My head is so messed up because of Ella, I don't know why she ended things. And for the last week all I've done is try to understand it, did I do something wrong? Was all this for revenge because of me hurting her years ago?

Which I know sounds stupid because she is not that kind of person, but I just don't know what to think. Because the day of Remi's party, we were happy, together and talking about the future, even about maybe having another baby one day.

I was planning our future in my head, when I would ask her to marry me, when we would buy our first home together, and adding to our family, I saw a life with Ella, and then she ended it, told me that it wasn't real, that she didn't love me.

That's the part that I just don't understand because that has to be so far from the truth, if it weren't real, she would have never, moved forward with a relationship with me.

Because she's not someone who plays games, and she certainly doesn't play with people's emotions. something is telling me that there's more to this, but I can't push her to tell me, she needs to fight for what she wants, I can't be the one to keep us together, she has to want it too and she doesn't.

I love her so much, a part of me wishing I could stop loving Ella, but I just can't.

Pulling out of my thoughts, when I hear my front door slamming shut, then the sound of heavy footsteps coming towards me, on my hardwood floors.

Letting my eyes travel around my living room, just as they come face to face with Ella's green ones. Doing a double-take to make sure she was actually here and stood up, so I was only a few feet away from her.

"I need to talk to you" She announces and places her hands on her hips.

"Funny I thought you said everything you had to last week" I shot back at her, she looks at me sadly and sighs, before moving her hands off her hips and shook her head.

"Everything I said to you was a lie, I do love you and everything was real. But it's complicated Scott-;" Ella replied to me, with sadness and regret in her voice.

"I don't believe you, we're the definition of complicated you and me. You're hiding something from me, aren't you?" I ask her, I couldn't see it that day when she was breaking my heart, because I was mad, and I was hurt.

So, I couldn't see that she was lying to me, because I always know when Ella lies, she bits her lip and looks anywhere else other than at the person she's lying to, and that's what she was doing that day, it's what she's doing right now.

"What's going on Elly?" I added using her nickname that I gave her in high school, hoping she will just be honest with me for the first time in a week.

Ella lets out a deep breath and moves from one foot to the other, before eventually looking back up at me with a sad look in her green eyes.

"If I tell you it's going to break your heart" She whispers to me, shaking my head and let out a bitter laugh.

"Yeah well my heart is already broken, so I don't think you can do much worse"

She keeps her gaze on me and nods her head,

"Guess I deserved that one" She mumbled.

Rubbing my eyes tiredly, I don't have the energy for this and I'm hungover so that's not helping either.

"Elly-;" I mumbled back at her, hoping that she will open up to me. Ella looks at me sadly and then takes a few steps closer to me, she locks her eyes on mine as we stood face to face.

"First of I want to say that I'm sorry for breaking your heart, but I had to Scotty-;" She broke off and sighed before relooking at me and carried on,

"You remember after Remi's party ended?" I nodded my head, as I remember back to my daughter's birthday,

Ella was inside and it was just mostly family left at Ella's house, Remi made us all go outside so we could see her dance that she made up with her best friend. It was sweet that she wanted to show us on her birthday.

"I stayed inside to clean-up and your mother condor me, she told me to end things with you. She was holding something over me, something from my past and she threatened to use it against me to take Remi from us, and she also threatened to use things against you too, something that could end your career" She explained to me, taking another foot towards her and just stared her as I take in what she just said to me.

"My mother fucking did what?" I yelled out loudly, Ella flinches a little.

"Sorry I didn't mean to yell" I added reassuring her, placing my hand gently on her arm, she looks at my hand for a moment, for a split second I think she's going to push me away, but instead she takes my hand in her hers firmly.

"A few years ago, just after Remi was born and we moved to LA. I got a DUI and Social services got involved, that's what she's using against me. But social services cleared me years ago, and I'm off probation have been for nearly two years" I listen as she spoke our hands still entangled with one another's.

"I was simply scared that she would take our daughter, it's always just been the two of us know, I have always had to fight for her and nobody else. But Oliver he made see that, I'm not alone anymore and that we have people who will fight with us, I just had to get up and fight first" Ella said with tears in her eyes, nodding my head and reached up brushing away hers tear with my thumb, before closing the distance between us.

"I will always fight for you and with you, do you hear me?" I say to her, gently places my hands on the sides of her face, she nods her head and smiles at me sadly.

"I'm sorry, can you forgive me?" I hear her ask me, locking my eyes on her, and nodded my head.

"Already forgiven beautiful" I whispered against her lips, I feel Ella moving even closer to me and a smile makes its way onto my own lips.

"Good because I missed you"

Now hearing those words makes my smile go even wider.

"I've missed you too" I echoed back and pulled her in for a long-overdue kiss. Ella wraps her arms around my neck, deepening the kiss harder, forgetting all about the pain and the hurt of this last week, just let the world fade away in her kisses.

After a while we finally break apart, resting my forehead on hers for a moment, before pulling back to look into her eyes.

"Promise me you won't ever lie to me again, if it involves Valerie,"

I can't even refer to her as my mother anymore, I can't believe she did this. And using Remi as a weapon in all of this, just so I and Ella wouldn't be together, what kind of person does that. And that's not even touching what she thinks she holds over me personally.

"I promise, I'm just sorry she did this to us....to you her own son" Ella replies, looking at her.

