The Secret Daughter

Chapter 4

"You have Two daughters?!" Curly hair asks. He's the first one who's able to say anything since all the other boy's jaws are still in large O shapes. My mother nods. 

"Woah," Louis says shaking his head and rubbing his eyes. He then pinches himself to make sure he's not dreaming, "dibs."

"No dibs!" Niall cries, "that's totally unfair!"

"None of you may have dibs on my daughter." My mother says straight-faced.

"But Harry has dibs on Lux!" Liam says, elbowing Curly in the ribs. 

"Nobody has dibs on Mica or Lux." She says staring daggers.

"Yes, ma'am." They all mumble, dispersing.

"Baby, how about I take you to your bedroom to rest." She says looking at me with kind, protecting love in her eyes. I nod. "I don't think you can get up the stairs on your own though..." Her eyes dart to Liam and then back to me, silently asking for permission. I nod. "Liam," He turns to attention, "could you please help Mica upstairs?" He doesn't respond, just picks me up gently like a bride.

"Third door on the right." I mutter as I'm carried up the steps. He opens the door to my room and walks inside  (which in itself is really embarrassing because I'm pretty sure he stepped on at least three of my lacey underwear) and he sets me on the bed. "Thanks." It doesn't come out above a whisper, but he turns around and shoots me one of the most beautiful smiles I've ever seen.

Wait what? Okay, scratch that.

He turns around and smiles at me, but it makes absolutely no impression on me at all because he's not even that cute.

That's better.

"Do you need anything else?" He asks quietly, and I shake my head 'no'. Then he walks away. No more words exchanged, but the room feels empty when he leaves. Stale. Lonely. If this is how I feel, I hope for all I'm worth that I'm driving him crazy too.

*****Liam's POV******

"What rubbish." Niall laughs as his soda bottle misses the trash bin entirely. "There's something wrong with these bottles." I send mine flying and it hits the lid and drops squarely inside. I smirk. 

"Let's watch a movie!" Louis suggests, and immediately we flock to the sitting room. Harry turns on the TV.

"What are we going to watch?" Zayn asks, plopping onto the couch.

"LOOK YOU GUYS! 4 O'CLOCK CLUB IS ON!" Louis shouts.

"Louis, that's a children's programme." Zayn says, switching the channel, "HOLY FUDGE FINDING NEMO!"

"I want to watch this!" Harry says. Louis selects it and we sit down, entranced in the story.

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"I shall call him Squishy, and he shall be my Squishy." Dory says, patting the jelly fish. All of this water makes me really have to pee. I get up and walk through the kitchen to the bathroom. It's almost 6 AM. Well look at that, we stayed up all night. 

"I wanna stay up all night and jump around until we see the sun.." I hum, but am interrupted by a loud noise coming from the garage.

"GET AWAY FROM MY HOUSE!" The female voice yells. Lou? 

"Boys!" I shout urgently, not wanting to go outside alone. Nobody comes. I race back toward the sitting room where everybody is sound asleep. "Niall! Zayn!" I shout shaking them. "HARRY, LOUIS!" Zayn stirs.

"Shuddup," He murmurs, throwing a pillow in my direction.

"Guys, get up! Lou is in trouble!"

"Lou said she'd be back by midnight..." Harry yawns, "I saw her go to bed. She put in her earplugs and everything."

"Somebody's got her! Outside, quick! She's in trouble!" I yell. Niall gets up sleepily followed by Zayn.

"Let's see what this commotion is about." Mutters Louis getting up and following the rest of us. I lead them to the door. Niall stops to grab his half eaten taco from the counter. There's no yelling, and I push the door open. I don't expect what I see. At all. The boy kisses the unconcious girl as he pins her to the wall, running his fingers through her blonde hair. But the girl isn't Lou, or at least if it is, she looks about 20 years younger, still a teenager in fact. My muscles don't react with my brain as I'm barreling towards the boy, knocking him off his feet. I manage to scoot away before he lands any horrible punches, but he gets me in the eye and I feel it starting to swell. Harry is immediately by my side as the rest of the boys take off after the attacker. He runs down the driveway and into the soft morning light, faster than Niall, Louis, and Zayn can run.  I could have caught him. I think, but push it out of my mind and focus all my energy into getting my legs to work.

"Who do you think that is?" I ask standing up and dusting myself off. I tentatively reach toward my eye, but decide against it.

"Bigger question. Do you think she's dead?" Zayn asks. He approaches her and puts two fingers on her neck. "She has a pulse."

"I'm going to go get Lou." I say, taking off in a run. I trample up the stairs and into the first door on the left. It's not Lou's room, but Lux's. The baby starts to wail loudly. There's sounds in the room next  door and I dart into it.

"Lou!" I shout. She looks up groggily.

"I know Lux is crying, one moment Liam." She says standing up. 

"Lou! No, we need your help!" She looks at me, confused. "There's a girl!" I say, practically dragging her down the stairs.  

"Okay.." She says following me out the door, putting on the only available shoes, 4 inch heels. She stands in shock once she gets outside. 

"Mica!" She yells, running over to the girl. I whip out my cellphone to call the police and briefly describe to them what happened, and I gave them a description of the boy. They told me they would start looking for him and I shared the news with Lou quietly. 

"You know her?" Niall asks, biting into the taco. Lou helps the girl up, but she can't support herself. I dive underneath her and catch her midfall. 

"Woah, careful there." I say shooting a tiny smile. That meant to sound playful, but it came out kind of.... creepy. We take the girl inside and she and Lou talk for a while as Harry goes upstairs to quiet the baby. 

"Did you call the police?" The girl asks finally. I take a step up. 

"I already did." I tell her and her eyes dart up to mine. Gorgeous and blue, just like Lou's. Oddly, a lot about her reminds me of Lou. My eyes find hers but quickly dart away. I don't know her. She's still a stranger.

"They're looking for him, baby." Lou says.

"Um, Where's Lux?" The girl asks. Harry walks over and sets the little girl on her chest. She looks so comfortable with the child. Maybe she's the babysitter.

"I think you have some explaining to do." Zayn says looking to Lou.

"You're right, Zayn," Lou says standing, "boys, this is my daughter."

"We know Lux is your daughter." Louis says. "Who's the chick."

I know even before Lou says it. This strikingly beautiful girl is...

"I have 2 daughters, boys. You know Lux," She pats Lux on the head, "and this is Mica."