Baby Tommo (Book I)

Chapter Two

I was woken by the sun poking its rays through the curtains, I woke up still in his arms, and he looked so adorable when he was sleeping. I loosened his grip of my body, and headed to the bathroom, the problem to waking up in a house full of boys was I had to beautify myself before going to breakfast. I was going to have to get used to it though seeing as how I was moving in soon!

I’d never lived with boys before, unless you count my father and two brothers, which I didn’t. When I moved out of my parent’s house, I moved in with some girls I’d known from high school, and when I moved over here, the other side of the world, I moved in with one of the girls I was working with before she moved out and in with her boyfriend.

I switched the faucet on, letting the warm water rush into the sink, used my hands to splash my face trying to make myself look more awake. Because I hadn’t planned on staying the night I did not pack much make up, so I had to make do with what I had in my purse; and almost empty tube of lip gloss and a blunt eye liner pencil. After spotting a nearby hair brush and tiding my hair up a bit, I made my way towards the wardrobe. I helped myself to Lou’s clothes. I decided to wear a white t-shirt that was covered in tiny navy horizontal stripes.

I closed the door to his room, leaving him to sleep, as I made my way into the kitchen, I could smell oil, somebody was cooking. My stomach rumbled at even the thought of food. I was hungry!

Liam and Harry were talking about cars when I walked in; Harry was sitting on the bench whereas Liam was frying pancakes on the stove in the other corner. I walked straight in, helped myself to a cup and poured myself some of the already made coffee from the coffeepot. Liam was shirtless, but thank goodness Harry was clothed for once, there has been several occasions where I have witnessed a famous nude Harry moment.

“Good Morning Beautiful.” Harry greeted me, pulling me in for a hug, which was awkward, because in order for us to hug I had to stand in between his legs, and he had to lean down to wrap his arms around me. Liam started singing, his voice sent chills down my body even though I had heard them all sing hundreds of times before, even now since I’ve met them, I still feel the same sensation I did the first time I heard them on the radio, back when I was 16.

Harry started to join is singing, I just stood there quietly not wanting to ruin their duet.

“Sing mummy.” Harry said, pretending to be my baby.

“No, I think that’s a job for the uncles, and daddy.” I told Harry/My baby.

Harry pouted but I could tell he was proud to have the label of Uncle.

Louis walked in soon after, I assumed the singing woke him up, I admit he did look rather funny, his hair was a mess and he wasn’t wearing anything but his boxers, his muscles drew my eyes toward him, I still couldn’t believe that he wanted me.

“Did she tell you lot yet?” he asked opening the fridge.

“Tell us what?” said Liam from the stove.

“Jay’s moving in on the weekend.” He answered, pouring himself some juice.

Harry’s eyes widened and he fist pumped the air.

“New roomie!” he exclaimed.

“Two new roomie’s” Louis corrected him, wrapping his arms around my belly from behind me.

“Morning.”He whispered, kissing my neck.

“Are you two going to do that every morning?” Harry asked us, I shrugged and Louis just started kissing me again.

“Jay, I think I will be joining you in the morning sickness.” Disgust filled his face.

Liam started chuckling to himself, which I thought was cute, these boys in that kitchen were like family to me, and I loved them. Liam turned off the stove and brought the pancakes over to us on a plate. We all sat down around the table, Harry drowned his pancake in syrup, Liam layered his in jam, and Louis ate his before adding to it.

“You need any help moving your stuff?” Liam asked me, taking a bite out of his pancake.

“Yeah, that would be great.” I answered him, still dressing my breakfast.

“I thought we’d ask Zayn and Niall to help too, and then we can all have a house warming dinner for her.” Lou interrupts, but his idea was great. Having these three around was awesome, but when the whole band together we had a lot more fun.

“I miss them.” I piped up, talking to nobody in particular.

“So do I” Harry added with a mouthful.

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After breakfast I left the boys to clean up the dishes, after all technically I didn’t live there yet. I escaped to have a shower, when I had removed all of my clothes, I couldn’t help but notice my reflection. I looked at myself in Lou’s full length mirror, I wasn’t yet showing but I couldn’t help but feel fat. I tried looking at myself from different angles, but I still felt disgusted by my body. My skin was too tanned, my stomach looked like I had eaten too much, my face was a mess and my stupid blonde hair was so horrible. Tears welled up in my blue eyes, making my whole face go red. I remember wanting to hurt myself, wanting to punish myself for looking so blooming hideous. Lou doesn’t deserve to have a girl who looked like this, he deserved a supermodel.

