“Niall where’s the other one? There are two; there should be two of them! Harry and Skye have two babies Niall!” I began to panic the moment I saw only Liza sitting in front of Niall playing with her toys.

Niall eye’s widened and he jumped up glancing around wildly.

“He was just here, I swear. How far can a 15 month old baby get?” He asked weakly as I glared.

“Very far!” I could feel the panic set in. This was the first time Harry and Skye had let us baby-sit without them and we had already lost a child.

“You watch that one and I’ll find the other one.” Niall called before running down the hallways of our house. I sighed and fell down onto the chair, keeping my eyes trained on Liza. She smiled up at me and slowly got to her feet before walking over. I pulled her up to sit next to me as she showed me one of the toy horses she had.

“I’m sure if you bat those eyelashes Daddy will buy you a real one of these you know.” I muttered down to her accepting the horse. “But don’t tell Mummy I gave you that idea okay?”

“Found the little sucker.” Niall suddenly appeared, dangling a giggling Edward upside down. I sighed in relief. “He had wandered into our bedroom.”

Niall fell down on the chair next to me and bounced Ed on his knees; he continued to cackle gleefully as Niall pulled faces. I smiled fondly at my fiancé and rested my head on his shoulder allowing Liza to play with the bracelets on my wrist.

“I am definitely too pregnant for this.” I said softly as my eyelids drooped slightly, I needed a nap. Niall pressed a kiss to my forehead before glancing down at my 8-month pregnant stomach. His hand reached out and gently caressed it, his eyes lighting up.

Liza began to wriggle off the couch pulling my attention away as I helped her down, Edward soon joined her.

“I have to say I am so glad that we are not having twins, I have no idea how Harry and Skye do it.” I groaned falling into Niall’s side as he wrapped an arm around me. “I don’t even know how Skye held two babies in her stomach, like honestly I feel like I’m going to explode with one.”

Niall laughed loudly making the twins turn to stare at him before going back to playing with their toys. He moved slightly so his arm could gently caress my stomach.

“Can’t wait for the sleepless nights.” He murmured into my ear pressing a small kiss underneath it.

“Good then consider yourself volunteered for getting up every night.” I groaned to him snuggling my face further into his neck.

The phone began to ring shrilly as the twins stopped playing to glance at it.

“Just ignore it.” I groaned as Niall moved to grab it. “You know it’s just Skye ringing for like the tenth time in an hour.”

“If we don’t answer it she’ll probably make Harry drive back here to check on us. They need this night out.” Niall explained softly before answering the phone. I sighed and lent my head against Niall’s chest enjoying the feeling of his voice rumbling through it.

“They said they will be here in five minutes.” Niall told me after hanging up the phone. I shifted so my head rested in his lap. He glanced down and ran his fingers through my hair, my eyes closed as I enjoyed the feeling.

“I can’t wait to have this baby, I feel exhausted all the time.” I complained to him softly as his fingers continued their course through my recently short red hair.

Before Niall could answer we both heard the front door open and Harry calling out.

“Living room!” Niall called back before Skye practically bounded into the room and landed down next to her children. I watched her for a moment laughing at how she fussed over them.

“She was the absolute worst at the dinner. You should have seen her! She wanted to face time you just to see them both.” Harry complained as I sat up and Niall got up to greet him.

“Please, like you were much better. Who decided to skip out on dessert so we could come back and get them.” Skye muttered in response as Harry flushed lightly before picking up Elizabeth who had carefully walked towards him holding out her horse.

“Thanks for doing this.” Skye said brightly to me. “How are you doing?”

“Okay, just can’t wait for this little person to get out of me.” I joked with her affectionately rubbing my stomach. She smiled widely and reached a hand across to touch my stomach. Something I had noticed people did a lot of while you were pregnant. Apparently your stomach became public property.

“It’s worth it, promise.” She grinned reaching up to tickle Edward’s side as he continued to ignore her and play with his toys.

“Have you talked to Niall about you know your singing?” She asked me suddenly. My eyes widened as I glanced towards Niall to see him in deep conversation with Harry. “I take that as a no.”

“I don’t how to bring it up.” I shook my head at her. “I know he’s going to think I’m doing this just because I’m having a baby and a part of it is true. But there are other reasons as well. Jacob and Lee understand.

“Still heard nothing from Ander?” Skye asked me softly as I shook my head. Ander had disappeared from my life the moment I announced to everyone I was pregnant. He still kept in contact with Jacob and Lee apparently but Jacob said that he needed space.

I had though he was over his feelings for me but I had assumed wrong. I was worried and felt horrible but Jacob had assured me that he went away saying he needed time to be away and get over it all.

“Ready to go love?” Harry pulled us from our conversation as Skye nodded and began to clean up the twins toys.

“Leave it, Niall will do it.” I told her winking at my fiancé who frowned in response. I pushed myself to the edge of the couch and slowly began to stand up as Niall reached a hand over to help me. I puffed slightly once I was fully standing. I stretched my back out trying to ease the pain slightly before taking the few steps towards the front door to walk Harry and Skye out.

