A Surprise Visit

Chapter 5

Later on that night we all found ourselves sitting in the waiting room at a local hospital. Eli was in Harry's room with him. He was awake and they were talking. I sat snuggled up closely to Danny as Asha and Dougie sat snuggled up closely to one another and Tom paced the floor back and forth.

"When did she find out?" Tom asked and I lifted my head to look up at him.

"Tonight, right before she told him."

"Well I guess that would explain the mood swings she's been having lately." Dougie said and Tom and Danny nodded their heads in agreement.

"I can't believe he fainted." Danny laughed, and I slapped him on the stomach.

"Yeah if it wasn't so serious, I would have burst out laughing." Tom agreed. "I swear, if Gia ever gets pregnant, I am not going to faint when she tells me." We all laughed as Eli walked into the room, a slight smile on her face and looking tired. As soon as she entered we all sat up and looked at her eagerly.

"He's resting right now, but they say he'll be fine. They want to keep him overnight though just to be safe, but he should be able to go home in the morning." She came over to sit down beside me and I placed my arm around her shoulders.

"So now that he's awake, how's he taking the news?" I asked and she let out a little laugh.

"He said that he was really shocked at first, and that's why he fainted. But now that he's let the news sink in, he's starting to get a little used to it and not so shocked." We each let out little laughs, and I rubbed my hand up and down her back gently.

"And how are you doing?" I questioned, feeling really concerned about her.

"Well, since Harry and I have had the chance to talk, I'm feeling a little better about it. I'll admit, I'm still really scared, but Harry assured me that he's not going to leave me, and that he's kind of excited at the idea of a baby."

"See Eli, I told you you had nothing to worry about." She nodded her head and looked down at her feet.

"I can't believe he fainted though." We all burst out laughing.

"Good ol' Harry, leave it to him to faint when someone tells him something like that." Tom said and we all laughed harder.

"Well I'm just glad everything turned out great." Eli said, and I nodded my head agreeing with her. Just then I let out a yawn and looked at my watch to see that it was two in the morning.

"Well, it's getting late, and we all should get back to the hotel now that we know he's alright." Everyone agreed and stood up.

"You guys go back, I'm going to stay with him tonight." Eli said.

"Are you sure?" I questioned narrowing my eyebrows at her.

She nodded. "Yeah I'll just sleep in the chair by his bed. I don't really want to leave him tonight. I kind of need to be near him right now. I know it's selfish, but I just can't leave him."

"Well if you need anything just call ok?" I said, and gave her a hug. She said ok and everyone else gave her a hug. "We'll see you tomorrow." I said and winked at her before we left.

McFly

The next morning Harry was released and he and Eli returned to the hotel. Harry was given orders to rest, and that's what he did while we were on our way to yet another location.

The end of the tour was slowly coming, and so was mine and Danny's three month anniversary. In fact it was less than a week away. I was racking my brain trying to think of something to do for him because I didn't really want to get him anything since it was only a three month anniversary. But being on the road and not getting that much time to really do anything didn't make it really easy. I tossed a few ideas up in my head but dismissed them almost as soon as they came into mind.

What I really needed to do was find out where exactly we would be on that date. Would we be on the bus moving from one city to another, or would we be in a hotel? And what would the guys schedule be like? If they were going to be very busy on that day, then trying to do anything for him would be almost impossible.

The only way I could figure out what was going on was if I had a nice little chat with Fletch. I had met the guy not long after we met the rest of guys, but still I never really talked that much with him. He was a busy man, what with managing a band and all, so he was normally just as busy as the guys, if not more. I concluded that the only way I would be able to talk to the guy was if I waited until night when the guys were asleep and I went downstairs to talk to him.

So as the bus sped down the road to our next destination, the guys and Eli were all snuggled up in their beds sleeping after a long day of performances and interviews. I quietly slipped out of my bed and down the stairs hoping that Fletch would still be awake. Once my feet landed on the floor downstairs I found Fletch sitting at the table, typing on his laptop. As soon as he heard me he looked up at me and smiled.

"I thought you all were in bed." He said in his deep voice. I smiled at him and made my way over to sit at the table across from him, tucking my feet up under me as I sat down.