"Yeah well from now on she's out of life for good, I'm going to make sure she knows that," I said with certainty because I think it's time my mother and I have a little chat once and for all.

"I love you," Ella says to me, with a massive smile on her face, because that's the first time has said those words to me, since we got our second chance.

Giving her another kiss and then smiled at her too.

"I love you too" I echoed back, my heart heals in that very moment, because she's my girl once again, and this time I'm never letting her go.

Slamming through my parents' house, after Ella went home, I text Oliver and he agreed to meet me at my parent's place, I'm done with my mother I just need her to know it.

There's no forgiving this she messed with the woman that I love, and our daughter, I couldn't care less about my mother anymore, not after today.

Walking into the living room, Oliver behind me and my mother look straight at me when she sees us, my father looks alarmed as he sees us too.

"Oliver, Scott what's going on?" My father asks me, as he stands up from his chair, stopping in my tracks, and pointed towards my mother.

"Why don't you ask her" I snorted, mom just looks and shrugs her shoulders like she hasn't done anything wrong, I swear this woman needs help and a lot of it.

"I don't know what you're talking about" My mother announces, shaking my head with anger.

"Someone better starting explaining, right now," Dad says to us while looking between all three of us.

"Dear old mother here, threaten to take Remi away from Ella if she didn't end things with me, she also threatened to ruin my football career-;" I broke off trying to control the anger I feel right now. Dad looks at me to my mother in disgust.

"Valerie is this true?" he asked her, my mother looks at my father and nods like it's no big deal. And I really can't believe how normal she is being.

"Yes, I did, so what? Scott deserves so much better, I mean Ella Snow is not worth his time or love" Mom said, taking a step forward only for Oliver to stop me.

"She's worth my love and my time, ten times more than your ever was" I yelled,

"See look she's turning my own son against me" Mom tried to fake cry her way out of this one.

"No mom you did that, Ella is a good person and a great mother. You turn Scott against yourself by your own actions" Oliver said to our mother, mom looked taken back by us both.

"That little bitch has turned you both against me" Mom cried once again, shaking my head, and laughed, before throwing my hands up in the air because I'm done.

"You listen to me, you're the bitch here. I'm no longer your son, you don't try to contact me ever again do you understand. You've gone to fair this mother" I spit out at her, giving her a harder look so she knows I'm serious about this.

"That goes for me too mom, I'm sorry but Scott is right you have" Oliver added.

My mother doesn't say anything she just looks at us, with a look that I haven't seen before, a look of defeat. My father doesn't say anything either, which is what I expected, he never does when it comes to her.

"Now if you will excuse me, I will be leaving" I announced and begin walking away, just as I hear my father's voice speak up from behind me.

"No, you won't son-;" Dad broke off, turning around to look at him, just as he looks over to mom,

"Because she is" He added, and my mother looks at my father in surprise. Now, mom was on her feet in a flash and moving towards dad.

"George what are you talking about," she asked him, dad just shakes his head.

"I've watched for years as you've bullied people, manipulated people but the boys are right you've gone to fair, using our granddaughter against her own mother, that isn't right I won't defend you for that" Dad snorted at my mother, for the first time in years he stood up to her.

"But-;" Mom whispered, dad, cuts her off, finally having enough of her crap.

"No Valerie, you need to leave. You can stay in our beach house, and then tomorrow you will be hearing from my lawyers, I want a divorce" dad announced,

Mom stands still but with a look on her face, I think she knows she lost us. Mom takes a moment looks between us, before stomping out of the room in a huff.

"I'm sorry Scott, please tell Ella, that I knew nothing about this. And that I will make sure that Remi stays with her" Dad says to me, moving my eyes to my father and give him a true smile, I'm glad that he's finally doing what he wants.

My mom has had a hold over all of us for so long, and I think the best thing for us all now is if she just removes herself from our lives.

"Thanks, Dad, I know Ella would appreciate that. And we won't stop you from seeing Remi" I replied to him, after dad met Remi for the first time last week, he was smitten with her, and Remi just love her grandpa too.

"Thank you, son I love that little girl so much already" he sighs, nodding my head and smiled at him, just as Oliver pats me on the back. Turning my eyes to my brother and looked at him.

"Why don't you head home, to your family. I'll stay with dad for a bit" He says to me, taking a second to think about it, I don't really want to leave my dad right now. I mean he's just basically ended his marriage; we should be here for him.

"He's right Scott, go to your family and be happy" Dad adds to me, nodding my head at both of them smiling, before saying goodbye and headed out of the house.

Walking out of the house with a smile on my face, for the weirdest reason, I feel different like a weight has been lifted off me, now that my mother is out of my life.

And I don't care that I will probably never speak to her again, because why would I? She's a terrible person, I guess I just didn't want to see it before because she was my mom, but to go this far to keep Ella and me apart is unforgivable and now she's alone and she has nobody but herself to blame for that.

I'm not going to feel sorry for either, because when I think about it, at this moment I have everything that I need in my life,

A father who finally stood up for us. A big brother who no matter what has my back. But most of all, I have the love of a wonderful, beautiful, kind-hearted woman, who I love deeply and with everything that I have.

And a beautiful daughter, who is the best of both of us, we're finally going to get forever as a family and I can't wait to see where the future takes us, and as long as we're together I don't mind, because we have each other, we have so much love, that's enough for me, it makes me the luckiest man in the world and for that I can't stop smiling.