Half a heart

Chapter 26

Niall's pov:

I was in the kitchen with Harry starting to serve up dinner for everyone, Harry was making a drink for himself when he looked over to the couch and was looking at Charlie. His smile on his face dropped and a frown appeared. "What is wrong Haz?" I ask, he suddenly turns to me and says "I don't want to leave the kid for a couple days alone" he mumbles, I rub Harry's back gently comforting him. "I know it's hard to leave Charlie, but he's got nick looking after him while we are gone" I reassured, Harry smiled softly and smiled too. We finished serving up dinner and I put Liam's in the microwave so he could heat it up when he got home from his sister's house. We all sat down at the table I handed Charlie his little proportion of chicken satay and rice, I gave everyone their food and we sat down and began to eat. I looked over to Charlie to see he was eating but very slowly, I was worried, but I think he was scared too because recovery from anorexia is hard. Well recovery from any kind of mental health illness or disorder is hard but as long as you're there for the person helping them through their recovery it makes it a little easier. I was saw Louis was drawing little circles on Charlie's left palm and Charlie looked more relaxed and started eating more. Everyone was so proud of him.

We were halfway through dinner and then Harry turned to me. "We need to tell him" Harry said, and his voice was soft whisper. I looked at Zayn who was beside me and louis nodded in agreeing with what harry had just said. "Charlie" I say, getting his attention. He looks up from his plate. "Yes Niall?" he replied. We ended up telling him about our interview we had to leave for. He did seem a little sad, but he was happy he was staying with nick, he loves nick's mum a lot and us boys love their bond they have.  We were leaving for this interview on Tuesday. We all got up and hugged Charlie telling him that we loved him so much and we'd promised to bring him a little gift back from LA. He smiled and so did we.

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Charlie's pov:

It is now early Tuesday morning, and I remembered the boys were getting ready to leave and I wanted to say goodbye to them before they left on their trip. I walked downstairs and saw all of the boys' suitcases and they were all in the kitchen talking. I walked into the kitchen, and they all turned around and looked at me. "Hey kiddo, did we wake you? Sorry" harry asked softly. I shook my head. "I couldn't sleep," I muttered. Harry sighed and then smiled and took me over to the couch. "You need to get some rest Charlie. You have school to go to," Harry explained. I nodded and lied down on the couch and next thing I knew was my eyes were getting heavy and I gave up on fighting trying to stay awake and fell asleep on the couch with a blanket wrapped around me.

Liam's pov:

We were all gathered in the kitchen drinking tea when we heard footsteps and turned around to see Charlie in the kitchen. "Hey kiddo, did we wake you? Sorry" harry asked softly, Charlie just shook his head and muttered something almost in audible," I couldn't sleep," harry sighed and a little soft smile appeared on his face, and he took Charlie over to the couch and said something to him, but I couldn't quite hear but when harry came back to his tea Charlie was fast asleep on the couch. "We have to leave soon, and I don't want him to wake up by himself." Harry stated. I thought about taking Charlie to nick's house. "What if we take Charlie to nick's house?"

"It's like 4:30 in the morning. Would nick even be awake at this time?" harry asked. I looked over at Charlie and then back at him.

"If Charlie needed a place to stay, I think he would be awake and harry he is a teenager for God's sake. He probably is awake on his phone" I stated. Harry nodded in response. I pulled out my phone and looked in my contacts and scrolled down until I found nick's contact and pressed call.

"Hello?" nick's groggy voice said on the other end. I felt so bad for waking him up so early in the morning.

"Hey nick, its Liam, I'm so sorry for calling you at this hour," I stated.

"Liam? What is it its 4:30. Is Charlie alright? Nick definitely sounded more awake than before.

"Charlie is okay, but we have a favor to ask if it's okay with you?" I asked. Hoping nick would be happy to take Charlie in this morning rather than later this afternoon.

"Okay what did you need Liam?"

"Our flight for LA got changed from the afternoon to the morning, and we don't want to leave Charlie on his own in the house. Can we drop Charlie at your house this morning on our way to the airport with all his stuff?" I asked. It went silent on nick's side of the phone for a few minutes.

"Yeah, I would love that. Just text me when you get here instead of ringing the doorbell just so my mum doesn't wake up."

"Okay thank you so much nick. We will be over as soon as possible." I sighed in relief.

"Bye Liam"

Bye Nick" I hang up and looked at the boys and nodded. "Nick said to bring him over and his stuff" the boys nodded, and louis went upstairs and got all of Charlie's stuff and put it next to our suitcases. "Is his school uniform in one of his bags?" louis nodded in reply. "Let's start putting our stuff into the car" the boys and I went over and grabbed our suitcases, and I unlocked my car and we put all of our suitcases in the trunk of the car. I went back inside and went over to Charlie who was asleep on the couch.

"Charlie" I whispered softly. Charlie didn't move. "Charlie" I said his name again this time a bit louder. Charlie opened his eyes and slowly sat himself up.

"Yes Liam" I sat down next to him, and he rested his head on my shoulder. I rubbed up and down his side before saying, our flight got changed to early morning, so we are going to drop you off at nick's before we go to the airport to couch our flight" Charlie smiled, and I got up and he followed me to the car as I took his stuff out of the house and put it into the trunk. Charlie got into the back with Niall and harry and I jumped into the driver's seat, and we headed off to nick's house...