Changing My Life

2 months later
Amy's POV
Since me and Emily have left the tour we have been having the same routine everyday. We wake up to Liam face timing us. Emily has been sleeping in me and Liam's bed with me and it helps not to feel too upset that he isn't here. After that we get ready and I drop her off at daycare while I go to work. I have recorded a whole album and went to a bunch of interviews. I love the fact that I am succeeding in music but I miss Liam too much. After work we go home and usually I cook and clean while Emily plays or watches T.V. During dinner we Skype Liam and sort of eat together. Then I clean and stuff, tutor Emily some more or maybe practice a song and then face time Liam again before we sleep.
I guess Liam kept his promise of keeping in contact during the whole day even though he would be tired or jet lagged sometimes because of the time zones he still insists on seeing us. Ashley has helped me a lot and so far I have kept Emily alive and have not burnt the house down sometimes when we Skype Liam, Harry and the others join and Ashley cheers up sometimes even Danielle visits, since Louis made her so that we could keep each other company and so we all Skype each other to brighten our day with our loved ones who are so far away. As for my own self I feel good apart from that hole inside of me that desperately aches for Liam. That sometimes gets me depressed. I try not to show in front of Emily but she asks everyday when Liam will be back.
It's been two long months and finally it's December. Liam will be home in 2 weeks for 2 months and then leave again. I try not to think about how short our time will be and focus on being with him in general.
Today is Wednesday and I have an interview on the Ellen show. I took Emily to daycare and made my way home were Ashley will meet up with me to get me ready. I pulled in my driveway and got the mail, nothing new. Just the usual bills. I opened the door and set my keys on the counter and made some coffee.
I went to the living room and scrolled a little on social media while waiting for Ashley. Suddenly my phone started ringing. It was Liam.
"Hey babe" I greeted him.
"Hey baby, what's up?"
"Nothing, just drinking coffee being bored. Waiting for Ashley so she can get me ready for the Ellen show."
"Oh break a leg, are you gonna perform ?"
"I think so, not sure though."
"Well good luck babe. I'm at the Arena with the boys. We have a show tonight."
"Thanks and Good luck to you too."
"How's Emily doing at Daycare ?"
"Good I guess, she doesn't complain so I guess she's fine"
"We have to go Christmas shopping when I get back. Any idea what to get her ?"
"I don't know all she whines about is wanting you and I don't blame her, 'Cause all I want for Christ-mas .... Is you, ba-by. Ooooh ba-by' but seriously." I sang, he chuckled.
"Yeah me too, I guess we could get her dolls or something ?"
"She's spoiled rotten Li, she has everything she could want."
"Yep" He said popping the 'p'.
"Oh well I dunno we'll figure it out."
"Yeah I guess, I have to go, see ya at dinner babe. I love you"
"I love you too babe"
We hung up and I looked up to check my delivery since I ordered Liam a new car. He deserved it and well he spoils us so why not spoil him. It should be deported this week. Ashley is gonna keep it in her garage so Liam won't suspect anything. He love cars so yeah. I'm gonna trick him though and get him something lame to see his reaction. Then give him the keys in a ring box as a surprise.
Ashley came in breaking me out of my train of thoughts.
" Sup chika, let's get you beautified." I laughed and we went to my room to get ready.

The limo came and took me to the Ellen show. There I was greeted by the most nicest person on earth.
"Hi I'm Ellen."
"Hi I'm Amy, it's very nice to finally meet you." I said a little excited. Heck I was thrilled.
"It's nice to meet you too dear. Shall we go ?" I nodded.
"You look very nice, I like your style." I blushed RED.
"Awe thanks you too, I've always wanted to meet you. You're my idol."
"Awe thanks, I like your music very much."
"Thanks"
"So, I will call you out and you will join me on the sofa. Okay ?"
"Okay"
She left to start her show and someone put a mic on me. I watched Ellen from backstage. She was a true inspiration and such a nice person, I'm getting really nervous. Before I knew it she called me to stage.
I entered and waved as the audience cheered. I hugged Ellen and greeted her again and then I sat down in front of her.
