When Freya met Aiden

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Well Georgie, Karan and Freya looked at one another, smiled and raised their eyebrows to the heavens as if to say 'easy peasy' but the other seven were like a load of school kids, Karan looked at Matt and said "mission accepted, we'll get it" you'd swear they were discussing a real-life spy mission, instead of just borrowing Ethan's guitar for him to play. The guys were heading off to the theatre for a couple of hours and then back there for lunch and a snooze, if they needed it, they gave them all hugs and kisses before leaving, Aiden hugged Freya tightly and whispered, "I love you" "I love you too my darling" and they were gone. The ladies decided to hit the shops before heading to the diner for lunch. They had a happy couple of hours in the shops, and even though Freya didn't believe it, they were recognized in the shops and on the street. According to Kayleigh it was Freya's fault, because of their accents and the fact that anyone who follows Home Front has seen loads of pictures in the last month. Most of them were very nice, asking after Aiden because he was poorly with the 'mumps'. A couple of them asked if Freya was really old enough to be Aiden's mom, because apparently, she didn't look it. Yes obviously Freya was older than Aiden but she didn't look old enough to be his mom. Which made her blush. Freya overheard a couple of women talking about her, thinking she couldn't hear them, apparently according to them she looked like an 'old hag' and old enough to be his grandma, never mind his mom. 

Freya went very quiet after that one, she kept looking in shop windows and mirrors and wondering if she really was too old for Aiden, even though he says she's not and he loves her just the way she was. Freya started thinking 'I was a burden to him, or I would be.' "Are you ok Freya?" Asked Karan "of course I am, why wouldn't I be? I'm just a bit-tired Aiden and I were walking in the hotel grounds at 5.30 this morning" and Freya smiled at Karan. Freya didn't think she was convinced as she started talking to Georgie and they kept giving Freya furtive glances. It was nearly lunchtime and so they headed for the cars and then to the diner. When they got there the lady behind the bar recognized them from the night before, she was looking over their shoulders as if to say, 'are the guys with you?' "Hello again, we've decided to come back here for some lunch, the food was delicious last night" Freya said "why thank you, I'm Gladys by the way, named after my great, great, great grandma, she was Welsh like you, came over here to live with her parents and ended up marrying an American boy like you're going to do, she was older than her husband as well, do all Welsh ladies prefer younger men?" "I never did before I meet Aiden, my first husband was older than me, but there's something about Aiden that gets my pulses racing and it's got nothing to do with the fact that he's in Home Front, there's just something about him. Well less about me and more about food, we're all starving" "well, if you'd care to sit down, I'll come and get your orders."

 They all looked at the menus and chose what they wanted, they gave Gladys their orders and Karan asked her if she knew how to get in touch with Betsy. "Why do you want to get in touch with Betsy?" "Can you keep a really, really big secret, a good one but it's got to stay secret" "yes I can, what is it?" "Well Betsy and Ethan are going to the show tonight, and after the guys joining in with him, they liked his singing so they're going to call him up on stage and get him to sing with them, so they've asked us to see if Betsy could somehow get Ethan's guitar to the theatre, without Ethan knowing" "well that's easy I've got it here, Ethan's my son!! You should have seen him last night after you'd all gone, you'd swear he'd been given a million dollars, he put it up on Facebook and he's had absolutely loads of comments, all good. Even the guys put very nice comments up, all five of them so he's really, really happy, even though he still can't actually believe it happened, your favorite Acapella group walks in to where you're singing and joins in with you, and tells you your good, he still thinks it was a dream" "I know how he feels, I came over here on holiday and to follow the guys around, on my first day in Mankato I walked into the restaurant of the hotel I was staying in, and saw Aiden sitting there with a shirt and blue bowtie on, the guys shouldn't of been there, they were supposed to be in Nashville recording. So I went up to Aiden and told him he looked like 'Aiden Ross' he told me his name was 'Henry Brown', we had lunch and he took me on a tour of Mankato showing me all the places Aiden went to growing up, we talked all day and it didn't click that it was actually Aiden Ross I was talking to, I'd never seen pictures of him wearing a bowtie, but he looked cute in it, while we were walking I fell over and he pulled me up and we were nose to nose, and I slapped his chest and called him a 'swine', because as soon as I was looking into his eyes, I knew it was Aiden Ross because he has such beautiful blue eyes, that look straight into your soul, he told me he lied because it was nice talking to someone about all sorts and they weren't just sitting there looking at him as if he belonged in a museum, or that nervous they were completely over the top, then we fell in love, according to Aiden it was love at first sight, told him he needs glasses, but we're happy and getting married, so dreams can be true, truth is stranger than fiction sometimes"