Straining

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She really should be getting home soon, Joe would be finishing soon but she hasn't heard from him yet.
Niamh holds her bump and attempts to stand as she needs to collect Matthew from school.

She re-picks her bags up and attempts to make the rest of her journey home.

She finally gets home and puts the stuff away before going through the cupboards trying to find some pin relief.

She finally gets home and puts the stuff away before going through the cupboards trying to find some pin relief. She finds the last packet and takes them with a glass of water.

Niamh decides to text her sister as she doesn't live far and asks her to collect Matthew from school as she isn't feeling great.

She happily agrees and Niamh empties out her shopping bags onto the kitchen side.

She puts away a few things then takes Joe's presents upstairs and wraps them.

Once she's happy she decides she wants to have a little tidy up the downstairs area so it looks better.

Her wrist still hurts a lot so she reverts to using just her left hand. Soon Matthew arrives home and she thanks her sister and takes Matthew in side.

"How was school" she asks him and hangs his coat up m.

"Okay" he mumbles as he walks over to his toys and starts to play

"Just okay?" She questions.

He just nods and gets on with playing with his toys, Niamh sighs and rests her hand on her bump and strokes it before looking through Matthews school bag.

She pulls out his lunch box and a couple of school letters.

She flicks through the letters and puts them on the side and looks in his lunch box "Matthew? Why haven't you eaten your sandwiches?" Niamh asks with a sigh.

"I don't want them" he simple says which Niamh doesn't agree with.

"That's naughty Matthew, why didn't you want them?" Niamh says.

"I don't like them" Matthew says as he carries on playing.

Niamh huffs and goes into the kitchen and chuckes them away, she currently feels like she's on a loosing battle with Matthew and she's fed up with it.

He's not eaten his sandwiches for the second day in a row now and hopes that Joe can speak to him.

She sits at the kitchen table and just stares outside, before long Joe has arrived home so she puts Matthews dinner in the oven as he's going to stop as his aunties tonight.

"Evening" Joe calls through and he throws his keys down onto the table.

"Daddy!" Matthew squeals as he gets up from his toys and runs to Joe and hugs his legs.

"Hello Matty" Joe smiles as he rustles his hair.

Matthew smiles up at him and then walks back to his toys and Joe heads through to Niamh.

"Evening, how's my gorgeous wife" Joe smiles as he comes in behind Niamh.

"Alright" she smiles as she turns around and he hugs her.

"How was work" she asks.

"The usual, stop start... new director has started" Joe smiles as he kisses her and puts his hand on her bump.

"Hope not being too harsh on you" she smiles and places her hand on top of his.

"Of course not" Joe smiles and kisses her head.
"Your hand Niamhy? What happened?" Joe asks as he notices how bruised and swollen it looks.

"Oh I just bashed it while out shopping" she says and moves away and goes to to set the table.

"It looks painful... that looks like you fell" Joe says suspiciously.

"I'm fine...it's just a bruise" Niamh says trying to convince herself.

"Oh well, get an ice pack of Matthews on it. I'll put his dinner out for him" Joe smiles.

Niamh puts on a smiles and nods. Once Joe has left the kitchen she goes into the fridge and knocks it and winces in pain.

She holds it close to her chest and gets the milk out ready to make herself a cup of tea.

Joe gets Matthew sat down and eating his dinner when he comes back and notices how she's in pain and goes straight over. "Niamh I think you should get this seen to" he says after he had a quick look at it. Niamh's face turns into a panic at the thought.

"No... I'm fine, the pain will pass!" She says almost too quick to be true.

Joe takes out his phone, "what are you doing!" She asks. "I'm phoning your sister to see if she can get Matthew early so I can take you to get that seen to" he says and raises his phone to his ear.

She lunges forwards and grabs the phone off him but at the same time straining her wrist.

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