"I'm too short, I can't reach up this high!" Sinead shouted, standing on the wall at the Folly as she attempted to hang the mini lanterns around the top of the wall.
"I did tell you not to do the high stuff!" Freddie shouted, walking over to her and lifting her down off the wall. "You're going to break your neck if you're not careful! You go and do the candles instead, I've got this."
Sinead gasped at his comment and huffed, strutting off over to the other boxes of decorations.
"There we go, done!" Jason exclaimed, stepping away from the lanterns he'd hung up, them falling down straight after and him sighing. "You've gotta be joking." He mumbled.
"No, JJ don't eat that!" Freddie said, jumping down from the wall and quickly pulling a paper lantern from his hand, JJ staring at him with a non-apologetic face before giggling and walking off. "I'm never going to get this done!"
"Calm down, you will!" Mercedes spoke calmly, walking over to him. "It's going t'be lovely once we're all done, it's just going to take some time to make it beautiful. Honestly, Lindsey is going to love it!"
"Lindsey's coming through here, quick everyone hide!" Robbie shouted.
Freddie panicked, picked JJ up and quickly hid behind the wall alongside everyone else. Jason on the other hand didn't hide and stayed with the decorations to make an excuse.
"What's going on in here?" Lindsey asked, looking around at all the decorations
"Oh um, just making this place look nice because I'm um, doing a picnic for me and Holly tonight and I just wanted to make sure everything looked…pretty?" Jason stuttered, hoping he'd managed to convince Lindsey.
"Ah, well it looks lovely and I'm sure Holly is going to love it." Lindsey replied, oblivious to the fact it was all for her as she made her way through the folly and out the other side.
"Thank goodness for that." Mercedes let out a sigh of relief, dusting off her dress from where she'd been crouched on the floor. "Right, chop chop! Get back to work!"
Lindsey changed into her work uniform for the first time since way before Daisy was born. She sighed heavily, knowing that she'd be back in this job atleast three days a week now, three days she was missing of her kids life. She brushed the dust off her scrubs and tightened up her ponytail before stepping out into the corridor and over to the nurses station, Kim, Tegan and Celine greeting Lindsey with the biggest smile and party poppers.
"Welcome back!" The three of them exclaimed, pulling the party poppers.
"Guys, you'll wake the sleeping patients!" Lindsey spoke, letting out a chuckle.
"Way to kill the mood, Linds!" Kim scoffed.
"Gosh I've missed you guys." She added, smiling at the girls.
"It's not been the same without you!" Celine said, hugging Lindsey. "Anyways, there's a male in cubicle 4, got a bit rowdy and yeah, you probably know the rest."
"Great, what lovely things to come back to!" She chuckled, picking up a pair of the purple medical gloves and putting them on, making her way over to the cubicle, pulling open the curtain and stepping in. "So, what's happened-" She stopped talking as she saw who it was, sighing deeply. "Joe."
"I don't want you sorting me out, get me another nurse or doctor or whatever." Joe replied sternly.
"I'm the only one on duty with no patients. I'm not going to do anything or say anything, just let me check out this wound alright?" She added calmly, picking up his notes that had been briefly written down before putting them back and walking over to him.
"Linds, you shouldn't want to help me."
"I've got to, it's my job. Let's just put our differences aside for a minute and let me sort you out." She examined the black eye he'd sustained and also the large cut on his cheek. "What happened?"
"Prison inmate, he can't control his temper and obviously neither can I, he started talking about how messed up my family was and then I just flipped." He took a sharp breath as she touched the delicate area on his face.
"You need to control yourself Joe, you can't keep letting this happen. Right, you've got a nasty cut over your cheek and you're going to need stitches and definitely an ice pack for that black eye. I'll go get everything and get you patched up, just don't move!"
Joe nodded over at Lindsey as she left the cubicle, sighing to himself. She was willing to put everything aside and just help him and in that moment, every feeling he ever felt for her, how much he loved her come flooding back. It was so wrong to even think about her like that anymore, after everything she'd done to him and what he'd done to her, she didn't want to know him but why was she being so nice?