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☁️ ALANNAH ☁️

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☁️ ALANNAH ☁️

The weekend whizzed past with my very first night off, and it was so nice to just be able to go to sleep at a normal functioning time, rather than about nine in the morning. It felt like paradise when I got to spend a full twenty four hours with my daughter, with zero interruptions or the demand of work creeping up on me. It could just be me and Harmony.

We spent the day at the park, feeding the ducks and going on a brisk autumn walk, then the two of us had visited my parents for dinner where Harmony ran riot around their house, singing at the top of her lungs with the brightest smile on her face. I think it was the happiest I had seen her in a long time. It was almost like relief had washed over her when she learnt that I didn't have to leave her after dinner and that I could actually tuck her into bed and then wake up next to her.

She had called it a Mummy and Harmony day and was already asking when the next one would be. I didn't have to heart to tell her she had to wait another week or so.

Though the days were flying past and so were my shifts. It already felt as though I had been working night shifts for months now already. The nights just ran away with me and they went past so quickly that I hardly had time to breathe. There was a constant flow of patients in just recently, nothing ever concerningly serious, mostly just flu symptoms, twisted ankles, vomiting bugs, tonsillitis, aches and pains, the usual kind of fun that kept us busy.

I had expected it to be a little awkward with Harry at first. I was worried about the air between us shifting in a peculiar way after he had learnt that I had a daughter. I was so worried about his judgement of me and how he viewed me, I thought that maybe it'd somehow rock the boat. But it didn't. Not in the slightest. If anything, it seemed to make us closer in the strangest of ways.

Now he almost had an understanding of me and what it must be like to live in my world. Now he didn't have to look at me and wonder what on earth was going on in that brain of mine, we all know he must often be thinking it. It must all start to make sense for him now.

The two of us had worked as a solid team for the past week, completely working in partnership and being there for one another. It was something that I never thought would happen, the two of us working alongside one another and being civil with each other. It was refreshing to say the least.

Niall had also apologised to me the shift after Harry and I had met up at his sisters coffee shop. He had sat down with me just before our shift had started and he had given me his sincerest apology, telling me how sorry he was that he had pushed me so far when it was never any of his business in the first place. He took accountability for his own actions and for that I thanked him for being the bigger man and actually owning up when he was in the wrong. And since then, he too had been chatting away with me as if we were long lost friends.

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