Two weeks had passed and Rachel was waiting at the train station to pick Amy up, she couldn't wait to have her daughter home for the weekend!

Amongst all the people coming through the barriers Rachel suddenly spotted Amy.

It took Amy a few more moments to see her Mum but eventually she did so she came rushing over and wrapped her arms around her Mum.

"It feels like so long since I've been here" Amy said

"It has been six weeks now"

"I know, the times gone so quickly. How come you came alone?"

"Well I had to go to Tesco before I got you so as you can imagine no-one wanting to join me there. Everyone is so excited to see you though"

"I can't wait to see them either" Amy said truthfully, she had been looking forward to coming home for quite some time now

They quickly went back to the car and drove home again.

As soon as the others heard Rachel and Amy come in they all rushed to the front door.

Ruby was the first one to get a cuddle off of Amy, she missed having her cousin around the house.

"Happy Birthday Chlo" Amy said as she gave her sister a hug

"Thanks Amy"

Once she'd said hello to everyone Amy quickly took her stuff up to her room. It felt so nice to be back in her room, and she really was looking forward to having her double bed back for the weekend.

Amy went back downstairs where Rachel had a cup of coffee waiting for her.

"What time are we going out tonight Mum?" Amy asked as they were going out for dinner for Chloe's Birthday tonight

"Tables booked for seven, so aim to leave here by half past six"

"I'd better start getting ready soon then, how come you decided to not have your party in the end Chlo?"

When Amy turned 16 Rachel let her have a party for it, so of course Chloe had insisted Rachel let her have one too. But for some reason last week Chloe had decided to cancel her party which both Amy and Rachel had been shocked about.

"I just don't want one, It's my Birthday so surely I should be able to do what I want. Why does everyone have to keep going on about it?" Chloe shouted before storming off

"Is she okay?" Amy asked once Chloe had left the kitchen

"I'm not sure to be honest with you my love, she hasn't been herself for the last few weeks"

"It's weird, she didn't stop talking about it for the whole of the summer how you had to let her have a party for her Birthday because you let me have one for my 16th"

"I know it doesn't make sense to me either I keep trying to ask her why but every time I do she gets all snappy like she did just then"

Amy and Rachel were still sat chatting when Chris got in from work, he came straight into the kitchen to see his daughter.

"Hiya Dad" Amy said before going over to him and giving him a big hug

"How are you Aims?"

"I'm good thanks"

Amy stayed chatting with her parents for another ten minutes before going up to start getting ready.

"I suppose I'd better start getting ready too"

Rachel and Chris both went up to their bedroom. Rachel got straight into the shower and then Chris went in after her.

Chris got ready a lot quicker than Rachel did so was going to go downstairs to make himself a cup of tea.

"Can you check Ellie and Chloe are getting ready on your way down please?"

"Yeah sure"

Chris checked on Chloe who was sat doing her hair before going to Ellie's bedroom.

Ellie's door wasn't completely shut so Chris just pushed it open and stuck his head around the door however he was shocked when he saw Ellie stood there in just her underwear.

"Dad, get you" Ellie shouted

It was hard to tell who was more embarrassed out of the pair of them.

Rachel had remembered she'd ironed the dress earlier that Ellie wanted to wear but hadn't given it to her so decided to go and give it to her now.

She was walking down the landing when she saw Chris looking red and flustered.

"What's up with you?"

"I accidentally walked in on Ellie when she was getting changed"

"Well did you not knock?"

"I didn't even think about it"

Rachel laughed before walking over to Ellie's bedroom and knocking on the door.

"Ellie's it's Mum, can I come in?"

"Yeah"

Rachel opened the door and saw Ellie with her dressing gown on putting on a bit of makeup.

"There's your dress love" Rachel said placing it down on Ellie's bed

"Thanks Mum and can you tell Dad to make sure he knocks before he just walks into my bedroom in the future"

"Don't worry I'm sure he will next time, he told me what happened" Rachel said laughing

"It's not funny, it was really embarrassing"

"Don't worry about it now, I'm sure Dad will learn from it"

Rachel left Ellie to finish getting ready before going to see Ruby. She was expecting her to still be in her room however she wasn't.

Rachel was about to go and look for her when Ruby came in.

"Where've you been?"

