Julie's POV

"Go up and have a shower" Mam said as we walked into the house

"Okay is mum home?" I asked

"Yeah babe she's in the front room" I went through the front room and kissed Mum on the cheek

"What was that for?" she asked with a wide smile

"Just because" I shrugged and went upstairs to have a hot steaming shower

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Cheryl's POV

"You know Julie's been different since she's been hanging around Mrs. Jackson" I told Kimba as I sat beside her on the sofa

"What do you mean by different?"

"I don't know... don't you think she seems happier?" I shrugged

"I mean she's always happy, but yeah I get what you mean.. especially after the whole, you know..." it was still very hard for Kimba and I to even mention the kidnapping. I don't know how our Julie is so brave all the time.

"I want to talk to her about it, see if she's okay.. but I don't want her to get upset" I said sadly

"When she's ready she'll talk about it, all we can do now is just be there for her" Kim said pulling us into her

"We should do something really special for her birthday" I said wrapping me arms around Kimbas waist

"Maybe we can do her a surprise birthday party?" She suggested

"Yeah that's a good idea! I'll talk to Olivia and have her invite Julie's friends and all that, and me family and yours could come down?"

"That's perfect" she said giving us a kiss

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Julie's POV

"I feel like I haven't seen you in forever" Libby said as we walked to our class together

"I know I'm sorry! Mrs. Jackson has had me stay with her after school everyday this week! she's the best honestly and her kids are awesome" I said excitedly

"You've met her family?" she asked surprised

"Yeah she invited me over for a barbecue, you'd really like her kids!" We walked into class and took our seats

"I'll have to meet them then" Libby said pulling out her books. Today was the last day of my so called 'punishment' with Mrs. Jackson so I thought I'd get her something special, I had mum take me to buy her a heart shaped neckless that had diamonds going all around. I had the jeweler engrave all her family members names on it, including Megan's. It was something small but I hope she'll like it. School hours passed in a breeze and I found myself making my way to the school office. I greeted the secretary before knocking on Mrs. Jackson's door and letting myself in

"Hey Julie please come in" she said sarcastically as I had just walked in with out her answering to my knock

"Hey Mrs. Jackson?" I said as I sat down

"Yeah?" she said setting her pen down and giving me her attention

"I um.. I got you something" I said shyly

"What's that?" she asked, I went over to my backpack and pulled out the black velvet jewelry box

"Open it" I smiled handing it to her. She looked at me with a questioning look before opening the box

"Julie.. it's-It's gorgeous" she said with tears in her eyes

"I had them engrave your family members names--see" I said showing her and she began to cry and pulled me in for a hug

"Don't cry, I didn't mean to make you upset" I said rubbing her back

"No Julie I'm not upset *sniff* these are happy tears" she said as we pulled apart. She began dabbing her teary eyes and gave me a reassuring smile

"I'm glad you liked it" I said hugging her once more before going back and sitting in my seat

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Julie's POV

"We don't have much to do today Julie, you can go home if you'd like" she said after awhile. We had been cleaning out some paperwork, and filing folders for the past hour

"Are you sure?" I said handing her the last pile of folders

"Yeah go on"

"Okay, I guess I'll see you Monday then?" I said giving her a quick hug

"Until Monday" she smiled. I collected my things and left the school building, I pulled out my phone and dialed Mams number

"Hello?"

"Hey Mam Mrs. Jackson let me out early, would it be alright if you picked me up now?" I asked

"Okay I'll leave now, don't go anywhere. Stay next to the school door, yeah?" She said quickly, I could hear the fear in her voice as she spoke.

"Yeah Mam okay" I said going back over to the school door

"Love you, I'll be there in a few" I still have yet to talk to Mam and Mum about the whole kidnapping and I was fine but I don't think they were. Mrs. Jackson helped me out a lot, after talking to her more about it I began to feel happy. I didn't think about it anymore, Which was a good thing for me; but my parents not so much. I would have to speak to them about it, and I would have to do it soon.

*Beep Beep*

Mam's obnoxious beeping brought me out of my thoughts, I walked over to the car and climbed in

"Hey peanut" Mam said greeting me with a kiss on the cheek

"Hey Mam" I took off my backpack and threw it into the back seat

"Kimba isn't home so I thought you and I would have a girls day" she said

"What do you have in mind?" I pulled on my seatbelt and sat back in my seat as Mam began to drive off onto the main road

"I was thinking get our nails done, have something to eat.. Maybe a little shopping" she said

"Yeah that sounds like fun" Mam drove into the city for our girly day together and parked her car in a parking structure allowing us to walk freely about the city

"Here give us your hand" Mam said lacing our fingers together

"Mam you're really protective you know?" I said smiling at her as we made our way through the crowded streets

"Well I've gots to, how many Julie's do you think I have aye?" she said letting go of my hand and putting her arm around my shoulder pulling me closer to her and I couldn't help but feel the love she had for me, I smiled to myself while wrapping my arm around her waist

