2 years later...

Present day.
London

I wipe my finger across my brand new desk, just soaking in the contents of my new office. The plain white walls are filled up with canvases of various photos I have taken throughout the years, all in greyscale to fit in with the colour scheme of the room. A grey sofa aligns the back wall accompanied by an unnecessary amount of black cushions. A few filing cabinets are stood in the corner next to the door.

Taking a look around the huge room I sigh in disbelief. I finally made it.

I worked my ass off to get myself here, to this point in my career and I'm staring into my own office in my own photography studio. I even have my own assistant, not like I need one but she's been quite the help lately and I'm very grateful for her. I think she likes coming to shoots with me, meeting all different kinds of people from every walk of life. Plus sometimes I get the odd photo shoot over seas and she loves a free holiday.

"Knock, knock. Can I come in?" A voice behind me asks and I turn around to look at my visitor. "How are you feeling? Ready to open up the brand new studio tomorrow?"

"Ready as I'll ever be." I tell him.

"You have worked in a photography studio before Ava, the only difference is that you own it now. Well partially own it."

"ReignBow studios is finally finished. Thanks for agreeing to have my name first." I laugh lightly.

"Anything for you baby." Aaron lifts me up and sits me on my desk. "BowReign doesn't really flow as well, so I didn't really have a choice." He laughs teasingly tucking a piece of hair behind my ear before placing a little kiss on my nose.

"I just let you put your name on the end to be nice."

"Oh really? No other reason then?"

"Hmmm...I can't think of one." I tease running my finger slowly down his torso, his eyes following my trail before looking back up at me, taking his bottom lip seductively between his teeth.

My man is unbelievably hot.

"Do you want to go out for dinner? We can ask Skye, Liam and Teddy to come too. We haven't seen them in a few weeks and I miss my little godson."

"Sure babe whatever you want." He says before pressing his soft lips to mine. I moan into the kiss as he hands run up my thigh.

"I'll give them a call. Now get out of my office." I smirk.

"Ohh. Someone's bossy. I like it, you can carry on with that attitude later baby. You know I love it when it you show me who wears the trousers in our relationship." He jokes as he helps me down from my desk. "Lucky I have paperwork to do for tomorrow, so I will leave you to make your phone call." Aaron kisses me on the forehead before walking out of the door.

"Hey, Mr Bow!" I call after him and he pokes his head around the door frame. "I love you."

"I love you too gorgeous."

...

"You are such a big boy now aren't you?" I say in my best baby voice giving Teddy's stomach a little tickle. "Auntie Ava has missed you."

"Are you going to hog him all night or can I have a cuddle too?" Aaron asks raising his brow at me.

"You don't want to go to Uncle Aaron do you baby? He smells." I joke giving Aaron a sly wink. "Auntie Ava is sooo much better." I pick Teddy up to blow raspberries on his belly and he laughs at me whilst drooling on top of my head. "Thanks buddy, really appreciate that."

"He is getting his last few teeth through. Sleeping has been a nightmare." Skye yawns.

"Are you giving mummy and daddy a hard time?" I ask Teddy, whose now in Aaron's arms, and he stares at me blankly. "I take that silence as a yes."

"You can always give me a call if you need time to yourselves, you look like you need it." I tell Skye sympathetically.

"I know, just you have been busy with your new studio and everything I didn't want to be a burden."

"You have been a burden to me my whole life Skye." I joke making her smile a little. "Stop being silly. I always have time for you three. I love you." I look over at Liam. "I love you too Liam."

"Right back at ya babe." He grins taking a sip of his beer.

"How was your LA trip?" I ask him.

"It was good." He says nodding at the same time. I know he is trying to keep his answer short and sweet so the subject of Harry doesn't come up, especially in front of Aaron. "Me and the boys had fun. I actually left them there as I couldn't be away from these two for too long." He says squeezing Skye's leg.

"Oh they are still over there?"

"Yeah, they will be back at the end of the week I think. Louis is working on something with erm.."

"You can say his name it's fine." I chuckle. "It's been a long time now."

"Yeah. Well he is working on something with Harry and Niall just went along for a free trip I guess." He shrugs.

I'm glad all the boys are still friends even if Harry is a thousand miles away. It's nice to hear that they keep in touch. Even though it didn't work out for me and Harry it's good to see he hasn't gone completely MIA in the 2 years he has been gone.

I chose to not know what was going on his life. I haven't seen what he looks like since I left LA. Other then when we tried the whole long distance thing with Skype calls and video chats but everything went down hill quite quickly after that. I haven't heard any of his music or read any news about him. I figured it was easier for me that way. Out of sight out of mind.

"Someone is getting sleepy." Aaron's voice knocks me out of my thoughts, I look over to him and see him cradling Teddy in his arms. My heart fills with love seeing my two favourite boys in such a sweet moment.

Me and Aaron have been together for almost 10 months now. Ever since the gallery show 2 years ago he became quite a good friend of mine. After me and Harry officially called it quits on our relationship I became quite stand off-ish to everyone, it took me a while to become normal again. I guess it was a bit easier considering I didn't have to avoid Harry, him being in a different country was easier to deal with. Aaron was always there making sure I was ok, I wasn't even interested in him in that way at first, I wasn't interested in anyone really. But one night Louis had a birthday party, where Aaron kissed me for the first time and our relationship took off from there. It's been really nice, I had to get used to being in a relationship again but I love it and I love him.

"I'll take him from you if you like." Liam says standing up, holding out his arms.

"No it's okay. I've got him. Just enjoy your dinner." He reassures Liam that he is fine with Teddy. "We are good aren't we mate?" He says rubbing his nose on Teddy's making him smile.

"He is lovely isn't he?" Skye whispers. "You have got a good one there." She tells me this information every time we go out together, but I love to hear her say it.

"He is amazing, I'm really happy."

A/N

Just a short chapter to begin with to ease you in 🤣

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