Take a chance on Me

A delicate reality

A/N.
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Cara had the perfect life. Husband, baby and new house. It was perfect... or so she thought

Cara sits looking at her new born baby who is just over a week old. She couldn't believe she was finally a Mother after all this time.

Her husband Jed had been called to work away not long after the baby had arrived. He was due to be home yesterday but had been delayed.

Cara, herself enjoyed being alone. She could get things done and she could have friends over.
Things she could do when he'd was around. As much as she loved him, she felt he could be a bit much to handle at times.

Cara's baby was the only thing holding their marriage together now, it has been a rough few months but Cara made it though. Work thought cara was travelling. She hadn't told anyone about the baby. So instead told people she was going backpacking for a few months.

Her baby girl could of been more perfect to just lie in her arms, but now Cara had to make a big decision to leave her baby with her mother and go to work or leave it at a nursery. She mostly needed the money and decided to go straight back into work.

Her mum was on hand to look after her little girl and didn't see the point in cara paying nursery fees on top of other bills.

Cara is now on her way to her mums with her baby girl in the pushchair. "shh I know sweetie" Cara soothes as she walks down the street.

As she arrives at her mother's house, she digs into the nappy changing bag and pulls out bottle of milk, ready for her mum to warm up. Her mum opens the door and smiles at Cara "oh my darling Cara, it's good to see you. Now let me see my sweet little Phillipa" her mum spoke in a strong Irish accent.

"Pippa, Mum please call her Pippa" Cara sighs.

Phillipa was a name cara wasn't keen on but Jed had insisted. They had agreed on pippa for short, Cara hated it when people called her daughter phillipa.

"Fine sorry" Her Mum speaks politely.
She drops her bags off and kisses Pippa goodnight and then heads off to work.

As cara arrives at work she is greeted by raf. "Hey You! You don't look very brown from your travels" he joked. Cara nudged him"didn't you know us Irish girls don't tan"

"Anyway you're looking as lovey as ever, may I just say you might want to steer clear of takeaways for a while" Raf jokes noticing Cara has a bit of a stomach on her.

Cara was slightly offended. But jabbed raf in the ribs and laughed it off "Well the food was amazing!"

"Where did you go again?" He smiles.

"Oh you know, Asia" Cara thinks as hard as she can to places in that part of the world.

"Asia is a beautiful continent". Raf replied. The two of them had a connection. Something different to a normal friendship

He smiles at her and just stares for a moment, he had most defiantly missed her being around.

Through out her first shift back cara missed pippa. She kept thinking about how much she would miss out on, Towards her late night break Raf offers Cara to come for a break with him.

They headed to a cafe across the road from the hospital. They chatted for a little while before raf began to cotton on that something wasn't right. " I'm fine just tired" cara tried to convince him

"You look like you haven't slept properly in weeks" Raf admits as he watches Cara yawn for the fifth time.

Cara smiled. "Just seem to have a lot on my mind at the moment"

"Care to tell me? I'm a great listener" Raf smiles as he watches Cara sip her hot chocolate.

"it's nothing, really. Just me being a bit over dramatic" she said trying to convince herself as well as Raf

They sit quietly for a while before Raf notices something. "Erm Cara have you spilt your drink on your top?" He smirks.

Cara looks down. She can't believe her eyes she was leaking milk. "Excuse me a second" Cara flushes and rushes off to the toilets.

"Shit shit shit. Nice work
, Cara" she thought to herself. Luckily she always kept a spare change of clothes in her bag for "emergancies"

Cara folds up two pieces of tissue paper and slips it down her bra to dry up anything leaking out.

She quickly changed before heading back to the table with Raf, "New top?" He laughs.

"Of course. Always keep a spare outfit. You never know when your going to spill a drink down yourself"

"Anyway after the shift want to come for breakfast?" Raf questions curiously.

It's a lovely offer, but I can't. I have to get home" she politely declined

"Well, maybe another day" he smiles.

"That would be great" cara agreed. They finished their coffees and headed back to work

For the remainder of the shift Cara has her mind on Pippa and if she's settled at all for her Mum. Just as she was leaving work to go and collect pippa from her mum's, she got a text from Jed
"where are you and Phillipa?"

She looks down at her phone and then back up at her mum "are you okay?" Her mum questions and Cara nods and picks up Pippa.

"I'm fine, just a long shift and I've missed Pippa" she smiled before hugging her mum and heading home.

Cara gets home a few minutes later to Jed sat on the staircase waiting. "And where the hell have you been!" He snaps.

" work." She replied "and pippa was with my mum" she added quickly.

"Yeah, obviously..." Cara huffs and rolls her eyes at him.

"Look in sorry. I just worry" Jed said trying to reason. Cara nods and lifts Pippa out of the pushchair and carries her into the lounge.