Broken- Louis Tomlinson fanfiction

Chapter 8

Ember's POV

I sat on the couch watching an episode of 'House Hunters' waiting for Louis to finish his shower. He said that we should get out of the house today and do something. I wasn't sure on what we should do, it was pretty cold outside. I was thinking we should go ice skating. I used to ice skate when I was little, but for some reason I stopped doing it. I still love to do it though,

Today's breakfast was strange. He was being nice to me. I thought he would be really annoyed the fact that I woke him up and he slept on the floor all night. Yet he still makes me breakfast in the morning. He is really a good person. But I can't help but think that he just does it because he has pity for me. No one ever cared this much to make sure I was okay. And that showed something.

I jolted out of my thoughts when I hear the bathroom door open. Louis' already had been dressed and his hair had been dried and styled it like he had always . He sat next to me on the couch.

"So have nay idea's?" he asks. I look up to him with a smile.

"We could go ice skating,"

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"Come on, don't be a baby." I say waiting

"Hey, I'm telling you I'm rubbish at this." He says as he enters the rink. Yes, he had agreed to go ice skating. Though he said he sucks at it. I was already on the ice, while he was just starting to step on the rink. I chuckle as he almost looses his balance. He holds onto the side railing moving his feet lightly.

"Come on its not that hard. Just put one foot in front of the other." I say. Soon Louis gets the hang of his and can skate okay. We circled the rink a full time and Louis had admitted it wasn't so bad.

"So when do you plan on showing me the picture?" he asks

"What?" I ask confused

"I said I'd sing for you if you drew me a good picture." he explains

"Oh yes. I should get started on that shouldn't I?" I chuckle, him receiving a smile. We talk and skate slowly for a while more.

"Hey I hope you don't mind, I'm gonna go on this date tomorrow night, you'll be fine right?" He asks with his hands shoved in his pockets.

"Yea, I'll be fine. I was last time." I say with a reassuring smile. I really didn't know if I'll be fine. what if I have a nightmare again? That wont happen right? But I don't want to hold him back from a normal life. Iw ant him to still be able to do what he wants without me getting in the way.

"Ok good. I just feel bad if I leave you alone." he says which made me feel a bit guilty.

"Don't. I'm not going to get in the way of your social life Louis," I say. He smiles thankfully

"Oh trust me it's fine." He chuckles.

"Okay, now, hurry up you skate so slow." I laugh

"I told you I'm horrible at this," he retorted. I laughed and picked up my pace on the ice. Louis tried to keep up. But he lost his balance and fell flat on his butt. I started to laugh really hard and he just sat on the ice with a pained expression.

"This isn't funny," he said

"Oh yes it is." I said laughing. He gave me a smile and shook his head.

"Help me up now," he says with a slight chuckle. I help him up onto his feet and he holds onto my arm tightly. He decided to skate a little more and then we got off the ice. We sat down on a bench and started untying our rented skates. Louis finished before me and I was having some trouble undoing my right skate.

"Need help?" he asks

"Yea, sure." I say. He pats for me to put my foot on his lap. I do and he starts to undo the big knot tied on my skate. He undid it quickly and took off my skate gently.

"Thanks." I say

"No problem. You want to go get some ice cream?"

"Sure. Lets go return our skates first." I say. We return our skates quickly and Louis and I start to walk to a small ice cream parlor. He starts to tell me how he used to come here when he was little with his mom and sisters after going shopping in the down town area. He was lucky. So lucky. He had a family and sisters and a dad. I would do anything to be like that.

We entered the parlor and started looking at the flavors of ice cream they had. Louis had picked strawberry and I ordered plain vanilla. He paid for our ice creams and we sat down on a table.

"So who are you going on a date with huh?" I tease

"Just a girl I met at starbucks." He says smiling at the thought; how sweet.

"Aw what's her name?" I ask

"Eleanor. We met by mixing our drinks up because we ordered the same drink." she smiles

"Are you going to ask her to be her boyfriend?" I tease him

"I don't know, we'll see how it goes." he smiles. A wave of jealousy past through me. Wait why was I jealous? I'm not. I felt happy for him; he seemed so happy with this girl.

We soon left the ice cream place and headed back to the apartment from a long day. We got into the car and I was getting very tired. It was only a 20 minuet drive home. He had always had the radio on. I rested my cheek against the window and watched the places pass by. When we got home I quickly took a shower. When I finished that I got dressed and went to bed.

"Good night. Your sure your okay in here by your self?" Louis says to me as I lay on the bed. I nod my head reassuringly.

"All right. See you in the morning." he smiles

"Yeah, good night." i say. He leaves the room leaving me to fall asleep.

Louis POV

I awoke to a scream. I jolted off of the couch, all I heard was "No!!!!!!!", "Stopp!!!, hellp!!!". This only made me run into the room. Ember was screaming and hiding under her covers under the sheets. I rushed to her and placed a hand on her back. She immediately flinches at my touch. "Shhhh, Ember it's Louis. Shhh." i hush. To see her teary eyes, it brakes my heart. She sits up on the bed and grabs onto my torso. she sobs into my chest and holds tighter than ever. "Shhhh It's just a dream." I say patting her hair. She shakes her head disagreeing.

"It h-happened before." she chokes between sobs.

"It's over. Your safe. Your safe now." I whispered to her. She lets out tiny sobs and clams down slowly. I rub small circles into her back as she calms. We sat there for a long time. Me just holding her and comforting her. Until she lets go and looks up at me with broken features.

"Please stay here." she says sadly. The tone in her voice could just break my heart. I nod my head, not sure how to respond. I was about to get a pillow and blanket but Ember stopped me by grabbing my hand. I knew what she meant. I laid down next to her on the bed. She pulled her blankets up to her chin and cuddled into her pillow. I got comfy and pulled blankets on as well.

I could hear her shaky breathing making me feel sad. She was so upset, and it didn't make me feel any better. I bravely took hold of Ember's trembling hand and entwined it with mine. She started to breath slow. And soon enough she fell asleep.