“Harry used to tease me endlessly about the pregnant waddle.” Skye said lightly as she picked up Edward and walked with me towards the door.

“I remember, luckily Niall is too decent to start that.” I teased her as Harry made an indignant noise behind us.

“Thanks again for this guys.” Skye said again before lifting Edward higher in her arms. “Say goodbye to Aunty Tate and Uncle Ni.” I grinned and pressed a kiss to Ed’s cheek before moving to a half asleep Elizabeth still snuggled in Harry’s arms, hand strongly wrapped around the small toy horse.

“What were you and Skye talking about?” Niall asked suddenly after they both left and we headed back to the living room. I sat down as Niall began to clean. I watched him for a moment wondering if now was the right time to bring it up.

“She just asked about Ander.” I decided to say in the end. Not a lie but not the whole truth. Niall glanced over at me before sighing and running a hand through his fading blonde locks. He always tried to let the blonde grow out as much as possible before management made him dye it again. Or rather made Lou dye it again.

“I’m really sorry about that Tate.” I looked up at him amused as he frowned at me.

“It’s not your fault Niall, it’s not anyone’s. We just have to let Ander deal with this all in his own time. He’ll come around, I’m sure of it.” I told her as convincing as I could despite the part of me that had started to believe that maybe Ander was done with the band.

“Now let’s go to bed before I fall asleep on the couch.” I said changing the subject quickly as Niall’s eyebrows began to pull together in worry. Anything but smiles and laughter on Niall’s face shouldn’t be allowed. His face was too beautiful and too innocent to have any other emotion on it. He grinned at me instantly making me return it as I held my hands out to him.

He pushed the rest of the toys to the side before walking over and hauling me to my feet making exaggerated grunting noises as he did. I rolled my eyes and smacked his shoulder before he leaned down and pressed a small kiss to my lips. My eyes fluttered afterwards as I smiled up at him, his hand came to rest warmly against my large stomach.

“Love you.” He whispered softly.

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“I’m fine mum honestly.” I sighed exasperated pushing the drink away from my face.

“You need to keep your fluids up dear.” She reprimanded me as I rolled my eyes at her stubbornly.

“And I am but honestly I’m peeing enough as it is I really don’t want another drink.” She sighed but placed the drink on the table in front of me and took her seat, her hand instantly reaching up to feel my fore head, I groaned and pulled away from her.

“Mum!” A whine fell from my lips as I pouted at her. “Everything is going fine, stop fretting over me.”

“I’m your mother and this is my first grandchild, I’m allowed to worry.” She pouted back at me.

“God, now I know where she gets the pout from.” Nialls’ voice surprised me as I smiled, turning around to see him walking into the room with Jacob, Dad and Thalia.

“Tate and her Mum have always got there way with that pout.” My father said teasingly before pressing a kiss to my head and taking a seat at the table.

“She uses it on me daily.” Niall told my father. I rolled my eyes at him and pulled him into the seat next to me.

“Please tell my mother that I’ve been drinking enough water and all our baby appointments have told us that everything is going fine.” I whined to him as he grabbed onto my hand, thumb stroking the back of mine slowly, calming me down slightly.

“Everything has been going good.” Niall said lightly but I knew how much he treasured every time the doctor said that. This was our first child and we were definitely in over our heads, if it wasn’t for our families and friends we both would have probably had many panic attacks.

I laughed as my mother waved us both off before Jacob changed the subject. I leant my head against Niall’s again feeling drowsiness over take me again. I don’t think I had slept so much in my life than in these last eight months.

“So have you talked to Niall about it yet?” Jacob asked me later as we sat outside in the small backyard. I sighed and shook my head, rearranging the blanket around my legs better.

“You really need to talk about this to him. You are both engaged and about to raise a baby together, you can’t make the most important decision in your life without talking to him about it first.”

“Alright Mr. expert on relationships. Who is currently walking around with a ring in his pocket trying to propose?” Jacob’s eyes jumped to the door making sure no one was coming before glaring at me. I smirked back.

“I’m just trying not to steal your thunder.” Jacob tried to reason.

“Excuses.” I sung back at him, he leaned over and lightly punched my shoulder.

“Seriously though, you and Lee are okay with this decision right?” I asked him softly.

“Yeah, I mean we both have other opportunities open to us and honestly I don’t feel like all our hearts are in this anymore.” I frowned at Jacob and nodded.

“Have you spoken to Ander about this?” I asked him slowly as a pained expression spread across his face.

“I think out of all of us he’s probably the most okay with all of this. He really needs just a clean break.” I frowned at that, it hurt that Ander wouldn’t even talk to me anymore. We had been such good friends for such a long time. “He doesn’t hate you Tate and he doesn’t blame you for anything, he just needs to stay away for awhile and get things sorted out. He’ll talk to you again when he’s ready.”

I nodded at Jacob and allowed him to reach over and squeeze my hand. Niall chose this time to walk out.

“Now.” Jacob said suddenly before standing up and walking past Niall. I stared after him shocked as a nervous feeling bubbled up in my stomach. Niall watched Jacob confusedly before turning back to me.

