Beau Babies / h.s

Eleanor

   That night, I fell asleep comfortably in my new bed and must’ve only been down for an hour when I heard an almighty wail from next door,

   Groaning, I rubbed my eyes and swung my legs from out of the bed then I wandered into the nursery, I didn’t turn the light on, instead I felt my way over to Annalise’s cot where she was wiggling and crying, her fists screwed up. Placing my arms under her, I picked her up and kissed her smooth forehead before resting her in my arms and rocking her softly back and forth,

   Doing this, I walked around the room happy that neither Noelle nor Jaime had awoken from the noise,

   “Hush little baby,” I sung softly, “Don’t say a word, mama’s gonna buy you a mockingbird…” I forgot the words and decided to hum the words instead, slowly, Annalise started to drift off, “And if that looking glass gets broke, mama’s gonna buy you a billy goat…” That was one of the few lines I knew and I was proud of myself for singing it, “Hush,” I said as I quietly put her back down in her cot and pulled the cover over her, just as I did that though, Jaime screamed so loud I wouldn’t of been surprised if she lost her voice, unfortunately, she didn’t and so carried on screaming,

   Just as I did with Annalise, I picked her up and bobbed her up and down, then, Annalise awoke again and started to cry, cursing under my breath, I picked her up too and had one in each arm,

   “Ready?” I asked pacing up and down rocking them, “Hush little baby don’t say a word, mama’s gonna buy you a mocking bird.” The next line like a miracle came back to me, “And if that mocking bird don’t sing, mama’s gonna buy you a diamond ring,”

   Interrupting me, was a knock at the door, I turned to face it, it was Harry looking tired yet very undeniably sexy in his pyjama bottoms, yet no top, “Can I help?” He asked,

   “No,” I whispered softly, “I got it, you go back to sleep,”

   Harry nodded, “You sure?”

   “Yeah,”

   Harry turned to leave before looking at me with a slight smile, “By the way, nice singing,” I couldn’t tell whether he was being serious or not, but before I could clarify, he’d gone,

   For the next what seemed like days but was only a few hours, I stayed up with the triplet as each time one seemed to drift off, the others ended up crying like crazy,

   In the end, I decided to stay in with them rather than going back to my own room and then leaving to come back less than two minutes later,

   I awoke the next morning to silence, with the sun in my eyes, I sat on the window seat with my head resting on the glass window,

   Yawning, I checked on the girls, all who were sleeping peacefully, then, I padded back to my own room where I decided to have a shower and get dressed as quickly as I could to refresh myself so that I could face the day ahead, head on.

   Deciding to use Eleanor’s kind donation of clothes, I tugged on a pair of dark jeans and a dark red oversized t-shirt, then, I applied minimal makeup and straightened my short blonde hair. Sighing in the mirror, I decided that I look mummified enough,

   So, I poked my head through the babies door, they were alright, still sleeping and I didn’t want to disturb them, so I left them to their beauty sleep and walked tiredly downstairs to find only Niall stuffing food down his throat,

   “Hey,” I said smiling as I searched through the cupboard for something to eat,

   “Hi,” Niall gulped and smiled sweetly at me, “You look nice,” He said taking another bite into…Whatever he was eating,