Paul Higgins Is My Adopted Father?

You have got to be kidding!!

Emma's POV

I take a deep breath before talking to my ex adoptive mother. "Hey Clodagh... It's Emma" I hear her gasp through the phone and she shouts "OH MY GOD!" I hear her running with her phone and a door slamming shut. "It has been so long! How are you Emma? Enjoying your new home?" I sigh as I hear the sadness in her voice. I started to feel really guilty for not calling sooner. "Yeah.. It's great, I miss you all a lot though. How is everyone?"

She pauses before carefully replying "We are all, healthy... Which is good. The baby is very healthy and I'm due in three more months!" I gasp as I realise how close that was. "Yay! Do you know the gender?" She laughs at my enthusiasm, then replies "No, I want it to be a surprise" I was shaking with excitement for her. Is that normal?

Realising it was going to come up sooner or later I cough before asking, "I uh, heard a very, ah, interesting news report on Niall.... How is he?" She sighs and replies "You saw that? I was hoping you didn't He is healing. He is eating again, and is talking. That's a start. The only time he used to talk was singing at the concert or in the studio, now he will start a conversation" I felt tears starting to form as I realise how much I have hurt Niall. This could have been avoided so easily. Why did I have to agree to that relationship? Just stayed friends?

"I'm so sorry for everything! I have caused such a mess!" I cry into the phone and Clodagh cries out "No no no it's not your fault! In fact I think this was good for him! He needed time to focus on his career anyway, so don't worry about it being anyone's fault Emma". I hear someone scream in the background "YOU'RE ON THE PHONE TO EMMA?!" It was a feminine voice, but I couldn't tell who it was. Clodagh groans before replying. "Eleanor get in here! Don't tell anyone kay?" I hear a thump and the phone be transferred to someone else. "EMMA?!?!" Eleanor's voice screams.

I laugh replying "Hi Eleanor! How are you?" She squealed before replying "Girl imma kill you next time I see you! You just drop off the face of the Earth with a letter?! How cliche do you wanna get?!" I laugh then reply "What did you want me to do? Record myself crying?" She stops dead and replies "No, no, of course not" I sigh as how down she got. "You can't tell Niall I called" I sigh and she replies with a sad "yeah.."

There was a long pause before I reply saying "well I gotta go, send Clodagh my love and the little Higgins that is on the way." Eleanor replies "Please keep calling, even if the other can't know" I agree and hang up.

I walk out to the main room to see a concerned mum, dad and Chelsea. I smile to show them I'm okay as I hang up the phone on the stand. "Are you okay?" Chelsea asked and I nod quickly, as I turn to face them. "Could I go to the shops?" Chelsea jumps up quickly and screams "LETS GO!" She sprints up to her room and I stare past her in shock. Dad smiles at my reaction explaining "She has a tendency to spazz out when the word 'shopping' is in a sentence"

I run to my room to grab my purse and meet Chelsea at the front door. "Come on Emma!" She calls as she sprints to the car. Our driver was sitting there waiting patiently. "Where to ladies?" He asks as we pile in.

"The closest mall please!" Chelsea almost sings. He chuckles and starts the car.

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We buy almost the whole mall and as we were heading to the car I see a parlour with a photo of a nose piercing. "Let's have a look in here" I say. We walk through and I see a guy at the front counter looking at us curiously. He had a bad boy image about him and I liked it. His brown hair was shaped to perfection and he looked very well toned. I walk up to him and he asks "Can I help you?" I smile politely and reply, "Could I have a nose piercing with the one on that shelf over there?" I point to the stud I was looking at earlier.