Chapter Forty- Two: Daffodil

{Eleanor's POV}


"C'mon Coco!" I say to the dog. "Please! Get up! I'm begging you." I plead to the Border Collie. She's been moping around, whining, eating heaps and complaining for a few days now, ever since we got home actually, which was on the thirty- first of August. It's now the fourth of September.


"Coco still not doing anything?" Louis walks into the room, sweating and holding a dog leash. He decided to take Barnabe for a walk whilst I attended to Coco.


"Nope Lou. She isn't," I reply. "Do you think we should take her to the vet?" I ask, getting a little worried that she's got something wrong.


"Okay! We'll go now, come on Coke." He calls her. Coke? When I hear that I immediately think of Coca- Cola and then my mind shifts to Cocaine.


"Louis. We are not nicknaming the dog Coke."


Louis chuckles and attaches the leash to Coco. "Let's go Coco and Elly."


We head out to the car and drive to the local vet. After getting stubborn Coco inside we wait to see a vet. I hope she doesn't have something seriously wrong with her. We didn't get her that long ago and I'd hate to think she's seriously ill.


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We get back into the car and Louis cracks up immediately. I watch him have a hysterical laughing fit as he leans on the steering wheel. I whack his arm and he sits up, wipes the tears from his eyes and composes himself.


"Sorry." He coughs. "But this is so funny!" He smiles. I shake my head and Louis starts to drive. Coco is having six puppies. Six tiny dog babies! I cannot believe we didn't think of that ourselves. Sometime at the beginning of October we will have six puppies in our house, along with two dogs.


Want to hear what Louis is hysterical about? The puppies are Barnabes. They puppies are going to come out with issues like Barnabe. I swear, he is the dumbest dog on the planet. He runs into the wall when he tries to go through a door! Who the hell does that, apart from Louis who has done it a few times. Well, I guess it's father like son, in a way.


"Want to see Dani and Zuri?" I ask Louis as we come towards their street. Louis agrees and pulls into Dani's driveway. She bought a small house instead of her apartment. The apartment wasn't really suitable for a baby.


We head up to the front door and I pull the antique door knocker back and forth against the door. I hear footsteps and soon the door is opened to reveal Dani.


"Eleanor! Lou!" She says cheerfully. "Come through." She says. I follow Louis and the dog through and down the long hallway. "And Coco is it?" Dani laughs a little. I nod and roll my eyes. Dani laughs and we head down into the living area.


Louis puts the dog into the backyard and Dani comes in with Zuri. She is seriously beautiful! She'd be about five or six months now and has Liam's coloured hair, but it's curly like Dani's. She has Dani's smile and head shape along with her skin colour but definitely has Liam's eyes.


"Hey Zizi!" Louis gives Zuri a better nickname than our dog. Dani hands Louis the baby and then makes us all a cup of tea.


"We should have one of these El." Louis bounces the baby on his lap. Dani and I freeze and look at him a little shocked. Um, I'm not ready for a baby yet! Not for a while. I prefer to do things a bit slower.



"One step at a time please Lou. We're not even married yet!" I reply, a little shocked he said what he said.


Louis laughs. "Just joking with you El." He gives me a cheeky grin. I sigh, roll my eyes and turn back to a smiling Danielle.


"How's Perrie? After the whole bleeding incident. Liam was telling me yesterday." Dani asks. Shit! I spin suddenly and look at Louis, who has his eyes fixed on Dani and I, jaw wide open.


"What?" Louis yells.


"Lou! Don't! We don't know if Zayn knows so you cannot say anything." I tell him sternly. I really hope Perrie has told Zayn, otherwise this may end badly.


"What do you mean Zayn doesn't know? Zayn SHOULD know!" Louis says annoyed. How do I explain this to him? Either way it's going to get back to Zayn and I don't want to have Louis be the one who tells him.


"Well um, Liam said Zayn can't know. The ultrasound went well yesterday did it not?" Dani asks us. We shrug. We haven't actually talked to Zerrie since they're ultrasound. I hope everything is okay...


"Lou, I'll explain to you later, if you calm down." I say to Louis who is increasing his grip on Zuri. "Loosen your grip on the baby please." I ask and Louis calms down, takes a deep breath and realises his grip a little on Zuri.


"Perrie is fine." I reply to Dani. "How are you?" I ask her. I'm still the only one who knows that Zuri is Liam's baby. Well, apart from Danielle that is.


"I'm good thanks!" Dani replies. "I'm just not sure whether I'm doing the right thing?" Dani asks me. "Would he want to know?"


Would Liam want to know he has a child? Probably. How would he take it though? Probably well knowing Liam. How will Indie take it? Not sure. How will the world take it? Now that's another bloody story.


I look back at Louis. He's pulling faces at baby Zuri. I turn back to Dani and shrug. "Tell him." I say.


"Will he tell anyone?" Dani asks. Something this big, probably not. Louis is good at keeping secrets.


