1D) Adopted by Niall Horan *Under Major Editing

Ch. 25 Hope

Ellie's POV

The tv turned on for the first time in a while at the beginning if June. A talkshow came on screen.

"We have the first person here from one direction to speak out about Ellie, Liam Payne!" she said. The audience burst into applause. I smiled as Liam appeared on the stage.

"Hello, Liam," she said, smiling. "Hi, Willa, it is a pleasure to be back, as always," he said. "It is a pleasure to have you, as always," she said. He laughed at the repetitive words.

"So Liam, what has this whole expirience been like?" she asked. He breathed heavily. "Well," he said, "I'm not going to lie and make the whole situation happier than it really is. I'm sorry if this makes you sad, but I'm being torn inside right now. I miss Ellie dearly as if she was my own child. She was honestly the sweetest little girl you would ever meet and she never was negative. If you needed a smile, she was the one to go to."

The lady smiled. "Now, what is it like in the band to be missing this little girl?" she asked as a picture that I put on twitter of Niall and I in London Jack glasses popped up. The whole audience awed at it.

"This is going to be worse," Liam said, obviously preparibg for tears. "The second that we found out Ellie was missing, we were all affected. I practically lost it, Niall lost his child and broke a rib, Louis couldn't breathe or move, Zayn almost had Perrie carry him to the hospital, and Harry was left alone in the world. We all sat in silence for the weeks that Niall was in the hospital because there was nothing to be said or done. I'm pretty sure that not one of us wasn't crying and mourning." He took a deep breath.

"But it got Niall the worst. He was perfectly happy when he woke up, but then he remembered what had happened. He started to cry uncontrollably and whisper things to himself. As much as we all tried to cheer him up, he continued to be miserable."

"To be honest, I thought that he would be closer to his usual self at this point, but he isn't any better at all. He hasn't touched his phone at all. He refuses to even go to Nando's. He won't talk to anyone except the band and his family. He barely eats anymore. He wakes up almost every night with bad dreams."

He started to cry after that. "But worst of all," he said, "he has to take happy pills to even get out of bed in the morning. I never in my life would have imagined my best friend Niall having to take happy pills just to keep living. When I first met him, I saw a happy man with a rather sunny disposition. The only time that I ever saw him sad was when we were almost kicked off the x factor, and this is about a million times worse. My friend Niall is with Ellie."

I started to cry when he said that. Niall had to take happy pills. He could barely get out of bed without them. But most of all, he was with me. The man back in London was just a shell of my father. The real Niall was just as lost as me. Almost every person in the audience was crying with Liam.

"I really hate to have sad interviews like this," he said. "Its okay, we all wanted to know," she said, "The truth hurts." "Like a ton of bricks," Liam agreed.

"Is there anything that you would like to finish off with?" she asked, wiping a tear from her eye. "Yes," he said, "If you have any idea where Ellie is or have seen her in the past four months, call 999. This is serious now. We need her back before our tour." The audience cheered as brave Liam walked off stage. The tv shut off.

"How was that?" my "father" asked. "How much did you see?" I asked. "The very end," he replied, "Where pretty boy said call nine nine nine if you see our precious baby." Good. He didn't see the rest of it. He didn't need to know that Niall was on happy pills.

"Water bottle," he said, chucking the frozen bottle at my face. "Oi!" I shouted. He laughed and walked away. I swear, even Kevin wasn't as physco as my fucking biological father, and Kevin tried to kill me. How the hell were we related other than our looks?

The tv flashed back on. "Liam from one direction just knocked out in London outside of the building where he was just interviewed," the news broadcaster said. Bio dad.

"You are the worst fucking father in the whole world!" I screamed as he walked in the door, "It is one thing to take me, but leave my friends alone! What did they ever do to you?"

"They are your friends," he sneered.

I swear, someday that man will go to hell. He doesn't deserve better, he killed my mother and he was slowly killing me. I knew better than to think otherwise. My mother never did anything and neither did I. And one day, he would be down on his knees at my feet, begging for mercy. I wouldn't accept any of his apologies. They wouldn't be in vain. He will just be pitying himself. He made me lose my hope.

I knew that I would die before anyone found me and that I would probably never see Niall again. That was just that. However, his life would go on just fine without me. I was the one thing keeping him behind all this time. He would realize it as soon as they buried me. I knew that he would be just fine. His life would go on as it did before, as much as it would pain me as I watched down on him.

I woke up screaming five times that night. I couldn't get my mind off Niall. He would be fine, right? He wouldn't kill himself. He had a whole life ahead of him. I was just a child. I didn't have much of anything to keep me going other than Niall.

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Harry's POV

I looked up to the sky that night after watching Liam's interview. "Please don't let them lose faith," I pleaded, "Niall and Ellie and so nice and they have never done anything wrong. If you can't send Ellie home, atleast let them have faith."

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Sorry that its so sad. Ellie is losing hope and so is Niall, in case you didn't pick that up. Thats for the seven comments and twenty one votes, but it isn't enough. Do better you guys!

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