"In Amy's bedroom, she was doing my hair for me"

"It looks very pretty, I was just coming to do your hair for you but obviously there's no need. Go to the bathroom and give your face a wash love"

"And then can I put my dress on?"

"No that can wait until just before we leave" Rachel said knowing Ruby was likely to manage to get it dirty somehow

Ruby went and washed her face before going into Rachel's room with her while she finished to get ready. She always did love watching Rachel doing her hair and makeup in her pretty bedroom.

Amy walked in wearing a lovely dress.

"That's a nice dress love, I haven't seen it before"

"Well I didn't spend that much money last week so I treated myself, can you do the zip up for me please?"

"Yeah turn around"

Rachel did the red, lace dress up that Amy had on.

"What are you going to wear Mum?"

"I was planning on wearing black trousers and a top but maybe I should dress up a bit more"

"Yeah you definitely should"

Amy went over to her Mum's wardrobe and picked out a black dress for her to wear.

"You should wear this"

"I don't know about that love, I'm probably a bit too old to wear that now"

"Just try it on"

Rachel ended up trying it on knowing Amy wouldn't give up until she dd.

"You look amazing Mum" Amy said once she had the dress on

"I don't know, isn't a bit short"

"Mum it comes just above your knee, that's hardly short"

"What do you think Ruby?"

"You look really pretty so I think you should wear it"

Rachel wasn't entirely sure but decided to keep it on.

Once Rachel had finished getting ready it was nearly time to go so she went into Ruby's bedroom with her to help her get changed into her dress.

Once Ruby was ready too Rachel went to check on Chloe.

"Wow, you look gorgeous darling" Rachel said taking in the appearance of her daughter who was also wearing a black dress, but it was certainly a lot shorter and tighter than Rachel's

"Thanks Mum"

"Are you ready to go?"

"Yeah" Amy said before picking up her bag and going downstairs with Rachel

"Amy, Ellie, Phil time to go"

The two girls both came out from the kitchen..

"I just need to put my lipstick on and then I'm ready" Amy said

They were soon all ready so they got into the car and drove to the restaurant.

Chloe had chosen one of her favourite Italian restaurants to go to and was really looking forward to just spending her Birthday with her family and then going into Manchester tomorrow with her boyfriend.

Of course Rachel was more than happy about just going for a meal rather than letting Chloe have a party so that she didn't have to worry about the house being trashed or have to clear up the next day.

She couldn't help but worry there was something going on that Chloe wasn't telling her about though as to why she didn't want the party.

They went into the restaurant and were shown to their table.

Rachel and Amy both had a glass of white wine, but Chris didn't because he was driving.

"Can I have one Mum?"

"I suppose so, but only because it's your Birthday"

"Auntie Rachel please can I do some drawing?"

"Choose what you want to eat first, what do you fancy?"

"What is there?"

"Have a look at the menu" Rachel said opening it up for her

"I want spaghetti bolognase please"

Rachel knew this would probably end badly but she didn't want to stop her having what she wanted.

The service was quite slow but it didn't bother anyone because they weren't in a rush and it was nice to just sit and chat.

"Have you had any presents from any of your friend Chlo?"

"No I don't know if we're doing presents or not this year, we may just do cards"

Rachel thought this was odd, Chloe had a few really close friends so Rachel couldn't understand why they wouldn't get her a present when they always had in the past.

The waitress soon came and gave them all of their food.

"Auntie Rachel" Ruby said facing her Auntie

"Yes love"

"I need a wee" she said quietly

"Typical you, waiting until our food comes to tell me"

"Well I didn't know I needed to go before"

"Come on then let's go quickly before our food goes cold"

"Do you want me to take her Mum?" Amy offered

"No it's alright love, I'll go"

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah you tuck into pasta, it looks delicious"

Rachel took Ruby to the toilets and thought she may as well go whilst she was there too.

After she'd been she came out and washed her hands.

Ruby had been in there quite a while so Rachel was beginning to wonder what she was doing.

"Are you alright Ruby?"

"Yeah"

"What are you doing?"

"Trying to pull my tights up but there all twisted"

"Do you want me to help you?"

"Yes please"

Ruby opened the door and let Rachel in. She couldn't understand how Ruby had managed to get her tights so twisted but she helped her to pull them up and then they came out.

Once Ruby had washed her hands the two of them returned to the table.

