With Me Through Troubled Times (With Me - book 2)

Chapter 62

Its been over a month now since Joe was discharged from the hospital but it's also over a month ago since we had seen Odette. She didn't want us to go and see her again but we all knew that it wasn't her that was saying it, Callum has made her say that.

I stand in the kitchen looking out the window to the back garden as the nurses check Joe over in the sitting room. I hear Connor and Matthew come into the room but pay no attention to them.

"Why do you get a car and I get nothing?" Matthew asks him.

"I just do cause I'm older," Connor replies.

"Mum, can I get a car for my-" Matthew starts.

"No."

"What? Why?" He questions.

"I told you no and I mean no," I say as I continu to look out the window.

"So unfair!" He moans.

"Well life is unfair sometimes! You just gotta deal with it!" I snap.

"Sorry I mentioned it."

"Matthew, I am stressed out enough without you asking for things!" I tell him before walking out the room.

I walk into the hall and start to walk up the stairs when I hear the sitting room door open. I look over the banister and at Joe walking out with the nurses. I watch them walk over to the front door and Joe let them out the house. He closes the door and looks up at me.

"Where are you going?"

"I need-" I start.

"Mia, come here." He sighes, walking over to the bottom of the stairs and holding his hand out for me. I walk down the stairs and put my hand in his. I stand on the last step and he puts his arms round my waist as I rested mine on his shoulders. "You're stressing out and you know all too well that that isn't good for either you or our baby."

"I know but do you blame me?"

"No but I just think that you need to remember who you are and who your family are. Once you do that, you'll know what to do next."

"I know what to do, it's just getting the right people in to do it is the problem!"

I push him away slightly, turn round and walk up the stairs. I walk towards Odette's room and ho into it. I close the door over when I get in the room and look round.

Everything was how she left it, nothing had been touched. I walk over to her walk-in wardrobe and look at everything that was in it. I run my hands over some of her clothes that were hanging up when I caught sight of something.

I reach for the small pink teddy that Joe had bought her when she was born and walk back out into the bedroom. I close the door over and fall to the floor, clutching the teddy to my chest. Tears begin to fall form my eyes at the thought of never going to get my daughter back. Why does this always happen to me!

I look down at the white carpet and notice that it had gone a deep red where I was sitting. I look closely at it and realise that it was blood. I start panicking and as pains shoot across my stomach. Dissiness clouds my gaze and I fall to the side.

"Dad, she isn't in there." Connor shouts from outside the bedroom.

"Well check-" Joe starts before the room door opens.

"Mu...mum!" Connor shouts as he comes rushing over to me. "Dad, call an ambulance!"

Joe's POV

"Dad, call an ambulance!" Connor shouts from up stairs.

I stopp what I'm doing and run as fast as I can up the stairs. I run to Odette's room and stop in horror. Connor holds Mia's head in his lap trying to calm her down as she panics. My eyes dart to the carpet and the blood that was on the white carpet. This is not happening. Not now.

"Connor, go and get Matthew to phone for an ambulance." I tell him.

"But dad-"

"Go!" I shout before he carefully puts Mia's head back on the floor.

He gets up and runs out the room. I quickly walk over to Mia and sit down next to her. I pull her body up so she's leaning against me and stroke her hair away from her face.

"You'll be okay," I try to reassure her.

I was sat for almost twenty minutes, trying to reassure her that she'd be okay, when the ambulance finally arrives. They put Mia on a stretcher and took her out the house and into the ambulance.

"Any idea-" One of the paramedics starts.

"She's pregnant," I inform them, looking at Mia. They stop what they were doing and look at me. "What?"

"We better hurry and get her to the hospital," the other paramedic says.

I get into the ambulance and look at Connor and Matthew.

"Stay here and watch Emery. Call Lisa and Tina and tell them what's happened" I tell them before the doors close over.

HOSPITAL - 1 HOUR LATER

An hour passed since they took Mia into surgery. No one was sure if she was still pregnant or had a miscarriage.

I sit in the waiting area when I hear Odette's voice come from a room along the corridor. I get up and follow the voice. I stop by a room and look in the window as Callum leaned over her as she lay in the bed, as if he was threatening her. I watch them and listen closely to what they were saying.

"Face it, you're parents don't want you anymore. I'm all you'll ever have and as soon as you get out of here, we can get married and live in a different country." Callum says to her.

I move back in shock over what I heard.

"Mr. Hart," a doctor interrupts.

I turn round and walk towards the doctor. "How is she?"

"Mr. Hart, we couldn't prevent your wife from having a miscarriage. I'm sorry."

"But is Mia okay?"

"She will be. We'll take you to go and see her if you want." I nod and follow the doctor towards Mia's room.

I walk into Mia's room and look at her lying on the bed. She looked so weak which brought a tear to my eye. I walk over to the bed and sit down on the chair that was next to it. I don't reach for her hand because she has it resting on her stomach. How was I going to tell her that she lost the baby? It'll break her heart when she finds out.

1 HOUR LATER

I hadn't moved from sitting next to Mia's bed in over an hour now and she still wasn't awake. Shouting in the corridor brings me out my watchful gaze at Mia and I get up to see what it is. I open the room door and look down the corridor.

Callum was standing at the nurses station, looking very angry as Odette stood behind him looking scared. I look over my shoulder at Mia before starting to walk down the corridor to them.

As I reach them, Odette looks up at me and I notice that there was something different about her. I look at the nurse that's standing behind the desk, scared, and then to Callum.

"Discharge my girlfriend or you will regret it," Callum threatens the nurse.

"Callum, leave her alone. It's obvious that Odette isn't ready to go home," I butt in.

He turns and squares up to me. "Make me."

"Don't make me remind you that you tried to kill me and I still haven't handed you in yet for that," I tell him.

"Is that a threat?"

"No, it's a warning."

He looks back at the nurse before his phone starts to ring in his pocket. He completely ignores me and takes it out his pocket and walks away. I wait till he's away before turning to Odette.

"How are you feeling?" I ask her.

Her only response to me was walking forward and hugging me tightly.

"Dad, take me home."

I look down at her and smile.