Liam Payne's Step Sister

10: My Dad

Niall's P.O.V

I've never seen Ellie cry before. And she's so pretty when she cries... when she cries. No Niall! This isn't funny. Stop singing! "That was Ellie's dad." Liam says, making sure she can't hear us. "Why is she so upset about it? I'd be glad to see my dad." Zayn carefreely says. "This isn't funny Zayn! She needs us right now!" Louis yells. "How do you know about this anyways, Louis?" I ask. He gets a worried look on his face and glances at Liam, who shakes his head. "Just keep talking, Liam." Harry says. "He abused her before she and her mom left him and moved here." He explains. "So what? That isn't a reason for us to lock up the whole house and go into total panic." Zayn says, annoyed. "He tried to kill me. Every. Day." Ellie's small voice comes from the top of the stairs. I rush up the stairs and hug her. "Niall... I'm only wearing a towel." She blushes. "Oh... Sorry." I mumble. "It's ok now, love. You're with us." Louis follows me.

Ellie's P.O.V

"I'm going to sleep." I say. "Are you gonna be ok?" Harry asks. "Yeah. I'll live." I give a small laugh, to lighten the mood a little bit. "We should go to bed too. We have to go to the recording studio in the morning." Liam slips into Daddy Direction mode. It hurts to know I'm the reason he started to be so overprotective in the first place.

I quickly change into my pajamas and slip into bed. Something feels wrong though. To ease my mind into sleep, I go into the kitchen to make some tea. Looks like Niall beat me to it. "Hey." I say, making him jump. "I'm not doing anything." He hides his Oreos and Nutella. "Of course you're not." I wink at him. "Unless you don't let me have any." I smirk. "Here." He hands me the whole package of Oreos. Then he unexpectedly hugs me. While his head is towards my back, I suddenly hear the sound of someone crying. "Niall?" I pull away. "How could he hurt someone as amazing as you?" He sniffs. "Hey, don't cry. I'm not worth it." He suddenly grabbed my shoulders and looked me straight in the eyes. "Don't EVER say that. You're worth so much to me and you know how important you are to everyone living in this house." He takes the food from my hands and puts it on the counter, then pulls me upstairs and brings me to my room. "Niall?" I play with my hair. "Can I sleep with you tonight?" I look into his eyes. "Of course." He smiles. It's almost like he expected me to ask.

"Ellie, I want you to come to Ireland with me sometime." He says, wrapping his arms around me. "Why?" I nuzzle my head into his neck. "Because I said so." He smirks.

Harry and Niall stand face to face in front of me. "Awe... Little Niall thinks he can get the girl huh? That's cute." Harry smirks and reaches for my face, trying to press his lips to mine. But I push his hands away and start to run. Suddenly, there's a tug at my ankle. I turn around, expecting to see Harry but I'm face to face with my father. "You're mine. Then they're dead after you are." He planned out loud. I peaked behind him and saw Liam, Louis, Harry, Niall and Zayn all tied up, staring wide-eyed back at me.

I feel someone shaking me. "Ellie! Ellie!" Niall yells. Then I start shaking without Niall's help. "H-he tied you up... You were going to die-" He cut me off. "We're all fine. It was just a dream. I promise." Niall comforted me. "Liam." I realized. "I need Liam." I was still shaking. "Liam!" Niall calls out. "Niall! Get out of your room and hurry up!" Liam scolds. "Come on." He wraps his arm around my shoulder.

"Well. What happened between you two last night?" Louis winks and laughs, looking at Niall and I. "That's not funny." I argue. "Nobody said it was." Liam tries to calm me down a little bit. "Sorry... It's just-" Loui cut me off. "I totally understand." He reasons. "Liam..." I start to shake. Niall comes up from behind me and gives me a hug. "It's ok. We're all right here." He reminds me. "Please don't tell me you had a dream..." He frowns. "I can't." I copy his look. Niall moves away to get some breakfast. I tell Liam the whole dream, even the beginning, which I thought I shouldn't tell Niall.

"We're doomed." He simply says. "But you never actually died so..." I try and reason. "You're coming with us. I need to be with you at all times." Liam says. "I'm gonna take a shower." I yell.