"Louis might be able to work his way around with management, get some money from Laims account and give it to Zuri. I don't know? He'll be a good help though." I explain to Dani.


"Okay." She nods. "Louis," Dani walks over to Louis and sits down in the chair next to him. "I have something to tell you, but you CANNOT tell anyone, especially not Liam." Dani instructs. Louis nods, his full attention on Dani. His gorgeous blue eyes looking at her carefully. "Zuri is Liam's baby."


"Say what now?" Louis asks shocked. "What do you mean? How the faaaaa- fudge?" Louis changes the word due to the young child in the room.


"We had a fling about thirteen months ago or something. I just managed to fall pregnant and now, here's Zuri." Dani motions to the sleeping baby.


"Woah! So Zuri is Liam's daughter?" Louis asks, probably just making sure. We both nod and then chat for half an hour about this.


{Harry's POV}


"So, what did you want to talk to us about?" Leigh- Anne asks. I look at Perrie, Jesy and Leigh sitting opposite me. What did I want to talk to them about? Something very big, something that will bring Jade and my relationship another step forward.


"Um, I wanted your opinions, on whether I should ask Jade to move in with me or not?" I ask them. Perrie and Leigh squeal and Jesy cheers. That's a good reaction. "I know she didn't move in with Sam but I don't know, I was just hoping maybe she'd move in with me?" I ask.


"Yes, she WILL move in with you." Jesy demands. I chuckle a little. "To be honest Hazz, I've never seen Jade so in love with someone. You're a lucky lad!" She holds up her thumbs. I smile and nod my head.


"So how do I do it?" I ask, completely unsure of how to ask Jade to move in with me. "Dinner? Straight up? My house or her house?" I shoot all these questions at the three girls.


"Woah brother!" Perrie holds up her hands. "Just ask her when you reckon is the right time to do it. Don't go over the top, maybe a daffodil to go with it, that's her favourite flower by the way," Perrie informs me. Good to know! "A bag of Haribo lollies to sweeten the deal, let her decided where she would like to live and then compromise, it's a pretty good way to do it." Perrie explains.


That's probably the most sensible thing she's said in the past six months since she's been pregnant.


"Okay! Thanks guys!" I smile and jump up from my spot on the grass in the local park. "See you soon!" I smile and jog off to the flower store. When I arrive there are all sorts of people buying flowers.


I walk over to the daffodils and grab a gorgeous white with a yellow centre daffodil. They look so amazing, all of them. But I'm going to just get one like Perrie said. After paying for the one flower, getting a weird look from the shop owner, I buy a bag of Haribo Tangfastics from Tesco, collect the groceries I need to make lasagne and then head back to my home.


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"Wow! It smells good in here Hazz." Jade compliments my cooking, to some degree as I head her into my lounge. We're just dressed casually and there's no candles or dimmed lighting or anything like that. The curtains a closed for the night and the lights are on as usual at this time of the night. I have my radio on and the lasagne is waiting at the table.


"Ooh! Is this for us?" Jade gets excited over the lasagne. No Jade, it's for the dog I don't own! Of course it's for us! But I'm too polite to say that in this moment in time.


"Yeah! Dig in!" I reply and we both sit down, chatting about all sorts of different things whilst we enjoy our lasagne and red wine out of plastic cups. Louis and Perrie broke my wine glasses just before we went to America. All ten of them! They were playing indoor cricket, in my kitchen!


"So Jade, I wanted to ask you something." I pipe up and she places her fork and knife into her empty bowl, shifting her full attention to me. "Here you go Jadey." I hand her the unwrapped bag of lollies and the daffodil.


"Aww Harry! How'd you know I love these lollies and I LOVE daffodils. Especially just one!" Jade exclaims. I chuckle and shrug.


"And um Jade," I mumble, bending down on one knee in front of her. She gives me a completely confused look.


"Harry? What are you doing?" She panics. Thank goodness I'm not doing what she thinks I'm doing. I cannot wait to actually propose to her one day though! That will be amazing! To slide a golden ring onto her finger, but we're taking small steps here.


"Jade Amelia Thirlwall, will you move in with me?" I ask her. She cracks up and takes a deep breath in relief. I chuckle and she composes herself again.


"You had my heart racing there for a minute mate." She pats my shoulder. Mate? Has she been taking lessons from Indie? "And yes Harry. I will move in with you." She gives me her beautiful smile. The smile I fell in love with six months ago.


I cheer and pick her up, spinning us both around three times before placing a gentle kiss on her lips and then placing her down. "Will we live here or at your place?" I ask Jade.


"I think my place sounds like a good idea? Do you like my place?" Jade asks. I nod my head immediately. Anything to be with Jade, under one roof, closer to being untied as one.


"Sounds great baby." I smile and kiss her again.


"By the way Harry," she mentions. "Perrie forgot to tell you I also like hot chocolate sachets." She pats my shoulder and then moves to the couch. I chuckle. Jade knows me and her best friend too well.

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