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As he let me into the house, I felt my body start to shake. This could go two ways and I was beyond nervous. We went into the living and he sat down.
"You can sit down you know Lauren," he told me.
"I will in a minute, but I need to tell you something," I said, as a paced the floor.
"Just spit it out," he said.
"It's not as easy as that," I sighed.
"Whatever it is, it can't be that bad," he stated.
"You think, I have lied to everyone to keep this secret and I can't go on any longer," I told him.
"Will you just tell me," he said.
"Your a dad," I shouted.
He stood frozen to the spot and the only thing I could do was run out the house and burst into tears. I then heard his voice calling me down the street.
"Lauren wait," he shouted.
"What Joey?" I snapped, as I turned to face him.
"What do you mean I'm a dad?" He asked as he reached me.
"Peter ain't Louis dad," I said.
"I don't get it," Joey stated.
"That one night stand last year, got me pregnant," I told him.
"He's mine," Joey gasped, me nodding in response.
"I'm so sorry, I thought I got it all wrong, but when he was born I told Peter about our one night stand and we took a DNA test and it came back he wasn't the dad," I stated.
"Let's go back inside to talk," Joey said, walking back to the house, me following him.
Once back in the house Joey let rip.
"Why did you tell me when you found out?" Joey snapped.
"I was scared Joey, you woke up that morning and left me," I said, watching his face drop.
"I thought you would have regreted it,"Joey stated.
"Yeah well, it was a mistake, but it was the best mistake I ever made, it gave me Louis," I told him.
"I wanna see him," Joey said.
"You will, I would never stop you seeing him...where does this leave us Joey?" I asked scared of the answer.
He didn't answer me and I got scared. But the next thing I knew, joey's lips were on mine and we were kissing.
"You have made me the happiest man alive," joey said, as we pulled apart.
"Peter's coming back for Louis," I blurted out.
"Over my dead body, where is he?" Joey asked.
"With Whitney and Abi," I told him.
"Then go get our son," joey said, grabbing my hand.
"You what?" We heard from the doorway.
We turned to see Crystal standing in the doorway and I straight away that she had heard what Joey had just said.
"I'll give you two a minute, I'm going to go get changed," Joey said, before leaving the living room and going upstairs.
"How the hell is Joey Louis dad?" Crystal asked, sitting down next to me.
"Remember that one night stand I told you about?" I asked her.
"Yeah, the one you said you couldn't remember the name off," Crystal stated.
"Yep that one," I said.
"I knew you were lying, when you said you didn't remember his name, your fave gave it away," Crystal told me.
"I gathered that you didn't believe me, with all those questions you asked me...but Joey was the guy, I thought I got it wrong, that it was Peter's, but after the DNA," i sighed.
"Why didn't you tell us sooner?"Crystal snapped.
"Because I was scared, the morning after a woke up to find Joey had done a runner," I told her.
"He did what... JOEY!" Crystal shouted.
Seconds later Joey came running into the living room and he wasn't expecting Crystals hand to connect with his face. Neither was I saying that.
"What the fuck sis?" Joey asked, while holding his face.
"The whole time you were down about how you lost Lauren, when you shagged her and then left her, good way to show a girl you love her," Crystal snapped.
"I thought Lauren would have regreted it in the morning," Joey told her, but that wasn't going to cover it for Crystal
"You fucking fool, do you ever use that brain of yous," Crystal said.
"Not all the time sis, but I always fuck up," Joey sighed.
I had to but in before things started to get heated. But Crystal was on a rampage. I stood up but before I could even speak, Crystal was on at Joey again.
"She fucking loves you, she always has," Crystal told him.
"You think I don't know that,"Joey said.
"You don't have the smartest of brains bro, but look, don't you even dare hurt Lauren, because if you do I'll make you pay, and you know the damage I can do," Crystal stated.
"I won't sis, I promise you," Joey told her, making me smile.
"Good...now cuz, how's my nephew?...I like the sound of that, nephew," Crystal said, making me and Joey laugh.
"He's fine, I need to get back to him, we still on for Sunday?" I asked her.
"Of course, I'll be at yours earlier, and by earlier, I mean 9 o'clock," Crystal told me.
"Yeah if you up in time sis," Joey pointed out.
"Your going to wake me up dick, cause you are coming with me," Crystal said.
