Laura firstly looked around James' living room and found plenty of Jean's stuff but nothing that proved in the slightest useful, which was pretty much the same around all of this flat, that was until she reached the bathroom.
Laura opened the small cupboard above the sink, and after having viewed the rest of James' flat, she wasn't surprised to see that there were a whole shelf of Jean's things. Most were the usuals, moisturiser, hand cream but behind the box of sanitary towels sat perhaps the biggest hint to why Jean had left. Laura looked at the opened box that was now in her hand before she bent down and opened the small bin, sure enough she found exactly what she'd now expected to find. She sat on the side of the bath for a minute and stared at the object in her hand.
"James, how often do you empty this bin?" Laura called through the flat.
"Once a week, why?" James replied as he walked closed to where she was.
"When was Jean last here?" Laura asked, ignoring James's last question and now his questioning look as he stood at the doorway watching her.
"She was here for a few hours last night but she wasn't feeling great so she went home." James replied before he caught sight of the object in Laura's hand, his policing skills were going to waste as you didn't need to be a police officer to work out where Laura was going with this. "Jean's pregnant?" James asked the excitement obvious in his voice, it was heartbreaking for Laura to watch her friend's expression turn from ecstatic to devestated in a matter of moments as the memory of the situation flooded back in.
"Yes, unless anyone else has been here." Laura replied, not really knowing herself how to take the news.
"I haven't cheated." James protested.
"I know, I meant friends or family."
"Oh, no they haven't." Jean may be carrying his child but she was still married to someone else and even if they managed to solve that problem, the issue of Jean being awol was ever present and one that was becoming harder and harder to solve.