Ashton's PoV:

Movement on the bed stirred me from my sleep and I creaked my eyes open to see Ender climbing up into my bed.

"What is it, End?" I asked him.

"It's raining." He said and I nodded before allowing him to lay with me.

I put my arm around him so he'd feel safe and then the two of us went back to sleep.

The alarm went off in the morning and I reached over Ender who was pressed against me so I could turn it off and then get out of the bed so I could take a shower.

Once I was showered and dressed I went out to the room to make some coffee and then sit in front of the television so I could watch the morning news.

That seemed to be my habit now ever since I became a father. I wanted to know what was going on in the world.

All it was was politics and major news stories about good samaritans or crimes, but soon it came to celebrity news and my heart clenched in my chest a bit as video of my fiancé and Harry walking into a restaurant played before me on the screen.

"Your big headlines in celebrity news today." The news anchor began. "The big story right now; Harry Styles, the One Direction member has a new woman in his life. The girl fans are freaking out about is Carter Chase, the fiancé of Ashton Irwin who is in the band 5 Seconds of Summer. Chase and Irwin were recently in a custody battle against their adopted daughters biological father which made headlines across the globe, and Harry Styles was at both days of the hearings. There has been speculation that Carter and Ashton have ended their engagement and that Carter is now seeing Harry, but neither of them have commented. But last night in Los Angeles after flying in on Harry's private jet, Harry and Carter went out on the town for dinner at a top L.A. restaurant, and Harry got protective of her as you can see in this video," It switched frames to show a guy grabbing onto Carters arm and Harry shoving him off before pulling her away.

"A fan got a bit too excited and grabbed onto Carters arm, which Harry did not seem too happy about and pushed the guy away, telling him to not touch her. Sources at the restaurant say Harry and Carter had a private room to dine in, and Harry apparently requested roses be on their table when they arrived. Carter Chase and Ashton Irwin are apparently still set to walk the red carpet together at the Teen Choice Awards this Friday night, where Harry Styles will also be in attendance."

It then panned back to the two anchors sitting at their desk talking.

"Carter Chase has posted photos of herself with Harry on her Instagram but has only mentioned him as her best friend, and Harry who is apparently not one for posting personal photos, shared one of himself, Carter, and a dog they apparently adopted together." The woman said.

"So do you think Ashton and Carter will walk the red carpet together, or will she walk with Harry?" The other anchor asked her.

"There's been a few rumours that Carter will be attending the MET gala with Harry, but nothing is confirmed, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see John."

They then moved onto a different segment and I finally let out the breath I had been holding in.

I knew she wasn't cheating, but I also had the raging suspicion that Harry liked her as more than a friend.

I shook it off and then went to grab my laptop to check email and saw that Amanda, the photographer who had taken our engagement photos, had sent me a link to them.

I immediately clicked on it and began to scroll through them, and they were absolutely amazing.

Carter looked beautiful in every single one, and I found myself either smiling or giving her loving/seductive looks in every photo.

I couldn't wait for Carter to see these, and I wanted to post one so badly.

I chose one of a close up of the two of us smiling at each other during the one we had taken on the hotel bed, choosing one specifically so you couldn't see much of Carters body because I knew she'd feel weird about that, and I decided to share it on my Instagram with a red heart as the caption.

After I shared that I went back to watching the news and a few minutes later I heard Ender wake up.

"Hey bud." I said as I turned around to see him wrap the blanket around himself and tiredly walk over to me before laying down in my lap.

Ender was really small for his age. He was about the size of a nine year old when he should've been the size of an eleven year old.

I chuckled as he laid down on top of me and placed a hand on his head, touching his hair.

"Do you feel better?" I asked him and he nodded. "Aren't you excited, we get to go to the ManU and Liverpool game today?"

At this he smiled as he nodded his head.

"I wish Car could go." He said.

"Yeah? Well we can take her and Gracie to one sometime. Do you think Gracie would like it?"

"Yeah. But she'd cheer for both teams."

