Ashes to Ashes

Chapter Six

'I'm so sorry Bea.'

'No. I am not Bea to you anymore. You have no right being here, leave now. I don't want to hear it.' Bea says stepping back into her room and slamming the door shut.

She turns around and presses her back up against the door and slide down it.

She could hear her Mum and Dad talking to Todd. 

They were telling him that he had lost all of the families respect for what he did to Bea. 

That she was back on track and doing what she should have been doing and that they are so proud of her for coming out of this a better and stronger person. 

When in reality, Bea was on the other side of the door feeling more broken than ever. 

She heard the elevator doors open and shut.

'Beatrice?' Mum says from the other side of the door.

'Mum, I'm okay, just in shock.' Bea says trying to stop herself from sounding as upset as she felt, tucking her hair behind her ear and wiping her eyes of any remaining tears. 

'Well, I'm here for you just knock on the door.' She says a few moments before the door to her hotel room shut.

Bea couldn't believe it. How could he do this? How could he think this was okay? That it would all work out?

Just when she felt like I could possibly move on. Boom! There he was right in her doorway, begging her mother to let him in. Like she would have ever approved of him back in Bea's life. Dan would have likely murdered him. She stood up and walked back into her room and checked her phone. There was a missed call from Todd. 

'I think its finally time to put the final nail in the coffin.' She announced to the room like she had an audience apart from herself and proceeded to block Todd's number and social media accounts. Archiving all the photos and messages. Bea felt like a weight has been lifted off her shoulders. Bea didn't have to see or hear from him ever again if she didn't want him to. She finally had control.

Bea got dressed into some pyjamas and fell into a deep and restful sleep.

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The next morning she woke up and roll over. The cityscape is shining bright with the morning sun. Then Bea saw the time on her phone.

11 am

'Shit!' She thought to herself.

There was a message from her Mum saying they had let Bea sleep in because they thought she might have needed it. It was probably true, but it was also inconvenient for the events of today. 

She had missed the first hour of the cricket and by the time she got there, it would be the lunch break. That means there is no way she would be going to be able to sneak off to see Gavin.

Bea rushed to get ready only because she knew she was going to change outfits several times. After last night's drama, she did not find the time or energy to agonise over picking something out.

About forty minutes later she looked at herself in the full-length mirror. She was wearing a three-quarter length linen, light blue jumpsuit with some trusty brown sandals. Her long dark hair was in a ponytail with a white scrunchie. Bea grabbed her handbag and headed for the elevator. On the way down she let her Mum know she was on her way.

Bea waited for an Uber out the front of the hotel and fifteen minutes later she was at the cricket ground. 

She walked up to the box where they had been sitting for the past couple days but her Mum and Dad are nowhere to be seen. Then over the speaker's Beatrice heard that lunch has just been called.