I stepped into the running shower, and tried to wash away my tears, along with the shampoo going down the drain, I wanted the warm water to rinse away my pain. I needed to be strong for Lou; I needed to be strong for my baby, and for Liam, Harry, Niall and Zayn.

When I was satisfied that i no longer looked upset, I dried my hair with the hairdryer, and re-applied my make-up. I was wearing only a towel when Lou knocked on the bathroom door.

“Come in.” I instructed him; the door squeaked as it opened, my man walked in, still only wearing his boxers.

“Dishes are done.” He bowed, as if making a joke about me being demanding, tears started to come back, I could feel my whole body shake as I started to cry again.

“Hey, no babe I’m sorry, it was a joke.” He rushed to my side, holding me in his arms, as I continued to cry.

“Please don’t cry” he kissed my forehead, and started to hum, in a way it was comforting, I was imagining him doing the same to our child.

“I love you” he said looking me straight in the eye, before wiping away my tears with the edge of his finger. I nodded and hugged him tightly.

He helped me dress myself, and I waited for him to shower. I could hear him singing in there while I was waiting on his bed; he has an amazing voice, when he’s recording in the studio, on stage or even into his shower head.

“Nice singing!” Liam shouted through the wall, I could hear him and Harry laughing, they always laughed at Lou for singing in the shower.

It was silent for a little while, the water was no longer running, I could only hear the hum on the television in the other room, and the sounds of my own thoughts, a cold hand reached out to touch my face, I turned around to see the face I was never disappointed to see.

“You’re Beautiful.” He told me, before scooping me up and taking me out to where the guys were.

“I thought you weren’t meant to do that until the wedding night.” Liam nodded to the way Lou was carrying me through the door way.

“Haven’t you noticed that we always do things backward.” Said Louis, referring to how we’re having a baby before marriage anyway. Which made me start to think about marriage, will I ever get married? Is that even what Louis wants? We hadn’t really talked about it before, but I liked the sound of it, I wanted to me Mrs Louis Tomlinson and have little Louis’ and Louise’s running around. It seemed like the perfect dream. Maybe one day I will get my wish.

“So what are the plans for today? You guys have band stuff on?’ I asked them, not really caring which one answered me.

“I don’t know Liam’s the one that keeps track” Harry admitted, looking embarrassed.

“We don’t have anything until tomorrow, there’s a signing on in the afternoon.” Liam answered.

“Aw you guys are so nice to your fans.” I gushed, grabbing onto Harry’s cheeks, just like old women like to do to children.

“What about you Love?” Lou asked me.

“There is a launch party tomorrow night for the newest season of the show” Yes in case I haven’t previously mentioned, I am an actress, and yes I do have my own television show.

“Am I invited?” Harry asked, his cheeks still in my grip, I let go off him before answering.

“Yeah of course you all are. The press love you guys” I winked letting them know that they would have been invited even if that wasn’t the case.

“Do I get to dress up?” Harry asked me.

“Indeed you do, Mel is sending over your clothes later today.”

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The house phone rang, I ran to answer it, after all I was moving in soon anyway, might as well get used to it.

“Hello?” I asked into the receiver.

“Jay? Hey Girl, is everyone over there?” Zayn’s usual friendly voice answered back at me.

“Only missing Niall” I told him, wondering what was going on.

“Alright well I’m coming over, see you all soon.” He ended the call before I could get a word in.

“Who was it?” Lou asked me, yelling from the other room, the boys had decided to watch one of my movies, to my embarrassment.

“Why do we have to watch this?” I asked in a whiney tone.

“You don’t have to, why don’t you take Lou back to his room for a shag.” Harry said rudely, causing Liam to almost fall off his chair laughing.

“Because I want to watch it” Lou answered before I could tell them about Zayn.

