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CHAPTER: 44 LEAVING Once Callum was gone Lindsey collapsed back into her seat. Jackie
ran straight up to her, but not with sympathy. Jackie pulled Lindsey up
so that she was looking at her. “ Kylie wouldn’t care, the only thing she wants is for her mother to be happy and you’re happy with him! Do you think Kylie would be the first kid to move to another country, she definitely won’t be the last for gods sake Lindsey sort your head out, do something for yourself for once will you!” Lindsey looked at Jackie, the expression on her face calculating. She remembered those words, she remembered that moment. She was in the club with Callum and he was almost pleading with her to give him one moment she was coming up with any excuse, yet Callum had already known the real one, she was afraid of what Jimmy would do. “ Callum if I spend the night with you can you just imagine what my Dad would be thinking, he’s already suspicious about the other night when I came to see you. Callum if anything ever did happen between us my Dad would go berserk, he’d never understand let alone approve and my Mam wouldn’t be much better” This had been the breaking point for Callum, this was when he handed her the cold facts of her existence. “ For gods sake Lindsey do something for yourself for once will you! That’s your problem you know you spend all your time worrying about everyone else you forget about yourself. That’s why you’ll never be really happy, you’re so busy worrying about what other people will think that you don’t think about yourself. I mean come on when was the last time you done what you really wanted to do? You were always wrapped up in keeping everyone else happy that you didn’t keep yourself happy. You always worried about what Jimmy would think didn’t you, when you were choosing who was going to be your bloke you didn’t think about which one would please you, instead you worried about what Jimmy and Jackie would think!” Lindsey realized what she had done now, the one thing Callum had wanted her more than anything to not do. She had been so wrapped up Jimmy’s view on their relationship that when it came down to it Kylie had merely been an excuse to cover up the real reason, she hadn’t wanted to hurt Jimmy anymore. She thought the family had been through enough and now that they were finally back on track she hadn’t wanted to spoil that, she hadn’t thought about herself. She glared now at her parents they were both stood in front of her. She could no longer blame Jackie, but Jimmy; she could blame him for a lot of things. “ Lindsey? You still with us?” Jackie asked. “ Lindsey! Lindsey! Get back here!” Lindsey could hear Jimmy
calling, she didn’t care. Lindsey came dashing down the stairs with two holdalls, suddenly she stopped there was an envelope on the floor, it had been shoved through the letterbox. Lindsey hastily picked it up. On the front the words Just incase were scrawled across the front in handwriting she instantly knew to be Callum’s. As she opened the envelopes she found two flight tickets for her and Kylie for the eight thirty flight. Kylie came bouncing down the stairs. “ Come on we’d better hurry” As they dashed out the
door Lindsey found herself muttering “ Son of a bitch” Somehow
she believed that Callum knew for a fact she’d change her mind. “ How long do you think it’ll take?” Lindsey asked
clearly worried. Jacqui looked at her, she knew she couldn’t lie.
