Save Me. {A Joe Sugg FanFiction}

forty-three

*1 Year Later*

It's Amelia and Margot's 1st birthday today!
'Morning my sleeping beauty.' I whisper to Amelie who murmurs and rolls over in her cot. 'Come on darling, it's wakey-wakey time.'
Amelie rubs her eyes and they stare up at me, her eyes are now electric blue instead of the milky blue they were when she was born. She giggles. 'Mumma!'
My heart melts. Even now, after 1 year, she manages to make my heart swell with feelings.
'That's right birthday girl.' I say softly, lifting her out of her cot. She snuggles into my hair and sighs.
'Lets go find Margot and daddy.'
Even now saying daddy makes me feel giddy inside.
We go downstairs and see Joe and Margot watching Peppa Pig.
'Peppa, Peppa!' Margot claps and points at the TV. Even at one, their articulation and wording is impeccable.
'Morning.' Joe says, kissing my cheek.
'When is mum coming over?' I ask Joe, absentmindedly setting Amelie down.
Joe and my mum have become quite close recently, I assumed he would know.
'No Margot! That's daddy's!' Joe says to Margot who was rapidly getting closer to his steaming mug of coffee.
'Oh she'll be over in a few.' Joe says to me, putting Margot down by Amelie and coming to put his arm around me.

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'Even after all that I still managed to arrive on time.' My mum finishes in the story of her wedding day: her dress was too small so she has to go back to the tailors and get it re-done, then one of her bridesmaids had just had a break up and was awfully late, and then the transport was 10 minutes late.
'Oh what rotten luck.' Joe says sympathetically.
'And the worse thing was - it wasn't worth it!' Mum laughs. My mum and dad used to row all the time and he had an affair with the blonde tart - Kiara, when my mum found out she was so pissed she went home and packed his stuff in boxes and left them on the porch.
Amelie giggles and Margot drools a bit in their play pen. Suddenly Amelie clunks a pastor boat on Margot's head and she burst out crying.
'Oh darling! Shush.. Don't worry mummy's here.' I say softly. She sniffs and her head lolls: she's asleep.
'She's asleep.' I mouth to Joe and mum.
'I'll take her to bed.' Joe mouths back and looks pointedly at my mum. She nods. I look at my mum and she smiles mysteriously...