Shattered Glass

[LAURZY!]

Awww yes! i love drunk Belle

[jenpen08]

Oooh i too am a fan of drunk Belle, I loved the legs up to here line in stockholm syndrome about gracie that was her name wasn't it?!

[lachsm]

i agree drunk belle is the best. you portrayed Jamie's emotion wonderfully why am i not surprised

[KaiyaBlake]

Poor Belle. I know that she couldn't have expected anything better, but still, you gotta feel sorry for her

The picture was really sweet though, i'm glad he's not angry at her at least

Amazing Chapter. Update soon please!! Drunk Belle? I missed herrr haha.

[Louise_2983]

Oooh i too am a fan of drunk Belle, I loved the legs up to here line in stockholm syndrome about gracie that was her name wasn't it?!

Yes it was Gracie, lol I can't believe you remember a specific line!

Thanks for all the lovely comments everyone

[xknomex]

I thought you had updated then

[Louise_2983]

Chapter 15

“So I have news” Matilda announced as she sat back, adjusting her belt slightly causing Belle to giggle. The friends had just enjoyed an early dinner in The Diner and had eaten so much neither was sure if they would ever be able to get up from their booth.

“Oh my god! You’re pregnant!”

“No! Don’t be ridiculous!”

“Oh” Belle sighed in disappointment.

“So what then?”

“Ric and I are moving back to the Bay”

“What?! As in permanently?! Are you serious?!”

“Totally. We want to settle down and this just seems the perfect place, I’ve been offered a job at a law firm in the City and Ric’s really interested in buying the garage up for sale in Yabbie Creek. We

can both commute from here and be near our friends and Ric’s family, it’s perfect”

“Oh my god!” Belle squealed loudly causing the entire place to look at them as she suddenly found a surge of energy enabling her to jump up and embrace her friend.

“Belle, I can’t breathe!” Matilda wheezed as Ric appeared behind them.

“She told you then?” he chuckled as Belle finally let Matilda go and his fiancée gasped for breath.

“Yes! How long have you two been planning this behind my back?” she asked accusingly as they all sat down.

“Sorry I didn’t realise we needed to run out life plans past you for approval first!” Matilda mocked.

“And plus when we decided you didn’t even live here! You were off in LA”

“Where I officially still live” Belle sighed.

“I really should sort that out soon”

“Yes you should!” Matilda nodded.

“Especially as your boyfriend doesn’t even know you’ve broken up!”

“I will tell him and I’ll deal with the apartment and everything I will but I’ve just been trying to focus on Jamie recently remember?”

“How are things going there?” Ric asked with genuine interest.

“Better. He still prefers Aden to be there when I am and sometimes he questions me over and over about whether I’m really staying but I think we’re making a little progress at least”

“Still calling you Belle?”

“Ric!”

“What?! Mattie I’m only asking!”

“Belle” Matilda looked at her reassuringly.

“Seriously, I called my Mum Beth for a whole year when I was little and she’d never been anywhere! He’ll get over it”

“It’s ok Mattie. I get why he still calls me Belle. I haven’t been a mother to him yet so why would he call me Mummy? It’s only been 8 days since we told him, I know I have to give it time no matter how

much it hurts”

She glanced down at her watch and yelped.

“Speaking of time, I have to go. I’ve got some work in the City tonight”

“What type of work? You’re not hanging around on street corners again are you Taylor?” Drew teased as he came up behind her and slid into the booth.

“When do you leave again?” she asked with a false, saccharine smile. Drew may have been staying at Leah’s rather than The Beach House but he had still managed to drive her insane.

“Tomorrow, why?”

“Oh just so I know when to plan the party for!” she mocked sticking her tongue out at him playfully.

“Can we have jelly and ice cream?” Ric grinned.

“Oooh and party games!” Matilda exclaimed so excitedly Belle wasn’t sure whether she was actually joking.

“We can have a piñata shaped like Drew’s head!”

“One problem guys” Belle winked.

“How would we fit something so big through the door?!”

“You guys mock all you want. I know you’re just trying to mask the terrible pain you’ll feel when I’m gone”

“Oh of course!” Belle sighed melodramatically.

“I’ve got a therapist on speed dial for when it all gets too much!”

“Weren’t you leaving?” Matilda laughed glancing at the clock on the wall.

