Magic (Niall)

15: More Than This

*~Louis~*

"Niall, mate, why won't you eat? It's not that big of a deal," Liam said, trying to coax Niall into eating -which he hadn't done once in the past two days- not once. We were all extremely worried- not only for their happiness but also for their health.

Maddie was, once again, locking herself in her room and refusing to come out. She wouldn't talk, and it was always silent when we went to check on her. She didn't react to even Like, so it must've been bad. What happened that was so bad, anyway?

Niall didn't listen to Liam- he just left the room. Neither would talk, so the interview they'd planted on us -and are having all the girls come along- that was in less than a day, but closer to 24 hours than even 20, was just wretched luck. There goes our little break. And tour in a week and a half. We were just coated with a bunch of responsibilities that were just thrown at us at the worst time possible. But seriously, what went so wrong?

I didn't want Eleanor to come over and help with Maddie -too awkward- but Dani got this thing happening at her job, so she couldn't come and make sure Maddie didn't die from starvation. She'd pop up now and then, but that would be for the house they were looking for; at some point in time, they'd decided to gather up all of the girls -Maddie, Riley, Megan, El, and Dani- and just live all together in some huge house. They'd decided to invite Jason -Jacob?- Aidan, and Dillon over as well, but all of them apart from Aidan decided they'd rather live with the guys; us.

I raced up to Maddie's room myself. Riley, who was sharing with Megan though I had offered, was really determined to get back in that room; but nothing was working out at all. It was horrible: Give it a week, maybe two, and if it wasn't for Riley I would forget what Maddie looked like!

Sometimes, I didn't know whether to be gleeful or serious; especially in that situation. If I was gleeful, I would cheer everyone up a bit, making it easier to work. If I was serious, I myself might get some more done in helping Maddie and Niall. I just wanted to get this over with. Again, what happened!

We did warn Niall that Maddie would eventually be lost to him, but we didn't think it would come that soon. ill didn't like Luke much, so I could sort of understand what happened on his part, but what about Maddie? She was ignoring everyone, and none of us could understand at all. It didn't even make any sense.

"Louis!" Harry called, "Where is my orange beanie I was going to wear it to the interview!"

"Did you check your room?" I suggested. Silence.

"Found it!" he exclaimed, and I allowed myself a slight laugh. I seated myself in a chair and brainstormed ways to get Maddie out of that room.

Maddie hadn't fully regained her memory, though it did often seem like it. She knew who we were, a few events, but was trying to figure out little things about herself and the rest of us. I was certain she didn't remember that she had dark green eyes rather than brown. She had a lot to remember, and was eager to regain all that knowledge. Perhaps I couldn't used that to get her out of that room and at least eat?

Harry said, once, she really wanted a cat. If we got her one, plopped it in front of her door, and waited to it to meow, surely her curiosity would conquer and have her open the door and, perhaps, come out?

There was a word full of ideas; problem was, we didn't know they even existed. We had to get Maddie out of that room for a multitude of reasons: It was annoying, why did she do that so often? It was a far-fetched idea, but perhaps it would work . . ?

*~Zayn~*

"Harry, Megan! Stop freaking out, it's not helping!" I shouted, no longer able to tolerate their screaming. "Louis has an idea."