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3 months. I was sleeping for 3 months. Teenage me would've loved that. I finally had a chance to catch up on all the sleep I had missed.

But grown-up me, adult me, Mom me was angry at myself for not pushing through much quicker. But it is what it is. When I woke up again, I woke to a beautiful sight.

Carter and ivy. She laid on his chest, peacefully sleeping on the sofa with him. I sit up slightly with a little bit of aching pain. I watched as Carter's eyes slowly fluttered open. He saw me awake and gently lifted ivy up and brought her to me.

I hugged her tightly to my chest and placed a soft kiss on her forehead as she slept. Placing her in my lap Carter sat in the chair next to me and grabbed my hand.

A thoughtful look flashed his face looking down at Ivy in my lap and he smiled before looking back up at me.

"I just wanted to say that I'm sorry for everything-"

"You don't-"

"I know what you're about to say," he cut me off, "I don't have to keep apologising, blah, blah, blah. But I'm saying sorry because I feel like I have to. I've hurt you in more way than one and I don't even want to think about the pain that I've put you through."

He looks down at our hands. "I want to make up for all of my mistakes for the rest of my life with you, with our daughter." He says looking at ivy then back up at me.

"I wanted to ask you a really important question, you don't even have to give me an answer right this second, you can think about it for as long as you want." My heart freezes for a second.

He gets on to one knee and pulls out a velvet red box, opening it and there lays a beautiful ring. "Sophia Williams, will do me the honour of becoming my wife and being called Sophia Collins?"

I freeze and so does he when I don't answer him straight away. I nod my head constantly, tears fall out my eyes as I repeat "yes."

"WHOOP MY BROTHER IS GETTING MARRIED." In comes Eli popping a party popper as the rest of the Collins family enter.

I laugh through my tears and look at Carter as he places the ring on my finger, gripping his head and giving him a kiss.

Ivy lets out a big cry which makes us break away. The noise in the room halts for a second as we all realise we work her up. Picking her up I make her quiet as everyone else silently celebrate. Looking around the room I smile. Maybe living with the Collins wasn't that bad at all.

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"Hey." I turn my head to the door as my brother walks in. He stops for a second not knowing if he should enter. "Can I come in?"

"I don't know, can you?" I throw back at him.

"It's okay if you don't want to talk to me, I'd understand why." He says putting his hands in his pocket. "You've been through hell and back and I wasn't there for you when you needed me the most."

"You got that right." I said fiddling with my thumbs not daring to make any eye contact with him.

"Sophia." He walks into the room and pulls out a small stool near the side of the bed and sits on it. Grabbing my hand, he lets out a loud sigh. "I just wanted to apologise about everything that's happened. Literally, everything."

My eyes wonder around the room as I still don't make eye contact with him. "Your apology means nothing to me." As those words left my mouth he looked like he had been hit in the face with a brick.

"I know and I understand why." He shifted slightly. "I'm willing to do anything for you, I will keep saying sorry for the rest of my life if I have too. But I just want to promise you this. I will never, ever leave your side again. You're my sister, my blood. You're my family."

"I'll forgive you Jake, but that doesn't mean I'll ever forget."

"I don't want you to ever forget. Make me pay for whatever I did and said to you." I nod my head at him and he lets out a small smile before reaching up and giving me a small hug.

"There is one thing that I've been meaning to ask you for a while now."

"What is it?" He asks.

"Did you know about Dads affair?"

He looks down guilty and nods his head.

"With Cindy Mordent?"

He nods. "I caught them once. In a small cafe out of town. I was going to tell Mum straight away but Dad told me he was going to do it himself. I mean, I really don't think he ever did, he goes it was his secret to tell, not mine and I did respect that." He sighs. "But I guess I'll never really know if he told mum." He looks down in thought.

I nod and look at him. "Who would've thought this would be our life." I let out a small chuckle. "Look at us, we're growing up, we've got our own little families. Our own little life lines now running about."

"I never thought I would ever see you with a child." He laughs. I frown and punch him on his shoulder making him wince.

"I might be on strict bed rest but that doesn't mean I still won't beat your ass."