"Everyone else is. I couldn't sleep. I needed to talk to you about something." He shut his laptop and pushed it aside, bringing his hands up on the table and clasping them in front of him.

"About what?" He asked. He had a slight twinkle in his eyes from the light. He looked so fatherly sitting there, and it made me smile.

"Well, mine and Danny's three month anniversary is coming up, and since we didn't get to spend the last one together, I kind of wanted to do something for him for this one. I mean, he's been a really great boyfriend, and I know that things have been really stressful for him this whole tour, what with constantly being on the go, but he's always managed to find time to spend with me. I want to do something nice for him too." Fletch continued to stare at me and nod his head. "So I was wondering if you could tell me whether we'd be on the road or not and um what their schedule looks like."

He gave me a warm smile, then pulled out a notebook that was lying next to him. "I think it's really sweet of you to do something for him. I can tell that that boy really loves you. Just by the way he looks at you." I felt myself beam a little when he said this. "He's a really lucky guy to have a girl like you." And that's when I began to blush. He opened the notebook and flipped through it to the November section. "What exactly is the date?" He asked.

"The 19th." I answered and craned my neck a little to look at the paper in front of him. There was a lot of writing on it, and I felt myself get a little sad thinking that the day would be full for him.

"Well Miss Chaney I do believe you are in luck." I felt excitement build. "That morning is kind of full, but that evening should be open. There aren't any scheduled events for that day and it looks as if we'll be in a hotel on that day, and for a few days afterwards." I felt relief wash over me. I had the whole evening to spend with Danny. I thanked the God up above for giving me that day.

"Thank you Fletch. Thank you very much." I said standing up and shaking his hand. I turned to leave but he just tugged on my hand.

"You know, when Danny told me that he was dating you, I was a little worried." I narrowed my eyebrows.

"Why?" I asked feeling a little anger rise in me.

"Well, you know Danny's past with girls. He's a womanizer, or should I say was. And I was afraid that he would be with you like he was with other girls. I liked you and I didn't want to see you get hurt. I thought you were kind of a sweet child. But then I saw the way Danny looked at you and it was a look I'd never seen before. He dotes upon you Tonya and I'm so glad that you are with him. Since you two got together he's settled down quite a bit. He doesn't party as much anymore and he's just constantly happy." The little anger that was in me was replaced with a little happiness as I heard him say this. I made Danny happy, all of the time. This made me feel good inside.

"Well I feel the same for him too. He makes me happy all of the time too."

"That's good." He nodded his head and gave me a wink. "I think you two are cute together." I blushed again.

"Well I better be getting back to bed." Fletch nodded his head in agreement.

"Yeah, we have an early morning tomorrow, so I think I'm going to get some sleep too as soon as I finish working on this project." He pulled his laptop back to him and opened it. "Good night Tonya and good luck on your plans for Danny."

"Thanks Fletch and goodnight." I said then headed back up to my bed.

McFly

As I counted down the days until mine and Danny's three month, I worked on planning the perfect night for him. I told Eli of my plans, and it was her job to get one of the guys to find out if Danny had any plans for us at all. He'd mentioned the day once, but I just told him that I wasn't to into celebrating three months, or anything that didn't really mark anything. I mean yeah, we'd been together for three months, but it's not like it was a special month. The first month was an important one, cause it meant we'd been together one whole month, then the next important one was the sixth month, then after that a year. So I told him with disinterest that I wasn't to into the third month, hoping that he'd leave it at that and not plan anything.

However, knowing Danny he would try to do something sweet. That's why I had other plans. I convinced Fletch to tell him that they had a full schedule for that day leading right up into the late night. Of course the other guys knew the truth, but they didn't let on. I'm not saying that Danny is dumb, I'm just saying that it's a little easy to convince him of something.

So as I tried to think of some sweet things to do for him, Eli kept trying to get me to tell her what I was planning. I just smiled at her mischievously and told her that all I had planned so far was a nice dinner. She just crossed her arms and pouted.

