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I pull the white T-shirt over Leonelle's head, our now three and a half year old baby girl. She's the most precious thing I have and knowing me and Conor created her is amazing.

"Go out to Jack for a minute honey, mummy needs to change too"

Leonelle jump off the bed with her crazy curly, angelic hair bouncing after her. She'd got the curls from Conor and miraculously his clear blue eyes too even though mine's brown. She leave me in the large bedroom and a smile grow on my face as I see her jump on Jack that's half asleep on the sofa, waking him up full of excitement. She's the most energetic child I've ever known, full of michive and crazy ideas.

Our shared wardrobe torn up in front of me and I sigh as I start going through it, looking for a fitting outfit to wear. We're headed to the O2 for one of Conor's shows, something that seemed to be a regularly recurrent activity to us as a popstar family. Leonelle is so used to it that it sometimes scare me, she knows the backstage area to most of the venues in London like they're her second home and was only a couple of weeks old when she first joined for a show.

"I love her T-shirt J"

Jack smile widely as he study Leonelle's shirt. It had been a present from Caspar and Merissa, they'd got it designed and had been able to write the words "Mayniac since birth" on it, something that was really true.

"Caspar and Merissa bought it for her a couple of weeks ago"

Jack sit up with Leonelle on his lap, playing some silly game she only played with him. Her soft giggles fill the room as Jack begin tickling her. It had been obvious to choose Jack as Leonelle's godfather when Conor asked me a few years ago, he is one of my best friends and Leonelle love him.

"You ready to get going?"

I nod and Jack put Leonelle down on the floor. She's fast to run off to her room, probably to get some kind of toy that she can bring with her.

I do a last check of my handbag to be sure I've got everything, ID, backstage passes, wallet, car keys and some spare clothes for Leonelle.

"Mummy look"

Leonelle come running from her room with a toy spider in her hand, excitedly waving it in the air.

"Oh god Jess, why does she have that?"

Jack had a severe phobia of spiders and even an innocent toy seemed to scare the crap out of him.

"Calm down Jack, it's not like it's going to eat you"

Jack laugh rigidly not really sure about the toy being totally harmless. I grab Leonelle's hand and follow Jack with my bag over my shoulder. The white Porsche that Conor bought me is parked just outside our front door and Jack put Leonelle in her carseat as I close the door, making sure everything is securely locked before we leave. I'd always been scared of someone breaking in and even though we lived in a calm part of London just outside central did the thought never leave my conscious mind.

"You want to drive?"

I hand Jack the keys and jump in on the passenger side. Jack loved to drive my car and did always become a child everytime he got to sit behind the wheel.

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Jack park the car in the parking lot outside the arena and I try to be quick just in case there's fans around, unbuckling Leonelle whilst Jack carry my bag. She's used to get a lot of attention out and about but it could easily end badly if there's too many people around.

"Nice to see you again Jess"

One of Conor's security guards Dibby give me a hug. He'd been loyal to Conor for quite some time now and was like one in the family, always caring.

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