And do you, Emma,
take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband,
to have and to hold, as long as you both shall live?
I do.
We brought the box back.
Oh, thank you very much.
Come on in.
How was the journey?
Good.
Look at this.
What is it?
It's a card to daddy from mummy.
Can I read it?
Hello, sweethearts.
Yeah. Yeah, go on Poppy.
Dear Ben.
That's you.
- Dear Ben. - Dear Ben.
I love you.
I love the life we have,
and the one we are about to have with these babies.
I can still remember the first thing I ever said to you.
It was an accident.
And everything that's happened since meeting you,
falling in love with you, and having these babies
with you, has all been one big beautiful accident.
- I've never felt like this - I've never felt like this
- about someone before. - About someone before.
No one has ever made me feel like this before.
- I love you. - I love you.
- And I think - And I think
- I'm gonna love you - I'm gonna love you
- for the rest of my life. - For the rest of my life.
Do you love us like that, Daddy?
Comes and goes, to be honest, Pop.
Drink?
Come on, kids.
Let's have a game of footy.
Kick it.
Pass it to me.
Oh, oh, I almost had it.
Almost had it.
Pass it to me.
All right.
Jack and Poppy asked me if heaven exists recently.
Hmm. What did you tell them?
Different people believe different things.
Now whatever you teach these children
about heaven is up to you,
but if I were to ask you to teach them one thing,
it would be this.
If you believe in something or someone, go for it.
Otherwise, you'll never know the joy
it could have brought you.
I mean, look at you and Jess. Hmm?
You fell in love, and you believed it would work out.
You had faith.
Faith is just that.
Faith, it's something you believe,
not something you know.
It's not an ironclad shield against pain.
It's, it's a crystallisation of hope.
And look at what faith gave you.
- Grandpa, come! - Grandpa, come!
Come on then.
Who's in goal?
What did you two talk about?
Faith.
I still have faith, you know.
In him.
In them.
And I'm aware at times it doesn't seem like it.
But, in you.
Do you remember at the funeral,
when I said I can do this on my own?
I was wrong.
I need you.
They need you,
to know how to be like her.
Thank you.
Come here.
All right, your turn in goal.
I met her, you know?
In the park.
I liked her.
I mean, she seemed genuinely happy to see the kids.
So there must be something wrong with her.
Yeah, I liked her.
When Jess died,
do you know what I never thought I'd feel again?
Love?
Joy.
Bu time passes, and you get surprised by joy,
because when I met Emma, I was.
Surprised?
Scared.
Of?
I dunno.
Loving someone again.
Losing someone again.
How it would affect the kids.
Oh, what you had with Jess was wonderful.
So to even start a relationship with Emma,
she must have been special.
You do realise how lucky you are
to have found someone you love who loves you back twice.
Come on.
Because I have lived 54 years on this earth,
and I haven't found it once.
She's getting married to someone.
Have you told her how you feel?
Better get a move on then, huh?
No, it's not the right time.
No. Right.
Well, when you do find the perfect person
at the perfect time in your life
and the perfect time in theirs,
and they happen to think that you are perfect too,
let me know, will you?
Because you know what I'll be?
What?
Surprised.
There's no medals for martyrs, love.
Come on you two.
Let's give your dad a bit of peace and quiet.
Oh crikey, right, Come on, put this stuff away.
Let's have a tidy up, and then you can go have a bath.
No, I don't want a tidy up.
♪ I will never forget that evening ♪
♪ When you brightened up my life ♪
♪ And my angel ♪
♪ Shine your light ♪
♪ Be mine ♪
♪ Be my candle in the night ♪
Will you promise me something?
Yeah.
You throw away that necklace.
I'm gonna leave it to you when I'm dead.
Well, last night at the picnic, you said you were scared.
You don't need to be scared, Em.
I want you to be happy.
- Joey. - Emma,
I want you to promise me, no matter how hard it is,
or what you have to go through,
you'll do everything you can to be happy.
- I don't. - Promise me, Emma.
I promise.
I'll be back.
Are you all right?
You just.
I need to talk to you.
I can't do this.
I can't be married to you.
Is this a joke?
It was a mistake.
I'm so sorry.
This is all my fault.
I should have said something.
When exactly do you think you should have said something?
When you were walking down the aisle?
Before you said I do?
When?
When Joey died.
When Joey died, I was lost.
I could barely breathe.
And you were there for me.
My mom and dad couldn't be.
And I loved you for that.
And I always will.
But I don't love you.
I thought I could.
I thought I could make myself.
I tried, but I can't.
And you deserve better than that.
Emma, we just got married.
What are we gonna tell everyone?
Tell them It was me.
Tell them it was all my fault.
Tell them whatever you want, but I can't do this.
I'm sorry, Harry.
Daddy, do you have adventures?
Um.
