Chapter 2 …coz people actually wanted more! :D

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Chris pulled up outside his house, after he and Rachel had taken a small detour to her own house, to have a quick shower and get changed into something a bit more slack. Even Rachel didn't know how tempted Chris had been to follow her into her house.

Instead, Chris sat in his car and thought about everything that had happened in the last few days, Max leaving, the allegations against him – involving Rachel's Nephew, Him and Rachel. He sighed quietly to himself as he looked up at Rachel's bedroom window. He could see her busying herself around, obviously trying not to take too long on his behalf.

About 10 minutes later, Chris had been brought back down to Earth, after dreaming about Rachel, when she opened the passenger car door and got in next to Chris,

"All ready to go then?"

"Errrr… Yeah I think so." Rachel pulled at her seatbelt and clipped it in. She still wasn't sure what she was going to say to Chris when they actually got back to his house. She didn't know what Chris was going to say. She put her hand through her hair, brushing it back off her face slightly, and leaned back against the head rest. She had approximately 15 minutes to get her thoughts straight, before she needed to make her decision.

Thousands of thoughts ran through her mind, making the decision harder and harder for her

Chris and her, her and Eddie, her and relationships in general, school rules, LEA rules – it's unprofessional to be in a relationship with another member of staff, but she'd done it before… her staff – what would they think? They'd all had bets on her and Eddie getting together and they had all seemed genuinely happy when they became an 'us'. The pupils too! The pupils had very much been happy when she had been with Eddie- they'd seen them as 'a match made in heaven'. But that was all in the past now, Eddie was gone and there was not a cat in hell's chance of getting him back, he had other priorities now. Then there was Chris, one of the sweetest young men she had ever met but the age difference between them was quite significant, and he was her deputy. But Eddie had been too.

Those 15 minutes went quicker than Rachel wanted and as they both stepped out of the car, she rubbed the sides of her head gently , trying to calm her thoughts.

"You alright Rach?"

"Yeah Chris, I'm fine." She followed him up to the front door and he demonstrated to Rachel the knack of opening and closing his front door. She giggled slightly as he took the mick out of her attempts earlier.

When Chris had finished mucking around, Rachel followed him into the kitchen, where he offered her a seat at the breakfast bar. She gratefully took it, taking in her surroundings as it was fair to say she didn't get that opportunity last night.

"Is Ribena alright Rach?" Chris asked as he pulled out the bottle from the cupboard. "It's all I've got. I need to go shopping to be honest with you." He laughed.

"Yeah, Chris that's fine." Rachel smiled. Truth be told, she'd never had Ribena, not since she was a kid.

Taking her drink off Chris she took a long sip of it and put it down in front of her. It was time to get into the heart of the matter. She never had been one for waiting around, beating around the bush really wasn't her style.

"Chris?"

"Yeah Rach?"

"Last night…" She stumbled on her words slightly and faultered.

"I meant what I said Rachel. But it's up to you. If you'd rather not get involved, I'll just have to have a school boy crush on the headmistress." He smiled reassuringly. He didn't want to push Rachel into anything she didn't want to do he'd known at the start of term that it was unlikely anything would happen between them. But he was glad he'd told her, at least she knew how he felt now. He had a chance didn't he?

"No, Chris. I wasn't going to say anything like that." Or was she? She didn't even know what she was going to say,

"It's just… complicated, that's all." She looked up and immediately regretted it. She couldn't take her eyes away from him.

"Well I'm listening Rach"

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