Bliss and joy in your mind

I only dream of you, my beautiful

It had been about 6 months since the accident, and I had made a speedy recovery emotionally. Ben was teething, and whenever Dom played with him, he would try to bite his fingers, unsuccessfully considering he had no proper teeth.

I heard the key go in the lock, and Dom entered the living room, bringing a flurry of leaves in with him.

'Oi Mr I just hoovered!' I said with a wink. He raised his invisible eyebrows at me and smirked.

'I'll sort it out, don't get your knickers in a twist!' He laughed. 'Have you eaten yet?'

'No I was going to do something when you got home, what would you like?' I asked, hoping he would ask for something I could just bung in the oven.

'I can make something, you relax.' He said, kissing the top of my head.

About half an hour later he came in to the living room with two bowls of spaghetti bolognese.

'Thanks babe.' I sighed, putting Ben down on the mat on the floor and picking up my bowl. I started twirling the pasta on my fork, and put it in my mouth.

'Seriously, where did you learn to cook like this?' I asked with a mouthful of pasta.

'Well, my Mum used to he-'

'DOM LOOK!' I shrieked, pointing at Ben. He was crawling for the first time, I grabbed my phone camera, and recorded it, that would be cute for my next video. I should really get on to that, it had been about 3 weeks since I uploaded anything. Oh well...

Dom put his pasta down on the sofa and watched little Bennett crawling around the mat.

'Go little guy go!' He exclaimed, smiling. Eventually, he dropped back onto his bum after all of the hard work. Just then my phone rang, it was Kelly.

'Hiya Bonnie! Erm have you seen Chris at all? He went to the music shop to get something for his bass and hasn't come back yet, he won't pick up his phone.' she said, sounding concerned.

I checked the local news sights traffic and accidents page, and there was nothing about any car accidents that had happened recently.

'Hmm I don't know. Nothing on the local news' accident page. Probably held up in traffic?' I pondered. At that moment, the homescreen refreshed. 'HOSTAGES BEING HELD AT LOCAL MUSIC STORE' it read. I gasped,

'Kelly, I think you should check the website, apparently someone was trying to rob Notes, and won't let anyone leave the shop.'

She squealed. 'I am going over there.'

'I'll meet you over there, Dom can look after Ben for a while.' I said, and Dom raised his eyebrows in confusion and then nodded. Grabbing my bag I raced to the car, and when I arrived at 'Notes', there were 3 police cars surrounding it. I spotted Kelly behind one of them. I ran up to her and hugged her tightly.

'It's okay, he's going to get out of there.' I reassured her, and her lip began to tremble.

'This is your last warning.' The policeman blared through the mega-phone. 'Come out now and minimal charges will be pressed, otherwise we will have to come in and retrieve you.'

A man spilled out of the door, arms up either side of him, and two officers seized him, putting him in the back of one of the 3 cars. Chris burst through the double doors, and upon sight of Kelly, ran to her and held her in his arms.

'I thought I was never going to see you again. Or the kids.' He stressed, noticing that I was there. He gave me a quick bear hug.

'My phone buzzed and he threatened to shoot, so I had to give it to him and he bloody stomped on it and broke it. There was a woman with a baby in there, she looked scared to death. But it's okay, it's done now, he's headed to jail.' Chris assured his half hysterical wife.

'Glad you're alright Chris, that was quite a scare!' I said, happy to see that he was still standing strong.

'So am I frankly! How have you been? I haven't seen you in a while.' He asked putting the smashed remains of his phone into his pocket.

'A lot better thanks. Ben started crawling today!'

'Aah I remember when ours all crawled for the first time. Good for you! How is everything with you and Dom?' He enquired.

'It's perfect, he's such an angel, it is everything I could ask for.' I sighed, thinking I should really get back to him. 'I assume everything is fine with you guys?' I laughed.

'No, I hate her.' Chris joked, as Kelly hit him lightly on the arm. 'We should get back, are you down the studio on Sunday?'

'Yep I'll see you there!' I said, hopping into my car and waving out of the window.

I got home and opened the door quietly. Dom hadn't noticed I was in. He was sitting cross legged on the floor holding Ben under the arms and bouncing him up and down, singing. It was the cutest thing I had ever seen, I grabbed my phone and filmed it for about 30 seconds before he noticed I was there.

'Why don't you ever sing me songs?' I joked as he did a while before, flushing red as he realised I was there.

'I did,' He said, putting Ben in the cot and coming over to me to give me a kiss. 'On our wedding night.'

'Oh yeah, Invincible. That was so cute!' I recalled, fixing his shirt that had rumpled on the hem. 'Do you have a gig tomorrow?'

'No, I'm all yours.' He replied with a cheeky grin. 'Did you have anything planned?'

'No, I was just wondering.' I said. 'Did you?'

'I have a few ideas.' He said with a wink, and I hooked my arms around his neck and gave him a kiss before heading over to Ben. He looked up at me with his dark blue eyes and giggled, stretching his arms out. I picked him up and held him on my hip, walking over to Dom.

'Do you want a cup of coffee?' I asked him, as Ben tried to pull my hair with his chubby hands.

'Yes please babe.' He said, walking over and sitting on the sofa, turning on the TV.

I opened the jar of coffee powder, and boiled the kettle, just as I reached up to get two mugs, Ben grabbed a handful of coffee powder, but I caught him just before he ate it.

I walked back into the living room with Ben in one arm and the mugs in the other hand. Dom took both of them off of me so I could sit down, and then handed me one back.

I snuggled up to him, putting my legs over his and one hand round his shoulders. He put his left arm round my waist and Bennett sat in between us, watching the colourful shapes on the TV intently.

'I don't think I watched stuff like that when I was a baby.' Dom said, frowning at the television.

'Me neither, gives me a headache.' I explained, rubbing my temple.

'We must be getting old.' He said, laughing.

'No Dominic, you are just paranoid because Chris said you are going bald. Don't worry, I assure you, you have a full head of hair.' I joked as he smirked at me and ruffled my hair. I smoothed it down and we sat in a comfortable silence whilst Ben watched his programme.

'I'm going to put him to bed.' I stated, standing up and picking up a drowsy Ben. Dom followed me to his room, and we each stood on a separate side of his cot and tucked him in. We looked up and met each others gaze, kissing gently. I stroked Ben's fluffy blonde hair and walked out of his room hand in hand with Dom.