"Hi how are you ?"
"I'm awesome thanks, how are you ?"
"I'm great, so Amy tell us about yourself."
"Um, I'm 19 and I'm a singer. I just released my first album called 'True'. I'm from Malta but I moved to London this year."
"That's great, tell us about how your career started."
"Well, I was a very shy person when I first got here and I used to sing alone and no one knew I could sing. I applied for music school but eventually I found out that Simon Cowell got a video of me singing which was sent by my late parents and wanted to sign me. Since then I have changed a lot. Simon and my crew along with my family helped me build my confidence and I was able to perform on stage because I had terrible stage fright. It's a dream how I ended up here from being shy to having such an amazing life."
"That's such a sweet story, you're a very lucky girl. Tell us about your family."
"Well when I moved here, it was because my family died in a terrible car accident so I wanted a fresh start and then I met my crew and my lovely boyfriend and my idols. It's truly a dream."
"Everyone knows that you are dating Liam Payne from One Direction and you live with the other boys correct ?"
"Yes, me and Liam are dating and the other boys are like brothers to me. They have been there for me through everything and have changed my life to the better."
"You have a daughter as well right ?"
"Yes me and Liam were on a date at the movies and we met this cute 2 year old and we fell in love with her. She told us she had ran away from an orphanage where they beat her and starve her and we didn't have the heart to send her back so we took her to watch a movie and Liam suggested we adopt her and I immediately agreed."
"That's so cute, you are a very nice person for saving her life."
"Thanks, it hurts me knowing there could be other kids in her same situation you know, who just need saving."
"I hear ya, How are you and Emily dealing with the distance from Liam ?"
"It's very hard but we face time and Skype all the time, we have dinner together via Skype and we go to bed together and wake up together. It's the least we can do to feel close. But he's coming home in 2 weeks so thankfully we won't be apart that lo-" I jumped as someone covered my eyes.
I turned around and saw Liam. Tears formed in my eyes as I stood up to hug him.
"I love you, I love you, I love you" We just kept mumbling that to each other while hugging. Ellen and the audience awed. We pulled away and kissed. Who cares that I'm on T.V. embarrassing myself right now. He's back.
We pulled away and hugged again, we were both crying.
I turned to Ellen and hugged her thanking her. Liam greeted her and we cleared our faces from the tears. Thank you Ashley for the water proof makeup.
"We'll be back soon, more surprises to come." Ellen says and we went on break.
"Oh my god thank you so much Ellen, I have always loved how you make everyone happy."
"No problem, Liam called me crying last week saying how much he missed you so we flew him over."
"Oh my god Emily is gonna freak." We laughed and I hugged Liam again. God it feels so good to be with him again. Soon after they brought a bigger couch so Liam could sit although it could fit like 5 more people and we continued the show.
"So we're back with Liam and Amy. Liam how has tour been after the hiatus. How did it feel ?"
"It was a blast, I had missed it so much and it felt different because I had Amy this time and Emily and we also performed together it was so amazing."
"Indeed, how do you feel about fatherhood ?"
"Well I had already known how it sorta felt when Louis had Freddie but, it's an amazing feeling raising Emily with Amy."
"How long has it been since you seen Emily last ?"
"I saw her this morning on face time but I last saw her in person, like 2 months ago."
"You must miss her don't you ?"
"Yea-"
"Daaaaaddyyyyyyyyy" Omfg. Ellen is a god I swear. Emily came out with a woman holding a little boy through some gliding doors. Liam cried hearing her voice calling him. He turned around and ran towards her. I stood up as well joining them, soon enough the boy hugged me while Emily was hugging Liam. Then I realized it was Freddie.It's sick how much I missed out of, I mean Freddie can walk now.
"Oh my god, Freddie !!!" I picked him up and hugged him. Then turned around and saw all the boys there. I swear I was gonna faint. No wonder there was a huge couch. I hugged all of them and then we joined Ellen on the couches.
"Thank you so much for this"
"You are very welcome"
"Hello, you must be Emily" She said grabbing Emily's hand. She was sitting on my lap.
