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Chapter 42

-baby boy.’ Dr Guille said. ‘Congratulations, he is healthy and happy.’ I stared in disbelief at my beautiful baby boy. Well at least in the sonogram he looked cute. I saw him move on the screen and felt it in my stomach. I winced.

'Niall it's your son.' I whispered. Niall was tearing up.

'He's beautiful.' He wept. I leant over and kissed him. I wiped his cheek with my thumb.

'Niall don't cry.' I whispered.

'Would you like me to print off the ultrasound?' Dr Guille asked.

'Yes please!' I squeaked this time. Dr Guille quickly printed it off. He passed it to Niall. I noticed one of his tears splash on the black piece of paper.

'I'll give you too some time.' Dr Guille left.

'Niall please stop crying. It's not like it's your first kid!' I said.

'Yeah but it's the first time I've seen a picture of my child before it was born.' He said.

'Oh. Yeah. I'm sorry.' I rubbed his back in circles. I wiped the goo off my belly and pulled my shirt down. He pulled me onto his lap and kissed me. When we released a line of slobber was between both our lips. We laughed and I kissed him again. I pulled away.

'Oh shit!' I said.

'What?' He asked.

'I left the twins on their own!' I said. I tried to get up but Niall held me down.

'No don't worry it's ok. Josh has a housekeeper who willingly offered to look after them.' He said.

'Oh. Look I'm gonna go tell Josh the good news.' I said.

'Sure, sure.' He said. I clambered off his lap and rushed out the door through corridors and into the waiting room.

'Josh!' I shouted. I noticed a few 14-or-so-year-old girls all huddled in a group around Josh asking him things like 'Can you follow me on twitter?' 'Why are you in the maternity ward?' 'Is Claudia pregnant?' 'Why is that lady calling your name?' I noticed Josh's head poke out from between the girls.

'Excuse me girls. My friend needs to talk to me.' He escaped from the gaggles. 'So what's the news? Are you 18 weeks??'

'Yes. Actually I'm 19 weeks.' I said.

'I'm sorry Juliet. How's Niall feeling? Who's the father?'

'Niall's the father.'

'But you guys didn't get back together until after Niall's Birthday. Niall's birthday was 14 weeks ago.'

'It was drunken sex at Liam's party! Which was a month before that.'

'Oh! Cool!'

I saw some more girls enter the maternity ward. They came charging over to where me and Josh were. I backed away so they could get to Josh but they came right up to me.

'Hi!' One of them said with an English accent, 'Are you Juliet Horan?'

'Yeah.'

'The Juliet Horan!' Another said she had bright green eyes and an American accent.

'Well the last time I looked in the mirror and at my passport. I was.'

'We came from England.' A tall one said.

'We heard that you were in Kentucky. So we called up our cousin.' English said and pointed to Green-Eyes. 'And asked whether we could come here for Christmas.'

'You didn't need to do that.' I said touched.

'Well we wanted to be the first 1D fans to find out the gender of your baby.' Green-Eyes said.

'How did you know we were here today? I was scheduled for Thursday.' I asked.

'Niall just tweeted.' English got out her phone. '"At Hospital in Union with my beautiful wife. About to find out the gender of our baby ! Oh and @jhutch1992 is here !" We live just around the corner so we though we'd come and visit.'

'So can we find out the gender now?' Tall asked. Josh looked interested since I hadn't told him yet.

'Yeah sure. It's a boy.' English, Green-Eyes and Tall shrieked in excitement.

'Have you decided what to call him yet?' Green-Eyes asked.

'Yeah, well I haven't told Niall yet but I want to name him after our closest friends.'

'Go on tell us!' English prompted.

'I want to call him Liam Josh Horan.' I said. Josh started tearing up and so did Green-Eyes and English.

'That's adorable.' Green-Eyes sobbed.

'Before I start crying.' Tall said. 'Which Josh are we talking about here? Devine or Hutcherson?'

'Hutcherson...' I whispered. I pointed to him and the girls turned around and started shrieking.

'Can we tweet about this?' Tall asked.

'Let me just ask Niall.' I said. I walked back through the corridors and into Dr Guille's office. He was still crying.

'Niall there are three girls who really want to meet you. And they want to know whether they can be the first to tweet about our boy.' I said.

'No they can't.' He said. Fresh tears poured onto his cheeks.

'Niall what's wrong?'

'A girl I used to know just walked in and told me she was about to have my baby.' He said.

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