Unexpected Love

Chapter Forty Five

"Good morning! Settle down, please! I know it has been a few weeks since you were last here but let's try to remember the rules!" I called out, trying to get the children to sit in their seats. "Right, before we start, would anyone like to tell us what they got up to over the summer?" I asked, looking around the room for the inevitable hands to shoot up. "Yes, Clara?"

"I went to Spain with my family," she answered, smiling as she thought about her trip.

"That sounds great, would anyone else like to share?"

"I played Xbox and hung out with my friends," Jack called out, high fiving the person next to him. This continued for a few more minutes before I shushed them to get their attention again. I was about to ask them to open their textbooks when Darcy raised her hand. "Yes, Darcy?"

"How was your summer, Mr Tomlinson?" I fiddled with the ring on my finger, debating whether I should tell them.

"Well, I actually have some exciting news to tell you all. My partner and I went to Paris," I started, earning an 'aw' from some of the children, "it was here that he proposed to me," I said, showing them my ring.

"Congratulations, sir!" members of the class replied, talking amongst themselves as they processed what they had been told.

"Thank you, thank you. Now let us get back to work, we have a busy year ahead!"

***

"How was your first day back?" Harry asked, taking a bite out of his dinner.

"It was good, felt nice to be back. The children know about this," I said, pointing to my ring finger.

"How did that go?"

"Really well, they were all pretty happy. I had to answer questions about it all day," I laughed, remembering how quickly the news spread around the school.

"Any negative comments?"

"A couple," I nodded, "but nothing that I put much thought into. The children would love to meet you, you know."

"Really? Why?"

"I don't know, maybe you could come in on Future's Day next week and talk about physiotherapy?" He nodded, agreeing to the idea.

***

"Sir, who's that?" Jack asked, pointing over to Harry who was sat in my chair as I stood in front of the class.

"Well, if you could all be quiet, I was about to explain," I said, waiting for the class to settle down. I gestured for him to join me at the front, and he nervously got up and stood beside me. "I'd like you all to meet Mr Styles. He is here to talk to you about what it is like to be a physiotherapist," I explained, "does anybody have any questions for our visitor?"

"What is a physiotherapist?" Clara asked, looking at Harry for an answer.

"Um, a physiotherapist is someone that helps people who have been injured, have an illness or a disability," he replied, looking at me for reassurance.

"How do you help them?" Olivia asked.

"So that can be done through physical rehabilitation, injury prevention, and health and fitness," he answered, "we can use exercise, manual therapy, education and advice."

"And how did you become a physiotherapist?" I asked, trying to make Harry relax.

"I had to go to university for three years before I qualified."

"Why did you study it?" Georgia-Rose asked, joining in the discussion.

"I always enjoyed helping people, and I wanted to be a physio ever since I was at school. I get to use some pretty cool equipment and I work with lots of different types of people." I smiled at Harry, I loved hearing him talk about something he was so passionate about. The conversation continued for another ten minutes, and Harry become more confident with his answers.

"That's all the time we have for today, can we say a big thank you to Mr Styles for coming and talking to you all?" I asked, hearing the class clap for Harry. As he was about to leave, I noticed Oscar had his hand up. He hadn't joined in with the discussion at all, so I was interested to hear what he wanted to say. "Yes, Oscar, do you have a final question before Mr Styles leaves?" I asked, looking over at the timid boy in the corner.

"Is Mr Styles your boyfriend?" Harry and I looked at each other, smiles beginning to spread across our faces. The class gasped, turning to each other to express their surprise.

"Yes, this is Harry," I answered, trying to get the attention of my students back.

"He's hot!" a girl at the back of the class shouted, earning a laugh from some of the other students.

"We won't be having any of that, thank you!" I said, raising my voice a little. Harry smirked at me before he left the room and I continued with my lesson.

***

'Can you and Louis come over tomorrow afternoon please? Maya and I would like to talk to you both' Harry read out, showing me the text from Liam. I shrugged, agreeing that we would go over the next day. "What do you think it's about?" Harry asked me as we laid in bed, trying to get to sleep.

"I don't know, but it sounds important. Good night, I love you."

"I love you, too." After hearing Harry's voice, I snuggled into my duvet, falling sleep instantly.

"Harry, wake up, Liam text asking where we are!" I shouted, causing him to wake up suddenly.

"What? What time is it?"

"Early afternoon, you must have been tired," I laughed, watching as he stumbled out of bed, still groggy from his heavy sleep.

"Let me shower and get dressed then we'll go." The drive over was quiet, the leaves were beginning to turn orange and red, it was my favourite time of year. As we arrived at Liam's flat, I noticed Zayn's car parked outside, suggesting that he was here too. Harry knocked on the door, and Liam greeted us and sat us down in the living room. Niall was there alongside Zayn, so I knew this was going to be an important conversation.

"You're probably all wondering why we asked you here," Liam said, taking Maya's hand in his. We nodded, letting Liam continue. "Well, we've been keeping this a secret for a few weeks now, but we have finally decided to tell everyone. Darling, would you like to do the honours?" Liam asked Maya, who was smiling like crazy next to him.

"We're having a baby!" I jumped up, heading straight for Maya and giving her a hug.

"Congratulations! That's amazing!"

"Thanks, Louis, you're going to be an uncle!"

"I'm obviously going to be the fun uncle," I replied, reaching over to give Liam a hug too.

"Oi, I heard that Tommo, and you're wrong, I will be!" Niall shouted, congratulating Maya and Liam as he did so. The others congratulated them too, and we discovered that she was three months along, meaning that by March we would have a new addition to our little group.

Aw Liam and Maya are having a baby! Can you imagine if this were to happen in real life? They'd make such a cute child!