"Oh sh!t" I heard Mam groan

"What?" I looked at her

"Damn fcking paparazzi" she hissed speeding up her pace

"Are we almost there?" I asked as we pushed our way through the crowd of people who have noticed Mam

"Yeah baby just hold on to us" I clung onto Mam as the paparazzi became a little aggressive shoving their cameras in our faces

"Come on love give us a smile" one man shouted at us

"Move the fck out of the fcking way" Mam snapped shoving them back. I Put my head into Mams arm trying to avoid their cameras interfering with my personal space

"Hurry babe get in" Mam said pushing me into an antique vintage shop

"Can't even have a fcking stroll with me daughter without their fcking cameras in me fcking face" Mam rambled angrily. I abandoned her and had a look around the shop. I could still hear her talking as she tried to collect herself, I couldn't help but laugh at her behavior.

"Sorry about that" she huffed coming over to me

"It's okay.. why'd we come in here anyways?" I asked

"I need them to fck off so we can make it one more block down to the nail salon" she said running her fingers through her hair and tying it up

"It's a cool shop" I said going over and looking at the antique tea cups they sold

"Go on have a look around" she said doing the same herself. We shopped around for a good 40 minutes

"D'ya find anything?" Mam asked coming over to me

"Yeah I found this cool Polaroid camera, I thought it would be cute to take some pictures off it. I found some film beside it as well" I said showing her the camera

"Oh that's neat babe"

"Did you find anything?" I asked looking at her empty hands

"Ah erm n-no nothing" she said not meeting my eyes

"Okay..." I raised my eyebrow

"Here let us go pay for these" she said taking the items from me and hurrying over to the teller to pay. She's so odd sometimes I can't even tell if she's lying or if she's just being her usually weird self. Anyways why would she lie? it's an antique shop it's not like she was robbing a bank. I followed her to the register desk waiting for her to finish paying

"Do you guys have a back exit?" she asked the lady on the register

"Yeah we do, would you guys like to leave from there?" she asked

"Yes please the paparazzi didn't die down out there" Mam said in an annoyed tone. The lovely woman showed us back into the alley way. I think mam thanked her over a thousand times before leaving

"This looks... Safe" I said looking around the abandoned alley feeling a little on edge

"We're fine peanut, give us your hand" Mam said putting the shopping bag into her other hand before lacing our fingers together

"You know.. alleys are creepy, it's like in the movie when they think they're alone.. but they're really not" I said trying to creep mam out and it was working I could see the look of fear on her face

"Y-yeah" she said looking around

"And then suddenly someone always jumps out of no were" she began to pick up her pace, I had to bite down on my lower lip to surpass my giggles

"AHHHHH FCKING HELL PIECE OF FCKING ARSEHOLE FCKING SH!T!!!" Mam screamed out as a black cat ran infront of us sending me into hysteric laughter. I had to put my hands on my knees and squeeze my legs shut preventing my self from peeing in my pants

"Aahhhhhh Mam I'm gonna wee myself!!!" I howled out

"You fcking sh!t! you did this to us!" Mam said shoving me as I continued to laugh

"Your face hahaha priceless" I said straightening up and wiping my tears away

"Hahaha" she mimicked me sticking her tongue out and walking ahead of me

"Awww Mam I'm joking" I said catching up to her. She didn't reply she just kept walking sticking her nose up in the air

"Aye Mam you mad at us?" I said trying to do my best Geordie accent. I could see she was trying to control her smile

"Aw come on pet give us a smile then" I said and she broke into laughter

"Babe that was a really sh!tty job! Me mam would have your head for doing an accent like that! you're a Geordie you need to start speaking like one" she said in all seriousness and I couldn't help but laugh

"Oh god you're funny" I said after collecting myself

"Come on" Mam she rolled her eyes taking my hand and leading me to the nail salon which by the looks of it was paparazzi free

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Julie's POV

"You're not getting that!" Mam protested as I tried on a pair of high waisted shorts

"Aw come on! why not?" I pouted folding my arms across my chest

"I can see your arse cheeks hanging out the back" she said. I went over to the mirror and had a look for myself

"Oh it's not that bad" I said examining my arse

"Oh yeah? Go on, bend down" Mam said coming over to me and standing behind me

"Why?" I gave her a confused look through the mirror

"Go on" she said again and I did as she wanted. She grabbed my arse cheeks between her fingers and gave me a pinch on my bum

"Ow!! what was that for?" I said shooting up and rubbing my bum with the palm of my hands

"That was for scaring us in the alley, and also to show y'as that your ass was hanging out!" She said raising her eyebrow

"Yeah Mam because I told the cat to run infront of you" I rolled my eyes going back into the dressing room and taking off the shorts

"So no for the shorts!?" I shouted from the dressing room

"No" she said in a serious tone. We had just finished getting our nails done and decided to go do some shopping

"Where to next?" I asked as we left the shop with our hands full of shopping bags

"Alexander McQueen" Mam said taking my hand and walking fast to the next shop. The saleswoman put down what ever she was doing and came over and greeted us with full beam on her face

