Strong

Practically adults

(Just pretend the legal age to marry in Ireland is sixteen.)
Dec's POV
I woke up to my phone ringing and I had to pry myself out of Ants warm arms to answer it but I didn't check the caller ID, "hello?" I say very tired while looking at the clock which says 3:46am, "Oh my god, Declan Donnelly where the hell are you two?" My mom yells through the phone, I sigh and sit up, "we're fine mum" I say trying to calm her down, doesn't work, "where are you?" She says sternly and puncuating every word, "Scotland" I lie, "Scotland?" She whispers, "mhm...me and Anth...we're okay mam" I say quietly, "Declan, come home now, you've had your fun and now you need to bring yourself home and Anthony back to his parents" she says getting angry, "no ma, we're 16 and you can't make us do anything! Ant and I are just fine on our own, we're not coming back" I say putting her on speaker phone because I'm to tired to hold the phone anymore, "Declan Joseph Oliver Donnelly, you and Anthony are coming back to England if I have to come and get you myself" she says loudly making Ant wake up, speaker phone was a bad idea, "Decks? Who ya talkin to?" He says rubbing his eyes and my mam heard him, "Anthony! You bring my son home NOW!" She yells, and Ant sighs and looks at me and kisses my
Cheek, it's Ant's turn to take control now, "no, Mrs. Donnelly, Declan and I are staying here, we're going to get married soon" he says and my eyes go wide and a stupid smile spreads over my face as I hug him from my spot behind him, "like hell you are! You two are 16 and my son is coming home" she says and hangs up. 10 minutes later Ant comes back from the little shop down the road, why they're open at 4am is beyond me, "here baby" he says handing me a soda and some crisps, "did you mean it?" I say opening my coke, he smiles and nods, "if you want to...I want to marry you more than anything Dec" he says smiling and I smile and nod, "yeah, of course I want to marry you Anth." The next morning I wake up to an empty bed but I hear the shower running so I jump up and sneak into the bathroom, I slip into the shower and wrap my arms around Anth, "mornin' love" he says turning around to me, I kiss him. We're dressed and walking around Dervock and Ant sees a "Help Wanted" sign in a shop, "reckon I should get a job?" He asks looking down at me, "we probably both should" I say sadly, I see a calender in a shop window and notice that it's September 23rd, my birthday is in 2 days, I sigh. I'm waiting on a bench outside of that shop waiting for Ant to finish applying for that job he wanted, he comes out of the back room smiling, "I start Monday" he says hugging me. Back in the hotel I was using my phone to reasearch legal marriage age in Ireland and Luckily it was 16 years old, "Anth, we should go down to the courthouse" I say excitedly, he nods not even asking why. At the courthouse and after a lot of paper work and signing things we can finally bring our papers to the lady at the desk, she smiles at us and checks over our papers, "are you two absolutely sure?" She asks, we look at eachother and smile then look back at the lady, "yes ma'am" Ant says, she signs something and then we hear the great news, "congradulations boys, you two are now legaly bonded as husband and husband" she smiles and gives us our marriage certificate, wow I'm actually married to Ant.