I can’t believe what happened last night!! I think I am still in a state of shock! I better start at the beginning…
Me, Sue and Andy decided to go to ‘Family Night’ at the Club cos the kids really wanted to go. It was fancy dress for Halloween and everything, so we thought, hey why not right!! So off we went. Things started off quite well, Mel & Boney were in and we were all having a laugh, I got chatting to a girl I went to school with who’s got a little girl the same age as Abigail and it was great to talk to her. Then, the stinking gypo’s come in, and it’s the same gypo’s that Sue & Andy had trouble with a bit back, they were supposed to have been barred for life, but it turns out, not so much. Anyway, the one that hit Sue decided it was a good idea to come and sit next to us! So, we do the bigger thing and move away! Next, all the ‘witches’ from the village were then sat giving us the dead eye, ALL night! Not really sure why, but again, we decide, don’t let it get to us, they’re the ones that are sad and pathetic. By this point, we’d really started to enjoy the night. Until…. Who walks in… Twathoop!! Oh yes, that’s right and he was absolutely wasted. We ignored him at first as he meandered his way around the club, it was really getting to me though and I decided to go to the loo then go home before I really got upset. However, when I got back from the toilet, he came and sat next to me!! He said “I’ve been knocking on your door about an hour”… and was just talking to me as though I’d only seen him the day before and we were still seeing each other or summat… Bizarre. I thought our Sue was gonna kill him then and there. He went to the bar so I decided to make my escape while he had a full pint in his hand, thinking I’d have time to get home and lock the doors before he came after me. So I got Abigail ready and we headed for home. But no, he CHASED me out of the club! Came up to me and held my hand!! He then picked Abigail up and was cuddling her saying he’d missed us. Well, I’d gone at that… I told him to put Abigail the fuck down and fuck off home basically. But, he didn’t listen, partly due to the fact that he was wasted and partly due to the fact that he’s never listened to me yet. So I decided that the best idea would probably be to get Abigail home and in bed and then deal with him as it was quite clear he wasn’t taking no for an answer. But, unbeknown to me, Sue had seen him chase me from the club, she came through the gates, saw him on the drive and assumed that I was letting him in I think. Well… to say she flipped would be the understatement of the century. She was screaming and shouting and kicking off left right and centre. In his wasted state he wasn’t helping things and everything just went to hell in a hand basket basically. All the street got woke up, I was trying to calm the situation down and explain to Sue that I had no intention of letting him in, but she was gone, she wouldn’t listen. Mel was there too and she was trying to get the kids away (cos Abigail, Max, Chelsea and Charlie were all there) but Max was scared and he ran back to the club to get Andy. Andy come storming through, thought twathoop was going after Sue, ran up and started kicking the shit out of him. I didn’t know what to do, I wanted to split it up but my main concern was that this was all kicking off in front of the kids, who were really upset by this point. So me & Mel took the kids to her house to try and calm them down. Sue came up after us and kicked off at me, saying look what I’d created and it was all my fault if Andy went to prison… and I think I was just in a state of shock. I gave it a few minutes before going home, got there and there was literally blood all over my door and door step which, of course, set Abigail off again. So I settle her down, and I’m sat on the sofa dumbstruck, when twathoop, comes back! Apparently boney had took him to the club to get him cleaned up and a taxi home but he decided to come back to mine instead. His face was a mess, the blood was just pissing out his head and I felt soooo guilty, I wanted to let him in and get him cleaned up and a taxi home, but I thought if Andy or Sue had seen him come back then it would all just kick off again so I told him to go home and he said he couldn’t get home, I said that there really wasn’t much I could do about that so he reckoned he was walking it. So I sat up all night convinced that Sue was never gonna speak to me again, that I’d have to find somewhere new to live and that twathoop was gonna get hit by a car and die in a ditch somewhere between Houghton and Bolsover. I was sick, I felt like I couldn’t breathe and my heart was pounding all night… It was horrible.
At 6 am this morning I’m out on the front step scrubbing the blood off it, sobbing… Mint! I rang mum at 9.30 am, went down there and explained it all to her. I said I needed to clear my head so she said to leave Abigail with her and go for a drive or summat. I had no idea where I was gonna go, but I found myself heading towards twathoops house. I needed to know that he was ok and if he’d phoned the police or not. So I pull up round the corner and sit for 20 minutes decided whether or not to go up, but I did. He answered the door and he was ok. He’s got a cut above his eye that’s quite bad (personally, I think it needed stitches cos it was still bleeding at 10.30 this morning) and a bruise on his cheek, but other than that he was ok. He said he was in the wrong, he should never have come up and he shouldn’t have been using his mouth and he hasn’t rung the police or owt. So I left there feeling slightly better knowing that he was alive and everything!
On the way home, Sue text me saying she was sorry, she was just being overprotective and she doesn’t like to see me being used and she hopes we can be ok. So I went round there, we had a hug (very unusual for me and Sue, we don’t do hugging) and I explained that I wasn’t letting him in. But she said, even if I was, it wasn’t for her to kick off like that. She said she was worried that he’d walked it home and got hit by a car or summat, so I told her that I’d been to seem him and she was quite pleased about that. Then I saw Andy and he said he felt horrible too, he said he shouldn’t have hit him, at the end of the day, Andy didn’t know what was going off and reacted to what he saw. Andy has said that if he sees him he’ll shake his hand cos they both accept they were wrong.
So now here I am, about as confused (if not more confused) as I was when I was seeing him, 5 fucking months ago. Only now, I feel inexplicably guilty cos Abigail got caught up in it all and that was the last thing in the world I wanted to happen. But I tried the best I could to protect her from that last night, I just wanted to get her in the house and settled before it all kicked off but I can’t control other people can I?
So, do I still think it’s a coincidence that he turn up days after I’d spoken to the neighbour…. Errr… NO!

