Way Of Life - H.S & N.H

When One Door Closes...

"Angus will you stop wriggling!" Shay whined as she tried to buckle him into the car seat.

"He's just excited." Harry smiled as he strapped Haley into her car seat.

"Okay well excitement aside, we need to get going. And this little monster is making it difficult!" Shay finally managed to get him in and started tickling him. His little giggles filled the air.

"We see... Mama and Dada?" Angus asked cutely.

"Yeah we're going to see them both. And guess who else?" Shay cooed.

Angus scrunched his face up in thought. This caused both Shay and Harry to laugh.

Haley spoke now. She'd just been watching the whole interaction.

"Baby! Baby!" Haley cried. Her favourite rabbit being flung around in her arms.

"Correct little one! Angus here is getting a little sister." Harry smiled.

Angus clapped now. His face lighting up with the cutest smile.

"These kids are going to kill us off I swear." Shay held her hand to her heart, the whole interaction was too cute for words.

"C'mon we better get going." Harry chuckled as he fished out the car keys of his pocket.

....

"Sssh." Angus held his finger to his lips as he sat in between Heather's legs on the bed. Heather had the new arrival there also. Holding her in front of Angus so he could see.

"That's right little man. She's sleeping." Niall smiled.

Haley was sat at the end of the bed just watching but soon crawled up so that she could see too. She looked at all the adults. Her gaze following them around the room until they landed back on the baby.

"For baby." Haley held out her rabbit.

Everyone sighed at how cute she was being.

"Aww Haley that's very sweet but I think she'd want you to keep it safe for her yeah?" Heather whispered.

"Okay." Haley replied casually. She crawled back down the bed and made grabby hands towards Harry. She wanted to be picked up.

"You know one day we're gonna run out of arms to carry all these kids." Harry laughed as he picked his little girl up.

Shay was quieter than usual. Not like her usual self at all but because of the baby no one really noticed.

"So do we have a name for the sleeping beauty?" Harry asked.

"We do. Everyone we'd like you to meet Isla Jewel Horan." Niall replied proudly.

The room filled with cheers and applause. Even Angus and Haley joined in.

Once it died down Shay excused herself to the bathroom.

Harry, Niall and Heather made idle conversation for a while. Harry asking when their families were getting there and some other questions.

Shay had been a long while in the bathroom at this point, to which everyone had become increasingly concerned.

The bathroom was cornered off in the room with a wall and obviously a locked door so there was a sense of privacy in there.

On the other side of said door, Shay was curled up on the floor below the sink. She was surrounded by paper towels that she had tried to clean herself up with.

Tears were falling silently down her face as she just sat there. Saying and doing nothing.

A knock on the door brought her out of her trance.