hey guys here´s the first chapter of the sequel to my story, Maria and Dougie. Hope you like it. :-)

Maria and Dougie 2

Chapter 1: Christening Party

Maria´s POV:

The church bells were ringing in the background as I watched Tom and Gio coming toward us. Gio was holding their little daughter. Dougie and I were standing in front of the church waiting for them. "Congratulations," I told Gio as they were standing right in front of us. She handed me the little girl and I couldn´t help but smile as I looked down at her. "She really is adorable," I told them, looking up from the baby just for a second to look at her proud parents. Dougie beside me smiled at me as I looked at him. "We better go inside," Tom told Gio and put his hand behind her back and led her inside the white church that they had gotten married in just about a year ago. The minister, a man with gray hair and glasses, walked up to us then and smiled. "We´re ready now," he said and motioned toward the door. As we started walking down the aisle, Dougie grabbed my hand. The girl´s eyes were everywhere in the room, but mostly it was on either me or Dougie.
"What is the child´s name?" the minister asked as we stood in front of the font. I looked down into the eyes of my goddaughter then up at the minister before answering. "Isabella Fletcher."

As we arrived at the place where the party was being held, I was amazed. The building in front of me was the size of a castle. The outside made it look just like an old castle where princesses and princes had lived. Dougie got out of the car and opened my door for me. I was still holding Isabella who I just couldn´t take my eyes off. She was the most beautiful and adorable little baby I´d ever seen; her little amount of brown hair was curling slightly around her round face. "Come on let´s go," Dougie told me with a smile while holding out his hand for me to take, obviously forgetting that I was still holding his goddaughter. He let it fall as soon as he´d realized his mistake. Instead, he just put his hand behind my back and led me forward, up the stairs and through the big double doors to the enormous hall. Gio and Tom were waiting there and Gio immidiately ran over to take Isabella away from me. "My baby," she said and smiled at her. I smiled, too, at that and Gio hugged me still holding Isabella. "Thank you for doing this for me," she said as she pulled away. "What are best friends for? Besides, who could say no to the most adorable baby in the world?" I told her. Dougie was already standing in front of the stairs talking to Tom. Danny and Harry walked in then, they didn´t have any girlfriends to go with anymore. Izzy and Harry had broken up a few months ago and I didn´t really know why. I knew it was actually a mean thing both to Harry, Izzy and Dougie, but I couldn´t help but feel relieved, like a stone, a very heavy stone, had been removed from my chest. It didn´t have anything to do with Izzy, at all. I didn´t really know the reason why I felt like I did.
Danny hadn´t had one in the time that I´d known him.

As Danny walked up to us he had a huge smile on his lips. "What are you so smiley for?" I asked as I couldn´t help but wonder. "Oh nothing," he said though I could see he was lying. I´ll ask him later, I promised myself then. "Come on, just spit it out," Gio told him curiously. "It´s nothing, I swear," he said and held his hands up in the air. Isabella started crying then and Gio immidiately had all her attention on her daughter. She walked off quickly enough. So did Danny. I stood there in the huge hall looking around and then I couldn´t find Dougie. He had been right there talking to Tom before, hadn´t he? Now all I could see was Tom talking his father. I walked a little around searching for him. As I arrived in the living room it wasn´t Dougie that I spotted in the crowd. It was Danny who was flirting massively with this blonde girl who I´d recognized to be Gio ´s younger cousin, Celia and I knew that Gio wouldn´t like this. So maybe this was why he´d been so happy before. The next thing I spotted was Harry flirting with another girl, who I didn´t recognize at all.

"Hey baby," Dougie´s familiar voice whispered sweetly into my ear. "Hey," I told him and turned around. As I looked into his eyes, the most beautiful sea blue eyes in the world, my heart melted and everybody in the room disappeared. He leaned in and kissed me then. It was a sweet kiss that I didn´t want to end. Dougie and I mostly just sat looking into each other´s eyes for the rest of the evening. It wasn´t before Tom cleared his throat that we both were send back to reality. "I swear you two lovebirds are going to end just like Gio and I soon enough," he said and shook his head at us. He grinned widely then. "Doug, can you get Danny and Harry, I need to talk to you," he said and Dougie lifted me up from his lap where I´d been sitting. He gently made me sit down again. "Don´t move," he told me and kissed my forehead. I nodded as he turned his back to me and walked off. "So…How´s it going with you two?" Tom asked as Dougie disappeared around the corner to the other room. "Good," I mumbled as my thoughts were elsewhere already. "Earth to Maria," he said as he waved a hand in front of my eyes. "Huh? Oh," I mumbled again as reality hit me once again. "You guys really need to get a room," he said and shook his head at me once again. Dougie was back then. He and Harry were trying to hold Danny upwards. "Tom, you can probably say anything to Dan at the moment, he won't remember in the morning," Harry told him and sat down in the chair beside me while Dougie was trying to make Danny sit down on the floor. "How much have he had?" Tom asked raising his eyebrow. "Anyway, I wanted to talk to you about the band," he continued and I immidiately got up. "Where are you going?" Dougie asked as I walked away. "You guys are having a ´business meeting´ so I thought I should give you some privacy," I answered and turned my back on them again. Tom started talking again as if nothing had happened.

I walked up to the little bar stand and ordered a little drink. Dougie joined me not long after. "So Tom asked if we wanted to stay over for the night," he told me with a smile as he ordered a drink too. "Here?" I asked my eyes going wide. I´d seen the living rooms and the hall and all that and I simply couldn´t imagine the rooms in this grand house.

I was more than amazed as we walked into one of the rooms a few hours later. "Wow," was all I could say as I looked at the enormous dubblebed and it felt like heaven as I let myself fall down on it exhaustedly. Dougie chuckled and lied down beside me. I slowly closed my eyes and soon after I felt Dougie´s lips on my forehead. "Goodnight baby," he told me as I drifted to sleep.