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I wake up the next morning to Sophie shaking my shoulder, jumping up and down.

"Wake up mummy! I want to go see Stormy, Jesse, Levi, Ashy, Ryder, Trystan, Colton and Bwody!"

"Sweetie, I doubt that they'll be up, it's..." I turn over and look at the clock, "five." I tell her rubbing my eyes.

"Please could we just go down and check."

"No, Sweetie, go back to sleep and we'll go and check in an hour. OK?" I tell her. Her smile dims but she nods. I close my eyes and can feel Sophie come close to my face.

"What is it, Sweetie?" I ask not opening my eyes.

"Has it been an hour yet? Can we check now?" She asks. I laugh and roll onto her tickling her.

"You're a little monkey aren't you?" I say continuing to tickle her. Her laughter stops her from speaking. I pause and look down at her smiling, it's been a while since she has smiled like that, so care free.

"Mummy?" She says still giggling.

"Go back to sleep, and I'll set an alarm so we know it's been an hour, OK?" I ask getting out of the bed and blearily trying to find my phone.

"OK." She says rolling over and closing her eyes. I pick my phone up and see I have a message from my mum.

Where are you?? I'm worried sick. I doubt it's the worry making her sick. I sigh and type out a quick response.

Sophie and I are fine, we're at a friend's house. I set an alarm for an hour and then put my phone down on the bedside table before getting into bed.

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When the alarm goes off, I quickly silence it so as not to wake anyone who is still asleep. I turn over to see if Sophie has heard the alarm and am met with an empty bed. I start to panic, before realising she can't have got that far. I throw back the covers and quietly walk to the door. I open it and look out into the hall, no one is about, and it is silent.

I walk towards the stairs and go to go down when I hear someone coming up the stairs towards me.  I look up and see Colton in swimming trunks. His hair damp and dripping down his body. My eyes stray to his defined chest before quickly looking up to his face.

"Like the view?" He asks. I blush and look down. That's the second time I've been caught by one of them.

"What are you doing up so early?" I ask trying to change the subject, knowing as soon as I said it that it was stupid. He raises his eyebrow and smiles, but doesn't say anything.

"I always swim early in the morning whenever we stay here, I love the pool in this building. Why are you up this early?" He says.

"Sophie left the bed, I was just looking for her." I explain.

"She's sat downstairs with Brody, Jesse and Ash." he tells me. I sigh.

"Well, I'd better go and see her, see you in a minute?" I ask walking around him.

"Yeah, I'll just get ready for school and be down in a minute," he looks me up and down.

"Is that what your wearing? I like it on you." He says with a wink. I look down and see I'm still in the shirt I wore to bed. I blush and look back up. He smirks and walks off. I turn around and rush the rest of the way down the stairs.

"Sophie Amelia Raye." I say sternly as soon as I see them sat on the sofa, putting my hands on my hips. She looks up guiltily.

"Damn, she used her mom voice."

"Was it me or was that hot?"

"I hope you didn't wake them." I tell her.  She shakes her head frantically from side to side.

"She didn't, we were already awake." Jesse tells me. I look to Sophie who is now nodding her head frantically. I sigh and walk around the sofa and walk towards Sophie.

"Please don't hurt me." She whimpers moving closer to Brody. I freeze my face falling. I would never hurt her, I hate that she feels if she did something wrong she will get hurt just because of the past bastards that hurt her. I fall to my knees and look up at her.

"Sweetie, I will never hurt you, please understand that." I say around tears. She looks down and me and launches herself at me. I catch her and pull her closer.

"I'm sorry mummy." She says now crying.

"It's OK. You did nothing wrong." I say wiping away her tears. She gives me a small smile.

"I'll go and get you breakfast." I say wiping the tears that were still on my face. I stand up putting Sophie on my hip. Ashton smiles at Sophie.

"Why don't you come and sit with me and we can watch some TV while your mom and Brody make some breakfast for us all." He says patting the seat next to him. Sophie struggles in my arms, trying to get down. I put her down and she runs off and jumps up onto Ashton's lap. He smiles and hugs her closer, picking up the remote. A kid's cartoon starts to play and Brody walks up to me giving me a smile.

"How are you this morning?" He asks picking my hand up and pulling my after him into the kitchen.

"Good, I think that's the best I've slept in a long time. You?" I reply.

"I'm good, waking up to knowing two beautiful girls were here helped." He says winking. I walk over to the fridge and look in.

"We could make omelettes and I could make scramble eggs for Sophie." I say looking back at Brody, who is looking at me closely. When he sees I'm looking at him he smiles and nods. I get the big carton of eggs out. Brody has put the pans on the stove and got the butter and assorted vegetables out. I start to cut up the vegetables along with Brody.