As the days moved on I saw something between Harry and Eli that made me want to laugh. It seemed like Harry was fussing over her. And Eli didn't like it. Ever since he found out that she was pregnant he'd wanted to make her as comfortable as he could. He acted like she was some kind of china doll that would break if anyone touched her. However, with her mood swings, she would just break…break out into a fit if you 'touched' her the wrong way. Meaning, you really had to watch yourself around her. And to think, Harry had another seven months of this. I felt bad for the poor guy, all he wanted to do was take care of her, but that just seemed to irritate her more and more.

One day she started in on another one of her mood swings, so I grabbed a pint of Ben and Jerry's cookie dough ice cream (which I had made sure we had a stash of for times like this) and shoved it in her face and told her to be quite. She glared at me, but took the pint from me and ate it all within the hour. We came out one pint less, but one happy Eli more.

After the incident at the party, when Eli told Harry that she was pregnant, the whole world found out. Apparently there were people from magazines at the party…who would have thought that. And when Eli announced to the guys that she was pregnant, who just so happened to be lurking by but one of the guys from the magazine, and they heard it all. Once Eli read the front page of a magazine she growled in frustration and stomped away muttering 'Why does it always have to be me.'

Now don't get me wrong when I say this, but Eli's parents can be quite bitches. You'd think finding out you're going to be a grandparent would make them happy right? Wrong. Coming from a really religious family, Eli was expected to be married before she conceived her first child. And coming from a really rich religious family, that just made things much worse for them. Not to mention that for the past four months their daughter had made the front page of almost every magazine in not so appropriate ways. So once again Eli was getting phone calls from her mother. One day her mother called right when Eli was yelling at Harry for coddling her too much and started in on telling her how she had managed to disgrace the family again. That's when Eli let her have it. She told her that if she was disgracing her family too much, then maybe they should just disown her. Her mother came back with some remark and that set off an hour long argument on the phone with her mother. I just walked away laughing, not bothering to give her some ice cream. The old hag deserved it.

But other than Eli's nagging mother, things were going pretty well. Her sister had called and congratulated her, along with her brother. Jason had called me not long after the articles were out and told me to tell her congrats, as well as Harry. The couple, despite it being all over the media, were quite happy at the thought of becoming parents. And because Eli just loves to have everything planned out ahead of time, they were already discussing colors for the baby's room and what they wanted to name it if it was a girl.

McFly

While Eli and Harry were planning out things for their future family, Danny and I were just spending as much time together as we could. Asha had joined us on tour so she and Dougie were spending quite some time together too. Tom had started to pout saying that he missed Gia and that he felt left out. So whenever all three of us couples would gather in the sitting area having a make-out, I mean movie session, he would retreat to his bed and talk to Gia on the phone the rest of the night. I felt kind of bad for the guy, but that lasted only until Danny's lips were crashing on mine, then all thought of Tom went out the door.

I was beginning to get really excited. Because Thanksgiving was coming up, and that was when Danny would be visiting the states with me, and meeting my foster mother. Hattie was quite excited at the thought of meeting him, and I was excited at the two meeting too. Then, after Thanksgiving, we were to fly back to England (at which time I would be officially moving in with Danny) and I would be meeting his parents. I told Danny that I'd need at least a day to get ready to get my nerves ready to meet them. He just kissed my forehead and told me that everything would be fine, that they'd love me. I sure hoped he was right.

So I had everything all planned out. We'd arrive the day before we'd meet them, and I'd spend the day getting my nerves ready telling myself that everything would be ok, and then I'd go meeting them. However…there always has to be a however with me doesn't there.

Remember when Danny and I first met? Remember how he had brushed past me because his mother had decided to surprise her son and show up after one of his concerts? Well let me just say that his family was one for surprises. They like to do that to you; when you're really not expecting it.

We were all gathered at another after party, all of us standing in circle talking, and that's when it happened. The surprise. Well all just finished laughing at something Dougie had said, and Danny, who was kind of standing across from me, looked over my shoulder, his face turning into shock, and said 'Mum?' My smile quickly fell from my face and my eyes went wide. He brushed pasted me and I quickly tried to hide my shocked faced and turned slowly to see him hugging this dark curly haired woman, who looked maybe in her forties, and was just a few inches shorter than her son. After hugging her, he turned to a man who looked around the same age as the woman, and had the same deep blue eyes as Danny. "Dad!" He said excitedly and hugged him also.