I laughed at this.

"Come on, let's get you dressed and then we can go get breakfast with the guys." I said and he nodded before getting up and going to brush his teeth.

Once he was dressed I took my laptop and the two of us headed across the hall to the guys room where they were up and watching the television. They had it on the same news program I had it on and when they saw me they quickly changed the channel.

"I already saw it. Relax." I rolled my eyes.

"Oh." Michael and changed it back. "You okay?"

"It's dumb rumours." I sighed. "But anyways, want to go get breakfast?"

"Sure." They replied.

"Oh, and mine and Cars engagement photos came in." I said and opened the laptop as I sat down on the sofa so they could see.

"Don't tell her I showed you yet." I said and they nodded before I began to go through them.

"Woah." Luke's eyes went wide as I went to one where I was hovering over Carter.

"She let people see her like that?" Calum asked.

"No. It was a closed set. Only the photographer, her assistant, and Becca were allowed in." I said as I continued to go through them.

We got to the ones from the rooftop top photos which were really romantic and the guys seemed to agree.

After this we left to go to a little bistro for breakfast and we sat outside on a patio table.

After we had ordered our food we sat there waiting, and I brought my cup up to take a sip of my coffee when Ender asked a question.

"What's a hard on?"

I choked on the hot coffee that was in my mouth and spit it back into the cup, Michael, Luke, and Calum looking at him with wide eyes.

"Where did you hear that word?" I asked him with wide eyes.

"You said it last night when you were on the phone." He said.

I thought he had been asleep.

Michael and Calum were trying not to laugh at this point while Luke looked at a loss for words, just like me.

"Uh. You're not old enough to know what that is yet." I said.

"Why? Does it have to do with sex?"

Michael and Calum openly burst into laughter at this point and I shot them a glare.

"Look, we'll talk after breakfast." I said and then went to the men's room and pulled out my phone, dialling Carters number.

"Hello?" She answered in a sleepy voice.

"Hey, sorry to wake you but I have an emergency."

"Oh my God is everything okay?" Her voice became more concerned.

"Ender is asking about...you know, the birds and the bees."

"That's your emergency?" She began to giggle.

"Yes! I don't know what to do."

"Talk to him. You're his dad. I'm going to have the talk with Gracie when she gets older."

"We were supposed to do this together."

"No. We said you'd talk to the boys and i'd talk to the girls."

"No we didn't!"

"Fine. Do you want to talk to our daughter about sex?"

"No, because she will never be having it."

"Oh my God. Just sit him down and explain it and answer his questions. And if you absolutely need me then call me. But you're his father and I think you should be the one to talk to him."

I whined and heard her laugh.

"You can do it."

"Whatever. Love you. Bye."

"Bye." She continued to laugh as I ended the call.

I went back out to the table and finished breakfast before we went back to the hotel where I could tell Ender was waiting for me to explain.

The guys gave me thumbs up as I walked in my room and I flipped them off before going inside.

"Okay, have a seat." I told him and he went to sit on the couch while I sat down on the coffee table.

"Ummmm...." I began and he looked at me expectantly. I had no idea what to say, but I knew I needed to start somewhere. "Okay, so have you learned in school yet how boys and girls have different bodies?"

"Yeah." He said.

"Okay, and you know what uh, what sex is?"

"Yeah, the boy puts his-"

"Yeah yeah yeah okay." I interrupted him. "Okay, but um, do you know why people have sex?"

He shrugged.

"Okay, well in order to have a baby, a man and a woman have to have sex, and the sperm from the man will attach to an egg in the woman and that's how you make a baby. But also people do it because it feels good."

"Do you have sex with my sister?"

My eyes about popped out of my head.

"I asked you guys before but you told me to stop asking."

I coughed and then ran my hands over my face.

"That's really not something we should talk about. Sex is a very personal and private thing for most people."

"But I wanna know."

I sighed.

"Yes we do."

