"Morning Mum!" Grace bounded into Connie's bedroom and jumped on top of her mother.

"Morning darling, what time is it?"

"About 9am"

"Really, are you kidding, I've slept THAT long? Where's Jacob?"

"He's downstairs making breakfast, half dressed, I've never seen abs like that in real life before, only ever on TV, I'm impressed Mum"

Connie giggled. Wait a minute, had her 9 year old daughter just made a reference to how good her boyfriend looks?

"I suppose I better get dressed then, wouldn't want to upset him if no one turned up eh?"

Connie dressed quickly and headed downstairs with Grace. They entered the kitchen, sure enough, Jacob was making breakfast. Grace ran over and took her seat at the table. Connie walked over to Jacob, and rested her head on the back of his shoulder, she wrapped her arms around his torso and hugged him into her. Jacob acknowledged her with a kiss to the side of her head.

"Much as I love the attention boss, I can't cook breakfast with you restraining me like that"

Jacob momentarily stopped what he was doing, spun her round to face him, and the pair shared a passionate kiss.

"Ewwww! Mum will you two get a room"

They chose to ignore Graces' request for them to stop, only ceasing when it became apparent that Jacob was burning the breakfast. Connie took a seat next to her daughter at the table and the pair chatted away.

"Darling where are your keys? I'll drive today"

The trio were heading out to Bristol for a day of shopping, lunch and an opportunity for Grace to get to know Jacob. Connie sped Jacob's BMW up onto the motorway

"Wow, easy sweetcheeks" Jacob warned her that this was his second girlfriend and if anything should happen to her he wouldn't be held responsible for his actions.

"Dad and Jane never take me out for the day" Grace complained.

"Not that I'd want to go out with her anyway. She's horrible. She doesn't even like me, in fact, I'm not even convinced she likes Dad if I'm being truly honest"

"Well I can't say I blame her for that one" Connie muttered under her breath. Jacob giggled, prompting Grace to question what her mother had said. They continued to chat on the way there on the car. Connie was overwhelmed by how well Jacob and Grace were getting on and fell in love more with him when she saw how much time he had for her daughter. She parked the car at the Cabot Circus shopping centre and the three got out.

"Well Gracie" Jacob started "tell us where you want to go and we are there" Grace smiled. She wasn't sure Jacob would be so happy once her and her mother had dragged him round every clothing store three times. Jacob took Connie's hand and they walked around the shops, hand in hand, with Grace tagging along beside them.