Parents

Selfish

Later that evening Lucy was laying in bed scrolling on her phone when the door bell rang. She pulled herself out of bed wincing at the pain, she assumed it was Tim. She went into the kitchen where Tim was chatting with Angela.

"Hey baby u ok?" Tim smiled.

"I feel like I've been hit with a baseball bat and then thrown into a wall." Lucy joked.

"Yeah, stupid question."

"Lu do u want food yet?" Angela chimed in.

"No thanks,"

"Lu it's almost 10pm u haven't even had lunch," Angela insisted

"Ange I said I'm not hungry." Lucy was so anxious she knew she needed to tell Tim how she really felt.

"Come on Lu u need to eat," Tim got involved.

"I'm going out the back,"

Lucy walked away from them, she went into the garden and lit her cigarette. Shortly after Tim and Angela appeared either side of her.

"Lu what's going on?"

"Nothing."

"Baby there must be a reason?"

"Tim I need to talk to u." Lucy was dreading this conversation since she mentioned it to Nyla at the hospital

Angela left to give them some privacy.

"What is it?"

"Tim I love you, but I don't want to disappoint you."

"Baby you could never disappoint me."

"Tim I can't see us moving back in together, I don't see us getting remarried or anything like that. At the moment I don't know what I want."

"Oh.. I see." Tim was truly upset. He had been working on himself so that eventually him and Lucy would be back to the old times.

"I want things to stay how they are now, I'm happyish with how things are."

"Well unfortunately it's not all about how u feel." Tim snapped.

"Tim I know that!"

"No Lucy u don't, and it's not fair on me that ur not all in. So I'm going to leave now and u sit here with ur bloody stupid cigarette and mental illness and carry on being happy!" Tim yelled.

He got up and stormed out through the house. Lucy didn't even care, too much had happened today and she couldn't be bothered with it.

Angela came running out expecting Lucy to be crying.

"What happened?"

Lucy explained what she had said to him

"Lu it's it ur fault, he can't force u to want a future with him."

"I know that Ange."

"Lu please come in and eat I'm getting worried," Angela pleaded.

"Angela I'm really not in the mood I feel sick and my whole body aches and..."

Lucy was cut off by Angela's phone ringing.

"It's Bailey?" Angela was confused.

She picked up :

A- hey Bailey u alright?
B- um I didn't know who to call, Bea is screaming and will not settle. I don't know what's wrong with her. She's throwing up with how much she's screaming.
A- I'll pop over in a minute, she could just be teething. Where's John?
B- he's at work, I'm so sorry.
A- honestly it's no problem, I'm bringing Lucy with me by the way.
B- shouldn't she be resting in bed?