"So you do that to my sister?" He asked and at this point I felt like jumping out of our hotel room window.

"Oh my God." I whined before pulling myself together. "Yes, but in order for us to have a baby, that's what we have to do."

"Are you trying to have a baby?"

"Well, not right now, no."

"Then why do you do it?"

"Because- because when you get older you start to have certain needs. And sex is a natural thing between people, so when you're old enough to have it, you do it to fulfil the need."

"So what's a hard on?"

"It's what happens to a guy when he gets turned on."

"Turned on?"

"It's when a guy gets excited. And not happy excited but, sexually excited." I said and he still looked confused. "Look, Ender, I know you are curious and have questions, and I don't ever want you to be afraid to come talk to me, but I think you are still a bit young. Some of these things you will figure out on your own or your friends will tell you or you'll learn in school. It's okay to be curious, but remember that you're only 11. You have plenty of time to learn."

"Okay." He said.

I breathed a sigh of relief.

"Good. Now, let's move on from that and go see ManU kick some butt, alright?"

"Yeah!" He then grinned and we high-fived before I stood up, finding my phone.

'I have never felt more awkward in my life explaining that to our son. You owe me.' I texted Carter.

After a few minutes I got a response from her.

'I'm laughing so hard it hurts. But also, our engagement photos came in???!!!'

'Yes! I'll send you the link.'

I sent her the link and then Ender and I went to go get in the car to make our way to the stadium when Carter replied.

'I love them!!!! They're so good!!! I'm freaking out over here, I can't stop smiling. Looking at them makes me want to see you even more than I already do.'

'Cant wait to see you. Send me photos from your shoots today!'

As Ender and I made our way to the stadium I could literally see him bouncing in his seat, he was so excited.

When we arrived people were everywhere and so I kept a hand on his shoulder as we walked through the crowd to get to the ticket stand so we could get inside the place to find our seats. He and I got drinks before going to sit down in our seats which were closer to the field than I had thought they would be.

"This is awesome!" Ender grinned and I laughed.

He took a picture of the field and asked me if he could post it on his Instagram account. I told him yes and he did, tagging me in the photo.

"Trey and Reid are going to be so jealous!" He said.

"Maybe we can get them something for you to take back to them." I said and he nodded in agreement.

Before the game started I got Ender to take a selfie with me so I could share it on my own account, tagging him and Carter before captioning it.

'Took my boy to his first pro footie game today! Love this kid!'

When the game kicked off Ender was cheering loudly for ManU and I couldn't help but get lost in the fun with him.

Ender really was such a fun kid to be around. He had a cheerful and bright personality, and his energy made you happy.

And as Ender jumped up and down and hugged me when ManU scored a goal, I knew this would be an experience with him that I would never forget.

Carters PoV:

I had awoken in the morning with only Gracie in the bed with me, but I had remembered Harry getting in bed with me last night.

After a phone call from Ashton and then beginning to look at our engagement photos on my phone, there was a knock on the door between mine and Harry's rooms and he came in.

"Hey." He said.

"Hi." I gave him a small smile and watched as he moved to sit next to me in the bed.

"What are you looking at?" He asked me.

"Mine and Ashton's engagement photos came in." I said and he leaned over to look.

I was going through the morning shoot and tried to get over the fact Harry was looking at me half naked.

"Wait wait wait, what's that." Harry took my phone and zoomed in on my tattoo.

"Oh, my tattoo." I replied.

"Is it fake?"

"No, Ashton and I got tattoos together."

"Let me see." He said and I awkwardly raised up the side of my shirt to show him the tattoo on my side. "Why did you get a tattoo?"

His voice was flat.

"Well Ashton got one for me and so I got one for him."

"So? That's permanent."

"Harry you're covered in tattoos, and you're going to lecture me about one?"

"Yes." He said and I rolled my eyes.

"Whatever."

I went to get out of the bed but his arms locked around my waist and he pulled me back down to the bed.

"I'm sorry." He said and I sighed.

