One Little Direction

Chapter Twenty- One: Boops and Zizi

{Louis' POV}

I shoot up in bed to the sound of a child screaming. "Uncle Lou!" I hear Ellie's voice scream followed by more wails.

I leap out of the bed that Eleanor is no longer in and I shoot into our spare room where Ellie is sitting on the floor next to the bed crying. I bend down next to her and pull the small child into my lap, rubbing her hair in comfort and making hushing noises. 

"What happened Boops?" I ask her and she just keeps crying. How the heck do you shut her up- FIREPROOF! I've heard Perrie and Zayn singing that to her when she's upset.

"'Cause nobody knows you baby, the way I do and nobody loves you baby, the way I do. It's been so long, it's been so long we must be fireproof, 'cause nobody saves me baby the way you do." I sing and Ellie stops crying, her noises now sniffling and she wipes her eye.

"What happened Ellie?" I ask again. 

"I fell off the bed." Ellie replies and I press a gentle kiss to her forehead. "I hurt!" She points at her elbow where her pyjamas have come up and she has a carpet burn on it and some blood. 

"That's okay Boops! We'll go and clean you up!" I smile and pick her up, taking her downstairs on my hip as she holds Duckie tightly in her hands. 

When we get to the kitchen Eleanor and Taylor are at the table eating breakfast and chatting so I take Ellie straight to the bench and sit her down as I fiddle around in the medicine cabinet for a band aid. 

Once I've collected a band aid and a cloth I wipe away the blood and then put the Monsters Inc. band aid onto her elbow where the cut is before pulling down her sleeve again. 

"Hanks Uncle Lou." She smiles and I help her down from the bench. "I'm hungry!" She exclaims. I chuckle and open the cupboard as Ellie runs over and has a look. "Yummy!" Ellie squeals and points at the chocolate biscuits. 

Those bloody biscuits! They're the type of biscuits Perrie and I were eating three years ago whilst Jade was trying to get some, Jesy was yelling at us and Leigh- Anne was trying to sleep.

"How about some Nutrigrain and then some biscuits for morning tea?" I ask Ellie. She nods in response and I pull out the Nutrigrain box. Today we're going to Liam, Dani and Zuri's for lunch and I'll return Ellie to her parents then. 

I pour a little amount of Nutrigrain into one bowl and a larger amount into another, then add the milk and a big spoon in my bowl, a small spoon into Ellie's followed by pouring myself a cup of Yorkshire Tea and putting some apple juice into a sipper cup for Ellie. I think Eleanor and I have more sipper cups that Perrie and Zayn...

I take the food and drinks over to the table and place my things in front of Eleanor, Ellie's in front of Taylor. Ellie runs over and stands on the chair so she can reach the table. She's so tiny! I sit down and start to eat my breakfast whilst Ellie eats hers next to me. 

So here we are, Eleanor eating before she has to shoot off to work, me eating my breafast in my pyjama shorts and tee opposite Eleanor, my hair an absolute mess, Ellie next to me in her Toy Story pyjamas (picture on side) and finally Taylor Swift- multi- millionaire singer, who once dated my band mate and is sitting there ready for the day.

Why did I let her into my home? I couldn't just leave her outside all night. I don't personally have an issue with Taylor. Sure she's done some pretty crappy things and she can be a real bitch but she's never been bad to me, so...

"Okay, I have to head to work," Eleanor stands up. "Lou there's washing in the machine if you could hang that, I'll make dinner tonight," she says walking over to the bench and putting her bowl and cup into the dishwasher. "Otherwise, I'll see you tonight." She smiles and grabs her bag off the stool.