The Tommos (3)

The Eve

"Morning," Lou greeted me when I woke up, I opened my eyes to face my lover who was leaning over me, a smile freshly planted on his delicate lips. I had to smile back at him, he always made me smile no matter what mood I was in.

"Hey babe" I responded and took his hand into mine.

"Guess what today is?" he asked and I tried to think of whatever he had in mind.

"What is it?" I asked curiously. He laughed and handed me my blackberry. I instantly sat up in bed to scroll through my day planner, obviously there was something I was forgetting, either that or he was pulling some sick joke!

"Oh my gosh! Tomorrow's the twins birthday!" I gasped and Louis started to laugh.

"Remember this time last year?" he asked and I shuddered. Did I really want to remember that? I mean those hours I spent in labour were horrific!

"Couldn't forget it if I tried." I admitted and started to life myself from the bed. Sneaky thing he was, grabbed straight onto my hand and pulled me back towards him.

"Lou," I said sternly, he gave me a whimpering look.

"Jay" he teased and smiled like a child.

"I have to get up, and ready!"

"But their birthday isn't until tomorrow, we can have some Mummy and Daddy time first." He winked and I groaned. Why did he have to be so attractive to me right now?

"You know you want to" he whispered sexily, I looked down at his bare chest, my heart started beating faster, yet I knew I had to pass on his offer.

"I can't" I insisted, so he pulled away from me, at first I thought he was angry at me but it didn't take him long to prove me wrong. He started undressing, he first removed his pyjama trousers, followed by his boxers. He knew I would be watching him, he knew how this would make me feel and It only made him feel better about himself.

"Tonight!" he called from our bathroom and I shook my head with a giggle.

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"Hello, my gorgeous boys!" I greeted the twins, they were sitting in their high chairs, they were jumping around at the site of me, Lottie was sitting down at the table her head rested on the timber surface. She didn't look too great to put it nicely.

Rebecca wasn't even in the kitchen in fact Liam and Harry were the ones who were responsible for feeding the twins this particular morning.

"Where's aunty Tamy?" I asked Connor but he didn't really know what I was talking about, so his uncle Liam answered for him.

"She's in the shower." He told me before choo choo training a spoonful of porridge into little Nick's mouth.

"Oh right, so Liam you aren't keeping any more secrets from me are you?" I asked and he shook his head.

"No, I promise there's nothing going on." He answered without any hesitation.

"You'd tell me if there was wouldn't you?" I asked him once more, I knew I was starting to get annoying but I couldn't help it, I just hated being kept out of the loop!

"Jay I'm dating your sister and that's all there is to know." He looked me in the eye as he said it this time and the sinking feeling I had in my stomach slowly faded away. I would always be wary about this relationship that they shared but as long as they were honest with me I knew I'd be able to deal with it.

"Jay, can I um talk to you for a minute?" Harry interrupted us, Liam gave me a strange look I guess he still thought that the pair of us had feelings for each other. I nodded at Harry, gave one last look at Liam before I followed him out the door.

He kept walking all the way down the hallway, we passed the lounge room, the spare bedrooms and the downstairs bathroom. Yet he stopped at the very end of the hall and whisked me into the laundry, closing the door behind us. I felt a little uncomfortable for a second, not knowing what he was going to say.

"Jay, I don't know what to do about Bec." He started and I sighed a sigh of relief.

"Oh well you know you could just tell her how you feel?" I laughed, feeling a bit nervous.

"But I don't know what she'll say!" he admitted. I couldn't believe this he was just going to give up on a girl before she even gave him a chance? This did not sound like the Harry I was used to. He didn't even hide his feelings for his best friends fiancé way back when and yet here he had a crush on the nanny and he was pausing before he'd even pressed play!

"Harry! What are you afraid of?" I asked as I placed my hands upon his shoulders.

"I don't know."

"I'm going to tell her tonight if you don't." I threatened, a scared little boy revealed himself on Harry's face and I knew that I'd struck gold this time.

"I mean it" I promised and opened the laundry door. I quickly let myself out and wandered back down the hall to find Lou was already in the kitchen alongside Liam and Tamy too.

"Well, well, well. Wifey have you been shagging poor Harry again?" Lou teased before giving me a hug.

"A lady never reveals her suitors." I teased back at him. He let go of me and pretended to be offended.

"Well played wifey." He started to laugh.

"So when's the wedding?" Tamy asked Lottie and the three of us pretended not to listen in.

"Oh we haven't picked a date yet" the two girls started to chatter all about wedding then which made me a bit nervous.

I gave Liam a worried look but he just shrugged it off. I honestly don't know what happened to our friendship, we used to tell each other everything, we used to have this unbreakable bond but now it felt like we were strangers, two people who had never met before and I hated it.

"So what are we doing for these cheeky buggers birthdays?" Louis asked as he picked Connor up. I didn't want to admit it but I always suspected that Connor was his favourite.

"Spoil them rotten of course" Liam suggested and took Nick out of his high chair.

"I think we can manage that" I agreed with him and he smiled at me just like he used to.

This was the moment when Penny decided to walk into the kitchen. Now I thought Lottie looked rough but poor Penny looked much, much worse.

"Do I look as bad as I feel?" she asked and none of us answered her. "I knew it!" she exclaimed as she sat down next to Tamy at the table.

"You'll be fine once you have some aspirin in your system." My sister tried to comfort her.

"Or when you get to watch Niall kill your best friend!" Louis joked in the background.

"Shh up Lou!" I scoffed and handed the poor girl her pain killers.

"Oh bite me" he scoffed back at me. 'If there wasn't so many people here' I thought but didn't have the guts to vocalize.

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