"Welcome Ms. Cole can I help you with anything?" she asked putting her hands together

"Just going to have a look around, thank you" Mam smiled and walked passed her. She placed the shopping bag on the black hardwood floors beside a black leather sofa. The woman came over with a glass of bubbly that had a strawberry in it

"Ms. Cole thought you would enjoy a bubbly while you're shopping" she said handing mam the glass and I just rolled my eyes at how everyone is up mams arse

"Thank you" and with that she left us to it

"Mmm this is delicious" Mam said taking another sip

"Give me some" I said out stretching my arm for the glass

"No you're too young" she said slapping my hand away

"Please" I pouted and she just rolled her eyes and gave in handing me the glass

"We don't tell your mum about this" she said seriously. I took a sip of the drink and enjoyed it

"Mmmm that's really good" I said taking another sip

"Give it here!" Mam tried to take it from me but I held her hand in mine taking a long sip of the bubbly once more. She took the glass from me and raised her finger pinching my nose down playfully

"You cheeky sh!t!" she laughed

"Aw it's good! can I get one?" I asked licking my lips

"Jules you're too young" she said going over to the dresses with me following her close behind

"I don't see the big deal anyways" I huffed folding my arms across my chest

"Maybe one day when we're at home you can have a glass" she said taking a sip of her drink while scanning the items in front of her

"I'll hold you to that"

"Here go try this on" she said handing me a white knee length dress, with a little cut at the top to show not too much cleavage but just enough, with quarter sleeve arms and little pocket cut outs on each side. It was classy and sophisticated looking

"And this one" she said handing me another dress. This one was yellow with little cut outs from the side showing a little skin from your belly area, it flowed out to just above your knees, and was thick strapped.

"Here and this shirt, pants, take this scarf they're really cute from here" she kept handing me items after items

"We have to buy you your first pair of heels today" Mam said

"Mam I can't hold any more" I said and I was being serious she had piled clothes onto my arms that you could barely see my face anymore

"Oh sorry babe! come on let's go into the fitting room" she said walking ahead of me. I rolled my eyes at how typical she was making me hold everything while her hands were empty

"Go on through there! try on the leather trousers first" she said closing the curtain leaving me to try on the clothing

"Mam these are fcking £2568! Are you fcking joking!" I said standing in my knickers looking at the price. She opened the curtain popping her head in

"Would you stop moaning and just try them on" she said

"You're such a pain" I said furrowing my eyebrows

"I know you're but what am I" she said in a childish tone. I placed my hand over her face and shoved her playfully out of my dressing room. I put on the ridiculously expensive trousers and looked in the mirror I liked the way they fit and they looked cool too

"Try them on with that creme looking jumper" Mam said from the other side of the curtain. I took off my top and put on the jumper that had leather patches on the elbows. I really liked the way this outfit was coming together. I opened the curtain and stepped out

"Oh look how cute that is! Turn around" she instructed and I did what she wanted

"Your bum looks good in those trousers" she admitted

"Really" I said stretching my neck trying to have a look

"Yeah really! now go on and try on the rest" she said smacking my backside

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Julie's POV

"These are much easier to walk in than those" I said walking around the Christian Louboutin store freely with the beige ankle strap sandals that were stiletto length and had a thin heel at the back. At the front there was a strap going across showing your toes which was good because I had just got a manicure and pedicure done with Mam

"So you like them?" Mam asked as I walked over to the mirror

"Do I look stupid in them?" I asked examining myself through the mirror

"No babe they look good on you...I'll get them in the other colors as well" she told the worker. I went back over to her and sat beside her taking them off

"Thanks Mam" I said putting my shoes back on

"What for?" she asked like she didn't have a clue in the world

"Just for today" I shrugged

"No problem bubba" she said kissing my temple before getting up and paying for the items

"Hey Mam how are we supposed to hold all these bags?" I said looking at the overflow of shopping bags on the shop floor

"Here give us some and you take some" she said and both our hands were full of bags

"We better walk fast to the car" Mam said as we stepped out of the shop

"Stay close" she said turning to look at me. Mam avoided everyone as we speed walked back to the parking structure that was about 4 blocks down. She kept making glances every few seconds to check if I was still behind her, she was so protective over me and I loved that in some weird way.

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Julie's POV

"Can we get a table for two please" Mam requested as we walked into Nobu

"Right this way Ms. Cole" the manager showed us to our seat

"Does anyone not know you" I whispered to Mam and she flicked her hair back playfully making me shake my head

"Why is it always sushi with you" Mam said as we sat down across from each other

"It's only because it's the most amazing food ever" I said seriously looking over the menu

"Wish Mum would have joined" I said once we placed our order

"I know babe me too, she's going to be a little busy this month. Will be going to watch her as soon as her shows begin" she said proudly

"You really love her don't you" I said matching her smile, it was so infectious that you had to smile as she lit up the room with her warming dimpled smile

"I do.. I wanted to talk to you about something actually" she said a little nervously

"What is it?" I asked

"I want to ask Kimba to marry us"