“Yes I’m going now” Belle replied with a cheeky look at Drew.

“I’m doing a photo shoot for Jenny Fields and her new fiancé to announce their engagement. I gave up selling myself years ago thank you very much Drew!”

“Jenny Fields? The Jenny Fields?!” Drew exclaimed, his eyes glazing over with lust at the mention of the young actress’ name.

“Can I come?”

“Drew she’s engaged!”

“Give me ten minutes to work my magic and you’ll have a free night!” he winked as she laughed heartily.

“Your magic? Drew, how many times do I have to tell you that saying “Open sesame” is not the way to get a girl to sleep with you?” she shouted loudly for the whole Diner to hear before hastily making

an exit.

***

“Sorry!” she cringed as the shrill ring of her phone came from her bag at the side of the room. She’d forgotten to turn it off and now she was worried she seemed unprofessional.

“Just ignore it, it’ll go to voicemail” she instructed them and sure enough the phone stopped ringing just as she said it. She sighed in relief.

“Danny can you put your arm around Jenny’s shoulders please? A little lower? That’s it, perfect, hold it like that” the instructions darted out of her mouth as she began to quickly snap a series of shots.

Before she could finish the round of shots for that pose her phone was ringing again.

“Sorry!” she cringed again.

“I really should get that, it might be important”

“Geez, we’re not paying her to talk to her friends on our time!” she heard the young girl bitch as she made her way to her phone. Jenny Fields was driving her crazy with her selfish, self centred and

opinionated ways. She was beginning to regret not bringing Drew with her, she couldn’t have found a more perfect match for him if she’d tried.

She pulled out her phone and instantly flipped it open as she saw the name flashing on the illuminated display.

“Aden?! What is it? Is Jamie ok?” she questioned as her questions rolled out almost as one word in her sheer panic.

“Relax he’s fine”

“Thank god! You scared me!” she cursed.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean to. It’s just...”

“Just what Aden? I’m kind of busy right now!” she snapped as she heard moans of annoyance from the other side of the room.

He’d barely spoken to her in over a week and when they were together it was only ever for Jamie’s sake and he spent the entire time avoiding looking her in the eye. And now he wanted to speak to

her. He certainly chose his moments.

“Well Jamie wants you to read his bedtime story, he won’t let me do it and he won’t go to sleep until he’s had a story”

“He wants me to read to him?” She stammered unable to believe what she was hearing. He hadn’t let her read to him since they’d told him.

“Yeah and I figured that was kind of a big thing so I should call you rather than just tell him tough. But if you’re busy, I’ll just tell him tough don’t worry about it”

“No! No, it’s fine! I’m on my way!” she told him a broad smile spreading across her face as she hung up and quickly began to pack her equipment away.

“What’s going on? Where are you going?” Jenny Fields exclaimed practically stamping her feet in a tantrum as Belle loaded her arms up with her things, rather than put them away properly.

“Sorry, something’s come up!” she shouted back as she headed towards the door.

“What?! Something more important than a six figure fee?!”

“Yes!” Belle laughed.

“Way more important than that!”

***

“I hear someone requested a bedtime story?” she whispered with a smile as she poked her head around his bedroom door. He was curled up under a mass of covers, his eyes drooping wearily as he clutched a book, she recognised as his favourite, close to his chest.

“BELLE!” he exclaimed with delight, his eyes suddenly shooting open as he pulled his body into a sitting position, almost bouncing in excitement as he did so.

“You came!”

“Of course I came” she grinned at him as she sat down and took the book from his grasp.

“My favourite boy asked for me didn’t he?”

“That’s me” he whispered with a grin as he took hold of her arm and lifted it around his tiny frame.

“Yes it is” she smiled, her heart skipping a beat as he snuggled closer to her.

“I missed you Belle” he told her flashing a sweet smile at her that made her heart swell with love.

“I missed you too sweetie”

“Now read!” he instructed bossily, prodding the book she held with an outstretched finger.

“Yes sir!” she held her hand up to her forehead and saluted as he giggled, before beginning to read from the book she held before her.

She wasn’t even half way down the page before he was fast asleep, his head resting against her body as she gently ran her fingertips across his pronounced cheek bones, marvelling at his long

eyelashes and smooth porcelain skin.