I grumpily sat down between Harry and Louis, they couldn’t keep their eyes off the screen, I tried not to be embarrassed by a younger version of myself wearing a Bikini on the screen. It was the beginning of a film where I played this spoilt rich girl who falls in love with the towns bad boy, cliché storyline i know, but hey i had to start somewhere right?

“Who was on the phone?” Liam asked me, although he did not look up from the screen.

“Zayn’s on his way over.” I answered him, and sighed I couldn’t believe that all three of them were staring at me still.

“You’re girlfriend is hot.” I heard Harry whisper to Louis, a grin sneakily spread across my face although I tried desperately to hide it.

“I know.” Lou whispered back, and he wrapped his arm around me.

“You get to bonk that” Harry nodded towards the movie me, still in a friggen bikini

“Ouch” Harry yelped, as the aftermath of Lou whacking him across his curly head.

Liam turned around to laugh at Harry.

“You are hot” Lou whispered into my ear, while Harry and Liam argued over who was the biggest idiot.

A knock at the door interrupts just as he was about to kiss me.

Harry gets off the lounge to go and answer the door; he’s peed off at Liam for winning the argument so I bet he was grateful for the lucky escape.

A few minutes past when Zayn walked in with a beautiful girl, Harry followed not long after.

“Hi” I said to the girl, Lou introduced himself, as did Liam.

“Nice to finally meet you all.” She told us, I offered her a seat next to me, which she accepted.

“So how long has Zayn been keeping you a secret then?” Lou rudely asked her, making her shift in her seat.

“Oh we’ve been together for about six weeks now, hey babe?” she turned towards him to confirm that she had the details right.

“Yeah that seems about right.” He admitted, I could tell he was worried about what the guys might think about keeping this from them, she then was out of her seat to stand next to Zayn probably because she felt more comfortable around him than the rest of us.

“Welcome to the family” Harry enveloped her into a great big hug, Liam came up behind her and did the same, making it into a slightly awkward group hug.

Turns out her name is Ashley, she’s a personal assistant for some of the local modelling agencies, which surprised me, as I thought she would have been a model.

“Zayn, why don’t you bring her along tomorrow night to my launch party?” I suggested which made him very happy.

“The theme is black and white.” I told her so she could dress accordingly.

“Is that you on the screen?” she asked me, finally noticing what movie we had been watching before they came.

“Unfortunately” I hung my head low, to reveal my shame.

“It was Liam’s idea” Harry dobbed him in, pay back for winning the argument I supposed.

“Was not” Liam protested.

“Cute outfit” was all Ashley said to me

They stayed for coffees and biscuits, before insisting they had to leave, I wasn’t entirely sure how I felt about her, but as long as Zayn was happy I didn’t want to protest.

“So Zayn has a bird.” Liam stated as soon as the front door was closed.

“I thought as much” admitted Harry.

“Yeah you’re right Haz, he has been rushing off quite a bit in the last few weeks, and not wanting to come over as often.” Lou agreed with him.

“Did you like her?” I asked them, they all shrugged and turned back to the movie.

“Where were we?” Lou whispered, and leaned in to kiss me.

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“I’ve got to go” I said, trying to escape his cuddles, Liam offered to walk me back home, and I needed the fresh air after being cooped up here all day.

“Please don’t go” he pleaded, using his adorable puppy dog face, I leaned down to kiss his pouting lips, which caused him to loosen his grip on me, and I used that to my advantage.

“I’ll call you when I get home” I promised him, walking out the front door with Liam, I looked back just before the door shut, and saw his snuggling up to Harry, already missing me!

“So this thing tomorrow night, what exactly do we have to wear?” Liam asked me as we entered the elevator.

“Don’t worry it’s nothing crazy, we just got you all a gift to say thanks for coming. Well I did”

“Aw, so a bribe to get us to come to your party?” he joked,

“Yes that’s it you caught me” I acted surprised, we both laughed

“So is there any beautiful woman you’d be interested in introducing me too?” he asked this time in all seriousness.

“Maybe, I’ll see what I can do.” I winked at him.

We reached the bottom floor, and walked out into the street, I was still wearing Lou’s T-shirt from before, but when i caught a glimpse of my reflection on a shop window, it didn’t look too bad so
I didn’t mind too much.

