Difference (*Ackley Bridge*)

EIGHT

When Cory finally decided to eat his dinner that my dad had made for him we both decided to go out for a while. When we were walking through the park we saw Candice and she approached Cory and I with Jamie in her arms who I had to admit looked the spitting image of Cory it was scary to see.
"Can you have him for the night on Friday?" She asked Cory.

"No I'm not living at home at the minute." Cory told Candice who frowned,

"Well where are you living?" She asked

"He's staying with me for a while, if he came home with me with your baby my dad would ask questions." I told her.

"So just tell him you're baby sitting."

"Why do I need to have him anyway?"

"Because it's my great aunts funeral and I don't want Jamie there." She told Cory,

"Well it is a reasonable answer, why don't you just get a friend to look after him?" I asked her curiously.

"They won't want to be lumbered with a baby." She snapped a little at mr,

"And what makes you think that I want to?" Cory asked and even I was shocked at his response.

"Because he is your son." She said

"Well I'm not doing it." He huffed as he stormed away from his son.

"Cory!" I called out but he ignored me so I turned to Candice, "let me talk to him and I'll tell you tomorrow at school." I tell her before I go chasing after a frustrated Cory. When I found Cory he was sitting on a bench just staring ahead of him. "What's wrong?" I asked him,

"That kid deserves better." He says

"Better then Candice?" I asked him

"No better than me." He sighs "I don't want to end up like my dad L." He said and that's when it clicked in my head, Cory wasn't scared of stepping up to be a dad he worried that he would end like his own.

"Listen to me, the only way that you're going to prove to yourself and everyone else that you won't be like your dad is if you take responsibility and be better then he was to you and Jordan. Because I know that you love that baby Cory you just need to show it more often." I said as I leaned my head on his shoulder.

"How do you know that I won't mess him up and mess this whole thing up?" He asked me seriously,

"Because I will be here with you to help and so will everyone else, all you have to do is ask for their help." I say to him.

"I'm so glad that I have you." Cory said as he kissed my head softly.

When Cory and I got back to my house we went straight into my bedroom where we watched a couple of films together.
"Do you reckon your dad is going to ask me to leave at some point?" Cory asked

"He doesn't even know that you stay the night he just thinks that we walk to school together and that you come for dinner here." I explained to him,

"You mean you haven't told him?"

"He hasn't bothered to ask." I shrug.

"So I'm just your dirty little secret?" He suddenly erupted which definitely shocked and scared me a little bit,

"When did I ever say that?" I asked

"You didn't need too." He snapped

"Don't take your anger out on me just because you're scared of being a dad I have nothing to do with this you're just looking for an argument." I tell him,