. He felt tears prick his eyes on the way, so before he went in had to wipe them with his sleeve.
"What can I get you? Where's Tina?" Eva asked when Tommy waltzed in.
"We've had an argument... gimme a beer." He looked upset.
"Oh my god, come through to the back! Have a drink with me, Sean can take over."
"Yeah... don't mind me!" Sean tutted. Tommy didn't know what he was doing, so he just followed her through to the back. Sean wondered for a moment, then served some people.
"So, what happened?" Eva wondered, they were both on the sofa, drinking wine.
"You know the doctor down the road?"
"Yeah..." she stated, not sure where this was leading.
"He loves Tina, and he's sending her love texts even though Tina told me he wasn't."
"Oh, that's bad. She shouldn't lie to you like that, it's not nice."
At that point, Sean came in.
"Don't mind me, just getting a hotpot." He glanced a watchful eye over Tommy, then retrieved the hotpot and went out.
Sean worried. He hurriedly texted Tina: 'Hurry, get down here now. evas got her claws into tommy!"
Over in the flat, Tina received the text, put down her glass of wine and stopped moping and feeling sorry for herself. She wiped her tears and got up.
"Do you ever get the feeling that you should do something really obvious?" Eva flirted, pushing out her chest.
"Um, what do you mean?" Tommy quivered, oblivious to Eva's intentions, distracted by her breasts.
"Well, if something was staring you in the face would you do it?" Eva moved closer. Now Tommy started to wonder.
"Yeah I mean, if something blatantly going to happen, you should just let it happen." Eva leaned forward towards Tommy and kissed him on the lips. Then he leaned back. "What do you think you're doing?!"
"Don't be silly, you know we both want it!" Eva pinned his arms to the seat and continued to try to kiss him, and he was trying to get her off. The door opened.
"Oh my god." Tina stood in the doorway, shell-shocked. Eva let go of Tommy.
"Tina, it's not how it looks... she came on to me, and I pushed her off. Honest to god Tina I swear-"
"Just... save your excuses. I'll leave you and that slag to it." Tina turned round and walked. Tommy's heart leapt a thousand miles a second. Tina managed to get outside before Tommy stopped her.
"Listen - she kissed me. I hated it, it lasted about half a second. I hated it because I love you." They were both crying now, lumps in throats.
"I'm sorry Tommy, I don't know what to do. I don't know if I trust you, I don't know if we have a future... I don't know if this baby's parents are gonna be together when it comes out."
