I Love You More

Chapter 10

“Thank you,” I said as mom handed me some soup.

“Do you need anything else? More water?” she asked me.

“Nope, I think I’m good for now, thanks again for coming down to help me,” I replied.

“Well with Niall out recording you need someone to take care of you!" She joked, then went to the kitchen. I finished my soup then took a nap.  

"Brooke, wake up," someone said, slightly shaking me.

"What," I slowly opened my eyes.

"Brooke it's mom, dad is here too," she said. I backed up on the couch, frightened almost.

"What are you doing here? How'd you get in?" I asked.

"I let them in," Niall said.

"Why?"

"Because you're coming back home with us," my mom said.

"No I'm not," I insisted.

"Yeah Brooke you are, you know we can't take care of a baby, we're too young. You're going to go back and have your baby there and figure it out. You know how much my music career is to me, and I can't let a baby get in the way of it," he said, sitting on the coffee table by the couch.

Each word felt like a knife in my heart and his emotion made it worst, no emotion at all. No sorrow in his eyes at all.

"No Niall, you can't do this. I can't go back, I'll move out or in with Gemma or Harry, I can't go back!" I said tears gushing down my cheeks.

"It's too late honey, we have all your things packed and the plane will be taking off in an hour," my dad said coming from the hallway.

"I'm sorry Brooke but I just can afford a burden, not with my success," Niall walked to the door and opened it.

"You're not sorry, I know you better than that Niall. I can't believe you, what about Paris and the lock? What about everything we have been through? Niall you can't just ship me back to New York! And you have no success! Everyone wants to end One Direction but you and you don't see them shipping go you back to Ireland because you aren't complying with what they want!" I yelled as my mom guided my out the door forcefully.

"Oh but One Direction isn't a thing. I dumped their sorry asses for a solo career. I've done so well," Niall had a smirk on his face that killed me.

"I can't believe you," I cried as the door was shut in my face.

"Brooke! Wake up," Niall 's voice said.

"Niall, go away," I jerked my hand away from his touch.

"Brooke?" His voice was hurt. "You had a bad dream, I'm not going to do anything."

"Oh my god," I enveloped him a hug and cried.

"Do you wanna talk about it?" He asked a moment later.

"You left," I said in his shoulder. "You made my parents take me home."

"Brooke, I'd never do that, you know that," he looked at me and rubbed a year with his thumb.

I looked around, "Did my mom leave?"

"Yeah I got home about an hour ago and you were sleeping so she left," he explained.

"How was your day?" I asked.

"Fine, kinda unproductive," he said.

“Did the guys talk about putting everything on hold?” I asked, remembering that Harry asked me to.

“Yeah. Yeah they did,” Niall moved a magazine on the coffee table on top of another one.

“Did you guys get anywhere else than you have before?”

“Yeah, theres a meeting next week with management.”

I sat up and patted the seat next to me for Niall to sit, “I’m sorry babe”

“Its not your fault, don’t feel sorry. It was bound to happen sometime.”

“Maybe you can still write at the studio, I know how much you love to do that,” I wrapped my arm around his torso and hugged him.

“Yeah, I just don’t know what’s going to happen,” he replied.

“Well lets stop talking about it and do something to take our minds off it,” I suggested.

“Wait, can I tell you something?” Niall asked. I nodded. “This all came so suddenly and out of the blue and the boys seem to be taking it really easily. Liam used to be the one who would say that everyone is jumping into things and we were going through a phase, he was kind of on the same page as me. But today he was on board with everything, I’ve kept quiet through this whole thing because I don’t want to keep the boys doing something they don’t want to do anymore, like I said before. But no matter what happens, know that I love you and our baby and nothing can change that,” he put his hand on my abdomen and kissed my temple.

“I love you so much Niall.”

The next day, Niall and I decided to go shopping for the spare room that I finally cleaned out a few days ago. I put on a dress since pants were a struggle and its just easier with a cast. As I walked out the bedroom door, I grabbed my bag and met Niall in the living room.

“Ready?” he said, grabbing his keys from the coffee table.

“Yep! Are you excited to shop for furniture?” I said excitedly.

“Words can not explain how excited I am,” his tone less than excited.

We arrived at the furniture store and headed to the bedroom section.

“Ok so we’re going to need a bed set, dresser, nightstand, lamps and maybe a picture or something for the wall,” I said, looking around for one of the pieces on my list.

“Why are we making it a guest room, we’ll need to change it in a few months,” Niall said quietly to me.

“Because if we buy nursery things now, everyone will find out,” I replied.

“We can say we bought them for a friend,” he suggested.

“What friend are we going to buy a whole nursery for?” I laughed.

“Can I help you find anything today?” a sales associate said from behind us.

“We’re just looking for a bedroom set,” I said.

“Alright well our sets are this way,” he led us to a big showroom with a ton of beds with dressers and bedside tables to match. “Here you go, and if you want to purchase any today I’ll be over at the help desk.”

“Thank you,” I said and he walked away.  

We looked at multiple sets until we decided on the perfect one. It was dark wood with a matching dresser and bedside tables. We placed an order for it and they will arrive within a week.

“See that wasn’t so bad!” I said as we got in the car.

"Mhmm," Niall started his Range Rover and backed out of the parking spot. "Let's pick up lunch."

"Ok you decide," I replied.

"Alright," Niall drove around until we pulled into Chester's. He parked and ran in and got our food. It took him about five minutes, so I wasn’t waiting too long. While Niall was inside, I got a text from Harry. “Hey do you and Niall want to come over for dinner tonight?”

I quickly responded, “Yeah, 6?”

“You read my mind, see you later.”

“Hey, Harry invited us over for dinner tonight around 6,” I said as Niall got in the car and handed me the bag of food.

“Ok, what are they having?” Niall asked as he backed out of the parking space.

“I don’t know, probably pizza like normal,” I put my phone back in my bag. I was pretty tired so I laid my head back and closed my eyes.