“I love you Lexi more than I have ever loved before.”

The knock at the door came as a surprise to Sam and Lexi, “wonder who that is, ” Lexi opened the door and Frankie was standing there, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sor….” she sunk to the floor and cried, Sam was beside Lexi they helped Frankie into their flat. “I’m so sorry, ” Sam was about to speak but Lexi made the cut signal to her, They sat as Frankie’s tears fell, she eventually stopped and went to stand up, “I better go I shouldn’t be here.”

Sam stood and gently pushed her back on to the chair, “You don’t have to Frankie, look I hated you but that has all gone now, I will always love Cat but I have moved on Lexi is the light in my life she and Sadie took away the darkness.”

At Sadie’s name Frankie looked up “Sadie?”

“Not like that she took me out of my self we are good friends and I love her for the care she gave me when I needed it most, she made me see sense,” Frankie looked sceptical but said nothing, “You need someone Frankie, someone just to be there for you, I can be if you want me to be, I know Cat would have wanted you to find happiness now she can’t give you that.”

“I can’t stop wanting her, I totally f***ed up when I ran, I was scared it was going too fast and when I came back you were there and I couldn’t bare it I tried but she was in to you so I ran again thinking I could let her go but I couldn’t  and when she had said in an email you were to marry and that she wasn’t sure she was ready that’s why I came back again to try again and when she came to the hotel well, I wanted to win her back, she was the love of my life Sam but I screwed up your life and mine and everyone lost Cat because of me, Judy and Jerry don’t want to know me and they were good to me, I was so lonely when I was growing up only Anuty Karen cared about me that s*** of a father of mine used me as a punch bag, he hated me but Jerry was the father I dreamed about, he was kind and he doted on Cat, Judy was lovely but too fussy over us she didn’t suspect us until Cat’s Gran caught us kissing in her shed when she came home from her game of bridge early.”

“I found the wood with your initials on it and the note in her draw.”

“I carved them on the side of the blackboard as kids, when the school was being torn a part I asked a workman could I have that peice and he got it for me.”

“Cat was yours Frankie she never stopped loving you it was the trusting that had been broken apart, I know it now Cat loved me but not like she loved you, you were her true love, I have found my true love now Frankie, I thought I had with Cat but it wasn’t, Lexi and I have no secrets and I am totally devoted to her,” a voice from the kitchen came back, “and me to you Sam forever.”

Frankie slept for the first time in years, she lay on her bed and sleep overtook her in minutes.  She could feel something was changing inside her, it was small but it was a beginning.