“If you need help packing your things, i could come over and give you a hand, you probably shouldn’t be lifting too many heavy things in your condition.” he was generally concerned for my well-being, what better best friend could i have asked for?

“That would be amazing” he smiled at my response, I always knew I’d done a good thing if it resulted in a smile from Liam.

“So when shall I come over?” he asked

“Are you free tonight?” i asked him back.

“Yeah, I’ll come round when I’ve had a shower”

“Excellent.” I stopped in front of a newsstand; my curiosity got the better of me as I picked up one of the gossip magazines and flicked through to an article about Lou and I.

“Come on, don’t torture yourself like that.” Liam begged, trying to take the magazine away from me.

“It’s not as bad as I thought. Look Li, they even photo shopped what they think the baby would look like, isn’t it adorable?” I was gushing, like a crazy pregnant lady, golly it was embarrassing.

“You’re so funny when you’re all pregnant” he told me, a smirk on his face.

“Shut up.” I whacked him playfully on his shoulder.

“Do you think I’ll ever get married?” I asked Liam after about a minute’s silence.

“What? Where’d that come from?” he asked suspiciously.

“I don’t know, I just think about what it would be like sometimes, ya know, i always thought i would get married and then be a Mum, but now that’s not going to happen, in a way I’m already a mother.” I sighed, not wanting to make eye contact with him.

“You are going to be a great Mum, whether you’re married or not. Louis loves you, everyone can see that, you’re practically his whole world. When he’s recording in the studio with us, sometimes he dedicates the songs to you just before we start singing, don’t tell him I told you that though” I laughed, It still amazes me how amazing Louis is, to this day he’s still treating me like a princess just as he did back then.

“I’m sure when the time is right, you will be the most gorgeous bride in the history of brides, and even if you’re not Louis wouldn’t care, cos you’d be the most beautiful of the brides he’ll ever have.”

“Hopefully the only one” I said quietly, Liam grabbed onto my hand, and no it wasn’t like that, we always held hands, it never meant anything, Lou even jokes about it sometimes, Liam is like the older brother I’ve never had, he’s like the best friend in the world to me. I miss all my friends back in Australia, but if I didn’t leave them behind I would never of met Liam, in fact it was all because of Liam, that I’d even met Louis......

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I met Liam at a party, my roommate and fellow cast member Lila’s birthday party to be exact. He was sitting at the bar drinking lemonade, I sat down beside him and ordered the same. Because Lila was only 18 at the time, there was no alcohol available for anyone not that I drank much anyway.

“Lemonade hey, good choice.” The man sitting beside me, said in an English accent, as he nodded towards my untouched glass.

“Yeah, I always appreciated good lemonade.” I admitted, smiling at him, he looked rather familiar but so did everyone else in the party, after all we had all been actors and singers. The accent should have tipped me off though.

“I’m Liam” he reached his hand over for me to shake.

“Jay.”I introduced myself.

“You’re not American.” He pointed out.

“I’m Australian” I said in my Aussie accent.

“There it is.” He said

I usually speak in an American accent, it helps me when I’m acting because my characters are all American, and I like to practice in my everyday conversations, behind camera.

“You’re Liam Payne.” It finally clicked! How could I have been so stupid? I loved One Direction ever since they became famous.

“Last time I checked, yes I am” he laughed, just liked I remembered from watching him on television, his laugh was really cute.

“You’re on the show with Lila aren’t you?” obviously he just clicked as to who I was.

“Yeah that’s me.”

“I’ve watched an occasional episode.”

This extremely attractive young man came and sat next to Liam, I couldn’t keep my eyes off of him, his shirt hugged his fit body, his hair was messy in a sexy on purpose kind of way, he was wearing black jeans and a blue long sleeved button up shirt, suspenders and a bow tie.

“Oh hello there” he said to me, when I was spotted, his smiled one of the sexiest smiles I had ever seen.

“Hey, I’m Jay” I introduced myself, playing with my blonde hair, something I always did when I was nervous.

“I’m Louis” oh yes, the man before my eyes was the same man that I had fantasised over as a teenager, I had posters of him on my walls he was most definitely my favourite of the band, and my heart couldn’t stop racing for the entire duration of this moment.

