My Benidorm Family

A friendly face

I sit down on the Reception chair as Troy sighs sitting opposite me handing me a bag of frozen peas

'Thanks' i mumble placing them onto my bruised knuckle wincing through my teeth at the contact

'You alright?' he asks as i nod softly

'Take this man out of my hotel!' we hear Joyce shouting

I look over seeing the police put handcuffs on the criminal as Joyce continues talking

'I haven't seen you for a long time god how long has it been?' he asks as i shrug

'Roughly six years since Bruce Willis came to our rescue' i smile laughing softly at the horrific but somewhat happy memory

'I remember' he says smirking

i take the bag of peas off and place them on the small cofee table between us

'How have you been?' I ask as he smiles

'Yeah i've been alright' he says looking away

'Are you still with Gavin?' I ask as he shakes his head

'Sadly no we separated but it was peaceful' he adds

'That's a shame i thought you two were cute together i'm sorry ' i sigh

'Thank you and i guess i should thank you for back there' he smiles

'yeah it was no problem after what i heard you say about what he did' I smile softly 'I'm sorry you had to go through that'

'It's alright it's all in the past but enough about me i want to talk about you how are you what have you been up to since i last saw you' he asks

I freeze not wanting to answer his question luckily i don't have to because i see Joyce walks over with a glass of water

'Here we go thank you for what you did back there' she says

'it was nothing' i murmur as she holds the cup out for me

I reach up for it and as soon as my fingers bend around the cup a small pain appearing around my knuckle

'give it here' Troy says taking the water handing it to Joyce before taking my hand in his 'it's just bruised you'll be okay' he says placing the peas back on 'you just need to reduce the swelling'

'Maybe a goodnights sleep will help' Joyce says

'Yeah maybe but I was told to come to reception for something, something about the pool earlier this morning ' i say as joyce looks at me confused

'What was your name?' she asks

'Isobella Jones' i reply as she looks a me confused then smiles

'Ah your the woman who saved the little girl yes we decided to upgrade you to a better room to show our gratitude i can take you there right now' I look to Troy who looks from me to Joyce

'I can take her i'm heading up there now and i'm pretty sure you need to speak to somebody about a job' he says as she sighs then agrees

'Oh alright give me two minutes i'll send someone for you bags' she says before walking away

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I walk besides troy to my new room in silence before we come to the door

'Here we are room 320 the master suite' he smiles

'thank you for walking me up here and for being a friendly face' I smile as he laughs slightly

'Of course thank you for putting my past nightmare where he belongs' he smiles as i nod smiling softly at him