« Niall, please. Are you listening ? »
Niall jumped a bit. He straightened on his chair, embarrassed, while Louis frowned. Niall kept on falling asleep during class and Louis had to wake him up twice and called his name several times already since the beginning of the day.
« Sorry. » - Niall mumbled, lowering his face.
He tried, he really tried his hardest, to listen to Louis for the rest of the lesson, but Louis still had to call his name to bring him back to reality as he was daydreaming. Niall wanted to cry. He hated having everyone's attention on him and, every time Louis called him, every students in the room turned to him to look. And it was starting to be too much for Niall.
When lunch time came, the other kids left the classroom to go eat while Niall, still sitting at his desk, waited until the last one left, before he stood up and went straight to Louis, on the verge of tears. Louis took him in his arms right away.
« What's wrong, baby ?
- Sleepy ! Papa, night-night !
- Aw, angel... »
Louis allowed Niall to fully slip in his headspace. Niall was sobbing now, two fingers in his mouth to soothe himself, drooling on his chin like a young child. Louis put him down for a few seconds to take their lunch out of his bag, but Niall wasn't having it. He cried louder, stomping his feet, making grabby hands towards Louis. He didn't realize it at first but, when Louis turned back around, Niall had wet his pants and a small puddle was forming on the floor at his feet. He cried even harder if possible at how uncomfortable he was feeling, and Louis rushed to him.
He quickly brought him to the bathroom, taking Niall's spare uniform with him.
« It's alright, Nibear, you're okay. It's okay. That's it, baby, shhh... »
With some efforts because Niall was still kicking, too tired to understand why Louis was undressing him in the middle of the school's bathroom, Louis managed to clean and change Niall without anyone seeing them. Thankfully, he always brought a spare underwear and some wipes in his bag for Niall, just in case. It was the first time it actually came useful, tho.
« Papa... » - Niall cried sadly, putting his head down on Louis' shoulder while Louis walked back to his classroom.
- It's alright, angel. We're gonna eat lunch and then you can take a little nap. How's that ? »
Louis kissed Niall's forehead and closed the door behind them. He rocked him side to side for a few minutes to calm him down enough to eat lunch. But Niall didn't like to eat solid food when he was in such a young headspace, and the sandwich Harry had prepared for him looked huge to his little mind. Louis still managed to make him eat the yogurt, feeding him slowly with a spoon. Even like this, Niall got yogurt all over his mouth and some on his nose too.
After the last spoon, he immediately reach his arms to Louis, asking to be carried again. Louis wiped his face and took him in his arms, cradling him and stroking his hair to gently put him to sleep.
While Niall took his well deserved nap, against his chest, Louis ate his own lunch, and then scrolled on his phone, waiting patiently for the hour to pass.
« Nini, baby... Wakey, Love, it's time. »
Niall whined, snuggling up closer to Louis' chest, still tired. But the students were going to come back soon, and Louis needed to bring Niall back from his headspace. He sat the little boy up against him.
« Baba...
- I don't have a baba here, Ni. You can have one at home after school.
- No... Baba ! »
Niall started to cry again, before his eyes were even open. Louis, confused, wondered why his baby was so tired. He was certain he'd put him down to sleep early enough the night before, and he just napped. Something was definitely up.
He tried, for a good fifteen minutes, to calm Niall down and to make him big again, but Niall kept crying and asking for a bottle, sucking and biting on his own finger. He just wanted to go back to sleep.
« Alright, sweetheart. You're gonna get your baba, baby. Shhh... »
Niall didn't stop crying, but eventually reduced the sobbing. Louis hurried to take his phone out and called Harry, praying for him to pick up.
« Lou ? - Harry asked, sounding worried, because Louis never called when he was working, except if it was important.
- Hi, love. Can you come get Niall, please ?
- Is he okay ? Is it him who's crying ?
- Yes. I can't take him out of his headspace, he's just so tired. He napped a bit but now he's asking for a bottle and I think he might need to sleep some more.
- Yeah, he woke up twice last night, I've put him back to bed. Do you think he's still sick ?
- No, I don't think so. He's just exhausted. He kept on falling asleep on his desk all morning. »
Harry agreed and told Louis he was going to be there in a few minutes. Louis hung up and look at the time. His students would arrived twenty minutes later, and he didn't want them to see Niall like this. Not that he personally minded, but it would be humiliating for the boy and Louis knew he didn't like to have that much attention on him anyway.
Until Harry arrived, Louis tried to keep Niall busy so he wouldn't fall asleep. He gave him some crayons and a piece of paper for him to draw something, but Niall scribbles some messy lines and got bored of it, asking for a bottle again, his thumb in his mouth.
« Dada's coming, baby. What about you draw him a pretty picture ?
- Dada ?
- Yes, love. You're gonna go back home with Dada and he's going to put you to sleep. And you'll have your baba !
- Papa ?
- Papa needs to stay here to teach. »
Niall looked down. He put his thumb back in his mouth and Louis thought he was going to cry, but Niall didn't have any energy left to cry, and he wasn't scared to stay with Harry anymore. He seemed to understand now that Louis would always come back.
Louis soon heard small knocks on the door and told Harry to come in. Harry did so and smiled to his husband, walking to him. He kissed him briefly and looked at Niall.
« Well, bug ?
- Baba ?
- Yes. - Harry and Louis laughed. - We're going home and you'll get your baba.
- You can let him sleep until three, not after, or he won't sleep tonight. » - Louis explained.
Harry nodded and carried Niall.
« You say bye to Papa ? See you tonight, Papa !
- Bu-bye Papa.
- Bye-bye, sweetheart, I love you.
- See you, baby. Love you. - Harry said, kissing Louis' forehead while Niall whine between them.
- Love you. »
Harry left with Niall. Louis just had time to clean their lunch before the kids arrived.
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Lost Boy | baby!Niall | ENGLISH VERS.
Aléatoire« Louis is a teacher in primary school. Niall is one of his pupils in year 4. Louis dream of adopting another child after his first son Liam. Niall is mistreated at home. When Louis discover that Niall is a very anxious little boy and that he needs...
