Beau Babies / h.s

Danielle?

   Eleanor and I spend a fairly long time cuddling the girls and discussing my uncomfortable pregnancy, and soon enough, Eleanor knew everything about my family, ‘friends’ and basically my crumbled life,

   “I’m really sorry that happened to you Bobbie,” She said pursing her lips together apologetically,

   “Don’t be,” I said, “Do you want another drink?” I asked, Eleanor nodded, I grabbed her mug and poured us more coffee,

   “But you lost everything,” Eleanor mumbled accepting the mug gratefully, “I still don’t understand about your family though, why’d they throw you out? Where did you go?”

   I laughed, “My life sounds like a soap opera but my parents threw me out basically because I was pregnant, god you should’ve seen the look in my dad’s eye when I finally told them, he was so disappointed he couldn’t even look at me. He refused to, it was my mum who told me to leave,”

   “Where’d you stay?” Eleanor asked again,

   “For the first few nights I slept on the park bench but then one of my cousins said he’d let me stay. So that was good, I stayed there for a few months but then I got ill and went to hospital. That was then my home for the rest of it because I wasn’t well…” I didn’t want to talk about the rest,

   “They’re so cute anyways…” Eleanor grinned at me and then spoke to the girls in a baby voice that made me laugh, then, we were overwhelmed by a god awful smell, “Shit,” She muttered, “Which one is it?” She lifted Jaime up, “It’s not her,” She told me,

   Sighing, I cleared my throat and leant over the other two, “Annalise,” I sighed picking up the smelly baby, “Could you watch these two, I’ll be right back,”

   “Sure,” Eleanor nodded and continued to speak to them like they were incredibly stupid,

   It didn’t take me too long to change Annalise and when I did, I tickled her, she let out a high pitched giggle and I kissed her little nose before carrying her back downstairs,

   Placing Annalise back down next to her sister, there was a knock at the door, Eleanor raised her eyebrows as if to say ‘careful’ I nodded briefly and then skipped over to the door, looking through the peephole, I saw a very pretty girl. She was tall, with creamy skin, wavy brown hair, and dark eyes,

   “Who is it?” I asked through the door,

   “Um it’s Danielle…” She trailed off, she sounded as if I was meant to know her, as I didn’t, she added, “Liam’s girlfriend,”

   I gulped, “I’m sorry I can’t let you in,” I was apologetic but Liam never told me he had a girlfriend…

   “Ok,” She stepped back, “I’ll come back tomorrow…I guess…”

   Once she’d left the doorstep, I went back into the front room, “Who was it?” Eleanor laughed,

   “Some fan calling herself Liam’s girlfriend,” I muttered sitting back on the floor,

   “What did she say her name was?”

   “Danielle,” I replied with a shrug,

   Eleanor bit her lip, “Um that is Liam’s girlfriend,”

   “What?” I exclaimed, “Why didn’t they tell me? I’ll be back,” I jumped up, “She can’t have gone too far,”

   Eleanor mock saluted me and I raced out of the house with no shoes on…The gravel hurt my feet, I could see Danielle just turning left, I broke into a run,