"I'm not a child Harry, don't treat me like one."

"I know, i'm sorry." He said again and I looked away from him to see Gracie asleep next to me.

"Why did you come in here last night?" I asked him quietly.

"I couldn't sleep."

"But why did you come in here?"

"Well when you were at my house I slept better."

"I don't think that's appropriate... not when my daughters here."

"Fine." He said and I felt his arms unwind from around me.

"Um, are we going straight to the shoot?" I asked him.

"Yeah." He said.

"Okay, then i'm just gonna wear sweats." I said.

I climbed out of the bed and saw Harry still sulking and I sighed before leaning to kiss his cheek.

"Cheer up. We're going to have a fun two days."

He smiled at this and then got out of the bed, following me as I went to brush my teeth and run my fingers through my hair. I had to kick him out of the closet so I could change into black sweats and an orange hoodie before then going back out to wake up Gracie.

"Gracie, sweetheart. Wake up honey." I shook her shoulder lightly.

She barely creaked open her eyes before closing them again and rolling over.

"Well she's knocked out." I said and Harry chuckled.

I decided to let her sleep and instead went to pack a bag of clothes for her to change into and a few toys before Harry and I left, him carrying her bag and Jupiter while I had Gracie wrapped in a blanket up in my arms.

We got in the car and I yawned as we drove to the place we were doing the photos.

"I'm sorry if I made you feel uncomfortable by coming into your room last night, it's just that when you were at my house and you slept in my bed with me I was able to sleep and when I couldn't sleep and you were right there I just thought it would work again."

"Did it?" I asked him.

"Yeah."

"Why?"

"I don't know." He shrugged. "Maybe it's holding someone that helps me sleep."

"Oh." I said and he turned to look out the window sadly.

Harry felt so alone, and it hurt him when I turned him away...but there were certain things that only my fiancé was supposed to do.

I reached over to pat Harry's arm and he turned back to me before taking my hand in his.

It was my left hand and after a minute I felt him slide my engagement ring off my finger.

"What are you doing?" I asked him as he brought it closer to his face so he could look at it.

"I wanted to see it." He said. "It's kind of old fashioned."

"I know, that's why Ashton got it. He says I have an old soul and the ring is an antique so when he saw it he knew it was for me."

"So why is this ring bigger?" He then took off my mothers day ring and I put my engagement one back on.

"Oh, so this was supposed to be my original engagement ring but when he decided to propose he didn't have enough time to order it, so he got me the other one and then got me this one for mother's day."

"And this one?" He then reached for my right hand.

"It's the promise ring Ashton gave me the first time he told me he loved me." I smiled. "It has our initials engraved on the inside."

"So do you like jewellery?" He asked.

"Yeah, I mean I really never wore it until Ashton gave me jewellery as presents, but everything he gives me has a special meaning. That's why I like it."

"What do you like as presents?"

"I don't know. I like things that mean something I guess. Like when Gracie draws me a picture, or when Ender was little and he would make me little things at school and bring them home, or when Ashton found Gracie's baby photos for me... that's what I like."

He nodded.

When we arrived at the studio I would be taking photos at, I carried Gracie inside and Harry carried Jupiter. Inside I found Becca at the dressing room/makeup area and I laid Gracie down on a sofa, Harry putting Jupiter with her before finding the photographer.

I shook the photographers hand and then Harry had me go get ready while he handled everything.

Apparently they were going for a more dramatic look, more dramatic than I had done before, and so Becca began to work on my makeup.

"So what's the deal with you and Harry?" Becca asked me after a few minutes.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I know you guys are friends, but he treats you like his girlfriend."

"He's lonely, and sometimes he gets a bit too friendly...but I feel bad for him. He doesn't have anyone."

"He does seem happy when he's with you." She replied.

"I just hope he finds someone."

As Becca continued with my makeup, Harry came by and sat down next to me, passing me a coffee.

He watched as Becca finished off my makeup with a pair of false lashes, before moving on to curl my hair.

