September 28 1997

"Bye mummy! Love you!" Louis waved from his new desk as his mum left. It was his first day of primary school, and to say he was excited would be an understatement. He'd been counting down the days for months.

Jay smiled back, waving at her sweet son before leaving, hoping he loved it as much as he thought he would.

Louis hummed happily, swinging his short little legs that didn't quite touch the ground, as he sat waiting for his table partner, (and hopefully new friend!) to arrive. After what felt like ages, but in reality was only about three minutes, Louis was growing bored of waiting. Where was his table partner?! He had to find him! Not looking where he was going, the young boy clambered off his chair and turned, his small body slamming into a slightly larger one.

"Oops!" He giggled, steadying himself.

"Hi." A shy voice replied.

Louis looked up, his cornflower blue eyes meeting a dazzling pair of emerald green ones. He blushed and quickly looked down. "I'm Louis." He said, avoiding eye contact as he held out his hand.

"Harry." The other boy responded quietly.

Louis immediately looked back up at him, his eyes sparkling with excitement as he smiled. "You're my table mate!"

Harry grinned, dimples appearing on his rosy cheeks as Louis showed him the table they were to share, babbling on and on about how he didn't have any siblings yet, but wanted a sister. He also learned that Louis had 23 superhero figurines at home, and that he had a cherry tree in his backyard. He learned that there was a pigeon that lived in his window sill that wouldn't leave, and he'd ended up naming it Kevin. He learned that Louis hated the color brown, and well... lots of other things. Louis just kept talking, and Harry just kept listening. He didn't mind though, he liked listening. He was the quiet type anyway,and Louis' voice could make arithmetic seem interesting quite honestly.

"Okay class," their teacher Ms. Teasdale eventually spoke, "I have a special first assignment for you all." The class of five year olds immediately started listening. "For your assignment I'm going to give you all fifteen minutes to draw a picture of what you would like to be when you grow up." She explained. "Any questions?"

Louis raised his hand. "Can I use my crayons?"

Ms. Teasdale chuckled a bit, "Of course," she glanced at his nameplate, "Louis."

He grinned happily, and immediately started drawing on the blank paper that sat in front of him. As they worked on their pictures, Louis continued to talk Harry's ear off about anything and everything that came to his mind.

When fifteen minutes had passed, it was time for the class to present their pictures. Louis was first.

"Hi! I'm Louis and when I grow up I want to be two things!" He grinned proudly holding his picture in the air. "I want to be a teacher... but even more, I want to be a dad!" He explained pointing to the picture he was holding. It was a drawing of a stick figure family. There were two men in the middle, one with obvious curly hair, and they were surrounded by lots of children. "This is my future family!" He explained.

"Where's the mummy?" One boy asked, looking at the picture.

"There's two daddies." Louis explained innocently.

"But there can't be two daddies! There has to be a mummy!" The boy argued.

"Yes there can!" Louis exclaimed angrily. "This one is me, and this one is Harry!"

Harry blushed from his seat, a small smile on his face. He'd only just met the boy, and he already thought he was the sweetest little creature in the universe.

"No there can't!" A little girl chimed in.

Confused, angry tears welled up in poor Louis' eyes as he didn't know how to respond.

"Look what you did! You made him cry!" Harry exclaimed standing up in his seat. "Stop being meanies! There can be two daddies!"

Louis smiled a little, a silent thank you to Harry.

"Harry's right." Ms. Teasdale spoke, coming and putting a hand on Louis'  tiny shoulder. "We need to all be nice and love each other."

Louis sniffled and wiped his nose with the back of his chubby little hand, before walking back to his seat.

"It's okay Louis, I thought your picture was very nice." young Harry whispered.

Louis nodded a little. "Thanks..." he mumbled.

"Do you really think we will be dad's together?" The curly haired child asked.

Louis nodded again. "We're gonna get married one day, I know it." He responded with a small smile.

And Harry believed him.

Sorry for such a short chapter! Getting back into the groove of writing is kind of hard! Hope you enjoyed their first moment together, I always imagined young Louis to be very blunt and open-minded so... yeah :) Please leave feedback and comments!! It makes my day! And as always.. if you enjoyed, please vote!!

Love you all!!!!!! xx

Sunnie