CHAPTER THIRTEEN
"I don't care how many times it was" said Charlie feeling the awkwardness "but he is sorry for this morning"
"I know" said Charlie "don't worry, we have made up"
"God" said Charlie not wanting to hear the gory details
"Not in that way" said Zoe laughing as her tears started to dry
"Zoe, you're not getting any younger" said Charlie
"Are you saying that I'm too old for sex?" said Zoe as her and Charlie lay on the bench in each other's arms "your one to talk"
"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that" said Charlie which made Zoe smile.
"So are you going to tell me what happened" said Charlie
"You wouldn't understand" said Zoe
"Make me understand" said Charlie
Zoe sighed as she lay back against Charlie, she glanced at her daughters and nicks grave before telling Charlie what happened.
"I went to Milligan after nick, I don't know why but a part of me didn't want to let him go" admitted Zoe
"Well you were engaged, once upon a time" said Charlie
"It turned out that he felt the same and only left holby because apparently he couldn't bear seeing me" said Zoe
"I bet he couldn't" said Charlie "but let me guess, you and him were back together within two days"
"You make me sound bad" commented zoe
Charlie laughed slightly; Zoe was and always had been very predictable.
"Within a week we were engaged, in two weeks we were married" said Zoe "I know it sounds crazy"
"Well there isn't one person in the world who wouldn't place you two together" said Charlie
"Well, we moved back to holby" said Zoe
"Holby?" said Charlie
"Well I thought someone would have noticed the ring, but they didn't, so I kept it quiet" said Zoe "then we found out I was pregnant, all within a month"
"And you didn't think to tell us?" said Charlie
"Well before I knew it, nicks five years were almost up" said zoe "I was 6 months pregnant but he knew it was the end"
Charlie didn't know what to say at this point so all he did was tucking a piece of Zoe's hair behind her ear.
"he spend every day and night talking to my bump" said zoe smiling slightly "he knew that he was never going to meet his baby, so all he could do was salvage every precious second"