The day we met

chapter four

----- 1 AND 1/2 YEARS LATER----

Louis' POV

I have eaten little to nothing. I haven't slept much. ive only take 3 showers a week . Eleanor and the guys are worried about me. but I cant leave her side. if I do I will never forgive myself. I have her right hand in mine, zayn is on the left side of her but hes worse. he has only showered once every two weeks but that's only because they had to drag him out of the room and into the bathroom kicking and screaming. he loves her to death and I can see it in his eyes that hes blaming himself. I can tell that he thinks that if he did start that fake thing with the cupcake she wouldn't be here. but its not his fault, or nialls, or hers. things just happen when we least expect them and it happened to happen right now. its a good thing that we have 2 years off right now because she hasnt woken up yet. management would be pissed if we missed a concert. they are mad that we aren't in the studio to even try to keep things going, but we don't care. lexy is more important than our career. if we leave they have nothing so they cant say much.

paul walks in the door and I see his nose is turned up. he walks up to zayn and put his hand in his shoulder. "zayn its time for a shower don't you think? I could smell you from the outside the door." zayn shakes his head and paul sighs. he picks him up and zayn starts struggling.

"PUT ME DOWN. I DONT WANT TO LEAVE HER WHAT IF SHE WAKES UP. I CANT LEAVE THE ONE I LOVE KNOWING SHE COULD WAKE UP ANY MINUTE!" zayn cries. paul puts him in the bathtub and hurries out of the bathroom and locks the door.

"take a shower, she will still be here when you get out." paul says with a thick accent, through the door. after a few minutes we here the water turn on. zayn knows not to fight when paul uses his intimidating voice. paul picks up the duffle bag in the corner that I never knew was there and put it in the bathroom. he sighs and takes a seat in the seat zayn was originally sitting."I know its hard but she will be okay. we all know shes a fighter and she will wake up soon" I hear paul whisper to himself. I only heard it because its dead silent in here.

"I just wanna see her eyes again. shes my family away from my family and I don't wanna lose her." I say sighing. I lean back in my chair and remember what zayn was shouting as he was getting dragged away to the bathroom. he confessed his love for her. im not jealous but I just don't want him to hurt her. shes been through enough. "paul do you think he meant it?" I ask breaking the silence again.

"yes. he told me a while ago. before he got together with perrie. he was so in love though he thought that he didn't have a chance since she had a boyfriend and only thought of him as a friend. he thought he needed a destraction because he thought she doesn't love him. oh how wrong he was. she thinks I don't know things but I do, I know why she came here, I know why her and her boyfriend broke up. I know what her mother has done. I know it all and she doesn't know that. I have only stayed with her mother because I thought I was doing what was best for lexy, now that I know what she has done shes gonna be out of the house faster than you can scream kevin at the top of your lungs. our bond has been broken because I havent been around. but that's going to change and I can guarantee that." he says and my eyes widen. he knows?? how??? many questions have been going through my mind. as if he read my mind he continued. "I don't go through her text messages but I can see it in her eyes, and shes a sleep talker. her mom has always been a horrible person. she only did things to me though, cause I didn't want lexy to have to deal with that. her eyes read everything when we first saw each other at the airport after so long. and when I asked her why she was so skinny and why she lost so much weight I saw fear sadness and hatred in her eyes. I knew it was her boyfriend, well ex boyfriend. I don't know what he did but hes gonna pay for breaking my little girl." he stopped.

I saw tears well up into his eyes. the water then turned off and we knew he was finally out of the shower. "your next" he says and I nod looking at lexy again. i then begin to think of what she told me. i squeeze her hand tighter and let go. i stand up to go to the shower. zayn walks out and paul gets up and walks over to my side of the bed. i walk over to the bathroom and shut the door behind me. great another tearful shower.