A few days had passed since the funeral of Sam and Danny Lomax and Leela, Tegan, Ste and Peri were slowly getting their life's back together piece by piece; it was hard and not a day went by where they didn't think about their parents.

Ste missed his Dad dearly and the loss of his Dad made him think about his recently deceased Mum as well.

Leela and Tegan missed both their Mum and Dad but Leela was the one finding it the hardest, after Tegan's breakdown she had finally picked herself up and she now focused all of her time on Rose because Rose had already lost a Dad, Grandma and Granddad at such an early age.

Leela found it tough dealing with work as well as the demands of a teenage daughter, although Cameron helped which she was grateful for, but spending so much of her time around Cameron was starting to get to her and she often found herself thinking of the past and how she and Cameron could have been.

It was a Friday afternoon and everyone was out so Leela was laid on the couch watching Jeremy Kyle as she started to doze on and off.

Suddenly to door opened and Peri came in with tears staining her face.

"Peri" Leela sat up in concern, watching her daughter who had mascara running down her cheeks "What happened?"

Peri went to sit down beside her Mum and cried as she went to tell her what happened.

"He..I, I can't believe he would do this, I thought he liked me" Peri said through tears.

"Tom" Leela concluded as Peri nodded her head as a fresh load of tears fell down her face.

"He was kissing another girl, why would he do that to me?" Leela watched as her daughter kept crying; she knew how much Peri liked Tom and Tom was a nice boy, or so she thought.

"He said that he pushed her away and that he didn't want to kiss her, but..." Peri sniffed as more tears fell from her eyes.

"But..." Leela said urging her to continue.

"She's so much prettier than me" Peri said.

"Peri, you are pretty" Leela told her daughter as she lifted her chin, making her look at her "You're gorgeous Peri, don't ever let anyone make you think you're not because you are, you're beautiful"

"I'm ugly" Peri said as her voice broke; she wanted to be pretty though she always considered herself ugly, but before Tom it never really bothered her.

"No you're not, you're beautiful, from the minute you were born you have been the prettiest girl"

"You have to say that" Peri said as she looked at her Mum.

"Yeah because it's true" Leela smiled reassuringly at her daughter, getting a weak smile in return.

"Have you tried speaking to him?" Leela asked her gently.

Peri shook her head "I just ran off"

"Maybe you should hear him out, he's a nice kid and he really loves you, you can tell"

"I don't want to talk to him"

Just then there was a banging on the door.

"Peri, let me in, please, she kissed me, I pushed her away, I'm sorry"

Leela and Peri listened to Tom beg outside the door.

"Peri please, I love you"

A massive grin spread across Peri's face as she got up and made her way to the door.

"I'll leave you to it" Leela said as she walked upstairs with one last look at her daughter.

Peri opened the door to see Tom stood there, he went to speak but Peri cut him off "I love you too and I know she kissed, when I saw you two I just freaked out, I'm sorry"

"It's okay" Tom smiled "You know I would never do anything to hurt you"

Peri learned in and kissed Tom before pulling him into the house.

"Best of 3?" she asked as she passed him a PS4 control and grinned.

Peri and Tom sat playing on her PS4, meanwhile upstairs Leela was in her room sitting at her make-up table, staring into the mirror.

Suddenly her phone went off breaking her from her thoughts so she looked at the photo of her parents she had on her desk before pulling her phone out of her pocket.

Seeing who the text was from made her feel sad; she already felt awful about what had happened and she just wanted to forget it, but he was always a constant reminder.

She read the message.

Last night was fun

We should do it again sometime ;)

C xx

She sighed heavily as she read the end; she felt guilty because of Ziggy, she couldn't believe she was so stupid, she had just buried her parents, why did she have to make things so complicated? She had Ziggy, she loved him...?

Just then there was a knock at her bedroom door and Peri walked in.

"Tom's just left, he's got some family thing" she said as she pulled a face "I was gonna go met Dad, is that okay?"

Leela sighed; she couldn't stop Peri from seeing him, over the last couple of days they had many arguments because of him, but Leela knew she couldn't keep her away from him no matter how much seeing him emotionally hurt her; she tried to avoid him most of the time but sometimes it just wasn't possible.

"Sure" she replied absentmindedly.

"Are you okay?" Peri asked.

"Hmm, yeah sure, just got a bit of a headache" she said.

Peri just pulled a face before walking out of the room and leaving Leela to her thoughts.

Typing out a reply Leela's finger hovered over send, finally sending it she put her phone in her pocket and walked downstairs.

She froze in her steps as she heard a familiar voice.

"Cameron" she thought not realising she said it out loud.

Cameron and Peri looked towards her as she stood frozen to the spot.

"Oh, hey" Leela said as she looked awkwardly at Cameron "I thought you were going out"

"Yeah me too but Dad brought us pizza" Peri smiled "Want some? It's your favourite"

"Nah I'm good" Leela replied as she made her way down the stairs and into the kitchen.

Leela was at the sink as Cameron came up behind her.

"I got your text" Cameron said quietly causing her to jump; she quickly turned around as she watched Cameron come closer to her, trapping her between him and the kitchen counter.

"Cameron" she hissed as she eyed Peri who was watching the television, oblivious to them in the kitchen talking quietly "I mean it, it meant nothing, you need to get that into your thick head"

She went to push past him but he stopped her.

"Cameron" she sighed as she leant forward, resting her forehead on his chest before quickly pulling away again "I'm with Ziggy" she sighed as she tried once again to move past him but he managed to stop her again "I love Ziggy..." she added as she looked Cameron in the eyes.

Cameron leant close to her causing her to shiver "That's not what you said last night" pulling away from her, he winked at her and grinned "You say you don't want me but you're body says otherwise"

"Mum" Peri said suddenly, turning from the television screen and looking towards them as Cameron quickly moved away from Leela creating some distance between them.

"Can Cameron move in with us?" Leela stood in shock, her mind screaming at her that he couldn't move it.

"Please, he is my Dad and it's not like there isn't room" she added with a hopeful smile.

Leela glanced at Cameron and anger ran though her "You put her up to this didn't you?" she whispered angrily.

"No" Leela blurted out.

"Why?" Peri asked from the couch.

"Because I said so"

"You know this isn't just your house" Peri yelled as she got up from the couch "Whatever, if he can't move in I might just go and live with him, he's well better than you. I hate living with you, you're so moody"

"Peri, it's alright" Cameron said as he jumped in.

"No it's not, you're my Dad and I want you to move in, we've got the room so I don't see the problem"

"The problem is I don't want him here..." Leela started but Peri cut her off.

"It's all about you isn't it? God I hate you"

"Peri, you don't mean that" Cameron said as he watched mother and daughter fight each other "Look, I like living in my flat, you can come over anytime, spent the night if it's okay with your Mum"

Peri just scoffed and went upstairs, giving her Mum a dirty look as she went.

"I'm very patient Leela, I know you want me as much as I want you, last night proved that" Cameron said before walking out of the house and leaving Leela alone.