Chances - 1D KidFic

That Chapter Hasn't Begun Yet

*Louis's POV*

Our first Christmas Eve (and my birthday) together as a family was very special. We made cookies, sang Christmas songs all day, and had cake for my birthday. The Harry and Niall were very excited to open their Christmas Eve presents: new pajamas and a new movie. They fell asleep watching The Grinch and were put to bed a while ago. Liam and I have just finished playing Santa and putting the presents around the tree and now we're getting ready for bed ourselves. Liam and I are taking bets on how early Harry will wake us up. (Liam said 5, I said hopefully after 7.)

"So..." Liam says as I get into bed, "I know you said not to get you a birthday present."

"You didn't." I tried to act annoyed because we agreed, but I love getting presents (and Liam knows me too well).

"Yeah, I did. I'm not that great at following directions. So... happy birthday," Liam says a little nervously, which I find a little odd. "It's nothing too big, but I thought you would like it." 

He hands me a poorly wrapped gift (bless him, he tried). It feels a bit like a book. I try (aka pretend) to take my time admiring his wrapping job and choice of birthday wrapping paper. You know those people who meticulously open presents so they don't tear the wrapping paper? I'm not one of those people. I'm very impatient when it comes to presents. 

"Just open it already!" Liam blurts out, perhaps a bit too loudly.

"Shh! You'll wake the babies!" I whisper loudly as I rip into the gift.

It is a book. The cover is blank though. I open it up and it looks like one of Liam's manuscripts. I glance up at him and he gives me an encouraging nod. I flip a few pages and find a picture of me and Liam, an old picture of us in high school. There's a little blurb about us and how we met. Then there's a picture of us on our wedding day, Liam looking gorgeous as ever. I don't read any of the stuff because I know I'll start uncontrollably sobbing. I flip further through the book and find a chapter about our early adoption process. The next chapter is about Harry and how he came into our lives, with pictures and everything. Pictures of just Harry and some of all of us together. I can feel tears leaking out of my eyes. The next chapter is about Niall. There's pictures of us and our beautiful sweet boys playing together. I turn to the next chapter and it's blank, save one picture that's been taped to the page. It's a picture of us at the Christmas party yesterday, me, Liam, Harry, Niall, and Zayn. I look up at Liam.

"That chapter hasn't begun yet," he says, barely above a whisper. 

And then I lose it. I curl up in Liam's arms because that's the only place I want to be. I try to talk but the only thing that comes out are broken cries of something resembling "I love you." 

"Shh..." Liam soothes. "I know. I know. I love you too. Shh... You'll wake the boys. Shh... I love you." He rubs my back while I hug him as tight as I possibly can. "Shh... Love, you're cutting off my circulation."

"Don't care," I manage to croak out. Liam laughs, but continues to rub my back and kiss my head. I look up at him and he kisses me (I needed it). We pull away and I can't help but stare at him. "This is so beautiful. How did you do this? Is this what you've been working on this whole time?" My voice cracks at the end.

"Not originally. Only after Harry came along. Remember that time you went to the zoo so I could have time to write? Well, I missed you guys. I didn't really intend it to be something to be published. My editor was mad because I was extremely behind on the original thing I was writing and wanted to know why. So... I showed her this. She loved it. There's tons of parenting books out there, but not many about adoptive parents. I thought I was done, and then Niall came along and I just had so much more to write. And now... well... I might have another chapter to write. And I don't know if this'll be published because some of the stuff is very personal, but I wanted to do this for you. I knew you'd like it," he says with a smile.

"I love it. I... I love you. So so so so much." I kiss him because I can't think of what else to do. "You're too good to me," I say when I pull away. "I don't deserve you."

Liam leans in for a kiss and I happily oblige. "Don't start that. You deserve the best."

"I got you. You're the best." I kiss him again. "The best writer, the best father, the best husband, the best friend..."

"The bestest friend," Liam corrects. 

"Yes, Harry." I laugh. "The bestest friend. But seriously. I love you so much. Thank you for everything you do. You love me and our babies so much."

"Forever and always," Liam says with a kiss. "And thank you for being the best husband to me and father to our children I could have ever asked for."

"You sap. You're gonna make me cry again."

Liam kisses me quickly. "What if I do that every time you cry?"

"In that case, I might need to cry more often," I joke. 

Liam laughs and pushes me down onto the bed as he steals another kiss. 

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*Author's Note*

*nervously comes back to this story after being away for 4 months*

So... hi. Obviously I didn't get the Christmas part up... before actual Christmas. And this isn't even the Christmas one. I'm so sorry. I've been sooooo extremely busy, for reasons I won't bore anyone with. I've seen so many comments lately to please continue this and I've wanted to. I just haven't had the time (and I lacked some inspiration). I'm so sorry. Today I had a small idea and that became this. I contemplated waiting to post this as the intro part to the Christmas one (which I still plan on doing) but it's been so long since I published anything so I decided to just publish this. I know it's a bit weird to post Christmas chapters when it's not Christmastime but that's what I'm doing. I don't know when I'll post again, but it'll hopefully be soon. *crosses fingers* 

With that said, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. As always, please feel free to leave me comments. If you have any suggestions, feel free to leave them. I can't guarantee I'll use them, but I can try to work some of them in. Happy reading! :)