Before - H.S

twelve

Florence Rhodes:

I lay in crisp white bedsheets and I can feel Harry's warm body against my back, his arm draped over me. The warm morning sun seeps in through the blinds filling up the room with soft golden light. The bed is so comfortable, I feel as if I could stay here for the rest of my life, I have everything I need in this bedroom. I try to sit up but as I do Harry whispers in my ear and tells me to stay in bed. I hear a soft cry of a small child come from across the room.

"I'll get her" Harry whispers to me and I feel the warmth from him fade as he gets out of bed.

"can I hold her" I ask looking her at him with our little girl in his arms

"yeah of course" he smiles at me "Come on Lucie lets go see mommy"

He lowers Lucie on my lap as she calms down and starts to actually wake up. I look down at her, she has beautiful green eyes, identical to Harrys, and blonde hair like mine. We get up and I carry Lucie downstairs and into our kitchen, we sit at the table and I look out of the sliding doors that are wide open out onto our garden. The spring sunlight beams down onto the grass and the gorgeous pond, which has fish swimming in it. Harry picks up Lucie and takes her outside. I grab the coffee that Harry made me and follow them outside. I walk out onto the grass in bare feet, I can feel the grass beneath me, it is one of those feelings that makes you feel alive. There is a small bridge over our pond, I stand on it and look down at the water glistening and then over to Harry and Lucie. Harry has placed daisy into a swing that hangs down off a big willow tree that's in the corner of our garden. Beautiful vines grow around the swing. Harry pushes her in the swing gently and Lucie giggles and shrieks in excitement which makes Harry's face light up.

I walk over the bridge and back onto grass until I reach a white fence, two horses lean over the fence. I reach up and pet them and feed them some of the grass as I admire the field of daisies that our house backs onto. I can still hear the faint laughs of harry and Lucie as they still play on the swing. I go back into our kitchen after about half an hour and make us some breakfast as its only about 8am. I make Harry and I some avocado on toast and chop up a banana and strawberry for Lucie. I pour fresh orange juice into the glasses and then call harry in. We sit down at the table and eat and laugh and then Lucie begs me to let her, and Harry go back outside so I walk out once again into the garden to watch them.

I set up some white deck chairs onto the grass and a small table to put my iced coffee onto. I look to the side and see Catherine and her daughter come out of our house. Her little girl has tanned skin and rich brown hair just like Catherine, they could be the split image of each other accept her eyes are blue, exactly like Niall's.

"go on Delilah, go and play with Harry and Lucie!" Catherine says as she walks over to me and sits in the chair next to me. "Niall will be here in half an hour, he said he is on best man duties"

"It's good to see you, you look amazing" I say as I look at her dress, she has on a sage green silk dress, the same colour as the ones Delilah and Lucie have on

"Thanks girl!" she says in reply "nothing compares to you today of course, are you excited?"

"excited for what?" I ask

"Don't be an idiot Florence" she laughs

"I'm not, I seriously have no idea what you're talking about" I say slowly getting more and more confused

"This better not be your way of telling me you're getting cold feet; we have been planning this wedding since before Delilah and Lucie were born"

"what wedding" I say standing up as I am slowly getting more and more flustered.