"I believe if you wanted to, you can kill me while staying in bed." He shudders at the thought and then looks down at my hand where a ring sat.

"He asked for my blessing." I look up at him confused for a second and then understood what he meant. "I told him that if he ever hurt you again I'd have him 6 feet underground alive."

"I think it would be the other way round." I let out a small laugh.

"Shut up." He grumbles under his breath. Me and jake sat here for over an hour talking about everything. The good things, the bad things and the sad things.

Having my brother back at my side again felt good. I couldn't asked for anything more in my life. The bad period in our life will pass, it most definitely passes and doesn't last long, your happiness can't stay away from you for so long and my happiness was here. With my family. With the collins.

5 years later

"Ivy, you're getting late for school, hurry up." I yell from the stairs. Down comes my grumpy 5 year old. She walks down the stairs, arms crossed and a frown on her face.

"Hello Princess."

"Daddy." She yells, a smile on her face as she runs to her dad. Carter has just returned from a business trip. 5 years ago when he proposed to me, we got married a year later. Then I got pregnant again after 5 months of our marriage and we had a little boy.

Carlos Collins. An exact replica of his father. Another trouble maker who was spoiled by his many uncles.

As ivy catches up with her dad, I continue on into the living room where Carlos is sat. Or was sat. Turning around I see him sat on Carters shoulders. Ivy attached to his side. He looks at me and gives me one of his many sexy smiles. "Hello gorgeous." He says as he puts the kids down who run into the kitchen.

Gripping me by my waist he pulls me closer to him and continues to lay a kiss on my lips. "I missed you." He mumbles into my neck. "Hmm, I guess I missed you too." I sigh.

"You guess?"

"Yes, I guess."

I was then tackled on to a sofa. "Say you missed me."

"Or else what?" I say as he pins my arms down.

"Or else I'll tickle you." He dares.

"You wouldn't." I say back, looking him straight in the eyes. His fingers then begin to tickle me as I burst out laughing.

"STOP." I yell.

"Say you missed me." He says tickling me.

"Why are you tickling Mommy?" Asks ivy.

"Because she said she didn't miss me." Carter relies paused for a second.

"No, that's a lie. I said I guess." I correct him. He shrugs his shoulders. "It's the same thing."

Ivy jumps on me and begins to tickle me, Carlos joins in as does carter.

"Say you missed daddy." Ivy yells, laughing.

"Okay okay, I missed daddy." I say with a mischievous look in my eyes. Carter bites his lip.

"What time do you start school?" Carter asks the kids.

"Half 8." I reply for them.

He gets up and grabs there bags. "Let's go," he says dragging them out the door. "But it's only 8:15." I yell as he walks out.

"The quicker they go, the quicker we can get down to business." He winks at me and walks out.

I sigh laughing and lay back down.

My life has been crazy. It's been literal hell. These past 5 years have been the best and I can only hope they'll get better.

Standing up, I walk to the downstairs bathroom and open the draw. Pulling out the blue stick, I see the two red lines.

Pregnant. It reads.

I guess Carter gonna be in for a surprise. Our third child together.

I honestly couldn't have asked for a better family, or a better loving husband. I love my life and I love my family. This all started from when I started living with the Collins.

•  THE END  •

AHHHHHHH ITS THE END OF LIVING WITH THE COLLINS, or is it ????

I don't know if there will be anymore to come to this book but right now I know this is where I want to end it. If there are any certain parts you want to see of carter and Sophia journey then personally message me and let me know. I am open to writing chapter for like Christmas, the wedding, the brothers weddings, jakes wedding, birthdays. Almost anything. A couple of extra random chapters never hurt anyone.

On another note, I was planning on making Sophia and Carter spilt at first but my heart wouldn't be able to take that. If you would like me to write a chapter where they both go there own ways then once again, personally message me and let's see what happens.

Now that this book is complete, there are other books to come and a few other books which I am going to finish editing and re post them again. If you enjoyed this book then you will most definitely love those.

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I do appreciate every single one of you reading this book and I hope this chapter has been worth the wait for you all.

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