it had been 12 months since Lauren had left Albert Square after her short but sweet return , as she sat in her Deansgate office she knew she had to go home, she thought of nothing more than number 5 where her family was and she thought in great detail of number 23 where the love of her life lived probably with the blonde fake bitch who ruined her perfect life.

Lauren was suddenly was thrown from her thoughts into her reality by her assistant Lindsey who had become her best friend in the past year

'Lauren...earth calling Mrs Lauren Stone'

'God sorry Linds'

'I've Got Jay on the phone he said Gracie's nanny rang, she needs you go and pick her up your sort of an hour late to pick her up'

'Fuck! Linds can you ring her tell 'er I'll be about 20 minutes, I got lost in this bloody design' Lauren lied as she grabbed her key ' Can you also sent this to Jake and get him to send it to client and also see if he approves of the location of the London office?

'Sure thing boss, now go and get your daughter'

'You are a lifesaver' Lauren yelled as she was running out the door.

She didn't live far from her office a 5 minute walk to her Beetham tower which she shared with her husband and business partner Jake and her daughter Gracie they had started their design company as soon they arrived in manchester from their one bedroom apartment in the Hacienda and it took of, Lauren of course was the head of design and Jake the business manager they now was in a position where expansion was needed and according to Jake that was to move to Lauren's home city of London , where all of her past lay and a place she wished never to return especially never take Gracie too she wanted to put a distance between the most precious possession and the vile place,Lauren winced at the pending nightmare that in five days was going to become reality she shook the feeling off as she entered her apartment into the most beautiful baby she had ever seen

Three hours later Lauren had fed, played and bathed Gracie and had her in the bouncer whilst Lauren cooked dinner for her husband

'Baby the client L-O-V-E-S your design they're putting it to print as we speak and printed us a nice little bonus. Well done baby' Jake announced as he walked in and dodged boxes making his way towards his wife with the attention of kissing her ' you ready for saturday babe, the location is perfect for Stone LTD did you sort out where we'll be living?'

'Yeah we've got a few viewing of flats in Kings Cross but until we make a decision we can stay at mine its going to empty so Dad said we could stay there for a while that ok?'

'Perfect babe!' Jake beamed, Lauren knew Jake would love the idea of going back to the square he always said he loved the idea of being so close to the city but feeling so far away ' Hear that Gracie we're moving to where Mummy's from can Gracie say Mama?'

Gracie just gurgled and giggled and Jake , relishing in the prospect he had just told her where as Lauren on the other hand felt sick to her stomach at the thought.