“You did take a while” Aden spoke, alerting her to his presence. He leant against the doorway, watching them with a tiny smile that made her heart melt.

“I was in the City working on a shoot, I had to get back from there”

“You were working?!” Aden exclaimed with a laugh.

“And you just walked out to come here? Are you crazy?!”

“Yep!” she nodded with a chuckle before gazing back down at Jamie.

“Crazy about this little guy here”

“Belle you should have said. I would have told him that you’d read to him another day!”

“I know. But I know what he’s doing Aden. He’s testing me. He wants to know that when I promise that I’ll always be here I mean it. And if that means I have to drop things to be here then I will do”

“Belle, he’s got to learn that he can’t get everything he wants”

“He already knows that Aden doesn’t he?” she sighed.

“He spent almost 5 years wanting a mother!”

“Belle...” he looked at her sadly, reaching out a hand to gently rub Jamie’s face, the back of his hand brushing Belle’s as he did so. She felt a surge of electricity run down her spine as though it was a

live wire and she knew that he felt the same as he quickly shifted his hand away.

“I love him Aden and he needs to know that. The words aren’t enough, I have to show him. And I will do anything to do that”

“You’re going to ruin your career in the process if you just walk out of jobs like that”

“Then so be it Aden. I don’t care because one day, whether it’s tomorrow or next month or next year, one day Jamie is going to look me in the eye and call me Mummy and it’ll all be worth it”

“It really hurts you when he calls you Belle doesn’t it?” he whispered softly.

“I understand why he does but that doesn’t mean I don’t long to hear him call me Mummy. And I’d rather he called me Belle than didn’t speak to me at all”

“Belle, he adores you. There’s never going to be a time when he doesn’t speak to you”

“There will be if he doesn’t think he can trust me”

“When you came back I was genuinely worried that I’d let you into Jamie’s life and then you’d just disappear again”

“I know that Aden, you told me often enough” she let out a little laugh and a small smile played on his lips.

“I’m not worried anymore Belle” he told her softly as his baby blue eyes found her warm chocolate ones.

“I trust you and in time Jamie will too”

“I know” she nodded.

“Because I’m not going to give him any reason not to. I’m always going to be here when he asks for me Aden and Kirsty’s just going to have to get used to that” she told him, referring to the menacing

looks and bitchy comments his wife had thrown her way when she’d arrived.

“Yes she is” he agreed with a nod.

“Jamie needs you Belle and I am not going to let anything get in the way of that, no matter what’s happening between us or me and Kirsty or you and Kirsty. Jamie is the most important person in all of

this and he has to come first”

“You might want to tell Kirsty that” she suggested with raised eyebrows.

“I have but she’s not exactly understanding. She feels threatened by you”

“Well she’ll get over that soon enough won’t she?” Belle snapped, annoyance suddenly overcoming her.

“When she’s pregnant and she knows she’s trapped you for good!”

“Pregnant? What are you talking about?”

“I overheard her talking to Leah, gushing about how you were trying”

“Trying what?” he asked her, genuinely perplexed.

“For a baby you idiot!”

“What!” he exclaimed so loudly that Jamie stirred against Belle.

“Not in here” he whispered, gently prising Jamie’s arms from around Belle and laying him down gently on the bed. He wrapped his son up in the warm blankets and placed a tender kiss on his cheek

before grabbing Belle’s hand and guiding her out of the room.

“No way I’m not going in there” she hissed as he tried to pull her into the bedroom that they had once shared.

“That’s where you sleep with her!”

“Well we can’t talk about this on the landing, Kirsty’s downstairs!” he hissed as she looked around before swinging open the door to the storage cupboard and yanking him inside.

“Nice Belle” he smirked.

“But I really don’t think right now is the time for a quick game of seven minutes in heaven is it?”

“There is no such thing as a quick game of seven minutes in heaven Aden, it always takes seven minutes!”

“Oh yeah” he chuckled as she tried to widen the very small gap between their bodies as they struggled for space in the cramped cupboard. As she did so a book fell off the shelf and hit her sharply on

the side of the head.

“Ow- hey this is mine!” she exclaimed.

“Belle a lot of things in this house are yours, you left everything when you ran off remember?”

“My book, my house, my son, my....” she paused as she slowly ran a flat palm up the centre of his chest, never once breaking eye contact with him as she did so.

