Liam Payne's Step Sister

44: My Head...

Ellie's P.O.V

I wake up in a white room with a massive, pounding headache.

I groan in response and tightly shut my eyes.

"Ellie? Are you ok?" Niall rushes over to me.

"What happened?" I say in an extremely scratchy voice.

"You were in a coma for... A while. You got a concussion." He concludes.

"When can I go home?" I ask.

"Um... It depends if you wanted to live with me, or Liam or Zayn or Louis..." He mumbles.

"What do you mean?" I doubtfully ask.

"We told Simon what happened and he figured we should just live in our own houses." He explains.

"Niall... What day is it?" I look up at him.

"It's... It's December 14..." He nervously combs through his hair with his fingers.

"I'm almost 18." I smile, mostly to myself.

"It's good to have you back." Niall concludes.

"It's nice to be back. Even though I don't remember anything that happened when I was gone." I giggle.

"You were out for a little over a month. I wanted to be here when you woke up so I spent practically all day everyday here. Some nights, I would hide under the bed and sleep with you when everyone else was gone." Niall sheepishly admits.

"You're adorable." I gush, causing his cheeks to brighten.

I slowly start to sit back up and feel a jolt of pain go through my foot until my knee.

"Harry broke your leg. That bastard. When you were out they couldn't fix it. Something about not being able to move you." Niall explains after seeing the pained expression on my face.

Louis bursts through the door with a huge grin on his face.

"You should've seen Niall! He was bawling his eyes out for weeks!" Zayn steps in behind him.

"No I wasn't!" Niall defends as he throws his hands up.

"Can you idiots forget about that for a minute and go get a damn nurse?" I gesture to my leg which doubles in pain every second.

"Already did." Liam smiles as he brings in a nurse.

"We'll take you to the emergency room and give you a quick operation. In the meantime, you boys have to stay in here." She comments as she starts to push my bed out the door.

"Can I come?" Niall pouts.

"No Niall. I know how many nights you already spent with her..." She chuckles.

"The nurse knows your name, Niall? That's sad." I giggle as i pretend to be disappointed.

                               ~*~

I wake up in the passenger seat of Niall's car with a brace on my sore leg and a mild headache.

"Hey Princess. Feeling better?" He sweetly asks.

"I think so..." I half-mindedly mumble as I examine my leg.

We pull into a big apartment building's parking lot.

"We've got an interview and I wanted to be there when you woke up so you kinda have to come now because I got here late... Sorry not sorry." Niall smirks.

"And... We're here." He declares as he pulls in to a parking spot near the brick building.

"What about Harry?" I nervously ask.

"He's with his family until we start the tour next year. You won't see him until then." Niall comments as he opens the door for me and helps me out of the car.

I hop on my crutches through the door and wait while Niall gets his makeup done once we're inside.

Lou takes me aside and does my makeup afterwards, maybe just for fun or maybe to make me look better.

"Up next we have Niall Horan and Ellie Payne! The hottest new celebrity couple!" A perky female voice says.

"You're such a liar, Niall. You said you and the boys had an interview and I was only coming because you wanted to be there after my surgery!" I pout.

"I know what I said and I only lied to make you come with me." He objects.

"What could I have done? Hobbled away until you threw my crutches out the window?" I chuckle.

Suddenly, Niall picks me up and sets me on his lap in the interviewing couch.

"My crutches." I pout.

"Boo hoo. You won't need them anyways and now you're trapped. Ha ha." He mocks.

I suddenly smirk as a idea comes to my head.

I stare at Niall's lips and wait for him to cave in.

"Stop." He mumbles as he looks away from me. I just continue staring.

"Stop it, Ellie." He groans.

"I won't fall for it." He repeats.

"I put on some coconut mint Chapstick earlier. Can you check if I still have it on?" I innocently ask.

This causes him to glance at my lips.

"Stop." He repeats.

"Stop what?" I ask as I lean close enough to feel his breath on my lips.

"Ready to start?" The perky female voice asks.

"Yeah." I lean back and smirk proudly at the thought of mixing Niall's emotions.