the baby project | harry styles

Chapter 36 - Mourning

Cheryl's POV

A couple weeks have passed, and today was just not my day. In the middle of my wedding planning, I got a phone call from my mum telling me that my grandmother had passed away last night. I was very close with my grandmother, and now that she's gone I felt so empty. I had been crying all day, and I was in absolutely no mood to deal with anything at all. Harry didn't know since he was out with our four month old Darcy, getting her some new toys. He had left a few hours ago, but he'd texted me that he would be home in ten minutes.

I really didn't want him nor Darcy to see me this way. I was just so broken, and my face looked so horrifying and swollen.

"Cheryl! We're home!" I heard Harry call from downstairs, suddenly hearing the front door shut.

I listened to the sound of his feet stomping up the stairs, and my heart started racing. I really didn't want him to see me like this. I wiped my tears as fast as I could, close the laptop screen, and pretended like I fell asleep. I heard him come into the room and near me, but I don't think he was fully convinced that I was "asleep."

"Cheryl, are you okay?" He asked, his voice aching of concern. I opened my eyes with no choice, picking my head up to let him look at me. His jaw dropped as he set Darcy down on the bed along with him. "What's wrong?"

"I don't want to talk about it, Harry." I sniffled, my eyes starting to water all over again. He frowned a face of sympathy as he attempted to rub my back soothingly, but I really didn't want to be consumed. I pushed him away, and he flashed me a look of hurt.

"Did I do something wrong?" He questioned, making me get even more upset.

"Please. Just leave me alone." I scowled at him, and then felt immediately horrible inside. I wasn't controlling myself, and I didn't know how to stop it.

"But-"

"I said leave!" I snapped and then started sobbing again. He flashed me another hurt look and strolled out of the room. Darcy glanced at me with those green eyes as if she were going to cry as well.

I didn't mean to hurt Harry's feelings. I knew he was only trying to help, but I didn't want any help to be honest. And this was all going to come back and bite me in the arse, I just knew it. But I couldn't control myself. It just slipped.

I weeped and weeped as I heard the front door open and close again. He obeyed my selfish orders like a gentleman, but I knew that he didn't feel like one. God, how can I be so stupid? He's been through worse things than what I'm dealing with. How could I be so inconsiderate?

"Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!" I yelled to myself angrily, wanting to slap myself in the face. I really hoped that he could forgive me.

Harry's POV

I didn't know what I did to make her feel so angry with me, but I wanted to apologize. I actually didn't know for sure if it was I who did something wrong in the first place, but I was almost sure of it. I don't recall doing anything rubbish, but maybe I had done something in the past that she had found out about.

Tears welded in my eyes as I glanced down at my phone, hoping that Cheryl had texted me. No text, but when I looked back up, I noticed that I was about to crash into another car. It was already raining, so the roads were slick, and when I tried to stop myself from crashing, the car swiveled. I spun once or twice and hit something, and then I blacked out.

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Cheryl's POV

Five hours have passed since Harry left, and I was starting to worry about him. I called the other boys and asked if they had seen him, but no one said that they had. He was really starting to scare me. What if my anger drove him to cheat on me?

All of a sudden, there was a knock on the front door. It couldn't have been Harry because he had a key to get inside; therefore there was no need to knock.

I ran down the stairs in a hurry and soon tugged open the front door only to see the face of Liam. I flashed the brown-eyed lad a curious look and he shook his head, "Harry's in the hospital."

My heart broke into two-thousand pieces as I felt my throat close up, making it hard to breathe. It couldn't be. "Why is he in the hospital?" I asked, trying to hold back my tears that seemed to never stop flowing.

"He got in a car accident a few hours ago. It's all over the news." Liam gave me a glance of sympathy as I shook my head in absolute horror.

"Can you take me to the hospital, please?" I questioned, wiping my tears from my cheeks, but it didn't help the fact that they were infinite.

"Of course I can," Liam nodded.

"Thank you. Let me get Darcy from her room," I mentioned and turned to go back up the stairs. Liam waited in the living room for me as I waltzed into Darcy's room. She was taking her afternoon nap.

I grabbed her baby carrier and placed her inside, buckling her up as quickly as possible. I carried her all the way downstairs, and Liam took her from me.

"Okay. Let's go." I said, leading him out the door with a shut. I was still crying my heart out, but somehow I managed to pronounce my words right. I sure hoped that he was going to be okay. I didn't know what I would do if he wasn't.

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