Little broken birds {ed sheeran & One direction fanfiction}

Chapter 17

(Harry’s POV)

I climbed out of my Porsche outside of Niall’s flat. She’d gone to stay there as cloe wouldn’t shut up about Ed.

Man do I love that knew car.

I walked up the stairs to the door and knocked.

A hopeless looking Ni opened it. “Thank god you’re here mate.”

He whispered. He looked completely exhausted, like he hadn’t slept in days.

“What’s wrong Niall?” I asked, panicking. He just sighed.

“Just come in. I’ll explain in a bit.”

I followed him into the apartment, and was heartbroken by what I saw.

“How long has she been like this?” I whispered with great difficulty. It was….shocking.

“Since she left Cloe’s couple days ago. She’s just been curled up on the sofa, sobbing, ever since.” I walked up to the poor girl.

“Izzy?” she just looked up at me, and started crying even harder.

Then she looked away and hid her face in the pillow she was holding close to her.

“Harry, just come into the kitchen. You’re just making her worse mate.” He looked sympathetic.

I nodded and walked into the large room that Niall must have spent most of his time in.

“Harry, what happened while you were visiting her?” He looked at me with a disappointed look. WHAT! Did he think…

“Niall! I would never do something like that! How can you even….”

“ALRIGHT! Sorry, sorry! I was just trying to figure out what’s wrong with her!”

God, how could he even think I would make a move on her? For one thing I had learnt from Ed’s mistakes, and I actually liked someone else…

“Look, I promise I didn’t do anything like that. But… I do know what might be the problem…” and then I explained to him what I suspected was wrong with my best friend.

Niall looked at me wide eyed.

“How could you…. Why would you…. Harry you know how much he means to her! And you know how fragile she is!”

“I’m sorry Niall. I know how much she means to you, and I really am sorry.” He just stood there.

“She’s one of the only people in my family who still treat me like, well me. She still treats me like I’m just Niall, not Niall Horan the Irish lad who’s in one direction. She realises I’m still a human being.” He whispered.

“I know Ni, I know. It’s hard to find people who like us for us. In my defence it wasn’t completely my fault. She cut me off half way through what I was saying. If she’d just heard me out, then maybe we would have avoided all of… this.” I said, gesturing at the doors that lead to the living room.

“It kills me Niall; it literally kills me to see her like this. So broken. Ever since she opened up to me at that party I’ve felt almost responsible for her, like I NEED to make her better again. The thing is, she likes Ed, and I know that Ed also happens to really like her as well. I just really hope I haven’t ended this for them before it even started. It’s like they are meant to be together.”

Niall stood there for a moment, thinking over something before suddenly a smile appeared on his face.

“If Ed likes her, then all we have to do is tell her that! She’ll be better again! Come on!” he exclaimed, and he opened the door.

I quickly shut it.

“We can’t.” I murmured.

He just looked at me like I was speaking a different language.

“What do you mean Harry? All we have to do is tell her and then they can be together!”

I sighed.

“Niall, it isn’t that easy. First, I don’t think Ed completely realises how much she likes him. Also, Isabella would never believe us! She’d think we were just saying it to make her happy. I think she’s too broken to believe that someone could feel that way about her, perhaps even scared of it.”

 Finally understanding flooded his face.

“Then what do we do? We have to help her harry! I mean just look at her! She won’t even go back to her and Cloe’s apartment for goodness sake! She just cries and sleeps!” He exclaimed.

Then he whispered something that made me feel even guiltier.

“And she’s hardly eating. All I could convince her to eat yesterday was a digestive biscuit. I don’t know what to do!”

I was speechless for a moment, and that didn’t tend to happen very often.

“Do you think… do you think she’s trying to….” I couldn’t finish the sentence, I just couldn’t.

But Niall understands because I think the thought had already crossed his mind, and I saw a tear escape his eye and run down his cheek.

“It’s gonna be alright Niall, she’s gonna be fine.” I murmured comfortingly.

“so what are we gonna do?” he asked.

“Try and get her eating, and I’m gonna speak to Ed. Maybe she’ll listen to him.” I gave Niall a hug.

I hated seeing him like this, so without hope. He was one of my best mates. But what hurt me more was Izzy.

What happens if we can’t snap her out of this?

What happens if she succeeds in starving herself?

I can’t lose her, I already lost Samantha to the monster she called Ana, I’m not gonna let it take Izzy as well.

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So, I understand that I've updated EIGHT new parts of this story in the last half an hour! I was bored and I just had to write and I thought I would let you read it, rather than hold back chapters like I had been doing. So Now I have published all of the chapters I had stocked up and I will basically be publishing as I write!

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