A New Beginning • Emmerdale

Chapter 29: "You Should Not Have Done That"

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Kennedy's POV

"please please please can i go" Sarah begged, she'd been trying to get Debbie to give in and let her go to her school disco for the past two hours.

"no Sarah, you're still ill, i don't want to risk something happening and for you to be back in hospital again" Debbie argued back. I rolled my eyes.

"i'm fine mum" Sarah groaned "everyone is going to be there, i have to go"

"i've got an old friend, also a doctor, who i can get to come pay a visit. You know, for a second opinion" Joe suggests giving a light shrug. Sarah looks at Debbie.

"If he says i'm okay, can i go to the dance?" she said holding a faint smile on her face, Debbie looked over to me in which i have a shrug and a smile in response.

"okay fine, but only if he says you're not at risk" Sarah leaped on Debbie engulfing her in a big hug repeating 'thank you' over and over ago.

Not too long later, Joe returns with the doctor, Debbie shout up to Sarah to come down from her room. she joins Debbie on the sofa as myself and Joe hangs back a little. The doctor places the blood pressure cuff around Sarah's arm.

"we just want to make sure we're not missing anything" Debbie speaks up just as he slips it off her arm.

"of course, i understand" he says placing the monitor back in his bag "and something tells me you've had your fair share of being poked and prodded and asked the same questions over and over" he smiles at sarah.

"now you mention it" Sarah laughs, I face joe who lets out a small breath behind me.

"right so i've gone over sarah's case notes and from what i see, i'm in agreement with the previous doctor. Her condition seems to be stable and that's good news" he lifts his hands slightly offering a warm smile.

"so you've had a wasted journey" sarah says, debbie turns to face her slightly shaking her head.

"not at all, it's always good to make sure nothings been missed, tell me have you felt any dizziness, sickness?" He prompts sarah, i notice her face drop slightly.

"not at all" she smiles. i frown slightly.

"and in yourself you feel fit and well"

"absolutely, i have a question" he nods "would i be okay to go to my school dance later?" she gives him a sweet smile.

"as long as you continue to take good care of yourself , i don't see why not. if anything changes, by all means give me a call"

we all say goodbye to him outside, as soon as he drives off sarah looks at all three of us.

"so can i go get ready?" sarah beamed, debbie looked to the floor for a second before meeting the excited child's eyes.

"i'm still not so sure" she said quietly causing sarah to roll her eyes.

"you heard what he said, i'm fine, and you promised. tell her please" she look directly at me and joe, we looked at each other then back at sarah.

"well.. we can drive her there and pick her up" joe suggests.

"okay" debbie says dragging out the 'y' sarah gives her a quick hug before rushing inside to get ready.

"i'm still worried" debbie states i let out a little chuckle.

"it's fine to be debs, she's gone through a lot and you'll always be worrying about her" i placed a hand on her arm. She smiled at me as i leant back into joe's chest.

"you two would make good parents, thought of that yet?" she lets out a big grin, my eyes widen.

"he's got to propose before any of that yet" i pat joe's chest before walking inside, joe and debbie following a minute or two after. We all gather in the living room as we wait for sarah to make her grand entrance as she said.

"you look amazing!" we all say to her and she walks down the stairs in a beautiful light pink dress. she grins and hugs each one of us. i give sarah a huge hug and wave her off as joe drives debbie and sarah to the dance.

i headed down to the pub to hopefully catch lachlan, or robert to see if there was any news on rebecca, who apparently just took off randomly to ibiza. i push the pub door open and shrug my jacket off walking straight up to robert.

"hey, any news yet?" i ask as my gaze flicks between him and lachlan.

"no, but we know she hasn't gone ibiza" he states seriously, i gave him a look to tell him to carry on.

"she left this in her room" he holds up her passport, my eyes widen, they move toward lachlan who is shifting uncomfortably in his seat before walking in the direction of the bathroom.

"i'll go see if he's okay" i get up from my chair following him through the door.

"you okay?" i ask him

"yeah yeah fine" he mutters not looking at me. i give him a sad smile.

"it's weird though right, why'd she lie? i'll try call her" i pull my phone out and select rebecca's name, lachlan reaches out to try and grab my phone but i turned away before he could, shooting him a glare.

i froze. hearing the ringing, i lowered the phone staying at lachlan.

"why'd you have her phone" i say, my voice shaking. lachlan smirks shaking his head.

"you should not ha-" he starts, but i quickly dart past him and ran straight out of the pub ignoring the calls from people behind me.

i decide to run back to home farm, leaving joe a text just so he doesn't get worried, even though it probably didn't make much sense as i trying to run at the same time. so many thoughts going through my head, why did he have rebecca's phone? he must've done something.

i was instantly brought out of my thoughts as i hear something approaching, i turn and all i see is a small car and him in the front seat.

Everything Went Black.