"Hi" She said shyly.
"Are you happy to see your daddy ?"
"Yeah, I miss him." Everyone awed.
"I bet you did."
"You sound like my fweend" I knew what she was gonna say.
"Oh really, what's her name ?" Ellen asked.
"Dowy" Everyone awed.
"Heeeellloooo Emiilllyyy I'mm Doooorrryyyy" Ellen says in her whale voice.
"Wow, you sound like her, mommy this is so cool" I laughed and so did everyone.
"I am Dory sweetie, did you like the movie ?"
"Yes, mommy and daddy took me on my biwthday."
"Really, that's cool. I have a present for you and Freddie." Freddie giggled as Ellen tickled him.
"Wealy, yay" Ellen got out a stuffed Dory and a stuffed Nemo. For Emily and Freddie.
"Wow, fanyuw Ellen" Everyone awed.
"Youuuur weeellcooomeeee Emmmillllyyy" Emily giggled and hugged her.
"So boys how's tour going ?"
"It's cool we just missed these guys." Niall said.
"How about you sing us a duet so we can close the show ?" We nodded in agreement.
We went to the center of the stage and sang 'Somebody to you' while Emily and Freddie sat with Ellen. It felt so good to sing with them and be with them again. After the show we thanked Ellen for the billionth time and we had lunch with her and Porsha, her wife.
"Out of curiosity, how did you get Emily out of school ?" I asked Emily.
"We talked to your friend, Ashley is it ? She helped us." We laughed and ate dinner.
At home we had a movie marathon watching Disney movies. I cuddled with Liam and Emily. She fell asleep at 9pm so I took her to bed then passed by Freddie's nursery. Louis was having some hard time putting Freddie to sleep so I went to help.
"Time for some woman power Tomlinson." He laughed.
"I should really grow boobs so that he will love me just as much as he loves you." We laughed and I rocked Freddie to sleep on the rocking chair while singing to him. When he fell asleep I went downstairs and joined the boys.
"The power of the boobs" Louis said worshiping me. We laughed at his craziness.
"You're just jealous" I said sticking out my tongue.
"Liam's a lucky guy." Harry said wiggling his eyebrows, I rolled my eyes at his pervertedness and cuddled into Liam.
"I know I am" Liam whispered. We kissed and then watched some movies.
"I'm really glad you're all back. I missed you." I said.
"We missed you too." They said.
"We should go Christmas shopping together tomorrow or something." They nodded in agreement.
"Well I'm off to bed, coming Li ?" I asked standing up. He nodded and took my hand. We said our 'Good nights' and went upstairs.
"God I missed you" Liam said as we got under the covers cuddling.
"Hell yeah, I love you Liam. I'm so glad you're home"
"I love you too and I'm glad to be home." We kissed and then fell asleep in each other's arms.
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In the morning we made breakfast and got everybody up for Christmas shopping.
"Do you wanna go shopping today Ems ?"
"Yeah"
"Good let's go get ready"
I got her ready and then got ready myself. Everyone was done with breakfast and getting dressed so we got to the car.
When we got to the mall we split up in teams. First me, Liam and Emily so we could shop for the boys and our family's while Louis, Freddie, Niall and Harry do the same. We got to a clothes store and bought the boys some clothes and then some shoes. Then we got them some watches and stuff. Then we got to a jewelers and bought Liam's mom a necklace and a bracelet and Liam's dad a Rolex and a wallet. We got his sisters and Ashley some purses and a couple of earrings.
I was upset that I didn't have my own parents to buy presents to. Liam got me to send flowers to Malta so that they could be put on their graves. Maybe someday I will have the courage to go back.
Then we met up again and changed teams. Emily, me and Niall and Harry and Liam, Louis and Freddie. We went to a men store and I helped the guys and Emily choose stuff for Liam, mine was already done. I just had to buy my fake one. I looked around for a while in different stores and decided to get him a key chain. The boys got him shoes and clothes. I helped Emily pick a shirt that said 'Proud Daddy' and we got him a watch.
