A New Beginning • Emmerdale

Chapter 18: "She Loves The Drama"

KENNEDY'S POV

I outstretched my arms turning around in the bed as my eyes slowly opened, trying to adjust to light. When they finally open, I see Joe sleepy peacefully next to me.

"Joe" I say, what would be loud enough to wake anyone up, yet he doesn't budge.

"Joe?" I say again louder giving him a shake. I roll my eyes at my failed attempt, He is the worst person to wake up. So I decide to go for the last option. I place my hands on him and push him off the bed as he crashes to the floor quickly sitting up.

"Wha-" He starts, as he makes eye contact with me, my hand over my mouth covering my laugh "Why didn't you just shake me?" I roll my eyes.

"I did. Like seventy times" I shrug. He laughed it off, standing up. My eyes trail to his well toned chest.

"Want to take a picture?" He says, snapping me out of my thoughts. I look up and see him smirking. I just roll my eyes and look up at the ceiling.

"You roll your eyes too much, they will roll out your socket soon" He joked tying his dressing gown up around his bare body as he walks over to my side pulling me up. He reaches behind him pulling one of his T-shirts over me, that comes down to just below my mid thigh.

"That's for my eyes only" he smirks while placing it over my small frame. I stand up so pulling the shirt down properly and I face him placing my hands on his chest, grabbing a handful of his dressing gown pulling him toward me as I kiss him.

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I had left Joe's at noon after getting a text from Debbie, mum wanted to talk to us about something. So I headed over there as Joe went for his run,

"Whats going on?" I say as I walk in the door, seeing Charity at the kitchen table, Noah on the arm of the sofa, Debbie next to mum, as well as Vanessa, Chas and Cain. I don't say anything else as everyone looked at me, I go and sit on the sofa next to Noah.

Charity goes on to explain she wanted what she about to say, to come from her as we were all going to here about it sooner or later. She told us all about her past with D.I Bailes. It hitting Debbie and myself particularly hard, her still being my mum, no matter what she did in the past, and I could relate considering I had pretty much went through the same as here back with my uncle, not that I was planning on saying anything to her anytime soon.

"How do I know you aren't lying" I was snapped out of my thoughts hearing Noah. Everyone's eyes widened at the boy before he exchanged a few words with mum before running out the door.

"I'm so sorry" I say as I get up from my spot, wrapping mum in a hug along with Debbie.

"I'll go after him, I'll talk to him" I nod to mum as I grab my coat rushing out after Noah.

*with Noah*

THIRD PERSON POV

Noah was sat on a gate looking out into the field in front of him, as he could hear footsteps coming from behind him, as Joe jogged up to him.

"You skiving off school again? You're going to cost your mum a fortune in school funds" Joe says as he climbs over the fence to stand in front of Noah "she can't blame me for this one" he says, letting out of breath, sounding quite wheezy after his run.

"Noah what's up?" Joe asks when he realises the look on Noah's face.

"It's her again" he folds his arms "saying she got abused by some cop" Joe's face becomes serious and he is clearly shocked by what Nah said.

"Run That by me again" Joe said, wondering if he misheard.

"Called D.I Bailes or something" Noah looked down raising his eyebrows "it was years ago but.. she said.. he made her have sex with him" shaking his head, he places his hands on his knee, avoiding Joe's eyes.

"A-and when you said made her" Joe turns his head slightly to one side, as if to ask Noah to elaborate.

"She was fourteen, well so she says" Noah begins just as Kennedy turned the corner looking ahead seeing the two boys talking, Joe sees her out of the corner of his eyes, looking at her, giving her a tiny nod before returning his gaze to Noah "it could be another one of her scams and they could all be in on it" He finishes. Kennedy walks a bit closer, so she could just about hear what they were saying.

"Well there are easier ways to scam people, saying that about a policeman, she's going to get some grief" Joe says seriously.

"She loves the drama" Noah shrugs looking up at Joe.

"Did she love telling you" Joe challenged.

"No" Noah said looking down, then back up at Joe. Joe made a face at Noah.

"Because that's quite heavy, she was fourteen and he was an adult.. then he was manipulating her" Joe said sincerely.

"Yeah I know, It's called grooming, I'm not stupid" Noah's haze remains on the grass. Kennedy looks over, taking in all of Joe's words.

"Right. So you know he's a criminal" Joe folds his arms "is she's calling him out, that takes some guts. Fessing up to you lot about something she'd rather forget.. she wouldn't put herself through it if she was faking it" Noah looked down, realising he was wrong, as Kennedy smiled at Joe as they made eye contact.

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Kennedy opened the front door, walking into the house along with Noah.

"Oh thank g-" Charity starts but stops when Joe walks in after Noah. "I New he's run to you" Charity hissed at Joe.

"I found him actually" Joe said. Noah walked over to Charity wrapping his arms around her.

"I'm sorry" He apologises as everyone in the room smiles at him.

"Well.. Now we are all here. Me and Ken-" Joe starts, getting cut off when Kennedy pushes him out of the door slamming it shut. Everyone's eyes go to her. She shrugs, and Noah carries on apologising to Charity as everyone starts up their conversations again, Kennedy manages to slip out the door without being seen.

"Seriously?" Joe said raising his arms.

"Seriously?" She says sarcastically "we can't tell her yet! After she just said everything? Then we change it all to make it about us!" She whisper-shout at Joe.

"Sorry" he holds his hands up "I have a knack for bad timing" he said smiling.

"Yeah, you do" She laughed and slowly pushed Joe up against the wall opposite the door, before pressing her lips to his.

"What on Earth is going on here?!" They both quickly pull apart, turning around. Breaths of relief come out of there mouths seeing Chas.

"Don't tell anyone. Please" Kennedy grabs her hands begging her.

"I won't" she smiled at the two "you two need to be careful, It could've been anyone but me coming out the door, and they wouldn't agree not to say anything" she hugged Kennedy. "She will kill you both when she finds out. She doesn't want you two together again"

"We know" Joe perked up, still against the wall.

"We just need to find the right time to tell her. I love him Chas" Kennedy smiled sweetly.

"Well I'm happy for you. If you do anything to hurt her, I'll- I'll.. I won't be happy" Chas said to Joe as he nods. Chas giving Kennedy a smile before heading back to the pub.

"Can we go back to yours" Kennedy says in a flirty tone to Joe, grabbing both his hands moving closer to him. He nods giving her a quick kiss before walking out the pub together.