He Who Conquers Others Is Strong, He Who Conquers Himself Is Mighty

Come Kiss Me

Win and myself walked through following the voices, until we found ourselves entering a large room at the back of the house. I was looking at the dark wood flooring as Win led me through the doorway - noticing that she got so much more animated, tugging on her lead as she craned her head around the door to see who these voices belonged to.

"easy girl!" I giggled as she began to bark excitedly. She pulled the lead out of my hand as she skidded across the floor to- well, everybody. 

I stopped in my tracks and looked over to the window, seeing practically all of my family there. I didn't even manage to get one word out before the tears bubbled up in my eyes. "sweetie...." my mum's voice cooed as she made her way over to me- cradling Leo in her arms. "m-mmum..." I blubbed as she wrapped her free arm around me. I dropped my head onto her shoulder as she held me and my baby boy. "it's okay sweetheart" she hushed me, rubbing my shoulder. 

"he's absolutely beautiful" she whispered to me, making me smile through my tears. "he is isn't he" I beamed, lifting my head to look between him and mum. She looked back at me with the biggest smile I'd ever seen her shine. 

"Sis..." I turned away to look around to find Nick and Ally coming towards us, with Ally carrying Abbie. "Be-be!" I squeaked holding my arms out to my adorable little niece. She let out a squeal of joy back at me, stretching out her fat little arms for me. I swiped her away from her mum and drowned her in kisses. "I've missed you so much" I cooed at her, snuggling into her soft baby smooth skin. "you saw her two days ago" Nick snorted. "but you can have her if you want?" he suggested, making Ally gasp and whack him in the chest. "ow!"
"sweetheart, you're bad habits are rubbing off on other people" my husbands voice chimed in. I turned around and saw him walking over with a smirk on his face. I rolled my eyes and planted another smacker onto Abbie's cheek as she tugged at the ends of my hair. 

"so, c'mon Jules. Why are we even here?" Nick asked, typically blunt. Ally scoffed at him again but he looked at her innocently, as Julian chuckled. "well, of course I wanted to get you all together, my Mom and Dad are flying over tomorrow- I wanted to get our whole family here to celebrate... I mean, we didn't get any time to properly celebrate the birth of lil' Abbie" he said, looking at her in my arms, stroking her head softly. Me and Ally cooed at how cute that was, "and now Leo is finally here, we can have a proper celebration with everyone" he said, wrapping his arm around my shoulders. "your mom is staying here as long as you want her to" Julian said to me, making my face light up, "or until we find her a place. Whichever comes first" he added, making my mouth drop open. "what?!" I gasped, immediately my eyes filled with tears. "y-you're moving here?!" I whispered through my tears. She grinned widely and nodded. "Julian called me a few weeks ago, between him and Nicholas, they gave me that gentle nudge to make the move" she smiled, "if you want me to?" she added. But I burst out into happy tears, nodding like crazy. "your nanna is more than happy for us, your aunt will keep an eye on her for me. And honestly, I want to be with my babies and their babies" she smiled. "it wasn't exactly a hard decision" she chuckled, looking down at Leo sleeping in her arms. "I can't believe it" I said, wiping the tears off my cheeks. I looked over to Nick who was smiling proudly. "did you know?" I asked Ally, but the look on her face said she had no clue either. "not at all" she smiled with tears in her eyes too. This was unreal.

............

"Babe" Julian came over to me as I finished feeding Leo, "You wanna come outside with me while I take Win to go pee?" he asked. I nodded and passed Leo back to my mum. "I won't be too long" I said, and she smiled shaking her head. "take as long as you need, we're okay here" she smiled snuggling her new grandson. I took a moment to appreciate the sight before me, not believing that this was going to be a permanent thing. 

"Pen..." Julian whispered a little taking my attention back to my other man... I smiled and nodded, taking his hand as he held Win's lead in the other. We passed through into the adjoining room where a set of double doors opened out onto a patio in the back garden. Well, when I say garden, it was the biggest garden I had ever seen, it reminded me of the Brady's if I was honest. It was insane. 

Once we got outside, the fresh air hit me and I took a deep breath. The sound of the birds singing around us was lovely. J lent down to unclip Winnie's collar and off she went sniffing around the new surroundings. "will she be okay?" I asked looking around the area. "oh yeah, it's all secure babe, she can't get out" he said, rubbing his thumb over my knuckles as we watched her trotting around. "she looks pretty happy" he added. I had to agree, she looked tiny out here, but there was a lot for her to discover. 

"what do you think to the house?" he asked as he started to move again. We walked across the manicured lawn to a stone bench that was placed opposite the house. We sat down and I looked up at the huge house. "it's beautiful." I sighed, not really thinking anything else.

 "It's yours."

I sat there looking up at it, and the blue sky that surrounded it, not really taking in what he had just said. But when I felt him looking back at me with a soft smile, I frowned. "what?" I questioned what I'd heard. "It's yours baby." He said, "I bought it for you" he added. I frowned, looking from him to the house and back again. I opened my mouth to speak but nothing came out. 

"I got a habit of making you speechless ain't I short stack" he winked as he smirked at me.  narrowed my eyes but let out a smile. "But I don't get it..." I sighed. He gripped my hand tighter and looked up at the house, "I've loved my townhouse. It's always been the best house I ever thought I'd live in. But things change. And now everything that could matter to me is here, I wanted to make sure you were all safe. In a house that would be the perfect size for us. For our family. So I got talking to Tommy, and he suggested his realtor and we found this little place." he explained. 

"Little? this isn't a little place Julian" I snorted. He chuckled, "but do you like it?" he asked me, I squeezed his hand and looked back into his perfect blue eyes. "I absolutely love it. But you know, no matter where we lived, as long as you and Leo were there with me, it would be perfect" I said, before Win appeared yapping at me, "sorry Winnie girl, I mean you too" I giggled. "but J, I can't believe you'd do this for us. Thank you" I beamed at him, both of us having tears stinging our eyes. He reached up and brushed my hair from my face,

"its not like I'd prayed for a thousand nights that this would ever happen, but something lead me to you. And every night since then I've dreamed that this moment would happen, and looking at you here right now, it looks like they're coming true" he whispered.

God this man and the shit he'd say to me just made me break. "Pen, I've never doubted us for a second, even when it felt like the world was against me and you. But here we are right now, proving them all wrong. A-and I can't see the future" he began to sob, sniffing his tears away, "but I promise no matter what comes, I'll be always by your side. We're one step away from complete." he said, leaning closer. "baby come Kiss me"

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