My heart stopped. I wasn't ready for this. I wasn't expecting this, and I think I needed to sit down. Before I could make any move or anything, Danny's mother looked at me, her eyes lighting up and she reached out for me. "This must be Tonya." She said coming to me and giving me a tight hug. I felt all of the air that was in me being squeezed out as she hugged me, and I tried my best to put a non-shocked smile on my face. Danny managed to make eye contact with me and he gave me an apologetic smile, mouthing 'I didn't know.'

Once she finished squeezing all of my air out, she pulled me away from her and studied me. "Now let me see you child." She said, and I stood there with this awkward smile on my face, shooting a look from her and back to Danny. "My my, your are quite beautiful. I can see now why my Danny is so entranced with you." I felt myself blush as a blush ran up Danny's neck to his cheeks. All that I could manage to squeak out was a little 'Thank you.'

"Mum, please, you're embarrassing her." Danny said coming to me and placing his arm around my shoulder, pulling me away from his mother's grasp. "Mum, Dad, this is Tonya. Tonya this is my mum Kathyand my dad Alan"

I searched hard and found my voice and all of my senses again and managed to pull them back to me. I placed a warm smile on my face and stuck out my hand, in which Mrs. Jones took and shook politely. "It's nice to meet you Mr. and Mrs. Jones." My voice worked for me. I was so happy.

"Oh nonsense call us Kathy and Alanthere's no need for Mr. and Mrs." I nodded my head at what she said and repeated their names. Danny's dad came to me and gave me a hug, not as tight of a one that his wife gave me though.

So the most awkward moment of my life had just occurred, and I didn't even have enough time to prepare myself. All of it seemed very overwhelming and all I could do was hold on tightly to Danny's arm. He just smiled down at me and whispered in my ear that everything would be alright.

After the party, Danny's parents took us out to get something to eat and to get to know one another a little bit better. We chatted a bit and they told a little about Danny when he was a younger kid. You'd think that being so far away from home that the parental units wouldn't have any embarrassing photos. Think again. His mother pulled out her wallet and opened it, letting pictures upon pictures tumble out. All of Danny, and all of some of the most embarrassing things. Things like embarrassing hair cuts, and styles. Pictures of him doing embarrassing things, and my all time favorite, the naked baby picture. Danny just turned red and tried to snatch the pictures away, but I held them out of his reach and burst out laughing.

"You just wait Tonya, it'll be your turn." I just smiled and laughed at him.

"Oh but you're forgetting one thing my dear boyfriend." I waved the pictures in front of him.

"Oh yeah, and what's that." He asked smirking, raising an eyebrow.

"I grew up in foster care, so I don't have any embarrassing pictures." His face fell for a moment, but when he noticed that it didn't bother me, he smirked again.

"Oh I'm sure Hattie has some kind of embarrassing photos." I only let my smile falter just minutely, the thought passing through my mind, but it was so quickly that he didn't see it.

"Nope, she doesn't have any." I continued to laugh at him as he sulked in his chair.

After dinner we went back to our hotel, and his parents went to their room, saying that they were leaving early the next morning. The each gave us a hug and a kiss on the cheek, telling me that they were really glad to have met me, and then the made their way to their room.

As Danny and I walked to the elevator, arms around one another, Danny looked down at me and smiled. "Well we got through that."

"Yeah," I sighed as he pressed the button. "I can't believe I didn't faint or something. I was so shocked when they showed up, I thought I was going to die."

"I don't know why you were so worried to meet them. I knew they would love you." The doors closed and the elevator began to move up.

"Well it's just the whole 'meeting the parents' thing. I mean everyone is nervous. Yeah you might think that they'll love me, but sometimes you could be wrong. I mean, what if they didn't like me." I began to feel a little sad, even though I knew it wasn't true.

Danny hooked his finger under my chin and lifted my head up to look at him. "Hey, I love you Tonya, and anyone that I love, my parents will love. You're a really nice and funny and sweet girl. Anyone would love you, so I knew my parents would love you, and they do. So you have nothing to worry about."

"You're right." I said nodding my head.

"Of course I'm right." He said smugly before leaning down to kiss me as the doors opened.