“It’s really nice to meet you.” I told him with full honesty, sipping my lemonade; unlike Liam I did not have a straw to sexily play with it with my tongue, in a desperate attempt to impress him.

“I’ll say” he winked at me, and would not stop staring at me.

Liam could tell that we were no longer paying attention to him and excused himself, Louis moved into Liam’s vacant seat.

“You have the most amazing blue eyes I have ever seen” was the first compliment he ever gave me.

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I pumped up the music; I had changed into something a little more comfortable, some gym shorts, and a singlet, that I usually wore to work whenever we had choreography to rehearse. Liam was sipping lemonade from a bendy straw; we were taking a break from packing up my kitchen. I didn’t have too many items in there, so we thought it would be the easiest thing to start with. I had been dancing around like I was in a music video, Liam watched and laughed but did not join in, he was too busy being responsible and packing up my things.

“You do realise, that once you’ve moved in that nights like last night will become the norm.” he asked me, wrapping the last of my wine glasses with newspaper.

“Yeah, bring it on although it’s going to be less fun every single time, the fatter I get, the lazier I’ll become” I quickly finished packing the very few spoons I owned because I knew he wouldn’t touch those.

“Then there’ll be a baby to worry about, we’ll have to do it all on mute.” He joked, passing me the remainders of my cupboard contents, and I carefully placed them into the cardboard boxes.

“So what’s next?” I asked him because my kitchen was practically empty.

“Pick a room and we’ll go from there.”

Now my apartment was pretty big, although I only used half of the rooms, the other half were used to store my many clothes.

“How about the bathrooms?” I suggested, and yes I said bathrooms plural.

When we finished packing up my bathrooms it was already 2am, way too late for Liam to go home, so it was decided that he would stay the night.

“Do you have a spare blanket I could use?” he asked me, making his way to the media room, where my lounge chairs were located.

“Just stay in my room.” I told him, uneasiness showed on his face at the thought of sharing a room with his mate’s pregnant girlfriend.

“Alright.” He finally answered me, and he unwillingly followed me towards my bedroom.

“Don’t worry I’m not going to rape you, silly. We’re going to sleep.” I promised, and I meant it, I have no idea why he was so worried.

“I know.” He assured me, jumping into bed beside me; he made sure there was as much space as possible between us. I chuckled but soon drifted off into a sleep.

The alarm on my phone woke us both up, I looked down at how we were embraced, Liam had his whole body wrapped around mine, and he sprung off of me as quick as I’ve ever seen him move before!

“Relax, we were sleeping who cares.” I tried to calm him down, but he was standing on the other side of the room still embarrassed by what had happen.

“Lou will care.” He snapped, but I could understand where he was coming from.

“Well I’m not worried so snap out of it.” I made my bed and went out into the kitchen. Liam took a little longer but when he surfaced he had his bag packed and his shoes on.

“I’ve got to go home and get ready for the signing, I’ll see you tonight yeah?” he kissed me on the cheek, and left me alone in my apartment.

The dress Mel ordered for me to wear tonight came an hour after Liam’s departure. In the late afternoon, I opened the case and inspected the dress, it was a white floor length straight gown, with a train, my back was fully exposed, but it hugged my figure nicely, and I did like the elegance it brought to me when I wore it.

Inside my bedside drawers, I found a jewellery box, inside it were the silver earrings, Lou gave me for our anniversary, they dangled from my ears, and I pulled my hair back into an elegant up do hairstyle. I felt beautiful, the complete and total opposite than the way I had felt yesterday. I slipped into my dress and inspected myself in the mirror.

A knock at my front door startled me, but I hurried to answer it all the same.

“You look amazing.” Lou announced when I opened the front door, behind him Niall stood, nodding in agreement.

“Thanks!” I invited them in to inspect their outfits.

Lou wore black trousers, with a white shirt, black striped suspenders, bow tie and the hat I jokingly added into his order, which I must admit really suited him.

Niall wore a black suit, and a white tie, I picked out for him, he looked so good! I was really proud of myself for being able to pick out outfits that actually looked great on them.

“Are you ready?” Lou asked taking me by the arm.

I nodded and grabbed hold of Niall with my free arm, and we made our way downstairs to the limo.