So here is another extra chapter! This time it's Sophie and Aaron and it's sticking to the theme of rocky relationships! This one has made me question which side I think is right... whether Sophie is being selfish or if it's Aaron!
"What was that text all about, Soph?" Aaron sighed as he made his way out of the garage with his phone pressed to his ear.
As soon as he had received this particular message from Sophie, he knew he had to speak to her. However, he needed to do it without the guys all trying to listen in on their roller coaster of a relationship.
Sophie was currently back in New York checking up on her business and making sure it was all running smoothly. Although she had insisted she was going to take the full maternity leave and stay home with Amiya, she had only lasted a full 2 months before she wanted to get back to work. Therefore, she had taken their daughter with her and they had both been out there for the past week.
"I just wanted to talk about it." She muttered on the other end yet he wasn't sure he had her full attention.
Aaron could hear so much commotion going on in the background and he knew she must have been at work. There were people calling out her name, others chatting among themselves and just to add to it, loud music blaring too. It wasn't the best set up for what he classed as a serious conversation.
"Just tell me you're fucking around babe and then we can both get back to work."
"No, I'm not." Sophie quipped before patiently waiting for what she knew was about to follow.
"Please don't start this again, Sophie." Aaron stressed as all hopes of this being a joke were suddenly lost. He should have realised he was being way too hopeful but he truly thought they were past it. "We've just got back on track and you want to ruin it?"
After this following week in her favourite city alongside many conversations with her employees, Sophie had been lured back into the mindset of her life out here in New York. She had thrown herself straight back into her work and realised how much more passion and love she was able to put into it while being here. While in Brighton she was stuck in a rut, trying to control everything from the discomfort of her home or London yet none of that felt enough anymore.
Therefore, after much persuasion and pep talk from her employees and friends out here she had sent a quick text to Aaron. She knew he wouldn't take it well to begin with so she had just subtly hinted at the idea of them all packing up and moving out here however, it hadn't seem to go down very well at all.
"Calm down. I'm not telling you to pack a suitcase right now!" Sophie raised her own voice in response to Aaron's. "I was just seeing what you thought of the idea."
"But we've been through this so many times. It ended our relationship before, so why are you trying to do that again?"
Aaron couldn't help but feel exhausted as he felt as though they were going around in circles. Just as they had finally settled back into family life in Brighton with a new baby, Sophie wanted to change it up again.
"I'm not trying to ruin it, Aaron! I'm just not happy in Brighton and it took coming back here for me to realise that." Sophie countered, feeling frustrated that he was jumping to conclusions without giving her chance to explain. "I want to be successful; I want to be doing something with my life. I don't just want to be sitting at home being a mum every single day."
"You are successful, Soph. I don't know what you are talking about." Aaron exasperated, running his hand over his face as he paced back and forth outside. He could see the guys now watching him as he raised his voice yet he made a conscious effort to ignore them. "You have your own damn business there and in London."
"Yeah and I'm running them both from Brighton. It doesn't make any sense. I could be doing so much more if I was out here."
"Right, so you want to pack up and move the kids away from their home for the sake of your business, yeah?"
"Don't do that." Sophie bit, aggravated that he had jumped straight to that tactic. "Stop acting like I'm not thinking of the kids. If they didn't want to leave then obviously I wouldn't make them."
"But we've been through this before." Aaron added, not understanding why she couldn't see that.
He thought they were finally past Sophie's ideas of living out of Brighton. He thought that had finally come to some kind of agreement in terms of what was right for their family. However, that didn't seem like the case anymore.
Instead, since going back to New York, Sophie was prepared to pack up and move away again.
"Okay, just forget I even said anything, you're not going to listen anyway. I have to go." Sophie seethed as she ended the call before Aaron even got the chance to respond. She didn't have any energy left to argue with him anymore so instead, made the most of the current situation where she could just easily end a conversation by the click of a button.
While Aaron was left frustrated that Sophie was taking them right back to all of their previous problems, she was angry that he wasn't prepared to listen.
She had expected him to say no to the idea straight away however, she hoped that he would have at least let her say her bit.
"I'm guessing that didn't go down well then." Felix looked at Sophie in question as she slammed her phone down onto the table and continued to look through the designs the pair had been drawing out all day.
"He doesn't listen! He jumps to his own conclusions before letting me explain!" She stressed as she continued to flick through the pages yet at this point, not really taking any notice of them.
"He really hates it out here then?"
"He doesn't want to leave Brighton, ever... and he uses the excuse that it's the kids. He makes it seem like I'm being a shitty mum for dragging them somewhere they don't want to be. But that's not even it. They would come out here, I know it!"
"So it's Aaron who wouldn't? Nothing would change his mind?" Felix questioned yet he could already easily guess the answer, otherwise they wouldn't have been arguing over this for years.
"Exactly, but I always look like the selfish one for suggesting he do it." Sophie sighed as she finally took a seat on the chair and titled her head back in frustration.
She knew she should have waited to call him when she was back at the hotel, as now she had just ruined what previously was a really good day.
"I've spent the whole of our relationship doing things for him. I wanted to move to London yet he didn't want to, so I commuted for years. Then when I moved out here, I was the one who packed it all up to go back to Brighton. He always claimed he wouldn't do what Elliot did and try to hold me back but he's just been selfish instead."
Although there definitely could be two sides to this whole thing, Sophie couldn't help but feel angry that Aaron would never co-operate with her. She felt like she was going through the exact same thing she had done with Elliot and it felt awful to experience it all again.
She knew Aaron wouldn't be willing to move for her sake, even if the kids were in agreement. He was set in Brighton and it appeared as though he would be too stubborn to ever change his mind.
"Even though Elliot hated me working a lot, he would have sacrificed his comfort bubble at home to move out here. Aaron's just too selfish. He makes me throw every fucking thing away so he can stay in Brighton working the same damn job he has for the past 20 years."
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