“Stop it!” he demanded pushing her hand away.

“Oh yeah sorry I forgot!” she snapped sarcastically.

“You’re trying for a baby with your wife so you’ll be a perfect little family!”

“We’re not trying for a baby!”

“That’s not what she said!”

“Well she lied! But even if she was telling the truth you have no right to be angry at me for it Belle!” he hissed, moving forward so the gap between them was so minute she didn’t dare move in case her lips brushed his and she couldn’t control herself any longer.

“I’m not angry Aden! I’m jealous! Just like you were jealous when you thought I’d slept with Roman only I didn’t sleep with him!”

“And I’m not sleeping with her either!” he snapped.

“I’m pretty sure even Kirsty’s smart enough to work out she’s not going to get an immaculate conception! I heard her tell Leah Aden!”

“Well then she was lying! I haven’t touched her since our wedding night!”

“Honestly?” she whispered.

“Honestly” he nodded.

“I thought telling her would help Belle but it just made things worse”

“I thought she understood?” she gulped.

“No one can ever really understand Belle”

“No I know, I just meant...I thought you told her so you could work through things together and...and...have a baby together” she whimpered.

“I meant it when I said I didn’t want a baby with her Belle” he sighed.

“I told her because I thought... I thought if I told her it could be the same one day. That one day I’d be able to feel the same way about her as I do about you”

“It doesn’t work like that Aden” she sighed.

“You told me because you loved me, you didn’t love me because you told me”

“I know” he whispered.

“I thought I couldn’t sleep with Kirsty because of what my Granddad did to me but now I’ve told her I can see that that’s not the only reason I can’t do it. It’s because of what you did to me too”

“You mean leaving? What does that have to do with it?”

“No” he laughed quietly.

“I don’t mean leaving. You...You....”

“I what Aden? Spit it out! What else have I done to destroy your life?!”

“You made me fall in love with you” he sighed.

“Well I’m so sorry!” she snapped.

“But I actually enjoyed that bit!”

“So did I!” he snapped back.

“And that’s the problem Belle don’t you get it? No one is ever going to compare to you! I’m never going to feel the same way about Kirsty or anyone else because what we have is so freaking intense that I can’t stop thinking about you! Not for one second! I never stop thinking about being with you!”

“Then solve the problem” she whispered, her calmness a contrast to his anger, as she looked up at him expectantly.

“Be with me”

“I wish it was that simple” he sighed again, his gaze fluttering over her beautiful face.

“Make it that simple Aden” she whispered her hands reaching out and wandering slowing up his chest.

“Kiss me” she ordered, her fingertips gripping the stiff collar of his shirt and pulling him towards her.

“You said you didn’t want this”

“No I didn’t” she exhaled.

“I said I couldn’t do this, but I was wrong Aden. I don’t want to be without you anymore”

“Kiss me” she whispered again as he gulped.

He licked his bee stung lips in anticipation before his mouth swooped down towards hers.

“Aden” she whimpered with desire just as their lips were about to touch.

“I can’t do this” he declared, suddenly pulling away, the shelves rattling behind him as he slammed into them.

“Aden” she began to object but in an instant the door was open and he pushed her out onto the landing.

“Just go”

“Ad-“ she started to object but was interrupted by a small voice crying out.

“Daddy!”

“GO!” he commanded as he disappeared into their son’s room and without further protest she fled down the stairs and out of the house.

[Taniya_K]

And it was giong so well!!!

Loved the beginning with the four of them friends. Esp Drew and Belle's banter!

Belle leaving the six-figure job [wow!] to go to read to Jamie was just amazing! I'm so glad she did and AOL at lil Jamie...

The ending though... I'm glad that Belle's fighting for Aden, that she's telling him that she wants him. And I'm glad that he told her that he loves her and can't stop thinking of her, but I'm not glad that he only told Kirsty to help him love her. Poor Aden. He's so confused...

Can't wait for more.

xoxo

[leah1234]

Damn they were so close I really thought they were going to but then I thought It wouldn't very romantic and especially because kirsty was downstairs

Can't wait to see where this is going

Update soon

Xxxxxxxxxx

[jenpen08]

oooooh noooo!! they were soo close!!! Sexual tension at it's best if I wasn't sooo tired I would of been shouting just kiss her!!!

Once again I loved it!!!

Bravo!!!