When she was done with that, we headed to the dressing room where I slipped on a long sleeved black lace dress. I then put on some
black pumps.

We walked out to the set where there was a white plush lounge that the director of the shoot had me sit on before coming over to direct me to the position he wanted. I ended up laying in my side, resting my chin in my hand as my elbow was propped against the arm rest.

When they got me under the light Becca came forward to add a bit more blush on my cheeks before stepping back to watch.

They had the camera pretty close to me this time, and as they had me look directly at it I could see Harry standing next to the photographer, looking at the pictures he was getting.

After the close ups they moved the camera back and gave me a few minutes of a break while they changed lighting.

"Mommy? Mommy?"

I heard Gracie calling out for me.

"I'm in here Gray!" I called back to her and a few moments later she walked into the room, her thumb tucked in her mouth. Her eyes were wide as she looked at all of the people, and then she saw me and looked at me as if asking if it were okay to come over to me. "You're okay, come here." I waved her over and she wasted no time in running over to me, climbing up on the sofa with me and crawling into my lap.

"Mommy." She wrapped her arms around my neck so I could hug her and she could hug me.

"Good morning sweetheart." I kissed her cheek. "Did you enjoy sleeping in?"

"Mhmm." She nodded. "I sleepy."

"I know, I tried to wake you up this morning and you didn't want to get out of bed."

She shook her head with a smile and I kissed her nose.

"We see Daddy today?" She then asked me.

"Not today, baby. We get to see him tomorrow."

"I miss Daddy."

"Me too." I smiled at her as I touched her curly hair. "But we'll see him soon, I promise."

I then noticed they were ready for us to begin to take photos again.

"Okay, why don't you go have Aunt Becca get you dressed." I told her and she nodded before sliding off the couch and running over to Becca.

The director then came over again to place me how he wanted, and then went back to the camera, and a few minutes later Becca came back with Gracie, her hair in space buns, and wearing shorts and a tee shirt that had the bands logo on it. Ashton had to get the shirts the band had specially made for Gracie so they would fit her.

She stood off to the side of Harry and he bent down to kiss her cheek before standing back up to watch me.

For a long time I was positioned, photographed, re-positioned, photographed, and then so on and so on.

They had stopped for a minute to look at the photos and I looked over at Gracie who looked like she wanted to run to me but Harry had a hand on her shoulder as he looked the other way at a laptop.

"What is it?" I asked her.

She whined as she bounced up and down and then touched her lips.

"Do you want a kiss?" I asked and she nodded as she whined again.

"Come here then."I said and she ducked from under Harry's hand, him turning to look as she ran to me.

She stopped in front of me and I pulled her close before placing my hands on her cheeks and kissing her little lips.

After several kisses she smiled.

"Okay, we've got what we need from this look, let's go for the natural." The director said and I took Gracie with me to the dressing room where Becca had me sit in a chair so she could take off my makeup and restart.

Gracie sat in my lap and hugged me as Becca did this, and Harry took a photo of us, sending it to me.

You could see Harry in the mirror taking the photo and I smiled as I went to post it on my Instagram, putting a black and white filter over it before adding my own caption.

'Sometimes a Mommy cuddle during a break on set is necessary.' 

I tagged Harry and Becca, and then tagged Ashton in the photo as well before watching Becca do my makeup.

Gracie had a snack while she waited and then Becca took me to the dressing room to change into a white sundress.

"So I took this video while you were on set." She giggled as she passed me her phone to show Harry watching me intently. She then panned over to me and then moved back so you could see Harry watching again.

I laughed.

"Oh my gosh send me that."

She did and then I shared that video as well with a caption that said 'Why so serious, Hare?'

I walked out of the dressing room in the new dress and Harry gave me a narrow eyed yet playful look and then threw his arm around my shoulders as we walked.

"You think you're so funny, don't you." He laughed.

"I'm hilarious and you know it." I smirked up at him and then walked onto the new set where they had me sit behind a glass desk so I had something to rest my elbow on as they took the close up of me, and then had me stand and pose so they could take the full body shots.