After they'd eaten and had their plates cleared away they ordered desserts.

They went to a real effort with Chloe's, and put a candle in her chocolate torte and wrote 'Happy 16th Birthday' on the plate.

When they brought it over the staff started to sing Happy Birthday and everyone in the restaurant joined in too, much to the embarrassment of Chloe.

"That was so embarrassing" Chloe said once they'd gone

"Very nice of them though"

"Yeah it was, how did they know it was my Birthday?"

"I think I mentioned it to them when I booked the table"

By the time they'd finished eating everyone was absolutely stuffed.

Ruby was starting to get grumpy because she was so tired so they decided to make a move.

They said thank you and paid the bill before walking back to the car.

Ruby fell asleep on the journey home so Chris carried her up to her bedroom when they got in and Rachel followed him up.

"Do you want me to put her pyjamas on?" Chris offered

"No it's alright, I'll do it"

Rachel slipped Ruby into her pyjamas as carefully as she could and then put her on the toilet so she could have a wee before bed. Luckily Ruby barely woke up so Rachel tucked her in before going downstairs with everyone else.

"You must be tired too Ellie"

"I am a bit"

For Ellie to admit she was actually tired would mean that she was extremely tired, because normally she'd try to stay up as late as Chloe and Amy.

"Why don't you go up to bed love?"

"I think I will, night everyone"

"I'll be up to say goodnight in a bit"

Rachel left her for a few minutes to get ready for bed before going up to tuck her in. She came down about ten minutes later.

"What time are you leaving tomorrow Chloe?" Rachel asked

"I think we're catching the train at about ten"

"Where are you going tomorrow?"

"I'm going into Manchester with Tom"

"So I come home for the weekend and you don't even want to spend the day with me" Amy said but she was only joking, she didn't really mind

"Sorry but Tom wanted to take me out for the day for my Birthday"

"He sounds really nice"

"He is"

"Is it just the two of you going?"

"Yeah"

"How come you didn't invite your friends to come too"

"I thought it would be nicer just the two of us" Chloe replied "they probably wouldn't want to come anyway"

"Why?"

"I don't know, they just probably wouldn't"

"Have you fallen out with your friends or something?" Rachel asked

"No, how many times do I have to tell you" Chloe said before getting up and leaving the room

Rachel ran her fingers through her hair, and decided to get out what was bothering Chloe once and for all.

"I'm going to go up and speak to her" Rachel said after a few minutes

Rachel knocked on Chloe's door but she didn't get a response.

"Chlo, it's me can I come in?"

"No, go away" Chloe said hastily trying to wipe away her tears

"Please darling, I want to talk to you" Rachel said but Chloe didn't say anything

"I'm going to come in anyway" Rachel said before opening the door and walking in

Rachel could tell straight away that she'd been crying despite Chloe's best attempts to get rid of her tears.

"Oh Chlo you shouldn't be crying, it's your Birthday" Rachel said gently

After closing Chloe's bedroom door Rachel went and sat on the bed next to her daughter.

"Now I know there's something going on, you haven't seemed like your normal self for weeks now. So come on tell me what this is all about"

"Mum it's nothing for you to worry about"

"If there's something upsetting my daughter, then of course it's something for me to worry about. I hate seeing you like this, please just tell me what it is going on so I can help you"

"I'm just being silly, honestly I'm fine"

"As your Mum somehow I can tell when you're fine and when you're not, and I can tell that right now you're not fine"

"I'm just fed up with my friends being so horrible about Tom"

"How are they being horrible?"

"Just saying that he's not very nice and that they think I should break up with him"

"Why do they say that?"

"Apparently I never spend time with them anymore and they just don't like him. I do spend time with them, but whenever I invite them to do something with me and Tom they say no so I gave up in the end and now they never invite me out with them either"

"How come you told me you didn't fall out with your friends?"

"We haven't exactly fallen out, we're just not really talking either"

"School must be horrible for you at the minute then"

"It is"

"And that's why you cancelled your party?"

"Yeah"

"Oh love that's such a shame you were really looking forward to having one"

"Oh well there will be other times to have one"

"It seems a shame not to celebrate your Birthday with your friends though"

"I can't force them to if they don't want to"

"Did you even ask?"

