Adopted by One Direction

Liam's POV: Ch. 12

➡Liam's POV:

Even though my stitches were a pain, I decided to skate with Sophia. She smiles as I grab a pair of skates and takes my hand.

After paying for the skates I take her to our own rink. We decided, since it got strangely colder today, to go skating outside.

I have a feeling this might go terrible.

Lily takes Harry and Niall's hand since they don't have girlfriends so they don't have a girl here.

Louis skates around with El and tries to impress her but ends up falling on his butt instead.

And Zayn and Perrie are kissing on the ice, slowly spinning in a circle.

"Hey lovebirds! Keep it PG, we have a child!" Niall screams at them while shielding Lily's eyes.

Zayn and Perrie break apart and grin ruefully at him. "Sorry," they apologize in unison.

Harry smiles cheekily. "Just remember protection later," he advises.

Perrie blushes a dark red while us lads burst out laughing, leaving the girlfriends red and Lily confused.

"Protection for what?" Lily asks Harry and grabs his pants since she was about to fall. "Where are you going later?" She directs toward Zayn and Perrie.

"Uh, never mind what Harry said," I tell our curious daughter.

She shrugs. "Alright," she sighs.

"C'mon kitten, let's go ice skating," Harry says and skates away with Lily holding his hand.

I turn back to Sophia and peck her on the lips. "Let's go ice skate," I murmur. She smiles and we hold hands and just slowly glide around.

It feels nice, just relaxing for once.

Suddenly I hear a shriek and a flash. Lily is on her butt crying while Harry and Niall try to nicely shoo the paparazzi away. I groan in frustration. Stupid paps. I grab Sophia and skate towards them with Louis, El, Zayn, and Perrie following me.

"Sir, can you please leave!" I shout at the man with the camera. Out of nowhere, more paparazzi come and flash the cameras at us. I grope blindly around for Lily since the flashes blinded me.

I hear a crack then CRASH! the ice breaks under my hands. The flashes immediately stop for a minute.

"LILY!" Everyone screams (but the paps.)

As my vision clears I see Lily's blonde hair floating in the freezing water. I knew the ice was thin and the addition of a group of grown men just was too much.

Louis is the first to react and jumps in. He grabs her and hauls her to the edge. We all reach out and take her shivering form. Her teeth chatter as she tries to apologize for something. Tears roll halfway down her face then freeze.

I take Lily and try to warm her up while the lads get Louis out. Once the shock wears off, the paps start a picture frenzy of the scene.

"GO AWAY!" Niall screams, his Irish accent thick. The paparazzi stare at him, shocked, then start to buzz with questions.

Who's the girl?

Why is she always seen with you?

Is she for publicity?

The last one hit Louis hard. "SHUT UP AND LEAVE ALREADY!" He shouts angrily. His face is red and his hands are clenched into fists.

I cradle Lily close and motion for the boys and girls to just leave. We don't need anything on the front cover of a magazine for yelling at a bunch of annoying paps.

The lads and girlfriends follow me as I skate away and take off my skates, return them, and put on my shoes.

I angrily walk to our car, trying desperately to keep Lily warm. She's probably going to get pneumonia from this.

This is all my fault. I realize now why the rink was empty.

No one was stupid enough to bring their kid to an ice rink during August.