When we were done I thanked the photographer and his team and then escaped to the dressing room to rest.

"Okay, so the other shoot is in two hours, Becca has to go over to set up, but we can go for lunch and then you can rest for a bit." Harry said and I agreed.

I helped Becca pack up a bit and then left with Harry, Gracie in my arms. We headed out to the car where Jupiter sat in Gracie's lap, and then we made our way to a restaurant for lunch.

We sat inside and Harry and I both ordered a salad while I got chicken for Gracie. Jupiter laid beneath her chair and as I went to sip my water I noticed the paparazzi outside.

"Fantastic." I rolled my eyes.

"Sorry." Harry said as he looked over at them.

We had a quiet lunch, and I missed the meals I had with Ashton where he filled them with jokes and stories to make everyone at the table laugh.

"Mommy, we call Daddy?" Gracie asked me.

"No, he's sleeping right now. But he'll call us when he wakes up." I patted her hand.

Harry paid for lunch and I prepared myself to walk out in the storm but when we stepped outside all hell seemed to break loose. Fans began to pull at the fabric of my sweatshirt and I glanced up at Harry in a panic because I was holding Gracie and she began to cry.

"Back up!" Harry's body guards said and I felt Harry's arm come around me and drag me away.

We hurried to the car and once there I had to settle Gracie down.

"She okay?" Harry asked me as he leaned over to look at her.

"Yeah, I think she just got a bit scared back there." I said and leaned in to wipe away Gracie's little tears and shush her cries.

I then decided to take matters into my own hands to send out a message to the fans.

'Everyone, lately this seems to become more and more of an issue, and I felt it necessary to say something. Please stop the mobbing. It's insanity. I love taking photos with you, hugging you, and getting to know your names and where you're from, but when i'm walking with my friends and have my daughter in my arms, it's not okay to be pulling at my clothes and myself. Not only is it a safety hazard for you and me, but also terrifies little Gracie. I love you guys and I wish for a chance to meet all of you, but if you want to talk then come up and ask, don't scream and pull.
Sending you all my love, Car'

I typed it all up in a note, screenshoted it, and then posted it to my Instagram.

Harry apparently had me on notifications because I saw his phone light up, and then did a double take to look at his screensaver.

"Wait, what's that picture?" I asked him and he closed his phone.

"Nothing." He said.

"Harry." I said in the voice I gave the kids when they were in trouble.

"Fine. God." He said and then pressed the button to show me the picture.

It was of us, when we were on the plane, I had been laying on him and had closed my eyes.

I had felt him move his arms, but I didn't know he had taken a photo.

He had put a black and white filter over it and in the photo he was smiling down at my tired self.

It reminded me of the photos Ashton took of us all the time.

"Do you like it?" He asked me.

"Yeah, I do." I said.

"I've been thinking about what you said...about how I need to be more personable with my fans...and I wanted to start doing that. So would you be okay with me posting photos of you and I?"

"Yeah, I would. Just make sure you don't post anything inappropriate."

"Inappropriate?"

"That means anything my fiancé would not appreciate."

"Ah." He said. "I'll try and keep that in mind."

I rolled my eyes at him.

We went to the next studio for the second photo shoot of the day, and I took a nap for a bit on a sofa in the dressing room before Becca had me get into hair and makeup.

This shoot was for the Ralph Lauren new collection launch and so I was getting photographed in the new clothes.

After hair and makeup I was taken to wardrobe where I was dressed in white jeans and a blue and white striped sweater.

I put Gracie down for a nap before heading out to where they had the white backdrop ready to go, and began to work.

This was a bit different than the other shoots I had done, partly because the director wanted me to just be myself, and also shouted encouraging things at me.

Harry even laughed as I just had fun and played around in the different outfits, smiling, flipping my hair, and giggling at myself.

