War Front Letters (Lilo Mpreg AU) -Watty Award Winner-

Chapter Nine

(Letter Nine, Louis is five and a half months pregnant)

Louis was extremely happy, too happy as a matter of fact. He was happy because it was Christmas, a time for him to get together with all his family and celebrate a festive season, and luckily for him this year it had decided to snow. Areas such as London and Wolverhampton happened to be caught up in those places, although most people found this a disadvantage for this part of the year Louis loved it, he loved the warm clothes he got to wear and the decorations he got to place around the house.

Louis was sitting on the couch with his bump pushing against his red and white Christmas jumper, causing the fabric to stretch around his growing skin. He smiled across at Niall as he continued to go through the large box full of Christmas ornaments that both him and Liam had collected over the past few years, Zayn had always thought the two had gone overboard with all the ornaments and decoration because they were always the most lit up house on the street. Louis, on the other hand, disagreed. He loved being the most festive house on the street.

Louis let out a content sigh and held the small green elf up above his face so he could see it better, before he stood up and waddled over to the fire place where he already had two other elves sitting. He placed it down in the correct spot and blew some of the dust off the marble fireplace top.

"How many elves do you have?" Harry asked, struggling to help Zayn get Louis' Christmas tree up and into the small corner of the room. Louis insisted it should go in that corner after they convinced Louis that they should put the tree up instead, to prevent him from hurting himself.

"Six, and they all sit on the fire place! Are you almost finished with the tree?" He asked happily, managing to bend over enough to just reach the stuff in the bottom of the box. His Christmas jumper had shifted up a bit and Niall could see the red stretch marks littering the bottom half of Louis' stomach, he now knew why the older lad had a sob two days prior that involved his mother having to come around to deal with it. It was because he was 'embarrassed', in the end it turned out he was just very insecure about his bump and stretch marks.

Louis finished placing his elves along the fireplace before he got Niall to help him drag the large box of decorations over to his tree. Niall forbid the older lad from using the scissors to cut the box open because they had a large pointed edge on them, and by the looks of Louis' gloves he had already put a hold in them.

Louis had an obsession with silver and every year Liam always told him he wanted purple on the tree, so they went with the silver and purple theme and honestly Louis was loving it. He stuck the large purple Christmas bauble on one of the branches before Harry jokingly wrapped the tinsel around Louis' neck, the older lad smiled and ran his fingers along the tinsel until it started to itch against his skin and give him a red rash around his collarbone area.

Zayn smiled, placing the smoothie he had just made down on the table, giving Louis' vitamin pill container a slight shake, causing it to rattle slightly. Louis let out a loud huff and stuck the tangled Christmas lights forcibly into Harry's arms before he stomped away, making sure he made as much noise with his feet as possible.

"Are you grumpy Lou?" Zayn asked, handing Louis one of the large tablets he always struggled swallowing. He hated the fussing Zayn did, but he was well aware if Liam was here he would be just as bad. He was really tempted to throw the horrible pill on the floor and crush it into the grey carpet, but he knew he would probably be actually very childish if he did something stupid like that. He picked up the cup of water and took a big sip before dropping the pill into his mouth and swallowing it as best as he could, trying not gag afterwards.