Come With Me: World Tour // Lady Gaga

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Steff's POV

My hand was slightly swinging with Hamish's as we walked through yet another art gallery. It was maybe now my favourite thing standing next to Hamish sipping a glass of champagne while looking at amazing art pieces. It was what we had spent every single one of our dates doing.

We walked over to a painting of a bruised knee with the words 'I fell down.' Written on it. I laughed. Hamish looked down at me.

"I don't get it?" He said confused.

"Its just funny, I can just see Joanne when she's a toddler falling down, hurting her knee and then drawing a picture about it." I say.

"Maybe it's one of those things you only understand if you're a parent." He says.

"Hey talking about being a parent, do you think you could tell me about what happened to you wife and child." I ask. I have wanted to know the answer since the first day I met him.

He goes awfully quiet for a minute.

"It's okay." I say, "You don't have to tell me."

"No no, I will." He says. "It was about 7 years ago. My child was actually about the same age as Joanne is now. We had just finished a lovely picnic in the park. When I think back to it now it just seems so perfect. My daughter, her name was Essie, was playing about rolling around in the grass, I think she even stood up at one point. While I had a lovely picnic with my wife Holly. Then we were driving back and." He went silent. I placed my arm around him and whispered. "It's okay."

"The car crashed. It hit the side Essie and Holly were on. Essie didn't make it but both Holly and I were rushed off to the hospital. I was in a coma until I woke up to find out that the two people I loved most in the world had both left. I was shocked at first and it all didn't make much sense. But then gradually over the next week it all became to feel so much more real. At the end of the week I just crashed for a month. I didn't do anything at all. Then I slowly started to get up and do more bit by bit. I started off with painting, that's when I made that piece you like, then I eventually made it back to work and moved forward in life." Tears are falling out of his eyes.

I put my hand on his back and just stood there with him for a while.

"You know you're the firs person I've dated since. The first person in 7 years." he tells me.

"You're the first since my last break up. I didn't think there would be any more but then I met you and I just felt a special connection." I say.

"You know I felt that same connection."

"So umm I was wondering. I really like you and it seems like you really like me. I can't stand being away from you so much so I was wondering if maybe you wanted to take some time off of work and come along with me. We would have to travel a lot but we could spend a lot more time together. What do you think?" I ask.

"I'm sorry Steff but I actually have something I need to tell you..."

A/N

Dun dun dun... Cliff hanger.