Ellie's POV -

I woke up to find that Nathan was no longer beside me, but I was still lying in his bed.

I didn't know if he had left me and wasn't coming back, or if he had gone out with the others and just left me here, or if I was simply panicking for nothing and Nathan was still around here somewhere.

I finally forced myself to sit up, rubbing my eyes so that the world was brought into focus and I could actually see the room properly; it was pretty simple room and there wasn't much to it - the only thing that ruined the look of the room was the fact Nathan's clothes were still all over the floor, even though I was certain he should have packed by now and be ready to leave tomorrow morning.

"Ah. Sleeping Beauty finally awakes." I heard Nathan laugh at me as he walked into the bedroom and sat back down on the bed beside me.

"Sorry. I didn't really get much sleep last night, guess I was thinking too much about James and what I was going to do about Aimee." I chuckled, turning around and being met with those green eyes and a sweet smile.

"Don't worry about it, you need sleep as much as everyone else. Also, we've got a seat in the hotel restaurant because the others have all gone out for dinner." Nathan continued to smile at me.

"What about-"

"Don't worry about Aimee, Jay and Max are looking after her because she didn't want to wake you up. She didn't want you to be sad anymore." Nathan replied.

"What?" I asked, not sure how to take what Nathan had just told me because I didn't even realise that Aimee knew how I was feeling; but then she was a pretty clever girl for her age and she had always been able to tell when there was something wrong with a person.

"She said that James made you sad and she didn't want to see you sad anymore." Nathan smiled, pulling me into a hug because he could tell that I was slightly upset by this revelation.

"I'm not sad, I've got you. Haven't I?" I questioned, looking up from his chest and into his eyes.

"I thought you didn't want me because of what the others might think?" Nathan smirked.

"I guess I was lying then. I don't care what the others think, I just need someone. I need you Nathan." I smiled as I brought my lips up to his and was met with his, as well the smile he had the last time we kissed each other before I fell asleep in the warmth of his arms.

I know what happened between the two of us last time we were together and it didn't end on amazing terms, but I had fallen for Nathan all over again and I had fallen extremely hard.

I wanted to feel like this all the time and I missed feeling like this, ever since I walked out on Nathan I wanted to feel his touch all over again and wanted to kiss his lips, just feel all the emotions that he made me feel whenever I was with him and I wanted nothing more than to fall asleep in his arms, as I did last night because it just made me feel loved and safe.

I had missed every single feeling he made me feel.

"Then I guess you've got me, and you're always going to have Aimee as well." Nathan smiled as soon as he had pulled away from me, leaving goose bumps where he had previously run his hands over me.

"I love you Nathan." I grinned, realising that this is what it actually was.

This is what Nathan made me feel and it was so much better than everything James ever made me feel.

He told me that he loved me, and that he never wanted to lose me, but he never proved it and never did anything to show me just how much he loved me.

Nathan, on the other hand, would always do little things to show me how much he loved me. He would do everything he could to make me feel special, and it just made me feel even more like an idiot when I think about the single reason why I left that all behind.

"I love you too babe. Now, lets go and get you some dinner." Nathan smiled, taking hold of my hand and walking out of the room with me.

*

"Did you enjoy your meal Mr.Sykes?" the waitress asked him, fluttering her eyelashes in some lame attempt to flirt with him; but he wasn't stupid and he wasn't having any of it.

"Yes. It was delicious thank you." Nathan half-smiled before he looked back at me and grabbed hold of my hand.

"And, you, did you enjoy your meal?" she asked, looking me and down like I was a piece of dirt.

"Yeah. Great thanks. Now, if you're done standing around like a lost puppy, then how about you bugger off back to your job?" I stated, as I looked up to see Nathan stifling a laugh.

"There's no need to be rude. I was simply asking a question." she snapped at me.

"Well, stop looking at me like I'm a piece of crap and then I won't have to speak to you like that." I spat back at her, because I wasn't that girl who was afraid to stand up for myself anymore; I was tired of being treated like crap by people who didn't even know me and I wasn't going to stand for it anymore.

"You're just not who I'm used to seeing sitting with Mr.Sykes. I'm used to seeing a much prettier girl sitting in that spot." she smirked over at me and that was the last straw, that's all I needed to snap properly at her and give the restaurant the show they were so desperately waiting for.

"Do you want to know something? Yeah? Well, let me tell you something. Let me tell ALL of you something. Before that cheating slut was Nathan's girlfriend, I was his girlfriend and I loved him more than anything; he was everything and he made me the person I am now because of that love. I don't care if you think I'm ugly, or if you think I'm not good enough to be with Nathan, or what you actually think of me. I am so tired of people walking all over me and thinking they have the right to judge me, when they don't know the first thing about me. I walked out of Nathan's life before and it was the biggest mistake of my life, but then you all probably know that I walked out on him because you all read papers and magazines. Right? So, let me tell you something you don't know and you'll find out about anyway....the reason I walked out on him. The reason that so many of you have speculated over. Many of you accusing me of cheating on him, while others of you thought I'd killed myself because you hadn't heard from me. No. The real reason I ran away was because I was pregnant with his child. My daughter. Now you know the truth, and you can all say what you like about me and the choice I made. I really don't care anymore." I snapped, as a few stray tears rolled down my cheeks and I ran out of the restaurant; looking at a few people as I ran past them and I could feel their judgemental eye on me as I ran past them.

"El. El, will you please wait." I heard Nathan shouting after me as he caught up to me, slightly out of breath.

"What Nathan? How can you love someone like me? The person who broke your heart." I sobbed, some people now following out of the restaurant and looking at Nathan; in awe of what he was going to do and what he was going to say.

"I don't know why I love you, I just love you El and I'm not going to let you go again. I'm proud of you for standing up for yourself in there and I'm glad you're not going to let people walk all over you anymore. The truth was going to come out soon, and you were the one that decided when it was going to come out. So, let them say what they like. I love you El, and I love our daughter." Nathan spoke, raising his hand to my cheek as he spoke to me and a smile began to form on my lips as he moved closer to me; the space between the two of us becoming minimal and the people were now telling us to kiss.

"You know, if you shouted a little louder, then the paparazzi wouldn't have to question Nathan the next time they see him." I heard someone chuckle from beside us, and I turned to see Tom there with a massive grin on his face as he walked towards me with his arms wide open and ready to hug me.

"I've missed you Parker. It's been quiet without you." I grinned.

"There's a little girl here who wants to see her mummy." Jay smiled as he appeared behind Tom with Aimee in his arms.

"Hello mummy." she smiled at me, and I knew I was going to have to tell her the truth at some point about Nathan, especially now I had kind of told an entire restaurant the truth about Nathan being Aimee's father.

"Hello Princess." I smiled at her, taking Aimee from Jay's arms and allowing her to hug me.

"Excuse me, but I was just in the middle of something before you interrupted Parker." Nathan smirked as he moved back over towards me, gripping hold of my waist and pulling me towards his lips and they met his with a satisfying feeling about it.