"No"

"Well I tell you what I think you should do then, invite them all round here tomorrow night after you've been to Manchester for the day"

"I was hoping to sleep at Tom's house tomorrow night" Chloe said waiting for her Mum's reaction

"There's no way I'm letting you do that"

"Why not?"

"Because your 16 and you've only been together for a couple of months"

"Please"

"The answer is no Chloe, were you really expecting me to say yes?"

"No, but it was worth a try"

"It was worth a try but there's no way I'm changing my mind on this one so how about you invite your friends round for a sleepover?"

"They probably have plans by now"

"You don't know unless you try"

Chloe thought about it for a minute and realised just how much she was missing her friends so decided to try and put things right and in the end she did invite them all round.

"So is this all that's been upsetting you, are you sure there's nothing else?"

"No there's nothing else"

"Have you had a good Birthday?"

"Yeah it's been really nice, it was kind of nice not to have a party actually"

"It was certainly nicer for me"

Rachel sat and talked with Chloe for a bit longer and she was starting to feel a lot happier. A couple of her friends had replied as well saying that they wanted to come so she was starting to look forward to it now.

"I'm going back downstairs now, are you coming with me or staying up here?"

"I think I'll just stay up here"

"Okay then love, I can't believe your 16 now it only feels like two minutes ago that you were 6, and now your growing up into a lovely girl"

"Don't go all soppy on me"

"Well I do love you though"

"Love you too Mum"

"See you in the morning"

"Yeah, night"

Rachel went back downstairs and sat with Chris, Amy and Phil for a bit longer but it wasn't long before they all went up to bed too.

Amy went up to her room and changed into her pyjamas and took her makeup off before climbing into bed.

It felt so nice to be in her own bed, in her own bedroom. She went to sleep feeling really happy.

Amy woke up the next morning and went down to the kitchen to find Rachel and Ruby making a pancake mix.

"Are we having pancakes for breakfast?"

"Of course, it's Saturday" Rachel replied

Amy had missed her Mum making pancakes for breakfast every Saturday.

Amy cut up some fruit and put it in bowls in the middle of the kitchen table along with sugar, golden syrup and lemon juice.

Once Ellie, Chloe and Phil had come down too Rachel started cooking them.

Chris had left early to go and see the Rugby with his mates. He hadn't even thought about it when Amy had said she was coming home this weekend, but the tickets had been booked for ages and Amy said she didn't mind him going still.

After they'd had pancakes Rachel quickly dropped Chloe to the station before coming back again.

"Who wants to help me make a Birthday cake for Chloe?" Rachel asked

"But it was her Birthday yesterday Auntie Rachel, why are we making her a cake today?"

"Because Chloe's having her friends over for a sleepover tonight so I thought we could make her one"

"I love making cakes, can we make a chocolate one?"

"I think Chloe would like that"

Rachel, Amy and Ruby all made a cake for Chloe whilst Ellie sat at the table and did some homework.

Once it was all done and they'd had lunch the four of them went out for a walk. Phil was out with Bolton and Paul.

They had a nice bit of fresh air and after going to the café for a drink Rachel had a text from Chloe saying she'd be home in about an hour.

Rachel took the three girls to Tesco and they helped her to pick up some bits for Chloe's sleepover tonight.

"Shall I go and pick up some face masks for them Mum?" Amy suggested

"Yeah that's a good idea"

Rachel got them pizzas and garlic break, along with chocolate and ice cream and some frozen cocktails.

By the time they'd finished shopping it was time to pick Chloe up from the station.

When Chloe saw her Mum's car come she got straight in.

"Where's Tom?"

"He's already left"

"I could've given him a lift"

"He doesn't live that far from here"

"I wanted to see what he looked like" Amy said sounding disappointed

"He's coming for lunch tomorrow so you can meet him then" Rachel said

They drove home and Chloe tidied up her room a bit ready for her friends coming and got changed before going downstairs.

It wasn't long before her friends came. Chloe apologised for not spending enough time with them lately and they managed to put it behind them ready to have a good night together.

It was just Rachel, Amy, Ellie and Ruby so Rachel cooked for them and then they ate in the lounge whilst Chloe ate in the kitchen with her friends.

After they'd eaten Rachel surprised Chloe with the cake they made earlier and then they all had a slice.

Chloe ended up having a really good night with her friends, and was really pleased Rachel made her invite them round.

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