The Next Step:Jiley's story

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Riley's POV

As soon as we walk in all the kids are so excited to see James back home, even though I know he was nervous about trying to look after children he didn't even know were his, he seems to be going pretty well "Hey, bud have you missed me?" he asks Josh, wait did he call Josh bud, I never told him his nickname, did I? Confused I look over at James who has a huge smile plastered on his face "Hey, James how do you remember what we call Josh?" I ask him having to shout over the exited babble of the kids "I remember." he replied, those two words changed everything, he remembered, he remembers before the park, before all this happened, my smile just grows and grows across my face until it hurts, James remembers. James sees me smiling like an idiot and laughs, I just shake my head before going into the living room to find John and Deborah, but when I find them I see Piper, Molly, Abigail and Amy sat in there as well, seeing them makes me smile even harder, they have their brother back. "Hi, how have the kids been?" I ask, concerned that they kept them awake all night even though I know that they sleep through every night, without fail "They've been fine, how've you been?" she asks, I sigh it's been a long few days "I'm alright, now I guess, it's hard you know," I reply pretty simply, they both nod their heads before turning their head towards the door, I look around as well and see James stood at the door with Poppy and Isla in his arms "James, you've just been shot, twice you shouldn't be holding them." I say exasperated he really can be stupid sometimes, wait no all the time. He sighs and puts them down on the floor and then goes over to one of the sofas and collapses into it, he's still clearly in pain.

After about an hour of catching up Deborah and John all leave taking the kids with them, just before the door shuts Piper shouts "I ran the studio whilst you were gone, you can thank me later." I giggle and turn to James who has fallen asleep in the last two seconds, he's still exhausted. I decide that he has earned some peaceful, undisturbed sleep so I take the kids out and into the kitchen where I attempt to bake cookies with them but it mostly consists of them throwing flour around and me cooking. After about an hour we finally have a plate of almost edible cookies, I decide to post it on instagram

R_Raymond: Baking with my 8 little monsters #Youhavn'tseenthemess #Ilovethem #onlytookanhour #Jamesisstillsleeping #shhhhhhh

Only a few seconds after posting it I see a comment I didn't expect to see

J_Tordjman: Still sleeping huh?

I giggle and go into the living room to find James sat there on his phone "How long have you been awake?" I ask him pretending to be irritated "Only a twenty minutes...." he says I can't be angry, he did nearly die a few days ago but I decide to carry on with the irritated act "And you didn't think to come and help?" I ask him but he knows that I'm putting it on "It was too cute hearing you from in here, you're a great Mom, Riley." He tells me I crack a huge smile an then slowly walk towards him, I sit down next to him and lean on his shoulder, I really don't know what I'd do without him. I look up at him and slowly lean in, like always explosions go off in every inch of my body, it's magical. After about a minute we pull apart and then I hear Amelia screaming "Mommy and Daddy were kisswing." she says with her adorable lisp, all of the others rush in not wanting to miss it but they all sigh when they see that we've pulled apart, I start giggling and walk over to Amelia "Hey, you you're such a drama queen." I say whilst tickling under her chin, she starts to laugh and before long everybody's laughing and tickling each other. This has been one of the best days ever.

A/N: This is pretty rubbish but I'm going to try and update twice today so yeahhhh, enjoy.