Lauren woke the next day curled around joey, she had missed him so much, and what happened last night made her realise that they needed each other more than she thought. She felt joey stir as she looked up at him and smiled
"morning beautiful" he smiled stretching awake
"good morning" lauren smiled back
"you have no idea how good this feeling is" joey said
"what do you mean?" lauren asked confused
"waking up next you, it's the most amazing feeling" joey laughed
"you going all soppy on me branning?" lauren laughed
"me soppy never, but if you tell anyone I will hurt you" joey laughed as he leant down to kiss her. They finally got out of bed and made their way downstairs.
"morning darling, you alright" Tanya smiled as lauren walked into the kitchen
"yeah im ok, are you?" lauren asked
"oh joey, I didn't realise you were here" Tanya said as joey walked into the kitchen
"yeah sorry mum it was late" lauren began
"its ok, im not angry" Tanya laughed
"good now whats for breakfast" joey laughed sitting down.
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Joey and tanya had left for work, and abi and Oscar had gone to school, lauren decided to go back to her dads today to get her things so she could move home properly. She had just finished getting washed and dressed and ready when she was heading out to her car, she saw alice walking over to her
"doing a runner?" alice asked
"actually no, im going to get my stuff from dads because im moving back with mum" lauren replied
"so you and joey are getting back together?" alice questioned
"we are back together" lauren corrected her
"what about what happened with emma last night?" alice said smiling sweetly
"nothings changed, joey wants me and I want him, now if you don't mind I have things to do" lauren said getting into her car.
Lauren left the square and headed back to her dad and kirsty's, as she pulled up she got out of the car and headed inside, she saw kirsty was home
"lauren your back" kirsty smiled as lauren walked in
"yeah ive come for my stuff, im moving back with mum" lauren said
"oh, is everything ok?" kirsty questioned
"yeah me and joey are back together so I wanna be near to him" lauren explained
"well im happy for you, but what about Jamie?" kirsty asked
"I need to get sorted" lauren said changing the subject and walking up to her room to pack her things.
After a few hours lauren had loaded up her car with all her belongings, she went back into the house to say goodbye to kirsty, she hugged her and then made her way outside to her car,
"lauren" she heard, but she didn't turn around at the voice, she got into her car and drove off.
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Joey was talking to a customer when he saw laurens car pull up outside her house, he looked straight over to her and smiled, the customer had finished looking at the cars and had left as joey made his way over to lauren
"let me help you with them babe" joey said taking a box from lauren
"thank you, get to see you flex your muscles" lauren laughed
Joey helped her unload her things from her car to the house, before having to go back to work again for a few hours. Lauren decided to go and see her mum and let her know she was all moved in.
"lauren hello" emma said looking embarrassed as lauren walked into the salon
"is my mum around?" lauren asked
"yeah she's just finishing off with a customer" emma explained
"ok I'll wait" lauren said, taking a seat to wait
"look about last night im sorry" emma said, lauren could see she was embarrassed
"you should be" lauren replied
"alice said to give it a go, that joey might be up for it, if id known it was you I never would have done anything" emma went on to explain
"look don't worry about it, alice has got a problem with me and joey but she'll come round, but she shouldn't have dragged you into it" lauren said giving emma a small smile
"hello darling you alright?" Tanya asked coming down the stairs to see her daughter
"yeah I just wanted to let you know im all moved in and unpacked," lauren explained
"oh darling I said I would help you" Tanya said
"its ok joey saw me and helped me" lauren smiled back at her mum
"ok well let me cook you all dinner tonight, to celebrate" Tanya smiled
"ok I'll let joey know" lauren said before heading home again.
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Alice knew she needed to sort things out with her brother, she knew he was happy with lauren, she just didn't want to see him hurt again, she was just doing the right thing to look out for him. She knew they needed to talk. She headed out of the house and walked the short walk to the car-lot where she knew joey would be
"can we talk" alice asked walking into the office seeing joey working
"if you've come to argue then no" joey replied not looking up from his paperwork
"its not to argue its to say sorry" alice said moving closer to her brother
"ok, go for it, although you should be saying sorry to lauren aswell" joey said
"I will don't worry, I just wanted to say sorry for not being supportive about you and lauren" alice said
"right, go on" joey said
"and I realise that your happy and that's because lauren makes you happy, and im sorry about emma coming onto you last night" alice sighed
"did you have something to do with that?" joey asked feeling angry
"I just wanted to see if lauren was serious" alice began to say
"do you know what alice I was beginning to forgive you, then you go and tell me that you actually tried to break us up" joey said getting angrier
"joey im sorry" alice whispered
"just leave me alone alice" joey sighed as he ran his hand through his hair.
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Lauren headed out of no.5 and walked towards the car-lot to see joey, she walked to the door to find it was locked, she got out her phone and rung him, but she got his voicemail. She then walked across the square to the vic where she found him sitting at table with a beer
"everything ok?" she asked as she sat down opposite him
"yeah its just alice" joey sighed
"whats happened this time?" lauren asked
"she came to say sorry, then told me she said to emma to kiss me to see if you were serious" joey explained
"yeah I no emma told me today" lauren said
"I just wish she would leave us alone" joey said drinking more of his beer
"she said sorry, just give her time and give yourself time, you'll see she's only looking out for you" lauren smiled taking joeys hand in hers.
"yeah your right, anyway what do you wanna do tonight?" joey asked matching laurens smile
"mums cooking us dinner, to celebrate" lauren replied
"and what are we celebrating?" joey laughed
"me moving home silly" lauren laughed playing along with jeoy.
They left the vic and made their way across to no.5, lauren let them in and called for Tanya to let them know they were home, they joined abi, jay and Oscar at the table and waited for cora and Tanya to bring the food in. they all chatted away happily eating there dinner, finally finishing lauren headed into the kitchen to get some drinks, joey offered to help her. They were just about to head back into the lounge when there was a knock at the door, lauren said she would get it, as she opened the door she was shocked to see who it was
"I think we need to talk" the person said.
hope your all still enjoying, thanks for all the reviews so far, theres lots more drama to come with this story xx