Chapter 161 : Alive

“It sounds good.” I finally said after a moment of thinking it through. “At least it gets me out of the unit for a while.”

 “That’s what I thought; it’s not good for anyone to be cooped up for so long.”

 “Since when do blokes like shopping though?” I asked looking up at him from under my hair a cheeky smile on my face. Emmet seemed like the kind of bloke that would rather put a flesh eating moth into his ear then enter a town canter with the intention of shopping.

 “I don’t, but I know a woman who does and I was hoping it would be Ok if me met up with her and little Mia too, after all my opinions are truly awful when it comes to the brain of a teenage girl.” Emmet said smiling over at me as he pulled up at a set of traffic lights.

 “You remember what happened last time I was close to your daughter.” I moaned my mood swinging to dark again as the image of my first encounter of Emmet and Esmee‘s daughter floated through my head.” I don’t think I should be near babies.”

 “I thought you like Kids.” Emmet said as he pulled away from the traffic lights and up a ramp into one of the city centers many multi story car parks.

 “I do like Kids Emmet and little Mia is a fantastic little girl but last time I was with her I made her cry and it still haunts me now, I just know I will land up damaging her in some way. You know as well as me that I’m not a good person Emmet; I am bad news.” I moaned as I tried to push the unexpected tears back to where they belonged.

 “Mi for a start you are not a bad person and second you didn’t make Mia cry honey, Esmee made her cry by taking her off of your lap and telling her off. You where fantastic with her, I saw the way you handled and played with her but most importantly I saw the spark in your eyes and your whole face light up  when she was sat with you. For the first time that day I saw a part of you I had never seen before and I loved what I saw; for the first time, I saw you alive.”