Fifty One Days

Chapter 16 - 'The hospital'

Chapter 16 guys. So happy you’re all reading. Please remember to vote too. I means so much. I always feel so happy when I’ve put a chapter up and seen you’ve voted. Double update because I thought I was tired but it turns out I'm not Haha! 📖❤

“I can not believe that has just happened” Milo decided it would be a good idea to accompany me back to my car. I thought for a minute Kyle might follow us but he didn’t. “I can't believe I actually just punched someone. It wasn’t even what he did to me, as soon as he mentioned Liz. I lost it. That little girl means the world to me and if she gets hurt because of a knobhead like Kyle I couldn’t stand it"

My hand hurts so much. Its swollen and almost doubled in size. The ring I inherited from my grandmother was pinching round the skin on my middle finger. I always laugh when I look down at this ring, my Nan was the most amazing woman I knew, when she got ill at the tender age of 55, she gave me this ring and said to me “Alice, I want you to wear this ring on your middle finger only, so when someone upsets you, I will know, I will always be right there when you flip them off" She passed away a week later. I was devastated.

That was my nan, strongest woman I knew and I know she would be laughing, where ever she was that this ring probably just made a dent into Kyle’s arsehole face! It was throbbing now though. I tried to pull it off, but it wouldn’t budge.

“Ali, I think maybe we should go to the emergency room? I can drive your car or we can walk to mine? But please let me take you. That ring needs to come off.”

I knew he was right and I hated it. What the hell was he doing talking to Kyle about all that anyways. The hospital was an hour out of town. Our local one had been closed due to no funding so he had a long drive with me to explain. I told him the address of the hospital, he grabbed my keys from my coat pocket and unlocked the door, I walked round the back of the car to get into the passenger side. I did contemplate being stubborn and say I would drive myself but I knew in the end he wouldn’t let me and I think my thumb may be broken. I knew I shouldn’t have punched him but what a total dick!

“Why did you say all those things to Kyle? Hes a complete stranger to you.” I say to him as soon as were both in the car.

“I know, I’m sorry but he was asking me if I was from here and i said no and then he asked if i was single and i said yes. He asked if I wanted to have a weekend out with him and his friends to go pull women and I just ended up blurting out that a night out would be great but I’ve already got my eye on someone. It just went from there. I never said anything about ‘Hell of a shag', he just said that to piss you off. I only mentioned it the once, I didnt talk about you for three hours and obviously he put it together when I said I was going to be living in George street and that you lived there too. I didn’t know he was your boyfriend. What you doing with a guy like that anyways?”

“You're not seriously lecturing me on who I should and shouldn’t be with Milo”

“ I know but seriously Ali? Come on!”

"He wasnt all that bad. Okay so yeah sometimes I wouldn't hear from him for a few days and then he would normally come back drunk but still he was okay most of the time" a grin creeps over Milo’s face and I cant help but let out a little giggle “Okay so, he wasn’t the best boyfriend in the world but you cant talk" I dont know why but I feel myself telling him things I know I probably shouldn't. "If you must know, just before I turned 18, when I first met Kyle I got pregnant after a few months of seeing each other. I absolutely adored him, and even though it wasn’t ideal, I wanted the baby. I found out a week before I was due my first scan, he had cheated on me and by that evening I was miscarrying the baby”

“I’m sorry Ali, that’s a horrible thing to go through”

“Thanks, I think maybe the stress of it all caused it. Maybe fate. I don’t know but either way, thats why I moved away when I turned 18. If  Kyle hadn’t cheated all them years ago, I wouldn’t have moved away and done really well for myself because in my head I knew, I would get my chance again to have another baby.

When you left last time and Kyle came back into my life, I suppose I felt like I owed him something. I wouldn’t own two companies if it wasn’t for him in a weird sideways view”

“You own two companies?” Oh shit!!! I cant play this off again. I have a strong feeling Milo wont tell anyone and I feel like I’ve known him for years. It’s just the way he makes me feel. Well here goes nothing. After everything that's already happened tonight, why not!

“Uhh, yeah I own two companies” I peer up at him, he doesn’t take his eyes of the road. I wish I could look at him properly to read what he’s thinking.

“What companies are they?”

“ I have a Publishing House and an Estate Agents”

“Are you serious? I cant tell if you’re joking?”

“Deadly serious.”

“Okay so you don’t just work there, you actually own them?”

“Yeah I own them. Belle is actually my team leader in the estate agents”

“Really? My mind is blow. Like...wow. I’m not saying your not capable, I just did not expect it. So do the others know? Like does Steph know?”

“No none of them. Well obviously Belle but no one else. Oh shit!”

“What?”

“Jenna knows too! Oh shit, she’s probably going to tell everyone now!”

“I’m sure she wont, well not yet anyways. Why does it matter if they know? Its an amazing achievement Ali.”

“I just knew if everyone knew they would treat me differently, I wouldn’t get invited out anywhere and I didn’t want them to feel weird around me when stuff went on in the house”

“Why would they feel weird around you in the....oh right, don’t tell me, you own the house as well?”

“I own several” I look at him again, I really wish I knew what he thought about this “But yeah including the one I live in"

“So when I first met you and I spoke to Jenna, did she have to run it past you before I could move in?”

“Ordinarily, yes. But I was really ill that day so i let her take charge of it, I’ve never allowed her to do that before and it’s just typical that was the day you decided to move in.”

“Would you have said no if you knew it was me?”

“I don’t know. Yes probably. I liked you and I probably wouldn’t have thought it would be a good idea for us to live together”

“Well then, thank god you were ill that day otherwise we wouldn’t be here now”

“Yeah I suppose so. I would be driving myself to the hospital with a hand that I’m fairly certain is broken"  I had almost forgotten about the pain. What is it about this man that makes me lose all my senses. 

“There we are then” I'm glad he didnt question me on tbe fact I said I liked him.

“There we are" We stay in a comfortable silence for the next ten minutes. I stare out of the window, what a Birthday this has turned out to be.

“I wont tell any of the others about your companies and all if you don’t want me too?” He makes me jump when he places his hand on my leg “But Ali?”

“Yeah?”  I turn back to face him.

“You didn’t get to where you are now because of Kyle. You got there because of you and I think you're amazing!”

My hand is absolutely killing me. I’ve lost a boyfriend. Turned 28, my friend has just been fucked over by his ex wife again but one thing that made it absolutely sure that I DID have a good birthday?

Milo was finally back in my life.