But Harry left early from the shoot without telling me where he was going, but smirking at me as he left, and then after I was done I went back to wake up Gracie and change back into my other clothes.

I grabbed my phone from the dressing room sofa to see I had a few missed calls from Ashton, and then called him back.

"Hey!" He answered.

"Hey, sorry I was in a shoot."

"I figured after the third time I called." He chuckled. "How's everything going?"

"Good." I'm done for today and now i'm just going to go eat dinner and then sleep."

"Hmm, sounds fun."

"Totally." I laughed. "How's everything going there?"

"Good. We're just hanging out here, about to take Sprinkles for a walk, and then pack up some stuff before we leave."

"Cool. Well I've gotta get Gracie dinner, but we'll FaceTime tonight, alright?"

"Okay. Talk to you later. Love you."

"Love you."

I hung up the phone and then hurried to get Gracie together, making sure she had all of her things, before getting Jupiter as well and walking out to a car with Becca.

"Where did Harry go?" Becca asked.

"I don't know. He said he had to leave." I shrugged.

When the two of us arrived at the hotel we went to my room and when I opened the door I opened it to see Harry standing there his phone up as he obviously videoed me.

"Happy late birthday!" He exclaimed as he grinned.

"What?" I laughed as we walked in to see a cake on the table present boxes next to it, and some balloons and flowers.

I walked up to the cake and saw it had written on it it blue icing- Happy Birthday Car! I suck-H.

"Oh my gosh this is so funny." I laughed and then Harry set down his phone before coming over to hug me.

"Happy late birthday, Car."

"Thank you." I laughed as I hugged him back, and then he had me open my presents, Gracie happily helping me.

He had bought me a designer Louis Vuitton bag, some black Christian Louboutin shoes, and then a Cartier watch.

He had to explain all of this to me of course because I had no idea what any of it was, and I thanked him before he had me sit in front of the cake so he, Gracie and Becca could sing me a happy belated birthday.

I laughed at this and Harry came around to sit next to me so we could cut the cake. Harry placed a hand on my back and I was about to reach for the knife so I could cut the cake but suddenly my face was shoved into the cake.

I yanked my head back up with a gasp to see Harry next to me almost in tears from laughing so hard, Becca videoing us, and Gracie laughing and squealing as well.

"Harry!" I pushed his arm, but he just fell over laughing, and I couldn't help but laugh as well.

After cleaning up and then eating the dessert, I bathed Gracie and then facetimed Ashton.

Becca said goodnight and left, and I tucked Gracie in bed before biting my lip, deciding to go through with the plan I had been thinking about all day.

I knocked on Harry's door and then went in his room. He looked up at me as I did.

"What are you doing in here?" He asked me.

"I'm going to help you sleep. You can hold me until you fall asleep and then I'll go back to my bed."

"That could work." He said with a small smile on his lips and I walked around his bed before crawling over and laying down next to him.

Harry wasted no time in wrapping his arms around me and I kept my eyes open as I waited for him to fall asleep.

I felt like this was taking a really long time, and sighed as I closed my eyes.

I don't know why I did, but suddenly my eyes opened as I apparently woke up.

The first thing I noticed was that Harry's chin was resting on my forehead.

I hadn't meant to fall asleep in here with him.

The next thing I noticed was that Harry had my leg hitched around his waist, his hand on my bum to hold me there as his other arm was under my neck, his hand in my hair.

Very slowly I took my leg off him and then slid out from his embrace.

I had to make no movement as I got off the bed and then tiptoed back to my room, closing my door.

Gracie was asleep in the bed with Jupiter next to her, and I climbed in, wrapping my arm around her before closing my eyes and going back to sleep.

This time I was able to dream of Ashton and I back at home, enjoying our day in the sun with our kids in the house that was our home.

I missed him. I missed my home.

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Haha Ashton having to give the talk to Ender!

But also on a more serious note, Carter and Harry, what's going on with that? Better question, what do you think Harry thinks a going on with them? Does he see Carter as more than a friend?

More to come xx-m