Lauren woke up the next morning feeling on top of the world, she had never felt so happy and complete. Joey and her daughter made her complete and she realised that last night. She couldn't wait to share with her family that her and joey were now engaged.
She heard sophia stir and climbed from the bed as not to wake joey, she got her daughter from her moses basket and headed downstairs, she saw her mum in the kitchen eating breakfast
"morning love your up ealy" Tanya said
"yeah I was awake before this little munchkin today" lauren said smiling proudly at her daughter
"lauren…" Tanya said staring at her daughter
"yeah?" lauren asked looking at her mums confused expression
"whats that on your finger?" Tanya asked
"I was gonna wait till joey was up, but he proposed to me last night" lauren beamed
"oh congratulations darling, im so happy for you" Tanya exclaimed moving from her seat to hug her daughter
"careful mum you'll squash sophia" lauren laughed
"I cant believe my baby is all grown up" Tanya said as tears filled her eye.
"oh mum don't cry" lauren laughed
"whats going on in here?" joey asked walking into the kitchen
"come here you" Tanya said moving from her seat again to hug joey
"I take it you know" joey laughed
"im so happy for you guys, we should celebrate" Tanya said
"yeah I like the sound of that" joey smiled
"me too" lauren smiled back and leaning to kiss joey
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Later that morning lauren and joey were upstairs in their bedroom, they were laying on the bed with sophia between them
"we need to get ready" lauren said
"in a bit im happy like this" joey smiled stroking laurens cheek
"we've got a lifetime to be happy now joey" lauren smiled
"I know I cant wait to make you officially mrs branning" joey told her
"oh god I sound like my mum" lauren laughed
"I love you lauren thank you for making me so happy" joey said leaning over to kiss her
"your welcome" lauren smiled back
"right I'll let you get ready whilst I sort this little princess out" joey said picking sophia up and she smiled at him for the first time
"oh my god did you see that?" lauren exclaimed
"yeah she smiled properly" joey smiled back holding his daughter closer to him
"I cant believe she just done that" lauren said as tears filled her eyes
"don't cry babe, there'll be many more exciting to come with this little one" joey smiled.
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"so come on why are we all here?" abi asked as she sat at the table in the vic, sitting with her was Tanya, jay and alice, and then joey and lauren
"we've got something to tell you" joey said
"your not pregnant again are you?" alice asked
"god no, give me time I only had her a week ago" lauren laughed
"actually we're engaged" joey said as lauren moved her hand to show her ring
"oh my god congratulations" alice and abi said in union
"thank you" replied lauren
"when did this happen?" abi asked
"last night in bed" lauren smiled
"do we wanna know the details?" jay laughed
"its nothing rude" lauren laughed slapping jay on the arm, she then went on to explain about how joey proposed
"how about some champagne?" Tanya asked, everyone smiled and nodded,
"can you add orange juice to mine mum" lauren asked
"of course darling" Tanya smiled back
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After celebrating with their family lauren and joey decided to go for a walk with sophia, they headed towards the park, lauren sat on a swing and joey held sophia on another
"amazing how things have changed in the space of a week hey" joey said
"I no, looking back I don't know why I was so scared about peoples reaction to sophia, people are accepting us more because of her" lauren replied
"exactly, makes us more stronger" joey smiled
"it sure does" lauren smiled back
"just goes to show we belong together" joey told her before moving to kiss her
"I love you joey" lauren proclaimed
"I love you too babe, more than youll ever realise" joey said
"now its just us 3" lauren smiled stroking her daughters hair
"our little family" joey smiled.
i hope you enjoyed this story, thank you all for the reviews :) ive left it open because i will do a sequeal to it, thanks for reading x