May 31st 2010

"How do I look mum?" Louis asked smiling widely. Clad in his long black cap and gown, Jay thought her son looked amazing.

"You look wonderful" She got tears in her eyes, so proud of him. "You're all grown up now."

Louis giggled and hugged his mum. "You'll always be my son though, you know that right?" She said, hugging him back tightly.

He rolled his eyes, "I know mum. I know." He said with a wide smile as he pulled away from the hug.

Louis didn't know, but it'd taken a lot of work for her to get the school to let him walk at his high school graduation. Because he academically wasn't technically graduating, the school had initially declined. But Jay had fought hard for her son, wanting him to have the most normal experience possible and graduate with his friends.

The school eventually agreed to her relentless requests, under the condition that he have an escort. Louis had reached stage three just over a month prior, and had picked up the habit of mindless wandering, which was what concerned the school. They didn't want him to just start walking around during the graduation ceremony. And while Jay so much wanted to protest and say her son didn't need am escort, she couldn't, because she knew he did.

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"I love you mum, but I don't need a bloody escort, I already stand out enough." Louis muttered as they walked into the graduation hall, where students were finding their assigned seats, not one of them had their mother at their side and Louis was humiliated.

"Louis," She was looking down the rows of seats trying to find their spot as she spoke, "I'm sorry, I know you don't want me to escort you but-" She looked up only to realize he'd already started wandering away through the crowd of people.

And that, was the exact reason he needed an escort.

She quickly went after him, and put her hand on his back. "Louis..." She said softly, and his eyes filled with realization the moment he turned his head to face her.

"I did it again, didn't I?" He said softly, his cheeks turning bright red.

"Yeah, I'm afraid so honey." She rubbed his back, and started guiding him toward where she'd finally found their seats.

As much as he hated it, in his heart, he knew that really, he did need her to escort him.

With an annoyed huff, he took his seat next to his mum, and folded his arms across his chest, looking down at his lap.

"Err excuse me?" Louis heard a familiar voice and looked up to find Harry standing in front of his mum. "Sorry but I'm afraid you're in my seat."

Jay looked up as well, "Wait... what?" She asked. "Aren't you supposed to be a few rows up? I need to be with Louis to escort him..."

Harry smiled, "Wellllll he has a new escort."

Louis' eyes lit up, "Wait? Really? You're escorting me?" He was so excited for a moment, but then shook his head. "No, no you deserve to walk when they call your name. I can't take that away from you."

"You won't be taking that away. I may have gotten them to change up the order so that our names our next to each other" Harry smirked, "That way we can walk together."

"What? How'd you do that?" Jay asked, surprised.

"A charming smile goes a long way" Harry said, showing off his smolder with a chuckle.

"Hazzie you're the best!" Louis got up and wrapped his arms around him tightly.

Harry hugged him back, kissing the top of the tiny boy's head. "Anything for you boo."

"Really Harry, thank you so much. This means the world to Louis." Jay whispered, hugging him next. "He's been telling me all morning that he didn't want to stand out, and this, this is exactly what he needed."

Harry smiled, "I wanted to walk with him anyway. It's a win-win."

Jay then squeezed Louis' hand. "I'll be in the audience then I suppose. I'll meet you afterwards."

Louis nodded, "Okay mum, see you!" His mood was lifted so much knowing that Harry was walking with him instead of his mum.

"I can't believe we're finally done with High School. Primary school feels like just yesterday." Harry said, kind of in awe at the idea of being an adult.

Though adulthood for Louis, would be very different.

"Yeah, it's crazy!" Louis agreed, nodding. He opened his mouth to say something else, but completely forgot what he was going to say so he closed it again.

Harry smiled sadly, as that seemed to happen a lot lately. Louis had also been forgetting several words.

"I also can't believe that there's only one more week until we're married" Harry said with a soft smile, knowing he'd have to remind Louis of that.

"We're getting married?" Louis' eyes widened and sparkled with joy.

"Yeah, next week." Harry confirmed, taking Louis' hand and showing him the ring.

"Wow..." Louis whispered, "I dunno how I forgot about that, but Haz I'm so excited. We're gonna be husbands."

Harry kissed his hand, "Yeah, we are."

Louis then gushed about how excited he was, and they talked about decorations and their future together. It was the same conversation as always. Every single day since the initial engagement Harry would remind Louis of the wedding, and they'd plan it all out. Louis would be so ready and so excited, until the next day when he'd need to be reminded again.

The ceremony began after a quarter of an hour, and both boys grew bored not even halfway through the speech. "I dunno if I can sit through an hour of this" Harry muttered, turning to look at Louis who randomly stood up.

Harry took his hand, "Hey, let's sit down yeah?" He coaxed, getting Louis to sit back down, knowing he was trying to get up and wander.

Louis tried to get up again a few times before 'snapping out of it' and sitting down, his cheeks bright red as they typically were when that happened. "Sorry" He whispered, "Can't help it."

Harry kissed his cheek, "I know love. It's alright."

After a long hour of speeches, and another half hour of names being called, it was nearing Harry and Louis' turn to be called.

Harry guided Louis to the designated waiting area, before explaining what he needed to know. "Okay love, they will call my name first." He explained, "I'll walk across the stage, and they will hand me a diploma. They'll call your name next, and you follow exactly what I do okay? I'll be waiting on the other side of the stage."

Louis nodded, it seemed simple enough.

"Harry Edward Styles. Graduate." The announcer read, and Louis beamed as he watched Harry get his diploma and walk across the stage.

"Louis William Tomlinson. Participatory student." The announcer read next, and Louis' heart sank a little, as it reminded him that really, he wasn't graduating. He walked up, got his participatory certificate, and froze. For a moment he couldn't remember what he was supposed to do. Quickly, Harry came back on the stage and guided him the rest of the way.

"I messed up Harry! I tried to walk across a stage and I couldn't even do that." Louis sighed in aggravation. "They didn't call me a graduate, and it just... it threw my brain off." He shook his head, completely humiliated.

"Louis, you did great." Harry assured him, "And hey at least you didn't trip like Niall did!" He reminded him.

Louis burst into giggles, "Niall tripped?"

Harry nodded, "Yeah, he fell face first." He reminded him.

Louis started laughing even harder, completely forgetting his own embarrassment. "Only Niall." He shook his head.

And, with all his humiliation forgotten, Louis was able to have a fantastic graduation day.

Hey guys! I tried to keep this chapter more positive and happy! Hope you enjoyed it!!! I also wanted to thank you all for reading this story. It means so much to me to have such amazing readers, and I consider you all to be my friends <3 So much love to everyone of you. I enjoy all of your books as well, and try to give just as much support back. You are all so talented. Soooo much love to everyone!!!!

-Sunnie