I Just Can't Stop Loving You (Tony Perry)

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Jaime's POV;

"Bella please stop screaming the place down"

"But I don't want to stay, I want to come"

"You can't I got to work"

"I want to stay with Auntie Emily then"

"You know she's out along with the other two. You're staying with Jessica and that's final"

"No"

"Yes"

"What's with the shouting?"

"Auntie Emily" Bella yells running over and hugging her legs

"Well?" Emily asks

"She won't stay with Jess again"

"This has really got to stop now Jaime, it's not fair on Jess"

"I know" I sigh

"This is the last time we'll look after her on this tour, after your interview you're sorting this out"

I nod ok and walk off the bus after saying bye to everyone. I have no idea what's going on, I thought Bella liked Jess but I guess I thought wrong. I enter the venue and make my way over to the green room where I'm having an interview done.

Time skip

I get back to the bus finding it to be very quiet I look around and find Tony in the back room with Bella. "Why is it quiet?"

"You need to go and find Jess and Emily"

"Why?"

"Emily is out side somewhere stopping Jess from leaving"

"Why? What's happened?"

"Jessica made some food and Bella refused to eat it cause Jess made it. You don't have a clue what this is doing to Jess do you?"

I look at Bella who's smiling up at me "we're having a nice long chat later young lady. No TV for a week either so go and do colouring or play with your toys"

"But Daddy"

"No buts" I interrupt sternly

She sighs and nods ok, I leave the bus and walk around looking for Jess and Em. I eventually find them in the park across the street.

"I can't Em, it's too much and I can't cope with it. It feels like I'm at work in my own home. There are a lot of stepmothers out there who's worse than me, I've done my best to make her feel at home and settle in but it just isn't enough. I can't do it anymore."

I reach them and Emily looks up at me and frowns. "Jess, what's going on honey?"

"You know what's going on"

"I'm going to leave you two to talk" Em speaks quietly and walks off

I take her seat and wrap my arm around Jess "why haven't you told me how you've really felt?"

"I thought it would be better by now but it just seems to be getting worse"

"I'm sorry, I know me doing things with just her probably didn't help either. I truly am sorry you've had to go through this"

"I know, maybe it's best for me to return home"

"No, you're going no where. I'm going to fix it and get to the bottom of it I promise you it will be ok"

Time skip

We get back to the bus and I take Bella to the back room sitting her on my lap "right missy you need to start talking about why you're being mean to Jessica"

"I don't want a new Mommy"

"She isn't you're new Mommy sweetheart, she's your step mommy which is a second mommy. She'll never replace your Mother"

"I'm sorry I've been mean to Jessica"

"It's not me you should be saying it to though is it?"

"No"

I kiss her head and move her so she's next to me then I get up and open the door nodding my head yes to Jess who gets up from the bunk and comes into the room. She takes a seat the other side of Bella who moves and sits on her lap.

"I'm sorry I've been mean to you, I thought you was trying to replace my Mommy"

"I would never replace your Mommy sweetie, how about when we're home from tour we can drive up and visit her grave?"

"Yeah, can we take flowers she likes flowers especially pink ones"

"We'll take the biggest pink bunch we can find" I smile moving up into her old seat

She smiles and hugs us both

Tony's POV;

I smile as I watch Emily smiling at Jaime, Jess and Bella hugging. I walk back to the front and take a seat next to Vic and stare at him.

"What?" He asks

"I want to marry Emily"