M-O

Part 4

"Here you go sweet heart," Anne said as she put my food in front of me. Anne makes the best homemade food. Anne offered to feed Maia for me to give me a bit of a break and let me eat my dinner alone.

"Anne that was delicious thank you so much," I said as I cleared my plate.

"You're very welcome dear, do you want anymore?" She asked.

"No no that was plenty thanks," I said and my tummy started to rumble.

"You sure love, your tummy is saying something else," she laughed. That wasn't because I was hungry though, then my palms went all sweaty and I felt something in my throat, oh no. I grabbed my mouth and ran to the bathroom pouring all of the contents of my stomach out into the toilet. Soon Anne was by my side rubbing my back and holding my hair back. Once I was done I flushed the chain and sat on the toilet lid. Anne went to get me a toothbrush.

"Here you go sweetie," she said handing me the toothbrush. I thanked her before brushing my teeth.

"Sorry about that I think it was one of my allergies," I said and she nodded.

"It's fine love, you look exhausted why don't you go to bed for a little while," she said and that's all I wanted right now to be honest.

"Would that be ok?" I asked and she nodded.

"I've set Maia's bed up in the spare room so I think you should stay in Brad's room just so that I don't disturb you when I'm putting Maia to bed," she said and I was hesitant at first, staying in Brad's room would bring back so many memories but I knew that it was what is best for my rest. I nodded and she left to go and check his room was ok.

I took this time to go and bring the bags in from the car. Derek lent me a hand taking them upstairs into the spare room. I pulled out some pyjamas for Maia so that Anne could dress her later and then pulled out some for me and I changed into them.

I briefed Anne on how to put Maia to bed and what not before taking myself upstairs into Brad's room. As I thought memories of our past relationship whizzed round my head as I stepped foot into his room and apparently Brad hadn't forgot about me as there were photos of me and Maia and me and him on his bedside table. The thought of him still thinking about us made me smile and with that I fell asleep.