"Aimee is your daughter. That's why I left. I was pregnant with your daughter."

After I realised what I had said, it was too late and there was nothing I could do to take it back now.

I had let the truth slip out in the worst way possible and all I could do was stand there with shock on my face; which was nothing compared to the way Nathan was looking right now.

He was speechless and completely unsure about what he was supposed to say to the news that he had a daughter and he was a father - I had managed to keep this secret for so long, but now the truth was out and I couldn't change the way in which it had come out.

"Are you ready to go babe?" James asked me as he suddenly appeared beside me with a grin on his face.

"Yeah. I need to get home." I replied, turning my head and giving him a weak smile; opening the car door at the same time, still looking at Nathan. Admiring the look which he had on his face, which still hadn't changed.

"C'mon on then. That Tom guy isn't as bad as he first seems, is he?"

"No. He's a good guy." I sighed.

"Might have to come up here again tomorrow, just to see him."

"Maybe it's better that you don't and you just stay at home with Aimee."

"But I want-"

"Am I actually going to see her again?" Nathan said, just as James got into the car and I was about to shut the door so we could go home.

"Nathan. Please."

"Answer the question. Am I going to see my daughter again?" he repeated with tears in his eyes.

"Mummy. Who is he?" Aimee asked, looking at Nathan in the same way that she looked at people that she didn't recognise.

See, Aimee was never good when it came to new people and was always really shy around them. She just stayed away from them and, if they talked to her first, then she would always come and find me just to make sure they were safe and she was allowed to talk to them - but she usually stayed with me and avoided all new people, only talking to them if I was talking to them.

"It's just an old friend, and he was just leaving. Weren't you?" I asked.

"You mean, she doesn't know the truth?"

"And she doesn't need to either. I'll see you around Nathan." I replied, pushing him out of the way and closing the door behind him; signalling to James that we could go home now and attempt to forget about this lame day which had just happened to me.

Sure, I felt bad that I was acting like this, but I never planned for it to come out in this manner; I was going to tell him, of course I was. 

However, I was going to tell him when I was ready and I was going to explain myself to him; but now it all just seems pointless because he's not going to listen to me anyway.

It's hard to believe that we were in a relationship with each other at one point and we really did love each other.

You would have to be mad to believe something like that now.

Nathan's POV -

I can't believe she was doing this to me.

I had just been told that I had a daughter, only to be told that she didn't know who I was and she was never going to know who I was either.

I wish I knew where I went wrong and what I did to deserve this, because I am still as clueless as the day I found out she had left me and I probably always will be clueless - I can never see her telling the truth behind why she left me and never told me that she was pregnant.

Sometimes I wonder why I was even with her in the first place and why I put myself through everything that I did with her, but then I remember that I did love her and she made me happy.

The worrying thing is, I never actually stopped loving her.

Everyone asks me why I picked Jade, out of everyone I could have picked, why was she the one for me.

And the answer is simple.

She reminds me of Ellie in every single way.