We met up again and Harry and Niall took Freddie and Emily while me, Louis and Liam went to buy toys for the kids. Louis got Freddie some toys and clothes and we bought Emily a play house and dolls. We also got her a swing set and soft toys. We bought Freddie some toys as well and some clothes for him and Emily.
When we were done we met at the car and put everything in the trunk.
We went back inside and got something to eat. Then the boys did some grocery shopping while me and Liam and Emily got Christmas cards made with the family pictures we had taken at our family photo shoot from Emily's birthday. Once they were done we met with the boys again and went to post the cards.
When we got home everyone hid their share of presents and then met again to go to the park for some ice-cream. Emily and Freddie played in the sandpit while me and the boys sat on a bench watching them.
"Ams ? Have you changed Emily lately ?" Harry asked me
"Umm, yes why ?"
"Well I have noticed this for a while and didn't have the chance to tell you yet but I picked her up today and she whimpered. I noticed some bruises on her back and stomach and I'm really worried." He said
"Yeah I know about them, I don't know. They were healing before but now they stopped."
"Do you think it's from childcare ? Maybe we should ask her." I nodded and looked at Freddie playing with Emily. I went over to them and picked them up. I made my way back and Louis took Freddie.
"Hey Ems, can I ask you something ?" She nodded. I lifted her shirt.
"No mummy, no. I be good." She started crying. I was shocked, she refused to let me look at her.
"What's wrong Em, who did that to you?" Liam asked her worried.
"A la-dy at the school s-said, I not pweety and mommy not good for d-daddy. I said no a-and she h-hit me" I.was.pissed. I got up and walked to the car, the boys following me. I got in the drivers seat and Liam in the passenger seat next to me while everyone got in.
"Amy, calm down" Liam said gently.
"Calm down ? Calm down ? Li, some bitch thinks she can hit my child because she's jealous. I will make her pay." I started the car and went to the police station. I'm surprised I didn't get pulled over for over speeding. But I was pissed and didn't care.
"Hi, I would like to report child abuse please." I told some police woman.
"Okay follow me." We went to her office and sat down. I was full blown pissed. Emily was in my arms whimpering.
"Tell me what happened."
"I noticed these bruises on my daughter the other day. I thought that they hadn't healed from the orphanage. She was beat up when we adopted her, but they were healing and now I noticed that they got worse. I asked Emily about it and she said that a woman from her daycare punished her because she was not pretty and that I'm not good for her father. She is clearly a jealous fan."
"Can I look at her bruises please." I nodded and lifted Emily's shirt. The woman nodded and wrote something down. "Okay we are going to need you to sign some papers and take some pictures of her injuries. We will speak with her doctor and then we need you to lead us to the daycare for her arrest."
After they took pictures of Emily's injuries and phoned the doctor we signed some papers and made our way to the daycare with police cars following us.
I unbuckled Emily and set her on my hip. "Okay Em, I need you to point to the lady that did that to you okay ?" She nodded and we entered the building. I had a mic and an ear piece so that first I will confront the bitch then they would catch her admitting to what she did and arrest her. The boys and Liam stayed outside with the police while I made my way inside. Emily pointed to a girl in her 20's she was a total fake bimbo. I approached her.
"Excuse me" She faced me smiling but her smile soon faded as she saw it was me.
"What do you want ?" She spat.
"What I want is to know why you hurt my daughter ?" I said raising my voice at her rude tone.
"How could Liam stoop so low as to go out with you and adopt a rat like her." I was pissed. Thank god Emily was in my arms or I would have killed her then and there. I didn't want to say something that would be used against me as well so I had to be smart.
"Oh okay like that's a good reason to beat up my daughter." She laughed and that got me even more pissed.
"Look, darling. I don't give a fuck about how you feel about your daughter, you better leave Liam soon before I kill you and that brat myself."
Just before I could kill her with my bare hands the police busted in followed by Liam and the boys. I ran to him and we hugged.
"You are under arrest for child abuse, what you say may or may not be used against you in a court of law ...." I watched as she got cuffed and I was proud that I handled that well. I could have killed the bitch but it wouldn't be worth it. I guess we'll see her in court.

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