Niall Horan Child Preferences 3

#157 The first christmas without him

It would be our first Christmas without Niall. This year it will be the whole family, except Niall.
We are spending Christmas with Nialls mum and dad like usual but Niall won't be there.
By we I mean me and my four children:
13 year old twins, Liam and Luke, 5 year old  Isabelle and 3 year old Isla.

You're probably thinking, 'but why isn't Niall with you?'
He died, he had a brain tumour hat was unnoticed by doctors. One day , a week after his birthday, he collapsed and later died in hospital.
I was distraught , the kids were too. Isla didn't really understand that much but she knew that he wouldn't be coming back.

***

"Mummy! Wake up it's Christmas!" Isabelle and Isla said jumping on the bed. I was staying in Nialls old bedroom as we were spending Christmas with his family.
The bed still smelt like him.

I opened my eyes and smiled at my two daughters.
"Merry christmas" I whispered kissing their cheeks.
"Let's go wake your brothers up and then we can go downstairs to open your presents with grandma" I said and they smiled.

They ran out the room yelling to Liam and Luke.
I stood up and put one of Nialls old jumpers on over my Christmas pyjamas.
All four of my kids came out of Greg's room for when he comes here since that's were Liam and Luke were sleeping.
"Good morning my handsome boys" I said kissing Liam and Luke's cheeks as they walked past me and went downstairs.

I sat down on the sofa next to Maura as the kids started opening their gifts.
"Its so surreal not having Niall here" Maura said quietly and I agreed.
"Our first Christmas without him" I sighed.
"It'll get better I promise" Maura said.

"Here, these ones are from me, Luke and Mummy" Liam said giving a gift to Isabelle and one to Isla.
I knew what it was.

They opened it and pulled out a teddy bear.
Isabelle's was baby blue and Islas was baby pink.

"It's got clothes and perfume!" Isabelle said happily.
Isla pushes down on its stomach to see if it did anything.

"Hi my little princess Isla, Daddy loves you so much baby!" The bear said. It was a recording of Nialls voice. He did it not long before he died to do the bears but he never got round to it. Luke found the recordings and him and Liam came up with this idea for the girls.

Isla gasped.
"Daddy" she mumbled.

Isabelle pressed her bear.
"Hi Isabelle! Daddy loves you so much princess! Don't forget that darlin'" Nialls voice said.
"Why don't you both smell the 'perfume'" Luke said.
They both took the kids of the cologne and smelt it.

"It smells like daddy" Isla muttered and burst into tears.
"Aww baby, c'mere" I said pulling her onto my lap.
The cologne was the cologne that Niall wore every day, hence why Isla knows the smell.

"I want daddy, I miss him!" She sobbed.
"I know baby, I miss daddy too, we will see him one day"