Just Trying to Keep Up {Niall Horan Fan Fic}

Chapter 5 {Lol. What? No.}

Chapter 5 {Lol. What? No.}

I started to freak out. I had no one to babysit Emma Claire. All the babysitters were sick or unavailable. I couldn't cancel my date, and I couldn't leave her home. There was only one option left. I picked up the phone and started to dial the number.

"Niall?" I asked through the phone.

"Yes?"

"I have a very important question." The words barely came out of my mouth. "I need you to babysit Emma Claire."

"Are you serious?" He asks.

"Yes. Just please. None of her babysitters are available and I don't know what to do last minute."

"I know. I'm coming."

"Okay thank you. And don't tell her anything she doesn't need to know. Just feed her, watch TV with her, and put her to bed okay?"

"Okay I got it." He says.

"Okay thank you so much." I say.

"Anytime."

"Okay. Bye." I say and hang up.

"EMMA CLAIRE!!" I yell upstairs.

"I'm right here, mommy." I turn around and see Emma Claire playing with her coloring book at the kitchen table. I go and sit down with her at the table.

"Emma Claire... Tonight I got you a new babysitter." She scrunched up her nose and looked at me funny.

"Why?" She asked.

"All your other babysitters are unavailable."

"So... Who's going to babysit me?"

"You know that man who came and gave us donuts?" Emma Claire nodded. "Well he is."

She looked at me squinting her eyes.

"Mommy, I don't know him."

"Well... I do." I say patting her hand. She shrugs at me and continues coloring.

"Mommy?"

"Yes?"

She bites her fingernails and looks down at her picture. "How come the bears have a family?"

I look at her coloring picture and see three bears getting honey out of a beehive. They're all smiling, eating the honey and butterflies are flying all around them. The perfect bear family.

"It's a coloring book sweetie."

"Why don't we have a family like this?" She asks coloring the smallest bear.

"Honey, now isn't the time to talk about this." I say.

"Why not?"

"IT JUST ISNT!" I yell at her. Her eyes start to swell up with tears and her bottom lip popped out.

"Emma. I'm sorry I didn't mean to tell at you like that." But it was too late she was already running upstairs crying.

"Emma!" I yelled running after her. The door rang and I heard Emma Claire slam her door shut. I went down the stairs and opened the door.

"Hi." Niall said.

"Uhg. Come in." I moan.

"What's wrong?" Niall asked.

"Just... Nothing... Emma Claire is upstairs crying." I start rubbing my temples.

"Why is she crying?"

"I just... She kept on.... Uhg I yelled at her. Is that too wrong?"

Niall looked at me seriously. "It's because of what I did, wasn't it."