“No”, Louis says, crossing his arms and pouting what makes me giggle a little, “Not the whole weekend.”

“Baby, please”, I beg as if him saying no would change anything.

He’s still pouting, rolling his eyes with a sad smile. “Okay. But then I’ll take you out the weekend after.” He whines. “That’s so long. We’ll miss you, Haz.”

I smile and kiss him on his cheek. “I’ll be back before you know it.”

We make out lazily for a few minutes before I sit up, suddenly having a really good idea.
“Why don’t you just come with me?”

He opens his eyes widely, blinking fast. “No.”

I laugh over his dramatic reaction and shrug. “Okay. But I’m pretty sure mum wouldn’t mind taking Jonah for a night and maybe I could show you my favourite childhood places.”

He smiles a little now but I shrug. “But okay, if you don’t want that, then you’ll have to stay here, all alone, without me.”

He slaps my arm softly before crossing his arms again. “You’re so mean.”

I lean over him and kiss him. “Why? Just offering.”

“What if they’ll hate me?”
“You’re so dumb. Nobody could hate you, you’re way too perfect.”

“My perfect boyfriend”, I add afterwards, just because it still feels a little unreal, being able to call him that.

He blushes and smiles. “And they wouldn’t mind having two more guests? I mean Gemma is already bringing her boyfriend and I just don’t want it to be too much.”

I pulled out my phone halfway through his sentence and am now dialling my mum’s number.
“What are you doing?”, Louis asks and frowns.

“Calling my mum. Asking if I can bring my two boys.”
He blushes again and nods.

“Hi, honey”, mum says when she picks up, “How are you?”

“Hi mum, I’m good, thank you.” I smile at Louis and turn on the speaker so he can follow the conversation.

“That’s great. Can’t wait to see you this weekend. Is there any special reason you’re calling or did you actually want to talk to you old and boring mother?”

“Mum”, I whine, “It’s not like I never call. And you’re not old or boring.”

She laughs and I feel Louis putting his head on my shoulder next to me, smiling up at me.

“Okay”, she says, “But what is it that you wanted to talk about? I only planned on cooking vegetarian for you and Gemma and both your rooms are cleaned. I also did not invite any of our annoying friends over."

I can hear Louis laughing next to me quietly so I turn to him and he looks at me with an amused grin.

“Don’t laugh at me”, I whisper and poke my tongue out at him what makes him chuckle again.
“Harry?”, mum asks and I avert my gaze of Louis to concentrate on the call again.

“Sorry, mum, I was talking to Louis, that’s what I actually wanted to talk to you about.”
“Sure, honey, what is it?”

“Would you mind if I took him and Jonah with me next weekend?”

“No, of course not, you don’t even have to ask, lovely. I can’t wait to meet them.”

I look at Louis who’s smiling brightly and smile back.
“Thank you, mum, see you on Friday.”

“See you, Harry, I love you.”
I mumble a quick “Love you too” before hanging up and turn to face Louis.

“What did I tell you?”
“The truth.”

We chuckle and kiss before he sits up. “I’m so nervous, the last time I met my partner’s parents I had to tell them, I impregnated their daughter.”

I slap my hand in front of my mouth to hide my laughter but he tears it away with his hand. “You look beautiful when you laugh, stop covering your mouth, I don’t like it.”

I laugh quietly, without covering my mouth because he’s still holding my hands in his. “Yeah, like that better, my beautiful boy.”

~~~

“I think I’ll die”, Louis whispers so we don’t wake up Jonah who’s asleep on the backseat, “I will actually die.”

I chuckle quietly and take his hand before placing both of ours on his thigh.
“It’ll be fine, I promise, babe.”

I pull into our street, seeing the familiar yards and houses. “You have like two hundred meters to prepare yourself.”

“Drive slow.”
I smile and stop the engine, leaning over to press a kiss to his lips. “You’ll do great.”

I walk around the car to open the door for him before handing him his crutches and then open the backdoor and lean down to Jonah, curled up into his car seat. “Honey, we’re there”, I whisper and he slowly pats his eyes open and smiles.

“Finally. Didn’t even sleep. Now I meet your mummy.”

I smile. “Yes, and my stepdad and sister.”
I unbuckle him and he climbs out of the car, running to stand next to Louis.

“What’s a stepdad?”
Louis frowns, obviously thinking of how to explain it to him. “If two people divorce and one of them marries another men, the new partner is the child’s stepdad.”

“A replacement dad?”
I chuckle quietly and take Jonah’s hand as we walk up the drive. “The new parent doesn’t replace the old one, it’s more like an extra. It’s really cool, actually.”

“So, if you and daddy marry, you’re my stepdad?”

I smile softly. “If we ever did that, yes. I could also be your stepdad while only being Louis’ boyfriend, that depends on you, love. I could also just stay your friend; you don’t need to think about that yet.”

He smiles. “And you call your stepdad ‘daddy?”
“No”, I say, “I call him Robin, but he’s still like my dad.”

“Confusing”, Jonah determines and I laugh. “I know, love, it really is. But now lets ring the bell and meet them, shall we?”

He nods and goes on tiptoes to press the little button on the outside of the door. I take Louis hand and press it two times before Gemma opens the door, smiling warmly.

“Hi”, she says and smiles, “Come in, they are still in a rush to get dinner ready.”

She laughs and bends down to Jonah. “Hi, Jonah, I’m Harry’s sister, Gemma.”

“Hi, Gemma. I’m Hazzies friend, but he’s also like my stepdad because he’s my dad’s boyfriend but I don’t need to think about that.”

She laughs. “Sounds really cool.”

She then faces Louis. “Hi. Nice to meet you.”

“Hi”, Louis says, “Nice meeting you as well. I’m Louis, but you probably already know that.”

“I do, Harry ranted to me over how cute you were for like three weeks before your accident happened.”

Louis laughs and Gemma turns to hug me. “Hello, brother.”

“Hello, sister, where are our lovely parents?”

She laughs and rolls her eyes. “Having trouble cooking something vegetarian and child friendly so I suggested to order pizza but they’re still trying to find the phone number on the website, it’s all big chaos, Tyler is inside trying to help them.”

We all take of our shoes before walking into the kitchen where mum immediately jumps up, smiling as she sees us.
“Hi, I’m so sorry, didn’t hear the bell ring.”

“Hi, no problem”, Louis says and mum immediately hugs him. “So nice to finally meet you, Louis.”

“Thank you for having us.”
Louis walks inside the kitchen to greet Tyler and Robin as mum kneels down to face Jonah.

“Hi, Jonah, it’s very nice meeting you too.”

“Hi, Harry’s mum”, he says and shyly hides his face behind my legs.

“You can call me Anne, dear. Are you hungry? We’re ordering pizza, do you like that?”

Jonah nods quickly. “Yeah. Daddy orders pizza all the time.”

Louis laughs and shakes his head. “Don’t expose me like that, baby, they don’t have to know.”

Mum just laughs and points to Jeffrey and Stacey in Jonah’s arms. “And who are those?”

“My cats. He’s still a baby so you gotta be careful”, Jonah starts explaining and I walk over to Louis.

Gemma and Tyler are setting the table while Robin finally calls the restaurant, mum is talking to Jonah so I press a quick kiss to his lips. “Told you they’d like you, didn’t I?”

He nods happily. “Yeah. Thank you Haz.”

~~~

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