Little Mixed Directions

Chapter Eight: Come to Uncle Niall

{Niall's POV}

I finish ordering my pasta and then take a sip of my wine. We're at this little restaurant in Italy and we're getting pasta, surprise surprise.

I look around the table. Going from me, I have a spare seat on my right, then there's Perrie, Ellie in a high chair, Zayn and Jesy, Liam at the head, Leigh opposite Jesy, Dan opposite Zayn, which probably isn't a good idea, Jade opposite Ellie, Harry opposite Perrie, another bad idea considering he's next to Jade! Louis opposite me and finally Eleanor next to Louis. I have nobody on either side of me, which is strange but they made me sit like this.

"Perrie threw up." Jesy comes right out. We all laugh and Dan looks confused. I've decided I don't like him. Liam, Leigh and Jade are the only ones who do. There's more people on Team Harry than Team Dan.

"Yeah, then Liam and I went to the doctor and boom!" Perrie points at Ellie. We all laugh and Ellie giggles as she chews on the lid of her water bottle. She LOVES water! Always sucking from this purple sipper cup I bought her.

"Now Niall," Harry says to me. "We apart from some," Harry points at Dan behind Jade so she can't see. "Have a surprise for you." Harry smiles and looks behind me. I turn around to see what he's looking at. ASHA! ELLA!

"Ash!" I yell jumping out of my chair.

"Nio!" She squeals and lunges into my arms. I hug my beautiful child friend thing and she gives me a kiss on the forehead.

I stand up and place Asha down so I can hug Ella. "Hey El." I pull her into a tight hug and peck her lips.

"Hi Niall!" She chirps and we move over to the table. Asha sits on my right and Ella sits on my left. This is why they made me a loner, so when Asha and Ella arrived they could sit with me. I love my friends so much!

"Ellie!" Asha squeals and jumps onto Perrie's lap, leaning over to Ellie and kissing her cheek. "I missed you!" She says to the baby who giggles in reply. We all smile at how adorable that is. "I missed you too Auntie Perrie." Asha turns to Perrie and kisses her forehead. 

We all smile and Asha crawls back to her own seat, sitting on her knees so she can reach the table. 

"Who are you?" Asha right out asks Dan. I chuckle as Dan looks a little taken aback by Asha's forwardness. 

"This is Dan Asha, he's my boyfriend." Jade replies to Asha. Asha looks shocked and then nods her head.

"I preferred Uncle Hazza," Asha comes right out. Ella gasps and the rest of us, bar Jade and Dan crack up. Harry is just smirking to himself. Asha's on Team Harry then. "First there was Sam, then there was Uncle Hazza now there's him." Asha gives Dan a cold glare. Woah this kid would make a good lawyer. Doesn't take no shit from anyone. 

"Sorry about her," Ella says to Jade and Dan. "I'm Ella." She smiles at Dan. He shakes her hand and greets her back.

I pull Ella in close to me. "We don't like him, don't be friendly." I whisper harshly. Ella nods and bites her bread. 

"So what have you been up to Asha?" Liam asks her. I get a full recap of Asha's day everyday so I could probably tell this better than Asha can.

"Uncle Leo," Asha nods. "Another one of Auntie Jadey's ex- boyfriends!" Asha gasps and we all crack up. She's making Jade sound like a scrag at the moment.

"Nah Ash, we say Uncle Leo is Auntie Perrie's ex." Jade tells Asha. Asha nods and Perrie throws bread at Jade. We all laugh a little as Perrie shakes her head.

"You dated the same guy?" Dan asks Perrie and Jade. They both nod.

"At the same time too. He was cheating on Jade with Perrie," Louis informs. "But this was long ago." Louis smiles at Dan. "As for Jade and Harry dating, not so long ago." Louis smiles cheekily. Harry and Jade both glare at Louis but Louis just ignores him. 

As much as I don't like Dan, if Jade's happy, let her be happy with a douche bag, I won't stop her, Harry, Jesy and Zerrie will, but I won't. 

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"Nio it's cold." Asha whines as we play in out in the snow in Norway. It's been five days since Asha and Ella joined us and now we've moved on from Italy, been to Greece, Sweden and Switzerland and now we're in Norway. 

"Okay, let's go home." I pick Asha up and take her on my hip back to the hotel. We head straight into the warm apartment and into the living room that everyone else is in. 

"Hey guys! Did you have fun?" Louis asks when we re- enter. Hell we had fun! Building snowmen, snowball fights, snow angles, running around, eating ice cream. Yeah! We ate ice cream in the snow. 

"Cool!" Ella high fives her three year old and I go and take off my shoes before sitting up near the heater. We all sit around and chat for a while. I watch Asha playing with Ellie on the rug. I study them closely as Ellie tries to grab things from Asha but moves a little fowards to grab them. 

"Hey Ash, move the ball behind you and then move." I say to Asha. She nods and places the squishy ball behind her. I watch Ellie glance at it and then move so she's on her hands and knees. I look for Perrie and Zayn and they're not looking.

"Zerrie watch!" I whisper yell. They turn and look at Ellie, actually we all do. Ellie crawls over to the ball and grabs it. 

"She crawled!" Harry whisper yells. "She crawled!" He repeats himself. We all watch her and she looks at me from where she is.

"Come to Uncle Niall." I motion to Ellie. She giggles and starts to crawl quite fast towards me. I laugh and she gets to me, crawling into my lap. We all cheer and Ellie giggles with delight. "You clever, clever girl!" I cheer, holding her up in the air. 

"How much trouble she's going to cause now!" Jesy fake cheers. We all laugh and continue to watch Ellie, Asha and Louis crawling around the area. Yes, there's a five and a half month old and a three year old AND a twenty- twenty- seven year old crawling around on the floors. 

"Mummy," Asha suddenly turns to Ella. Ella nods and I watch them talking. "You know how I call Hazza Uncle Hazza and Jesy Auntie Jesy?" Asha asks Ella. Ella nods her head and soon we're all watching their conversation. "And I call Niall Nio." Asha adds.

"Yes Ash I do." Ella replies. Where is this heading? Is she going to call me Uncle Nio?

"Well, I don't have a Daddy so can I call Nio Daddy?" Asha asks Ella. Woah! Wasn't expecting that. The whole room goes quite. "Because Nio is like my Daddy." Asha smiles. She considers me her Daddy? Oh my goodness.... I'm actually lost for words.

Ella looks at me, smiles and then turns back to Asha. "You'll have to ask Niall that." Ella tells Asha. Asha nods and walks over to me. 

"Nio," Asha says. I nod my head, smiling my face off. "Can I call you Daddy?" She asks me, as if I haven't heard her previous conversation with Ella. 

I look into Asha's beautiful eyes. They're more a greeny/ blue colour now, but her hair is still light brown curls. I never really imangined I'd have such a beautiful child, well I guess she'll be my child if I say yes.

"Of course." I nod at Asha. She smiles and wraps her little arms around my neck. 

"I love you Daddy." She mumbles. I feel a tear of happiness slide down my cheek and I hug her tightly back. The others are all pulling 'awww' faces, crying and smiling. 

This is quite possibly, actually IS one of the best moments of my life.