The Day That Changed My Life

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"Ava" Ariana calls making her come down the stairs. "I thought you said my friends were coming today" Ava pouts "Ava sweetheart" Ariana takes her hand. "There's been a car accident so there unable to get here" Ariana tells her.

"Is daddy home" Ava asks "I am" Pete smiles walking out and picking up Ava. Ava smiles cuddling into him. "Why don't we have a game night" Ariana suggests and Ava nods her head.

"Mummy come with me" Ava asks making Ariana follows her. They both get changed into some pyjamas and Ariana smiles "is this all" Ariana asks and Ava nods with a smile on her face.

Ariana takes her downstairs and Pete smiles. "I've put Ella to bed" Pete says making Ariana nod. "I think I need to say goodnight to your little sister" Ariana tells Ava who nods. Ariana goes to Ella's room and looks down at her.

"Mummy" she smiles "I would never let you go to bed without a good night when I'm home" Ariana cuddles her kissing her head before laying her back down. "Sleep well princess" Ariana smiles leaving the room.

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Ariana holds her girl who was crying g her eyes out because she lost a game. "Pete your supposed to let them win" Ariana tells him kissing her girls head calming her down. "She needs to learn that you have to lose sometimes" Pete says "she learns that at school we want to interact with her and were adults of course we would win against her she's 5" Ariana replies.

"Daddy sleep in the guest room I want mummy" Ava says "you can sleep in the middle of us" Pete tells her and Ava nods.

"Come on its time for your teeth" Ariana stands up and takes her to the bathroom helping her into the stool. Ariana puts some toothpaste on the toothbrush and Ava brushes her teeth.

"I want a double bed" Ava pouts "I want doesn't get" Ariana says "please" Ava asks "your 5 you don't need a double bed yet" Ariana rolls her eyes making Ava nod.

Ava takes Ariana's hand "I love you Mummy" Ava tells her "I love you too sweetheart. Somethings freaked you out you want to talk to Mummy about it" Ariana asks and Ava nods her head.

"No daddy" she asks "I'm sure daddy will give us some private time" Ariana looks up to Pete who nods his head. Ariana mouths thank you taking her little girl up to her bedroom.

"What's the matter sweetheart" Ariana asks "I keep having a bad dream" Ava says "a bad dream about what" Ariana asks holding her "you would get taken away from me" Ava pouts "I'm not going anywhere" Ariana tells her and Ariana nods.

Ariana help her under the sheets and kisses her head. "You want me to get daddy to come up and say night" Ariana Asks and Ava nods her head. Ariana walks out the room and calls for Pete before walking back in.

Pete comes in and sits beside Ava who sits up for a cuddle of her dad. "I love you daddy" Ava smiles "I love you too." pete kisses her head. "Me and daddy will be up to bed soon okay" Ariana tells her and Ava nods.

"I love you my princess sleep well" Ariana kisses her cheek before they both leave her to sleep.

"Can we start to finish off our wedding planning" Ariana asks and Pete nods "of course we can. I have a few meetings about our company tomorrow and then I'm free so we can do it then" Pete smiles "good because I want to finalise things and properly settle down" Ariana says grabbing a bottle of wine and two glasses.

Pete smiles making sure she didn't pout too much for herself. "In some ways I want to move of you get me" Ariana asks and Pete nods "well we can if you want to. I mean this house is small and it doesn't really seem like home yet so" Pete says "I think it will be good for us. I mean we moved in here before we had Ella. Ella wasn't planned so we were even considering the space for a baby. Ella's going to grow and I don't think I can handle falling over two children in this house" Ariana says and Pete nods kissing her head taking the bottle from her not wanting her to get in bed pissed bed next to Ava.

"I mean we can wait till we get married since then we are a family forever. Even though we are now" Ariana smiles and Pete nods.

They cuddle up for a while talking to each other about their life and how grateful they both were before they went up to bed.

Ariana gently gets on the bed and smiles at her sleeping girl. Pete climbs on the bed and Ava opens her eyes. "Baby" Ariana sighs "sorry Ava" he pouts. Ava shuffles into her mum before falling back asleep.

Ariana smiles tickling her girls back gently as she sleeps. "I'm going to end up bruised tomorrow" Ariana says making Pete chuckle.