"Ready for school?" he asks.

"No, not really, I wish drama didn't follow me everywhere." I admit. He puts down his knife and turns to me. I copy his actions.

"Stick with one of us. Ignore Tanner, he's a," he looks into the living room before continuing, "bastard." He says quieter than before. I smile and walk forwards giving him a hug. He pulls me closer and rests his head on top of mine.

"Thanks." I say into his chest.

"Your welcome." He replies.

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We finish cooking and go out into the living room to find the rest of the boys are now awake and hungry. Sophie is still sat on Ashton's lap staring mesmerised at the screen.

"OK. Time to turn the TV off." I tell them. Sophie's not the only one that I get complaints from. It looks like Colton and Trystan like the show that's on as well - even if it is a kids programme.

"I guess you don't want any breakfast then." I say walking back into the kitchen with Sophie's plate. She looks from the TV then to the plate in my hands and then to Ashton.

"I do! I do! Can you turn it off Ashy?" She says.

"What do you say?" I ask her, looking to Ashton telling him to wait.

"Please." She says. I nod to Ashton who switches it off. I go and sit down on the sofa next to Levi with Sophie's plate of food. Sophie hugs Ashton and then hops down and comes running over to me. My heart melts watching her with the guys. She hops up onto the sofa next to me and looks expectantly up at me.  I hand over the plate along with a fork.

"Thank you mummy!"

"Your welcome sweetie." I say smoothing her hair down. Brody walks into the living room balancing four plates on his arms. I get up to go and help him, but he waves me off telling me to go and get some more from the kitchen.

Once everyone is situated with a plate we all sit and eat in silence. Ryder speaks up looking towards me.
"Once we have finished breakfast we should all get ready to leave for school. Bambi, do you need to go and collect some clothes for you and Sophie?" He asks. I nod as I have my mouth full.

"Yeah, my mum and boyfriend aren't likely to be there, so I think we should be fine." I tell them once I've swallowed the food in my mouth.

"Well if they are there don't bother going to get the clothes, we will just buy some for today."

"I'll be fine, I have yesterday clothes and I'm sure Sophie will be fine in the clothes she has now." I say knowing the money we do have could be used on better things and not wanting them to pay. They don't argue, but I can tell I haven't won.

Sophie taps me on the arm and I look down at her smiling at the sight of her with egg all over her face.

"Finished sweetie?" She nods. I take her plate and my now empty one and go into the kitchen. I grab a bit of kitchen roll and wet it and go back into the living room. I wipe Sophie's mouth and hands bopping her on the end of her nose.

"You're a messy little thing, aren't you?" She giggles.

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Once everyone has finished breakfast I take Sophie upstairs and get ready to leave. I check my phone for any new messages and see my mum hasn't replied. No surprise there. I gather everything we have here and go downstairs to tell the boys I was going. We had agreed that they would come and pick me up to take Sophie to day care and me to school.

"OK sweetie, time to say goodbye, we'll see them later." I say taking her hand. She looks up at me.

"I don't want to go." She whines.

"We'll come back." I say trying to stop a tantrum.

"No!" She shouts at me. Here we go. It doesn't happen often but when it does it can go on for a while.

"Sophie, we are going, so say goodbye to them and tell them we'll see them later." She glares at me and crossed her arms stubbornly. I look to the boys apologising.

"Sophie." I say more sternly. She looks at me and then screams No. I rub my hands over my face.

"Sorry guys, we'll see you later." I tell them. They just nod to me and smile reassuringly.

"OK, Sophie it's time to go." I say reaching for her hand. She steps back away from me and turns around running off towards the stairs. I run after he lifting her up into the air. She screams at me wriggling around tears pouring from her eyes. I feel so bad when she's like this because I can't do anything. Ashton walks forward,

"Would you like a lift?" He asks looking at Sophie with concern on his face.

"Thanks but no thanks." I reply.

"At least let one of us come with you to help with her." Levi says.

"I'll be OK, she'll calm down soon." I tell them.

"Well call us if she doesn't and you would like help. We'll give you our numbers." I pass over my phone and they all add their contacts.

"See you soon then." I say taking back my phone from Storm. I smile and walk to the lift.

When we get to the ground floor Sophie is still screaming and crying. I sigh and continue through, ignoring all the looks of disgust I am getting. Once we get outside I look down at Sophie whose face is now red and blotchy because of the tears.

"If I put you down will you behave?" I ask her. She doesn't respond so I decide to trust her and put her down on the floor. As soon as her feet touch the floor she is off running back to the apartment complex. I sigh and run after her. I should have known better. I catch her and she starts screaming again wriggling around in my hold kicking her legs.

