Unpredictable

chapter 17

Niall's P.O.V

*flashback*

My mom got custody of me and my dad got custody of Elle once the divorce was finalized. Which made Elle break down in tears at the courthouse when they announced it. I held her in my arms and took her outside.

"I'm still going to be your brother and I'm still going to love you even if we are apart. Okay? Stop crying, Elle. Please." I tell my 13 year old sister.

"I d-don't want to leave." My little sister says crying, hugging onto my waist. I try to hold back my tears because I have to set an example for her.

Our parents came out of the court house and my dad her a Reese's pieces cup to stop crying. It didn't stop her, but she smiled once she ate it. I try telling her funny things so she'll cheer up, but I hear her laughs turn into chokes and I bend down to her. 

"Elle, what's wrong? Are you playing a joke on me?" I ask.

"Ni, I can't breathe." Her skin gets red rashes upon it. I run my hands over her bumpy, sweaty face to try to see what's wrong.

"Open your mouth." I tell her sternly. Her tongue is swollen and she shuts her mouth gripping her throat.

"Mom!" She just stands there arguing with my dad.

"Come on," I walk up to my mom and ask for the car keys and she just hands them to me, not noticing what's going on because they're too caught up in their irrelevant argument.

We get in the car and I speed down the road, thankfully there's an Emergency Room building near. I go to Elle's side of the car, opening the door and I help her out, but she falls. I catch her before she can scrap her knees on the concrete.

I carry her inside and they take her away, her sobbing doesn't make her breathing any easier.

"Don't leave me." She cries and I promise I won't and they take her away.

They call my name and my head pops up,  walking over to the doctor.

"She almost died, but you got her here just in time before her lungs gave out on her from lack of oxygen."

"She keeps asking for you, so you can go inside." I sniff and wipe my puffy eyes so Elle can't tell I was crying.

"Hi, Niall," She jumps up, but then winces in pain at her arm. She snatches the patch off and gets out of the hospital bed before I even get a chance to walk to her. She smiles and laughs as I tell her how nasty Reese's Pieces are to me.

"They said I can't have peanut butter." She says getting down. She covers her butt as she prances over to her bed making me laugh.

"I told you not to wear those long underwear things." I pull up a seat next to her bed and poke at her stomach.

"They're called spanks, Niall."

"They're too damn short." She grabs my hand, playing with my bracelet. She runs her fingers over the beads and metal in awe.

"Do you want to have it?" I ask her and she laughs.

"You got it for Christmas. I'm not taking your gift." I take it off and strap it around her wrist.

"It's a good luck bracelet." I tell her, adjusting it to her liking.

"That's way too tight on my wrist!" She laughs and it stops instantly.

"What?" I look at her face and follow her glare to the door at our parents. My mom starts yelling at me about how I took her keys and my dad yells at my mom for not noticing. Our parents start yelling curse words at each other in the room.

"Get out!" Elle screams.

"Don't tell me to leave, Elle." My mom says through her gritted teeth.

"Just leave. You're just causing useless fucking drama between each other. You guys literally are so damn selfish all you care about is arguing with each other." I say, walking closer to them slowly.

"Son, calm down. Don't do something that you'll regret." My dad says.

"I'm not going to fucking hit either one of you, but you are going to leave one way or another. You can leave on your own or tell the nurse to come and get you." I glare.

"Come on," My dad says ushering himself and my mom out.

"I want to graduate early, so that I don't have to worry about either one of them. They don't even care." She says sniffling. I walk back over to her and tell her to not cry.

"Can I live with you if I graduate early?" I don't even know where I'll be after I graduate, but I promise her yes anyway.

"Please don't forget about me whenever we get separated." She wraps her arms around my neck.

"I won't, Elle."

-end of flashback-

Niall's P.O.V

I'm allowed to see Alex and whenever I go inside she's tugging leggings up her legs in the bed.

"What are you doing?" I laugh.

"My legs got cold." She smiles. I feel my blood resuming it's flow through my veins because I looked like a ghost from the loss of blood in my face a while ago. I'm just happy to see her back to her regular self and happy.

"You scared me," I say, sitting on the bed with Alex.

"I scared myself. I forgot to tell the people no tomatoes." I rub my hand over her legs, well her leggings watching her relax.

"When do you get released?"

"Whenever the nurse comes back in to do an inspection on me. It makes me feel like some sort of crash test dummy whenever they treat me like a science project." I laugh and I bring her hand up to my mouth, kissing it.

"I'm just glad you're okay." I look up at her.

"I'm okay now that you're with me." She says looking down at our touching hands, a small smile showing.

The nurse comes in and tells me I have to leave unless it's okay with Alex.

"I want him to stay in here." She says not letting go of my fingers as I get off the bed.

"Okay." The nurse closes the door and I sit on the chair across from the bed.