An unexpected love || Ant x Stephen

Comittment Fright - Chapter Fourteen

It's been a couple of weeks since ant came out to his mother and he was so happy with the amount of support she's given both him and Stephen. She keeps asking ant 'when will she get to meet Stephen..properly' though, ant didn't know whether stephen was ready for this big a step...he didn't know if he was ready for this step.

He knows his mother has met him before, but that was only a five minute conversation years ago on the BGT tour, when they went to newcastle. He knew his mam had seen him on BGMT and on SNT, but the younger man acts slightly differently on TV a bit more up beat, to say the least.

He's never worried this much about introducing a partner to his mum, given most the time they were girlfriends who, deep down, he knew he never really liked, or saw future with. When it came down to stephen, he could see a future with him, he did really love him.

a few days later, he brought this up in a conversation with the younger man. "hey stevie?" he said as they were setting the table for dinner. "yeah?" stephen looked at the geordie man as he replied. "don't freak out.." ant started to say, which made stephen stop what he was doing, and look up at ant with a worried expression. "what did you do?" he said instantly, which made ant laugh slightly "nothing. i haven't done anything" stephen sighed in relief "then what is it?" he asked, still slightly anxious, he didn't know what ant thought he was going to freak out over, but surely it couldn't be a good thing.

"well...my mam wants to meet you" ant said hesitantly, not sure how the other man was going to react. "oh" was all stephens brain could come up with at the time, he started nodding along with what ever came out of his mouth "really?" he tried his best not to show how much he was actually freaking out because he didn't want ant to worry. "cool...cool" he said, his brain couldn't come up with anything better too say. "um would you excuse me, i need to go to the bathroom" he said as ant nodded.

He went up to ants bathroom, because he was staying at ants house that night. He shut the door, locked it, and slid down onto the floor, he pulls his knees to his chest and starts panicking.

He thought that the main part would be saying 'i love you.' He completely forgot about actually meeting ants parents. He got up and walked over to the mirror and just stood there staring at his reflection when he said under his breath "this is...getting real"

Stephen hasn't really been in a long term relationship before. He's never been in a relationship that lasted long enough to say 'I love you' let alone meeting parents. He doesn't know how to deal with this, or what to do or say when meeting parents.

He knows, he's already met ants mother once, but again that was for about 5 minutes on the BGT tour when they went to Newcastle, but this would be for more than just 5 minutes, it would be a full evening, and all Stephen could think was 'holy shit- this is real'

It got to the point where Stephen couldn't breath properly, he started hyperventilating, and he sat straight back down on the floor, trying to control his breathing when he heard a knock on the door.

"Stevie?" He hears a faint Geordie accent say through the door. Stephen try's to catch his breath enough to say something to ant but he physically can't. "Stephen? You okay?" The man's tone instantly changed to worry when Stephen didn't say anything.

Stephen stood up and looked into the mirror holding onto the sink for dear life, just staring at his own reflection, he's froze In the same spot. Still hyperventilating. He couldn't decide whether to tell ant something was wrong or not, either way in this moment he couldn't, he physically couldn't say anything.

He just stood there, holding the sink, trying to get his breathing under control. Ant started to get more and more worried, just standing outside the bathroom door, waiting for a reply. When he never got one. He kept knocking the door. "Stephen? Can you open the door?" Ant asked worried, Stephen faintly nodded to himself, he stood where he was for a moment then took a few steps forward and unlocked the door and walked back over to the sink, as ant opened the door to see Stephen leaning on the sink, he went to walk over as Stephen tried to stand up straight. He fell over and passed out in ants arms.

Ant picked up the younger man and brought him into his bedroom, he laid him down on the bed and put a blanket over him. He went down stairs to the kitchen grabbed a glass of water and got a wet towel to put on Stephens head.

He went back up to his room, he put the glass of water on the bedside table next to stephens side of the bed and then gently laid the wet towel on Stephens forehead. He sat by the side of the bed till Stephen woke up.

*time skip*

Stephen had been out cold for a couple of hours. When he finally woke up it was about 9 o'clock in the night and ant had fallen asleep in the chair Next to the bed, but had woken up by Stephen moving in the bed.

"Stevie!!" He said happily but also very worried. "What...what happened?" Stephen asked sounding a bit tired and slightly out of breath. All he can remember was sitting on the bathroom floor, ant walking into the bathroom then next thing he knows, he wakes up in bed. He wasn't sure whether it was a weird dream or not.

"You passed out.." ant said nervously, he still didn't know what was going on with Stephen right now. "Stephen, what happened?" Stephen didn't know how to react or what to say, so he just shrugged his shoulders. "Listen if this is about me mention my mam wanting to meet you, we don't have to do that yet. I just thought I should tell you, make you aware." Ant looked at Stephen even more worried when he shifted slightly away when the older man mentioned meeting his mother.

"I..." he didn't know where this sentence was going but he wanted to give ant an explanation "it just hit me..." he said looking at the wall in front of him, instead of at ant. "What hit you?" Ant asked, not knowing how to feel right now. "How real all of this is..." Stephen continued "listen-" Stephen started worried to continue. Ant didn't know he hasn't been in a long term relationship and he didn't know how the other man would react.

"I've never been in a long term relationship....I've never said 'I love you' to a guy...Let alone meet his mother." Stephen said reluctantly, nervous waiting for the other man's response. He just chuckled, Stephen was very confused "what?" He said, as ant continued to chuckle lightly "stevie. You could've just told me. Meeting my mam isn't as scary as your brain is telling you it is. It's literally going to be you, me and my mam having dinner and her telling embarrassing story's about me from when I was 5" ant said laughing a bit more, which made Stephen laugh as well.

"What if she doesn't like me...?" The younger man asked. "How could she not! I mean I love you, and so will she! I promise" ant said smiling, and as he said that one sentence, Stephen face started to turn red with embarrassment. "I'm an idiot" Stephen said "sometimes, yeah." Ant said laughing. "But not this time, everyone gets nervous meeting parents, especially for the first time."