Chapter 1 - The discovery

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Charlotte:
Its 10pm and I'm about to go to bed. I have to go to work tomorrow. I don't know how much longer I can pretend. Everyone keeps saying they want a marriage as happy as mine but they don't know that we've been separated for months. I keep trying to tell someone like Carly or Marjorie but they have their own issues they don't need to hear about mine. I hear a noise downstairs so I go down to see but it's just my daughter looking for me. I take her back to bed and stroke her hair until she falls back to sleep then I go back to my room,get into bed and drift off to sleep.

I wake up at 6.00 and get myself ready. I take a warm shower and wash my hair, then when I get out I dry and style it before brushing my teeth and getting dressed. By now it's around 6.25 so I wake up my daughters and get them ready for the day. My eldest is still wondering why her daddy doesn't live with us anymore but I assure her everything will be fine. I grab all of my daughters things then I get them bucked in their car seats then drive my eldest to school.
When I get to work i drop my youngest in the baby room and do handover with carly . I have 5 minutes before my shift starts so I take all my stuff up to the staff room and put it in my locker before I make myself a coffee and sit down for a few minutes. 7.00 comes around and I'm in helping sorcha in the toddler room today as we are short staffed. I do handover with some parents and then sit the toddlers down for breakfast. I have a small group of 5 children today so I set up a nature activity while sorchas group is in the garden. I then went on my break while Jodie covered me in the room. When I get back to the room Jodie looks green as she's sat next to a bowl of potpourri so I immediately run down the hall to Marjorie and Autumn's office and burst in
'Marjorie'
I say with a panicked tone 
'Yes my love,whats wrong?'
'Jodie was covering my on my break and she may have eaten half a bowl of potpourri'
'Oh for goodness sake not again' she shouts running down the hall to the toddler room
'Jodie my love respectfully go home you look absolutely terrible'
'Ok'
Jodie says as she stumbles out the room. I xarry on with the rest if my day and it flies by. I collect my children from their rooms and go home. We have a quiet night and go to bed early.

The next morning at work Marjorie calls me I to her office. I secretly hope its not another parent complaining about the late fees. I go into her office and she looks flustered.
'Morning Marjorie morning Autumn.'
'Good morning my love' Marjorie says
'Marjorie are you OK you look panicked'
'I'm alright Charlotte however I need you to cover in the office today as I've been called to head office with Reece this morning, i dread to know what its about considering it has to do with the owner'
'Alright Marjorie I hope it goes well'
'You and me both'
she said before rushing out the door. I spend the rest of my day working in the office with Autumn we get a lot of work done then when Marjorie comes back she let's me go home early as all the rooms were in ratio. Marjorie was telling me that there is a new deputy manager at the sister nursery I wonder what there like.

(Sorry for the short chapter the next part should be out later today)

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