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Chapter 14 - Whoops
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It was the next day and Julie came into the room, “Hey Nat,” she said brightly, “How’s she doing?” Natalie was sitting in the same place, mumbling “pretty much same” and Julie walked over, “When you going to tell him?” she said. “Oh because he finds out I have a child, she has an abusive father and she’s in intensive care, obviously he’s going to want to find out he’s going to be a father”

Julie said “I know it’s hard,” and she gave her a hug “But you can get through this” Natalie said “I can’t deal with this, I really want her to wake up. She is so precious to me now” She went over to her and looked at her. “I’d give up this pregnancy for her to wake up”



Suddenly she was scared by the sound of “You what?” from James, who was at the door. She looked up and said “Oh my God, James, wait” and James stormed out of the room. She chased after him, “James! Wait!” and he slowed down to a stop, and turned around angry. “What do you want?” he snapped. She went over to him and said “Please, James. I didn’t want you to find out about it this way…” and he looked at her even angrier “Or at all?” he snapped.



“James, please, I was going to tell you, I just didn’t want it to be right now” and he interrupted her next sentence, saying “Don’t you think I have a f***ing right to know you’re going to have my baby?” he snapped again “How am I supposed to deal with the fact that one: I’m going to be a father and two: You felt you couldn’t bloody tell me?” She looked guilty and tried to say something, but it didn’t come out. She went to hug him but he pushed her off, saying “I need some time alone, leave me”

She ran back to the room to be alone. She sat on the chair, crying. Julie walked out of the room and followed James.

He stormed outside and let out a sigh, holding his hands to his face and dragging them down. He sat on a bench and watched the cars pass by, to be interrupted by Julie sitting down next to him yelling “James, you’re going to listen, now” He looked at her and snapped “What? What do you want?”



“Natalie was going to tell you, you know. The night Cait was run over, she was going to tell you. That girl is at her worst at the moment, and I’m not talking Caitlin. I’ve seen some pretty bad times for Natalie” James looked at her, “When?”

“Well, the night she ran away, she had to leave because of her psycho boyfriend forcing her. I remember hearing the doorbell ringing and getting up to answer it…”

16 years ago…

DING DONG

“Huh?” Julie said as she heard the doorbell go off, she looked at the time, it was ten, “Pretty late for visitors,” she said to herself. She got up to answer it in case it was important. In fact, it was. She swung open the door to see her sister standing there with a plastic bag and tears running down her cheek. Julie was shocked and said “Nat?” she then looked around, “Where’s the baby?” and Natalie let out a cry, “at… at... ”



Julie grabbed her and forced her into the house, it was the dead of winter and she wasn’t wearing a coat and her clothes were thin. She was like a block of ice. She took her to the sofa and passed her an unfolded blanket, “What’s… happened to you?” and Natalie wrapped the blanket around her. “I’ve got to go… tonight but… I just wanted to see you first” Julie was worried now, “Why do you have to go? What’s happened? Where’s the baby?”



Natalie took a sniff and said, “He’s taken her, I have to go, though”. She wasn’t making much sense at all. “Nat, I can help you, just tell me” and Natalie shivered and said “Caitlin’s at home, he won’t let me see her ever again and he will hurt her if I don’t leave Pondes” Julie was shocked, “I’m so sorry, it was a girl?” Natalie nodded and Julie got up and walked around “look, I can help you” and Natalie shook her head, “Nothing anyone can do” she grabbed her again, gave her a hug and said “I’ve missed you”

After explaining what he did and why she had to go, Julie concocted a plan. She said “Don’t go yet, hide here. He doesn’t know about me does he?” Natalie shook her head and Julie looked pleased “Good, hide out here for the night. We’ll go in the morning” Natalie sat up, “We?” Julie nodded, “You’re my sister, you’re going to need help, I know exactly where we can go, Nat” and she put her in a small bedroom for the night, to hide from him.



That night, Julie didn’t sleep, she packed. She was sad to say goodbye to her house, but Pondes was a place that sounded nice from the name but was filled with criminals and violence, so leaving would be a welcome relief. The morning came and they sneaked to the first train, the first train to Bitville.

On the train they spoke, “Where did mum and dad think I was?” she asked. “I never told them you were pregnant, nor that you had a boyfriend like him, my attempts to stop you failed and I didn’t know the first place to look for you, so I told mum and dad I didn’t know. They did find out you had a baby though” Natalie looked at her confused, “How?”

“Mum and dad got a call from the hospital, it was a normal day for everyone and well, we were having dinner, me visiting and such and suddenly all we heard was the phone ring, mum always zoomed for it in case it was the police. This time, it was about you, but not what she wanted. They said ‘Excuse me, are you, Mrs Anderson?’ Her saying yes, they said ‘We’ve got your daughter in the hospital, she’s just given birth’ and mum, well she was shell shocked, you were such a shy child, you didn’t even talk to boys and she was upset that you hadn’t told her, you were both so close. That night she just drove to the hospital and when she got there, you had discharged yourself and they didn’t get your address. Mum was so upset that you didn’t tell her and for ages, she wondered where you were and why you didn’t tell her and why you got out so fast”



Natalie looked angry, “He rushed me out of hospital that day, I can see why now”

The silence grew over the next few moments, broken by Natalie saying “I miss mum” in which Julie hugged her.

“...We got to Bitville and we stayed in a hotel when we sold my house we got a place of our own, then saving money we got a bigger place. She did her GCSEs in college and made her way back up again. She met mum again, but mum stayed in Pondes in case she ever saw Caitlin so she could reunite them. She met you and that was the happiest I’ve ever seen her. So there you go, Natalie at her worst, but nowhere near as bad as she is now she’s got close to her and she may be taken again”

James was silent, Julie said “James, you love her” and she pulled his head up, “You know you do, she’s the best thing and the last few days she has wanted to tell you so badly that she was pregnant, but she didn’t want to stress you out. Go and tell her how much you love her before you lose her” he sighed but he knew she was right. He got up and walked into the hospital, with her satisfaction.



aaaaand I'm back! Sorry about the long delay, got ill and the illness made me less bothered to take the pictures because it felt like effort. I'm out of the "UGH EFFORT" stage now though, whoop!

Excuse my "amazing" photoshop skills on one of the pictures, who knew it was hard to photoshop a blanket?

Also this chapter is getting edited a lot, I was ill writing it so the words will get mixed up and put weirdly

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