The next day I decided to meet up with Tom the next day as I decided to text him and ask him to meet me at Lockie's kitchen for dinner. He seemed short on the phone and I just wanted to know what I have done.
I was wearing a pink short casual dress with a flannel wrapped around my waist.
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I made my way in and found a group including my brother in the corner of the shop.
"Hello guy." I said and gave them all a hug. "Are you all here to cure your hangover?"
"Yeah we decided that we needed a big breakfast." Pete said. "Do you want to join us?"
"No, I'm meeting Tom to have a chat. Anyway wish me luck." I said and gave them all a hug before making my way over to my table.
I was sat down for a couple of minutes before he walked through the door and made his way over.
"Hi" I said and watched as he sat down opposite me. "How have you been?"
"Alright, trying to keep myself busy." He replied. "So obviously we need to talk about yesterday."
"Yeah," I said and sighed. "Look I'm not going to change for you and I'm going to be protective around my brother."
"I just don't understand why you don't get my point of view." He replied and looked down. "I don't want a girl who is trying to make a drama everyday. I'm at the point in my life where I just want to settle down and be drama free."
"I'm not ready for that. I want to be with you so much but I think we should take a break. We both need to figure out what we want in this relationship and wether we are right for each other."
"Alright." He said and stood up. "Come and give me a hug then"
"Take care of yourself." I said and gave him a hug, with tears streaming down my face. "This is for the best."
"I know, look after yourself." He said. "Don't cause too much trouble."
"I'll try not to." I said and watched him walk out of the shop.
That went well.
**** I decided to go and busy myself in the shop to take my mind off this morning. I was a couple of hours in when Pete walked in with my mum and dad.
"Hey honey." Mum said and gave me a hug. "What you doing hiding in here on this lovely day?"
"I kind of stopped things with Tom this morning." I said as we all sat down. "We are at different point in our life and I couldn't tie myself down to him right now. It's a shame because I did like him but that's the way it is."
"Oh come here." Pete said and wrapped his arm around my shoulder. "Anyway I've made things amicable with Megan now. I spoke to her the other day on the phone and we managed to have a conversation without arguing."
"That's good." My dad said. "It's just a shame that it has maybe came a bit too late with her and the girls."
"If it was just me that she had a problem with I think it would be easier to sort out, but because she had said stuff about my friends, it's become so much more difficult." I explained to them. "I'll see them tonight and I want to see how they handle it."
"You know I'm always going to protect you." Pete said and wrapped his arm around me. "I feel like I need to return the favour of your protectiveness."
"I'm not going to stop you too getting along. I just don't want her to think that we are going to be fine all of a sudden and I'll be eating in her restaurant, that she's opening, every day."
****
That night we all made our way to the club that Debbie was hosting her birthday party in. I was wearing a light blue dress to loosely fit in with the 60s theme that was being held.
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"You look so great." I find Debbie as she gave me a hug. "I bet you've worn Carol out today with the celebrations."
"She'll be sick to death of my birthday." She said and made her way over to Lydia and Carol.
I made my way to the bar and then sat in the booth next to Amber, Yasmine, Lockie and Dan.
"So I heard today that Charlotte and Tom went on a break." James told them. "Pete said she was pretty broken about it all."
"I mean I don't have any sympathy with the girl. She's been having a go at me for breaking up my relationship and saying how her's is so great when it obviously isn't." Amber said.
"I think anyone like that is always going to be hurt by a break up." James said. "I don't blame her for that but I don't know the full details of it."
"I just wonder who her next target is." I heard Yas mutter, followed by a lot of laughter, and then I made my way out of the booth.
"Hey" Jordan said and sat next to me. "What's wrong?"
"I just heard Amber saying that I basically deserved the split and I shouldn't by wallowing in self pity." I said and took gulps from my cocktail. "She doesn't like me and it's plain to see for everyone."
"She's really not helping herself is she." Jordan replied. "Look you go and enjoy yourself and don't let her make your night a misery."
"So I heard from someone that you are now my friend and you slowly want to break it to Megan and Amber."
"Yeah, I just don't want them to attack you and accuse you go stealing me." He said which made me laugh. "I mean we both know how they are."
"Yeah I want to wish you good luck for that conversation."
"I'm going to need it."
****Author's Note****
I hope you like this chapter.
So I've made the decision to split them up, at least for a while. I just didn't have anything to write about them and I needed drama to keep the book interesting. So I need some suggestions about what to do next. Obviously I need a love interest or some big storyline. I think the love interest will need to be on the show, but please give me some suggestions about what you would like.
