Living the High Life

Chapter 18

3 days later me and Lilly were allowed to go home

"Its good to be home." I said walking though the front door

"Yeah." Con said he was carrying a fast asleep Lilly in her car seat.

"Put her on the floor in the living room so she can finish sleeping." I said

"Okay babe." Con said

It was great to be home. I Don't like hospitals very much so being home was lovely.

That night I put Lilly to bed about half 7. Brad, Trist, Charlotte, Michael, Calum, Luke and Ash came round for a take away which was nice a lovely chilled out evening just what I needed. I crawled into about 10 just after Lilly's feed and stayed there until half 4 when Lilly woke up again. I went back to bed and James bless him got up with Lilly at half 6 and took her down stairs. I didn't hear Connor get up but he brought Lilly up at about 8 because she wanted feeding.

"I brought you a cup of tea babe." Con said coming back up 10 minutes later

"Thanks." I said smiling and taking the tea,

When Lilly had finished I got us both dressed. Then went down stairs.

Con had made breakfast, scrambled eggs on toast.

"James come take Lilly please so I can eat." I said

"Yes Rhi." James said appearing out of nowhere and took Lilly from me

"Thanks James." I said

I sat down to eat my breakfast, it was just gone half 10 which I didn't think was to bad.

This was my life for about 2 months. Con was amazing, Lilly was going to be a proper little daddy's girl. Throughout the days we had all kinds of visiter, Jodie came round after work and Charlotte would come round sometimes during the day just to be an extra pair of hands not that it was needed because James and Connor were both around. I think all the Vamps boys were bored, not having anything to do. So I rang Jake and Alex and they made some phone calls and got the boys some interviews. It hadn't been announced yet that they were touring next year but there was going to be a new album at the start of next year. So while the boys were off doing interviews for that I enjoyed a few boy free days with Lilly.

Having Connor and James around was great and both of them were amazing but sometimes you just need some mother daughter time. So while the boys were away me and Lilly enjoyed some long walks around the hill just outside Exeter, I didn't take the push chair I took the sling instead just because it was easier. We went into Exeter and did some shopping. Charlotte came round a couple of times. I think she was bored Michael and the other 5sos boys were out in Australia.

"Charlotte why do you fly out early?" I said we were at home Lilly was fast asleep

"Because I don't want to annoy them. Their enjoying time with their families." Charlotte said

"Come on Charlotte let's go to the gym." I said

"What about Lilly?" Charlotte said

"That girl can sleep through anything. I'll give Jodie a ring and see if I can drop her off at the nursery for an hour or so." I said

"Okay." Charlotte said

I called Jodie and she said it was fine to drop Lilly off. She was now manager of the private nursery.

"Thanks Hun. We won't be long." I said when we arrived at Jodie's nursery

"No problem." Jodie said

"She will just sleep. She was up most of the night. If she does wake up there is some milk in her bag and a clean nappy." I said handing Lilly in her car seat to Jodie

"Okay Hun." Jodie said taking Lilly.

"Right come on the Charlotte." I said and we headed to the gym.

What should have only been an hour session was just over 2 hours. I knew that when we went to pick Lilly up she could be screaming. But when we arrived all was quiet.

"Hey Hun. All good?" I asked
"Yeah she's been fine. Moaned a bit when she woke up but gave her some milk and she's been happy since." Jodie said

It was the start of September so Jodie had just got back to work she'd been off all summer. And her nursery had under gone some maintenance over the summer. The nursery its self used to be on the first floor of an old youth centre. But over the summer they had brought the whole youth centre and done it up, got more staff in and now the whole building belonged to Jodie and her team. It was an amazing place with different rooms for different age groups they took babies from about 3 months up to children about 4 right before they went to school. Jodie loved her job so much. She wouldn't change it for the world. She worked mostly with the babies but would sometimes be with the older children. Jodie had asked a number of times if I wanted to work with her as her business partner and I had thought about it but I A, didn't have the qualification that I needed to work there, even though Jodie had said many times that it didn't matter because she knew me and knew what I could do and B, working with the boys as security guard would take up most of my time next year.

"Thanks for having her Hun. I'll give you some money later." I said

"Ahh don't worry about it." Jodie said

"Jodie." I said glaring at her

"She was here for 2 hour. Slept for most of it and has been happy and content don't worry about it. Take me out for diner next week." Jodie said

"Okay. Well Con gets back on Wednesday so maybe Thursday." I said

"Yeah that's fine." She said

"Okay good." I said smiling

"Right come on you. Let's go have some lunch. I'm starving." I said picking Lilly up in her car seat.

"Thanks Jod. See you later?" I said from the door

"Yeah. I'll be round about 7 ish we have a staff meeting tonight." Jodie said

"Okay Hun." I said me, Charlotte and Lilly left for the centre of Exeter. We were heading out for lunch today.

"Right miss. Come here." I said when we had parked the car. I had brought the push chair but had also brought the sling. Lilly liked falling a sleep in the sling so the push chair was really for when we were eating so that I didn't spill hot food down her.

I put Lilly in the sling and we put our bags and stuff on the push chair. Charlotte bless her pushed the push chair for me.

We went to a cafe that was inside John Lewis in the centre of Exeter.

"Table for 2 and a very small person." I said

"Right this way." The lady said and we followed her to a table in a nice quiet part of the cafe.

"Thanks a lot." I said s

"Do you need anything for little one?" The lady asked

"No she should be fine. Thanks a lot." I said smiling

I got a fast asleep Lilly out of the sling and put her in the push chair then sat down with Charlotte.

It was a lovely meal. We did a bit of shopping, I had to pick up some things for the boys. James had ordered a new guitar for the tour, not that he needed another one because he has about 9 but he'd brought a new one. And I had to get some new stings for mine, the one that the boys had brought me for my birthday when me and con started dating back in 2015.

Before heading home we called back into Jodie's nursery to give her the stuff she'd wanted me to get for the nursery. Then we headed home. We were all a bit tired now and all needed a sleep. So I put Lilly down for a sleep and me and Charlotte sat and watched some TV and had a sleep as well.