"Charming," Joey sighed.
"If you don't want to see me Joey, then I won't go on that date with you," I joked with him.
"No, no, I'm coming on Sunday," Joey quickly said.
"What date?" Crystal asked, standing right in between me and Joey.
"He's taking me out on a date on Friday," I told her.
"YES...me and you are talking later," Crystal said to Joey. "Right I need to get back to work, I only came back for some lunch."
Me and Crystal hugged before she left. It was now just me and Joey and my phone went off. I looked at the caller ID and saw it was Steven. What could he want?
"Hello," I said, as I answered the phone.
"Hey Lauren, Peter's plane has landed and he's heading to the square, said to me, he was coming to get Louis," Steven told me.
"No...where are you Steven?" I asked him.
"At my dad's, he has just left to pick up Peter, have you told him yet?" Steven then asked me.
"Yes, I'm with Joey right now," I said.
"Okay, you need to make sure Louis is with you Lauren, everyone else thinks he is Peter's," Steven stated.
"I know, I'm just heading back to the square now, I got to go. Thanks for telling me thought Steven," I said, before hanging up the phone.
Joey who had heard the whole conversation, was putting his jacket up and grabbing car keys. We then left the house and got into the car that was sitting outside Joey's. I hadn't noticed it when I came into the house.
"You know I love you right?"Joey asked, breaking the silence in the car.
"Well yeah, but Joe it's gonna take some time," I told him.
"I know that, but Lauren I really do, and I promise I'll be a better dad than Derek even was,"Joey said.
"I know you will, oh and Joey, I love you too," I said, a big smile on my face.
I turned my head to look at Joey and saw he also had a smile on his face. Things were good right now but we weren't back together yet. That would take sometime. But I was so glad I had finally told the truth. Now I had to tell everyone else that Louis was in fact Joey's. I could see that going down a treat. The rest of the car journey was good, me and Joey talked about Louis, as he asked questions about him. I could wait for Joey to hold him. Once back in the square we went to Uncle Jack's. As I knew Abi would have went there with Louis. I knocked on the door and Abi answered.
"Your back, I manage to get him to sleep but he should be up in a few minutes," Abi said letting me a Joey in. "Hello Joey."
"Hi Abs, how are you?" Joey asked her.
"Good, it's good to see you," Abi told him .
"You too,"Joey said.
"Is he in his cot?" I asked Abi.
"Yeah, in the living room, so you going to explain how Louis ain't Peter's," Abi stated.
"I walked into the kitchen and both of them followed me. I put the kettle on and started making us all a drink not speaking.
"Lauren," Abi sighed.
"Give me a minute Abs, your going to need a drink," I told her.
"Okay...who slapped you?"Abi asked Joey and I turned to look at his face to see the hand mark Crystal had left on his face.
"Oh Crystal, she got a bit mad at me," Joey stated.
"Right," Abi sighed.
We then all sat down and I put our drinks in front of us.
"Okay, so last year I had that one night," I said.
"Oh yeah, the one you can't remember the name of, but really you do remember," Abi stated.
"Well Joey was the one night stand," I told her.
"So why didn't you just tell me?" Abi asked.
"That would be my fault, the morning after I did a runner before Lauren woke up...I thought she would regret it," Joey said.
"You two really know how to make a mess of thing's," Abi stated.
"Yeah we do, but I thought I got the dates wrong, it wasn't till after me and Peter did a DNA test and it came back he wasn't he dad, I knew I was right," I said.
"I'm glad, I never really liked Peter," Abi told me, making me smile.
I was about to speak, but we heard Louis' cries coming room the living room. I quickly stood up and dashed to Louis. I picked him up and straight away, he stopped crying. I then turned to the doorway and found Joey standing there watching us with a smile on his face.
"He's so gorgeous," Joey said.
"Yeah he is, do you want to hold your son?" I asked.
"Yes," Joey told me, before walking over to me.
I handed Louis to him and Louis curled up into Joey's chest. I couldn't help the big smile that came onto my face. I knew by watching how Joey and Louis were with each other, that I had made the right choice in telling Joey the truth. The door broke my chain of thoughts and I heard Abi run to get it. I knew who it was. He wasn't stupid. I left Louis with Joey and went to door and saw him standing there, trying to get into the house. But Abi was having none of it.
"Peter," I sighed.
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