"That child needs a good smack." A woman says walking past. Sophie hears and her mood suddenly switches making her cower into me. I'm both thankful at the woman for getting her out of her funk and mostly angry at her for saying such a thing. Sophie is sobbing into my shoulder telling me how sorry she is.

"I'm not going to let anyone hurt you." I tell her, walking back towards our apartment.

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When we arrive at the apartment I open the door slowly listening to the apartment. When I hear no one inside I enter and put a now much calmer Sophie down. I help her get ready for the day before turning the TV on for her while I get ready.

By the time we are ready and outside waiting, the boys pull in. Sophie goes running up to them when she sees them and hugs each of them. Ashton looks towards me and I nod my head saying everything is OK now. We all get into the cars and I go over to my car and get Sophie's car seat out and put it into one of the cars. I store it in the boot of my car when I'm at school, so no questions are asked. I tell Storm where to go and we set off.

We pull up at the day care after a short drive. I tell the guys that I'll be back in a couple of minute and could they look after Sophie.

I enter the day care and go in search of the person in charge. I find the person in charge, Miss Fields, talking to another parent. I wait until they finish then get Miss Fields attention.

"Miss Raye, what can I do for you?" She asks plastering a fake smile on her face. Miss Fields is a young woman in her late twenties, her blonde hair is always up in a ponytail, her green eyes are hidden behind a pair of glasses and like everyone else she judges me for having a child so young.

"I wanted to talk to you about Sophie, she came home yesterday and told me that she was getting bullied, because she didn't have a dad."

"And what do you want me to do about it?" She replies.

"Just..." I say starting off angry and then starting again more calmer. "Just talk to the other mums and ask them to talk to their kids and then keep an eye of Sophie." I say before storming out of the day care. When I get back to where the boys are stood I look for Sophie. Brody is holding her upside down in his arms tickling her and blowing raspberries on her legs. Her face is lit up, giggling.

"Jesus, be careful." Storm shouts.

"Where!? Where's Jesus?" Brody shouts looking around. Storm rolls his eyes and glares at him.

"I am, look." Brody says letting go of her legs. I go to rush forwards but Brody catches her straight away. Sophie is now giggling harder along with Brody. I put a hand on my frantically beating heart.

"Are you crazy!?" Storm shouts. I walk towards Brody talking to Sophie.

"OK monkey, say goodbye to everyone." She crosses her arms. Please not again. Brody turns her the right way up and whispers something in her ear. Her face lights up again and pulls her head back looking at Brody's face.

"I promise." He says. She smiles and wraps her arms around his neck giving him a loud kiss on the cheek. Brody puts her down and she runs off to the next boy. She repeats the actions she did with Brody with every boy and then runs up to me. I just look on in astonishment.

"H-how?" I ask turning to Brody.

"I'll tell you later." He says. I smile and pick Sophie up walking back into the day care. More kids have arrived since I was last in there and Sophie shrinks into me when she sees them. I go to put Sophie down but she tightens her grip around my neck. I sigh and lift her back up. A worker at the day care walks up to us. She wears a kind smile, her brown eyes glinting with kindness.

"Sophie, would you like first pick of the toys today? You can't do that if you hold onto your mom." She says extending her hand. Sophie turns her head and nods her head but then looks at the other children and stuffs her head back into my neck.

"Milly." The kind woman calls over her shoulder. A small girl with blonde hair and blue eyes come running up to where we are stood smiling.

"Yes?" She asks.

"This is Sophie. Sophie this is Milly, she's new here and needs a friend..." She says with a smile at me.

"Hi Sophie." Milly says looking up at Sophie in my arms. I go to put her down and she stands near my legs. Milly extends her hand towards Sophie and she accepts it.

"Bye mummy."

"Bye sweetie, love you." She runs off with Milly.

"Thank you." I whisper to the woman.

"It's OK." She says tucking a piece of her burgundy red hair behind her ear. I rush out of the day care and to where the boys are stood patiently.

"Everything OK?" Levi asks as soon as he sees me.

"Yeah, had a problem getting her to leave me but I think she's found a friend." I say walking towards the cars with them.

"How long did it take for her to calm down after you left us?" Jesse asks.

"She tried to come running back to the apartment, I caught her and then a woman said she needed a good smacking, and that made her calm down instantly."

"I'm not fucking surprised!" Trystan exclaims.

We get to the school with five minutes to spare. I walk towards the entrance. I haven't even got through the door before Sam and Jinx pounce on me.

"Sam told me you have a daughter. That is so cool!" She says jumping up and down.

"Shh." I shush her. "He didn't tell you anything else?" I ask turning to Sam.

"No. Should he?" She says looking at Sam confused. He shakes his head and we all walk into the school. I go towards my locker and get pulled back. I turn around and come face to face with Tanner.

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