The Story of Us

Isn't She Lovely

I suggest you take a pillow and a box of tissues cos I hope you cry as much as I did when I wrote  this. 

I woke with a start.  I managed to sit up and take a look around. I had tubes pinned in my skin and my stomach hurt like someone had cut it open.

I shot my head towards a whisper in the corner of the room. Through the dim light I could see Harry holding a bundle of a pink blanket.

-Harry?- I managed.

-Baby?- he got up, holding the bundle tightly in his hands. –Oh- Nurse!- he called out.

Niall walked in with Luce and Lou by his side. –I’ll take Darcy.- He took the bundle and sat where Harry was a moment ago.

-Darcy? Harry, what— he closed the curtains of my bed and gently squatted on the floor beside me.

He smiled, but his eyes were red and swollen- like he’d been crying for hours. –Yeah, Darcy.- his voice was insecure and shattered. Not likely that he’ll be singing ‘Gotta Be You’ any time soon. –You- you fell down the stairs. Lucy took you to the hospital and they did a caesarean to save the baby, and I wasn’t there— His eyes filled with tears and he looked down.

-Baby, I’m okay now.- I managed to lift his head up. –But, Darcy?-

His face lit up, -She’s fine.- He stretched and kissed my forehead.  -Niall!- he called out and soon enough the Irish dude brought the pink bundle and laid it in my hands.

I shifted the blanked and found a perfect little sleeping baby girl. I was at the lack of words. –She’s- She’s beautiful.- 

-Like you,- Harry said, our eyes meeting.

I looked back at Darcy. Her hand was over her face, but I could see she had Harry’s nose- thank God because my nose is pointier than the Great Pyramid of Giza- and cheeks. The tiny white bracelet on her wrist read- Darcy Styles, girl.

-Hey, baby.- I said with a smile. Darcy yawned and went back to sleep. Like her dad, that one, I thought.

-My God…- My head shot straight up.

-What?- Harry asked.

-Lux will be jealous.- 

Harry chuckled. –Let her be. It’s this one’s time to shine.-

-Please, she’ll outshine you.- He smiled and kissed me.

Once out lips separated, he said, -We have to be more careful now.- We both looked down at the baby.

-She’s sleeping,- I said and pecked his lips.

-Mates,- Louis called out. –This is a hospital.-

-Hmm…- Harry said, -I recon Niall saying the same thing, what, 7 years ago?-

-And I recon we didn’t listen to him then, either,- I added.

Soon enough, our room was filled with balloons, flowers, giant stuffed teddy bears and people- Zayn and Perrie, Luce and Niall, Liam and his wife, Lou and Lux who was frowning because she wasn’t in the centre of attention and Louis and El with baby girl Melody in her arms. I have a feeling Darcy and Melody will be quite the chaps. We talked and everyone congratulated us on the baby.  

Once the so called ‘hospital party’ had finished, it was just me and Harry in the room, and a few others in the hall who were taking care of Darcy so Harry and I could have some‘quality alone time’. If they break my baby I am breaking their heads, I thought as Louis was walking out with Darcy in his arms.