Open Your Eyes (One Direction) [On Hold]

Chapter One

 Chloe

We're going somewhere. Mum won't tell me where but I know we're leaving. I don't know if we're coming back, either. 'Cause Mum's packing today.

“Come on, Chloe, please?” she asks me. I shake my head.

“I can't just pick one!” I whine.

“Chloe . . .” Mum sighs. I look down at the two stuffed animals on my bed. There's Gerald the Turtle or Mallory the kitty and Mum says I can only take one on the plane and I can't choose!

“Do you have to make her choose?” asks Franklin, walking into my bedroom. I turn away, the stuffed animals forgotten, and fling myself at his legs. “Hey Chloe” he says, his voice is rumbly. He pats my head.

Mum says Franklin's like my daddy but he isn't my daddy. She says I have a real daddy somewhere in London, wherever that is.

“Franklin, where are we going?” I ask him. He looks down, and his eyes meet mine.

“We're going on vacation” he says. “For fun. Your mum and I have wanted to do this for ages.” He glances at mum, and she smiles at him.

I may be five but I'm really smart and I know there's something she isn't telling me but I don't care.

“Well where is vacation?” I ask.

“London” Franklin replies. Mum brings a hand to her face, I wonder why.

“Isn't daddy in London?” I ask. Franklin groans.

“Sorry, Mil” he says to mum. “You told her Lou lives in London?”

“Yeah” Mum replies. “Oh well. She was going to find out soon enough.”

“Find out what?” I ask, running over to Mum and jumping into her lap. She smiles at me.

“We're going to go see your daddy” she tells me.

“Really?” I ask. When she nods, I cheer.

“So hurry up, sweetheart, and pick” Mum says. “Which one do you want daddy to meet?”

“Both!” I shout, hugging each of them to my chest. Mum sighs.

“Come on, Mil” Franklin says. “Does it matter?” Mum rolls her eyes at him but she's smiling too.

“Fine” she tells me. “The can both come. Now are you ready?”

“I am!” I shout, dancing around the room with Gerald and Mallory. “I'm gonna see daddy!”

-

Millie

I can't believe I'm finally telling Louis. I'm finally telling him he has a daughter.

He has no idea why I suddenly wanted to visit, after six years of no contact. But since he's Louis, he said yes. We're staying in his flat for a few weeks. And I don't know if I want to come back to Australia.

Franklin says it's fine if we stay in London. He's always wanted to live there, anyway. It all depends on how Louis takes the news. Whether he wants a daughter in his life or not.

I hope he does.

Chloe wants to meet her daddy, she always has, ever since I told her that Franklin wasn't.

Franklin was there for me when I was sixteen, orphaned, and toting around a two-year-old child. He let me move in with him and . . . turns out I love him. Funny how the world works.

Everything would've been perfect, except . . . Chloe needs her real daddy in her life. She needs to meet the man that helped create her.

Chloe needs to meet Louis Tomlinson.