CHAPTER: 45 WAITING & HURRYING Callum had never felt worse as he sat at the airport waiting, he had twenty five minutes before he had to board the plane and again leave Lindsey’s life in a mess, only this time his was in a mess too. He had left the tickets before he had even to Bar Brookie, he had known before he had stepped into the Bar that she was going to turn him down, again. He wondered if she had found them yet, little did he know she was anxiously on her way to join him, then again he already knew that even if she had, there was no chance of her making it in time. He still didn’t know how he had gotten there with over half an hour to spare. Lindsey began to shake as the realization began to set in, it was
now twenty five past eight, she had missed his flight. She was almost
crying as she realized. Callum was pacing up and down past the window, he could see his plane through it. It was now twenty five to and he and none of the other passengers had been told to go to the departure lounge yet. Sam returned from the queries desk. Callum turned to him, his face asking the question for him. “ Last minute technical hitch” he shrugged, Callum and several
other passengers who had been talking with Callum immediately scowled. “ Is it much longer?” Kylie asked in the typical whiney
voice of a bored child. CHAPTER: 46 RELIEF & C0-INCIDENCE They strolled into the airport Kylie clinging to Lindsey filled with sheer excitement of moving somewhere new and unexplored. Jacqui glanced at the flight times and felt an overwhelming feeling wash over her, she couldn’t explain why she felt so good for someone else, but then again she knew what this meant to Lindsey. She tried to contain herself and sound calm as she spoke. “ Lindsey?” she spoke the undertone of happiness unnoticed
by Lindsey. Callum sat feeling more depressed than ever gazing out of the window at the plane that should have had him half way home by now. He wanted to cry, he wanted to let it all out, his frustration, his anger, his unreachable depths of sadness, his love for Lindsey, his hatred for himself, his exhaustion, his restlessness, but most of all his feeling of utter helplessness, he was sick of it all, his life felt like a barren wasteland, he had nothing, it all felt worthless and unbelievably empty. All he had in the world was Cloey and Rose’s family were fighting him for her. That’s how she hadn’t been there when he had first won Lindsey over. He sighed dropping his head into his hands, he didn’t let it all out though, he couldn’t he had become too expert at refraining himself from showing how he really felt. Besides he had already cried once that day, he didn’t want to weaken himself again. But it was more than that, he knew that if he started it would be an age before he could stop himself again.
“ So seeing as we’ve got such a long wait are you going to get me a drink?” He spun to see her and nearly fell from his chair with shock. She smiled at him, looking as radiant to him as ever. He jumped to his feet, suddenly breathless. He didn’t know what to do, he was feeling confused. “ You’re...are you...?” he was stuttering, it reminded
Lindsey of when he had proposed. “ Is this the man we're going to live with?” Kylie asked eyeing Callum with a typical child's curiousity. Lindsey quickly jumped back from Callum's arms. Callum straightened himself and looked at Kylie, he was clearly already taken with the young girl. Lindsey remembered what Callum had said when she had confronted him about speaking to Kylie outside of school ' She's a very bubbly little girl, she's a lot like her mother' Lindsey smiled at her daughter. “ Yes, yes honey, this is Callum” Kylie smiled. CHAPTER: 47 ALL A MAN CAN WANT It was at this point as they all seemed united in their happieness
and relief that Callum's phone rang. Callum instantly recognized the number
and his look of joy quickly vanished. It was Rose's mother, Diane. Lindsey
looked at him with a questioning expression, he signalled to her to give
him a minute alone as he walked a short distance away to take the phone
call in private. Cloey had been living with her grandparents for the last
several month now, they refused to allow Callum custody, it was all he
could do not to reveal that he was actually the child's father. “ No Sam I don’t, he just walked off and asked me to give him a minute, whoever it is they’ve spoilt his good mood” It was just as Lindsey did this that Callum suddenly seemed to almost collapse as a broad grin of disbelief crossed his face. He clicked the flap on his phone shut and began to laugh as he clung to a chair. Lindsey immediately ran to his side, but before she could ask what was going on he swept her into his arms lifting her from the ground as he continued to laugh. Sam soon joined them along with Jacqui and Kylie. “ What is it Callum? Who was that on the phone?” Callum
released Lindsey and as he went to speak he sounded out of breath. “ I can’t believe this” Callum shook his head “ It’s like.....after all these years I finally have a...well a life....a reason to be here, I have all I could have ever wanted” Callum smiled at Kylie “ I now have two kids and.....” he turned to Lindsey taking her face in his hands “ the most wonderful woman in this world.....Lindsey?” he suddenly spoke with a questioning tone. Lindsey believed she knew what he was about to say, but let him continue anyway “ If I asked again.....” Lindsey smiled softly at him and took the ring from her pocket. “ Go ahead” she handed him the ring. Callum drew a deep
breath. Jacqui and Sam looked on eagerly. It suddenly came over the tannoy they could now board their flight.
Jacqui and Lindsey embraced warmly. Jacqui would miss Lindsey, they had
only just really became friends. As they made their way to the departure
lounge Lindsey realized Sam wasn’t with them. The End.......
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