“Alright, what’s going on?” He said to me suddenly, dropping in Jacob’s now vacant chair. I bit my lip and watched him for a moment. “I know you’ve been dancing around telling me something for a while now Tate. I know you well enough by now. You can’t really lie to me.”

I scrunched my nose up at him before sighing and leaning back in the chair staring out at the backyard, the swing that Niall and Zayn had put together the other day was slowly swinging in the breeze. I smiled fondly at the memory of both highly incapable boys trying to put the pieces together.

“It’s about my music and taking a break.” I told him slowly, glancing up at him as he watched me silently.

“Right. We’ve talked about this and you know the boys won’t mind if we take a break for a bit too so I can be here for our baby as well.” I shook my head at him as he reached out and placed a hand on my stomach.

“I’m not talking about that Niall. I’m talking about taking a break from music kind of permanently.” I said as he glanced up at me alarmed for a moment, jaw falling open and hand sliding from my stomach.

“What do you mean permanently?” He asked slowly, words sounding confused on his tongue.

“I talked to Lee and Jacob and they’ve talked to Ander and we’ve decided to end the band, maybe just for now, we’re not sure. But Saturday’s Rebellion isn’t going to be anymore.” I told him quickly as I watched his mind process it all.

“I said you don’t have to do this you know. It’s going to be hard but we can figure this out. I don’t want you giving up anything and I’m not. You really don’t need to give it up.”

“Niall, listen babe, please. I’m not giving this up because of our baby or because of you. Honestly I’ve been thinking about this for a while. Ander’s been gone for 7 months now and well even before that things were weird. We’re all getting our own families and going our own ways. I’m not saying this is permanent but right now we all need a break and I’ve been talking to Simon about doing some songwriting for him. This is not just a spur of the moment idea love.” I knew the moment the last sentence slipped from my mouth it was the wrong thing to say as Niall’s eyes instantly clouded slightly.

“You’ve been considering this and not telling me about it?” He asked me quietly, I could hear the hurt in his voice. I sighed and sat up better, reaching my hand out to grab onto his hand.

“It’s not like that Ni. I just didn’t know how to tell you. And then I got pregnant and I didn’t want you to think I was doing this because you wouldn’t always be around all the time. I didn’t want you to feel bad about this. This is a decision that I’ve been thinking of making for a while.” I tried to reason with him as he frowned down at our hands.

“You still should have told me Tate. I’m your fiancé and we are about to have a baby. You really need to tell me these things, this is so important Tate and I just want you to be sure that this is what you want.” He said softly, eyes looking up to search in mine. I smiled at him sweetly as my heart swelled in my chest from the adoration in his eyes.

“It honestly is. Touring with the band was great while it lasted. But we weren’t made to last long. And I love writing songs, sometimes more than singing, so being a songwriter and helping other people get the same chance I did sounds like a good way to spend my life right now.” Niall sighed before nodding at me.

“Okay, you’ve obviously thought about this a lot, so okay. You know I’ll stand by you no matter what. Just next time tell me okay. I need to know.” I nodded at Niall and leant forward to press a kiss to his lips. My body relaxed as he took me into his arms. It was a relief to be able to tell Niall everything; it made it all seem real and it was a decision that had definitely made me happy.

“I love you Niall Horan.” I said softly against his lips. “I can’t wait to be your wife.”

Niall’s whole face lit up as he stared down at me and I couldn’t help but feel proud that I was the one who made him that happy.

“I love you too and I can’t wait for this baby to finally be born.” He said rubbing his hand across my stomach. As he did I felt the small kick in return, Niall froze and quickly placed his hand over the spot as our baby kicked again.

“I don’t think it can wait either.” I laughed as Niall’s eyes brightened.

“Definitely going to be a football player doesn’t matter if it’s a girl or boy.” I laughed at him and shook my head reaching up to press a kiss to his lips.

“You’re amazing you know that right?” I teased him as a small blush spread up his cheeks.

“Aye, I guess I am.” He said poking his chest out before laughing and pulling me tightly against him. I sat there and enjoyed the sound of his laughter ringing through the backyard. A sound I knew I would never tire of. I was perfectly content where I was in this moment. Nothing else mattered because for once I really felt like I had it all. Everything was as perfect as I wanted it to be.

Notes

I know how much you all missed Tate and Niall so I hope you enjoyed it!! :D

Also I've caught up to my actual writing so the next update could take up to 1-2 weeks maybe earlier, i just don't know with Uni and I spend longer on these last few chapters because they are longer and I try to get them as perfect as I possibly can. So don't fret if I don't update for a while!

Also guys I should officially announce that I will not be doing a sequel :( I'm really sorry! I just don't have any more ideas or paths to go with this and I would really like to end it on a note where I'm still happy with it. I don't want to push it too far. I'm sorry and incredibly touched that you all would love me to continue writing this but I want to start focusing on some other writings and this book that I've been planning for ages!

I had another story on this site now by the way and it's a Liam story called Beneath Your Perfect. You should all check it out ;D

Love you all! xx