F E I G N E D | elounor

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~ E L E A N O R ~

"There's too many people, I insist we get a yacht." Louis said looking around the crowded beach with discomfort. I laughed as I laid out a blanket for us to sit on.

"Where's the fun in that?" I asked him settling down on the blanket and patted the spot next to me telling him to join me.

He sat next to me with a huff, and I laid back soaking up the sun trying to tan before we headed back to cold and gray London. I opened my eyes after a few minutes and took a peek at Louis who was still looking around the beach like someone was going to to come jump us. I giggled making him look back at me.

"Why don't you lay down? You look so tense. Just relax. That's what the beach is for." I said, and he sighed.

"I should be working right now. Stupid Josh probably thinks he's the shit right now." Louis said with loathe.

"Well right now we're here being normal people." I said.

"Why can't we pretend to be normal people who won the lottery and got a yacht?" He asked me and I gave him a playful glare. He rolled his eyes.

"Oh come on. It's not that bad. Don't you like getting a break from it all?" I asked him, sitting up with him now.

"No. In fact I like it all." He said, and I looked out to the water. "Why do you need a break from it all. We were born into it. I mean, people wish they were us."
He added on.

I shrugged. "I dunno. I guess having paparazzi follow us around all the time, having to go to preppy schools, all the boring parties. . .I just want to live a normal life sometimes."

"Well we're not normal Eleanor." He said obviously.

"I know, I know. I just wish I could be." I said with a sad sigh. Louis still looked confused and I instantly knew that a person like him, so happy and comfortable in his luxurious life, would never understand how I felt.

"Have you considered giving up your Elite title?" Louis asked me like he was trying to solve my problem. I smiled, and shook my head.

"I have, but my mother would never let me, disown me. And even if I did, my name would be the headlines even after for giving it up. And they'll still keep an eye on me. Besides, I want my children to have that Elite title. It brings better options for them, although I want to raise them as normal as possible if that makes sense." I said with a nervous laugh.

Louis seemed to perk up a little and looked even more interested when I brought up children. I probably freaked him out, and he's probably thinking I'm going to make him give me babies.

"So you want kids one day?" He asked me.

"Yeah, of course. Always have. You and I won't be married forever, eventually we'll get a divorce. Then I can finally be with someone for love, start a family, and live my own life the way I want."

"Right."

"Yes, I'm married. Yes, I don't live with my parents anymore. But my mother still controls my life but after this contract, it's freedom from everything." I said with a hopeful sigh.

Louis only hummed.

"I want that." I said and nodded my head to the left.

To the left was a family, clearly a mother and a father with four little kids. Little boys playing with a beach ball, the father grilling, and the mother reading a book with a little girl on a blanket. They all looked so happy, enjoying each other's company with no worries, no obligations.

"What?" He asked me, looking confused to where I nodded my head. "You want a ball? I'm sure they have some at stands by the parking lot, I can get you one." Louis said already standing up but I laughed and pulled him back down.