When You Least Expect It (Larry Stylinson)

Chapter 1

Cody let out an annoyed breath as he and Josh walked towards the building, just looking at the dull cement block made him want to run home and play video games. "Mate why do we still go to this?"

Cause your pop thinks it'll help, and I do too, Josh signed as he shrugged to himself, opening the door for the curly haired lad and following him inside. You've been miserable since it happened and this helps a bit, don't you think?

"No," Cody muttered as he rolled his eyes. "Em and I just broke up, it has nothing to do with my deafness so why do we come?"

Would you stop whining for five seconds? These people don't know you and it's a chance to get whatever you want off your chest. Plus I think it helps that they're deaf too. They understand certain stuff on a level that I can't.

"Alright I know you're a psych major or whatever but I don't need your insight and analysis on everything all the time," Cody teased, walking into the room and almost letting out a groan at the sight of the terrible orange plastic chairs that were set up in a circle.

It's not like anyone besides Josh would hear it anyway.

The two took their seats, Cody immediately slumping, crossing his arms over his chest and throwing his head back, wishing he could just go home. He hated that Josh and his pop begged him to go to this and he only did it for them, but it's not like he actually shared anything with the group.

And when Cody felt someone take a seat on the other side of him he didn't even bother to pick his head up, well, that was until he felt someone tapping his shoulder.

He looked over and raised his eyebrows at this stranger, never seeing this guy here before but he was smiling and seemed genuinely excited to be here for whatever reason.

Hi, I'm TJ, he signed happily, offering Cody his hand to shake.

Cody, he signed quickly, shaking his hand and offering him a tight lined smile before looking away from him again.

He felt Josh nudge his side and Cody knew that his mate wanted him to keep talking to this guy but he just didn't feel like it. So of course Josh being his over friendly and charismatic self he reached over Cody and got the guy's attention.

Hey I'm Josh. You new here?

TJ. And yeah, I'm studying to be an interpreter so I thought it'd be fun to come, TJ signed, smiling between the two but Cody still had his head thrown back, paying no mind to them.

"Oh, so you're hearing then?" Josh asked with furrowed eyebrows, the blue eyed lad nodding at him. "I am too, and this is my best mate Cody, he's deaf. Don't mind him though, he just gets cranky whenever we come here," he said and signed, earning a punch to the arm for that one.

"We could be getting drunk but instead you drag me here, so sorry for not being excited," Cody rolled his eyes.

First of all it's like noon so calm down, no one is getting drunk until tonight, Josh rolled his eyes.

He really is quite cranky, TJ signed, making Josh laugh and Cody side eye him. You look really familiar though... Do I know you from somewhere? he asked, his eyes focused on Cody.

You might know his dad, he's Lou-

"No, no, I don't think we've ever met," Cody said quickly, stopping Josh and sending him a silent message.

It's not that he hated that people knew his dad was Louis Tomlinson, it's just that whenever anyone found out they pretended to be his friend to get to his dad and after all these years he was more than sick of it.