I'm off out mum.
Oh, hang on, hang on.
Bye, love.
I just finished this, and I wanted to give it to you.
It's the one you've been asking about.
The one I've been asking about for three weeks?
It's the one you've been asking about for five years.
Oh, do you realise you could've just emailed this to me?
Yeah, I know.
But I wanted to do this.
What? What are you doing?
I'm listening to you.
Hello?
The evil twins want a word.
Where are you?
They're doing me head in,
so I'm gonna take them to the park for 20 minutes,
try and tyre 'em out.
Here you are, come here, come here,
Where's the speaker?
Hang on.
Jump on.
Daddy, can you read us Peter Pan tonight?
Yeah, I haven't seen it for a while, actually.
We've hidden it.
Where?
We've hid it in Emma's bag.
Emma's bag? When did you?
I'll talk to you later, love.
Okay right.
Careful on the stairs.
Thank you.
Stay in the pocket.
Do you ever watch boxing?
No.
Put your hands up.
To win, you need to be at this distance here, right?
It's called the pocket.
That means that you are close enough to hit me
with your left.
But also, you're right.
What if I don't wanna get hurt?
You step back.
Whew.
See, now you can't get hurt,
but you can't win either.
What on Earth are you doing?
You're missing your own wedding.
I called it off,
the wedding, the marriage, everything.
You're already married.
You know what I mean.
We really don't.
Emma, please don't do this.
Harry is perfect.
Why did you marry Dad?
- Emma, listen to me. - Tell me why.
Because I loved him.
There it is.
I don't love Harry.
What do you mean?
I met someone, someone special.
- I need to tell him how I feel. - This is insane.
- I'm fully aware of that. - Emma, you are
at your own wedding.
This isn't a fairytale.
It's, it's real life.
I know that but I need to try.
Why?
I love him, and I made a promise to Joey.
I promised her that I would do whatever it took to be happy,
and he makes me happy.
What if he says no?
Then he says no,
but I need to know that I tried one last time.
This is ridiculous.
Let her go.
Mom, please help me.
Fine.
Can I just say something?
If it ever seemed like I was pushing you
into this marriage,
Which it did.
I did it 'cause I wanted you to be happy.
And safe.
If I've learned one thing from this
it's that happy and safe aren't always the same thing.
In fact, they very rarely are.
To the park please.
This is my story now.
I've never written about this before.
People have told me to often.
I even tried a couple times,
but I couldn't do it.
I couldn't find the right ending.
I didn't want to tell a sad story.
I didn't want us to be a sad story.
Eight years ago, I met Jess, and we fell in love.
We had two children together, and the next day she died.
That's our story.
But it doesn't need to be all of it.
We get a chance to change the story.
I can see that now.
For the longest time,
I kept wondering what Jess would've wanted,
how she would've wanted me to love them.
I never thought to ask myself what I wanted.
Turned out it was a pretty simple answer.
I wanna be happy.
I want me and the children to be happy.
And I know now more than anything else,
that's what Jess would've wanted,
because that's what I would've wanted for Jess.
So, here's the question.
How does the story end?
Well, here's the answer.
I don't know.
And that's fine by me, and it's fine by them.
We decide what happens next.
This is our story now.
Ben!
I was just coming to find you.
I was just trying to find you.
Why are you not wearing any shoes?
I took them off.
I thought it'd be easier to run on grass,
so it's complicated, never mind,
- I need to tell you something. - No, me first.
No, listen.
Emma, listen.
Look, this is gonna sound mad.
You're about to marry someone else soon,
but if I don't tell you this now,
then I'm gonna regret it for the rest of my life.
Look, Emma, when I came to see you
at the stage door that morning, I wasn't honest with you.
I said I was falling in love with you, and that's not true.
Okay?
I'm in love with you.
Emma, look, my life's a mess, right.
I spend half my time trying to hold it together,
and the other half just clearing up raisins.
But I'm telling you this
because I want you to be a part of it.
I can't promise you anything.
I promised things to Jess, and they didn't come true,
but I think we should do it anyway,
because that's the risk that you take when you love someone.
Emma, I love you.
Can I speak now?
Yeah. Sorry.
You said everybody has a moment
in their life that changes them.
After Joey died, I thought I could make everyone happy.
I made bad decisions, and then I had my moment.
Well, I never told you what my moment was.
Yeah, what was it?
It was you.
It was meeting you.
You are what I want.
I love you, and I can love Jack and Poppy
if you'll let me try, because I want to be with you.
I've wanted to be with you since the moment that I met you.
I want to be with all three of you.
I'm gonna need an annulment, by the way.
What?
I'll explain later.
Daddy!
Emma!
Oh hello. Hello.
Oh, sorry.
Sorry. I saw you from.
Didn't know you were gonna start snogging.
So what happens next?