The Weekend - Completed

Chapter 27

We had arranged to get the 2pm train back to Wrexham and before I knew it I was putting my coat on and double checking I hadn't left anything.

"Daniel, we'll need to leave in the next five minutes." his dad called up the stairs. Within thirty seconds we were both stood in the living room waiting to go.

As well as his dad, both his mum and sister had also decided to wave us off from the station. Daniel had foolishly sat between Emma and I in the back of the car for the return journey, thinking it would be the most polite thing to and at several times he did try to speak to his sister, but she spent the whole journey talking over him, very often in some sort of code I was supposed to be fluent in but which she definitely didn't want Daniel to understand, I don't think she had anything to worry about there was no way he would have any grasp of what she was saying, her conversation comprised of incoherent snippets of information in the form of 'you know, the thing' or 'when he said, well you know', it was all very cryptic. Finally we pulled up at the station, relieved and exhausted from trying to keep up with the Emma we retrieved our bags from the boot of the car.

"Don't leave it so long next time love" Maria said hugging her son, fighting back tears.

"See you soon mum, dad." Daniel said slipping out of his mothers grasp and pulling me away.

"Alex, are you sure you can't stay?" Emma asked, I smiled brightly at her "Come back soon, you don't need to wait for Daniel, you can come on your own, can't she mum?" And she hugged me fiercely; I could feel my eyes sting and blinked hard to disperse the tears trying to form in my eyes. I know it sounds silly but I was a little overwhelmed by how easily this girl had welcomed me into her family and embraced me like I was a true friend.

"Well erm thanks Em." Daniel said pretending he was offended.

"No love she's right you're always welcome, it was so lovely to finally meet you." Now it was his mothers turn to hug me, she kissed me on the cheek before letting go of me.

"Thank you so much for letting me stay, I've had a lovely time it was really nice to meet you all." I said as Daniel dragged me away from them before one of them could grab me again. "Daniel will ring once we get back." I pledged.

"Thanks love, see you again soon." His mum sung after us as we rushed onto the train.

"Well thank fuck that's over, now the fun can really begin." Daniel said wiggling his eyebrows provocatively as soon as we sat in our seats. "Oh and I'm not ringing them." He said folding his arms in protest

"Yes you are, I've promised your mum now, you wouldn't want to make me out to be a liar?" I opened my eyes wide and looked up at him with my innocent 'puppy dog' face.

"What's it worth?" he said pretending not to notice my cute, pleading look, realising I wasn't winning this particular debate I quickly changed tactics.

"If you don't ring them I will, then I'll stay on the phone to your sister for ages." And I folded my arm mimicking his earlier pose.

"Oh yeah, what the hell was she talking about?" The look of confusion on his face made me giggle.

"Even if I knew I'm sworn by the girl's oath not to divulge our secrets." I teased

"There's no such thing."

"No there's not, but I didn't understand half of what she said and the bit I did manage to decipher about your little sisters love life, I don't think you really want to know about." I scrunched my nose and shook my head slightly to let him know he REALLY didn't want to know.

"Yeah just stop now, don't say any more, ever!" like a child he put his fingers in his ears and started humming loudly, trying to block out anything I might say on the matter.