If I Fell (narry)

Ocean eyes

"I.." Harry freezes, he tries to think of something to say but he couldn't. Maybe answering truthfully is the right thing to do. "I do—"

"Oh! I didn't know we were going to have visitors." Liam looks around the room awkwardly.

"Yeah, sorry." Niall swallows hard, he could feel the tension in the room and he hated it. "This is Liam, my mate, who also lives here. Liam, these are my parents."

"Lovely to meet you." Liam smiles politely. "I love living with your son, he's the kindest flatmate I've ever had, no offense Haz."

"Thank you for letting him live here, we appreciate it." Maura smiles at him.

"It was Harry's idea, thank him." He chuckles, he didn't want to take credit for Niall having a roof over his head. "They will make great parents, I tell you. They're both very responsible." He wanted to assure them that both lads were doing well.

"I see," Maura eyes Harry. "Thank you."

"Have you eaten? I can whip something up." Liam looks between them all.

"I'd love that."

"We already ate, thanks."

Both Maura and Bobby stare at each other, not believing what the other had said. They turn back to Liam and smile.

"Sure," Maura finally agrees.

"Great!" He claps his hands together. "Zayn, come help me mate."

"Okay." Zayn follows him to the kitchen, he was glad Liam had asked for his assistance, he couldn't be in that room any longer. He was very uncomfortable.

"Why don't you two sit?" Bobby asks Niall and Harry who stood there looking like statues.

"Does your parents know? About Niall?" Maura asks Harry as soon as he sits down.

Harry wets his lips and nods. "My mum and sister know." He pauses. "My father doesn't."

"Why not?" The older man leans back on the sofa.

"I haven't seen him." He simply says.

"You didn't see him during the holidays?" Maura cocks her brow at him.

"Ma," Niall shakes his head at her, why were they acting like detectives who were trying to solve a crime?

"No, he lives too far. I wasn't able to travel to go see him," He then quickly adds. "My parents split up when I was a young kid."

"Ah okay." Bobby nods in an understanding way.

"How exactly did you two meet?" Maura asks. "How did it happen?" She was genuinely curious.

Niall blushes, this was a conversation he did not want to have with his parents. Not because of how he had slept with Harry the same day they kinda met but because he's going to have to explain to them he was high when it happened. "Well,"

"I think what your mother is asking, how did you end up sleeping together? Last time we talked, you were straight. It's not that we have a problem with you being with a man but we're genuinely confused." Bobby scratches his head.

"Harry was uh tipsy and I was high." He says quickly, he hoped they understood him he didn't want to repeat himself, he bites down on his lip.

"Hang on! What do you mean you were high?" Maura gasps. "Since when do you smoke?"

"You smoke and you slept with a lad?" He looks at his son, was there something else he didn't know about him?

"I was stressed and I was introduced to it, I only smoked a few times." Niall gives Harry a side glance and noticed a small smirk. Asshole.