Hide Your Love Away: book two

Chapter 9

(Pru)

I walk onto the set with everyone. My arms in Paul's extra coat, it gets really cold in London at night. "Pru. I am so sorry to hear what happened." Brian says when he sees me and Lucy walk in. He comes up to us and wraps me in his arms. "I'm glad you're here though, honestly Paul wasn't the same without you around." 

"Thanks Brian. I wasn't the same without him either. Everything's okay now,  I know we'll work through this." He smiles at me and I grab my necklace, shivering. "Is it always this cold here?" I ask him.

"From fall to spring, the summers get pretty hot though. I'll go get some hot coco for you girls." I smile at him and sit were we can see the boys. 

"Okay in this scene the two scientists walk by, Ringo you are about to get the shot to shrink your finger and then she stabs the needle into Paul's leg. Then the easterners break in through the window you fight until the scientists come in and we'll cut there. Sounds good to everyone?" They all nod. "Action."

 I watch the little parts of a scene play out and then I see the two "scientists" walking past with a baby stroller. Then I can hear a baby crying and I get a little lump in my throat. "What's that?" I hear Paul yell. He's not in most of this scene because he shrunk and he's waiting to film his part. "What the hell!?" He turns off the record player in the stroller with tears in his eyes. 

"Paul... Darling..." I try to calm him down but he hits my hand away causing me to spill hot chocolate all over my and Lucy. I flinch in pain from the heat on my legs. "Paul calm down."

"This isn't fair Prudence." He says with tears in his eyes. He grabs a smoke from john and storms off. 

"What the Fuck was that Brian!?" The director yells, I hear Brian telling the director about what has been going on the past two weeks and they turn to me. "I'm sorry miss... but this is the script... I can't change it now."

"It's alright. I don't mind it at all... I'll go talk to Paul."  I go after him and find him behind the house they are filming at, sitting on the ground cross legged crying into  the sky. I walk over and sit next to him taking the cigarette and taking a drag. "I'm sorry Paul. I'm sorry I couldn't save her."

"Oh angel... It's not your fault. I can accept this it's just hard. I never got to see her, or hold her..." I pull out the little charm from my purse on a black ribbon and hand it to him. "What's this?"

"Its Julia. The doctors gave me two little charms with some of her ashes after she was cremated. My dad has the rest." I say holding on to my necklace. "You're holding our little girl right now... I can tell you how beautiful she was. She had little round cheeks and big brown eyes, she was born with hair on her head and a smile on her face. She had a little button nose like Lucy's and she was so small Paul. She was too small for this world." He starts crying next to me with the charm in his hand. "I have her birth certificate...She lived Paul. She lived and she fought for those five minutes of life." 

"Thank you Pru. I better get back to filming." He stands up and helps me off the ground. "It's going to take me a while...but we'll be okay." I kiss his nose and smile at him. "We will be won't we?"

"I hope so darling."