I trip over my own feet as I come to abrupt stop. “I’m sorry what?” I ask spinning around to him.
“Marry me.” He repeats.
“That’s what I thought you said but I also thought I was hallucinating.”
“No I said it.” He walks towards me and I back up. “Marry me.”
“No.” I answer without thinking. It doesn’t stop him, he only flinches slightly.
“Why not?”
“Because you only want to marry me because we are having babies.”
“No that’s not the only reason.” He says, still walking forward. I smack into the back of a table and he traps me against it.
“What other reason could there be?” I whisper, my heart in my chest. He is making me very nervous!
He stares at me blankly as if the thought never occurred to him that I would call him on his bluff.
“My point exactly.” I say after he says nothing. I shove him to the side. “Move out of my way.”
“Anna stop!” He calls out to me again. “Please wait.”
“No.” I bark at him, finally having enough of the topsy turvyness. I pull my phone out of my pocket looking for Bill’s number.
“What are you doing?” He asks, he sounds panicked.
“Calling the lovely people who took me in.”
“Took you in?”
“Don’t you worry about that.” I sigh at him, still desperately trying to find Bill’s number. “Not your concern.”
“Is so my concern.”
“Is not.”
“Is so.”
“Is not.”
“Is so.”
“Is not.”
“I can do this all night Anna-Beth Pearson.”
“So can I Hugo Baker.”
“Oh my god you’re insufferable!” He huffs, stomping his foot like a child.
“And you my dear are being a child.” I turn my back to him and fist pump the air when I finally find Bill’s number. “Now if you will excuse me I am going home.” I don’t wait for a reply just march far away from him while dialling Bill’s number.
“Hello?”
“Bill?” I question with a huge sigh of relief.
“Anna-Beth?”
“Yes sir.” I say practically in tears now. His kind voice will be my undoing. “I was wondering if it were at all possible if you could um…”
“I will be there in ten minutes dear.”
“Thank you sir.” I sob into the phone. “Thank you so much.”