Winter

The next few weeks were amazing, we had picked out a nursery, we had picked out a Disney theme, we had Bambi painted on the walls and the crib was Disney like, we had a rocking chair at the window, which was looking out over the garden, this room was opposite from the master bedroom. Niall hadn’t seen it yet in real life as he was still busy touring, so I was really anxious to his reaction.

I was up for my 5th month check-up and at first I didn’t want to know the gender but to be honest I really was curious and I had to speak to Niall about it because if he didn’t want to know the gender then I wasn’t going to ask. “Winter, is everything okay?” he sounded worried and I couldn’t blame him as it was late in America but I forgot all about that but the fact that he was still up, made me wonder why he wasn’t asleep. “I’m sorry for calling you this late but I had to ask you something.”

“You can call me anytime love.”

“Well it’s just, I really want to know the gender of the baby but only if you want to know.” I was crossing my fingers right now in the hope he wanted to know the gender. “I know you’re crossing your fingers Winter and it’s okay, I would love to know the gender. When is your appointment?”

“It’s in an hour and I’m quite nervous to be honest and I really wish you could be here.”
“Me too love but next time I will be there, I promise.” I heard one of the guys yell him to hurry up and I didn’t like the sound of that at all but there wasn’t much I could do about it. “Niall?”

“Yes Winter?”

“Please remember your married.” I mumbled into the phone and he chuckled at that. “Don’t worry love, I won’t forget.” With that he hung up and his words should make me less anxious but I still felt off about this long distant thing but that had to be stuffed away for now because it was time to see if we would have a girl or boy.

Elena and Bella both had opted to come with me but I wanted to go alone this time. I took the underground to the hospital and waited in the waiting room, thankfully I didn’t have to wait long because within five minutes I was getting called by my doctor and she was smiling at me when she shook my hand but it looked a bit mischievous. I followed her into the room where she told me to lie down and undo my jeans. I life down and looked around, I was wondering why it took her so long for to come back out because this was boring as hell and I really wanted to get this over, as I wanted to tell Niall what we were having.

I closed my eyes whilst waiting and I actually fell asleep when I suddenly felt a hand on my cheek, it made me open my eyes and I was startled when I looked in the blue eyes of my Niall. He was smiling tenderly at me but the mischievousness was beaming from his eyes “Oh my god Niall, what are you doing here?”

“I couldn’t miss this, could I now.” He kissed my cheek when the doctor walked out. “I’m sorry for making you wait this long but he insisted to be here as well.” She nodded at Niall who was still chuckling. He sat down next to me but he never let go of my hand as he patiently waited for the doctor to put the gel on my stomach and the scan to see the ultrasound, this would be the first time he was going to hear the heartbeat of his child and even though I wanted to see my child, I wanted to see his reaction to this little wonder and I was correct in watching him because as soon as he heard the heartbeat he got tears in his eyes, he looked completely mesmerized by the sound of the steady heartbeat.

I squeezed his hand softly, I was also looking now “Doctor we would like to know the gender, if that’s possible.” I told her and she smiled and moved the little scan around “Let’s see.” She looked a bit more intensely at the screen and I saw a smile forming on her face.

“Congratulations you are having a baby girl.” She told us and Niall’s head shot up and looked at me, we didn’t have eyes for the doctor and she excused herself so we could have some privacy. “My god a girl, we are having a baby girl.” He was beaming and I felt relieved that he didn’t mind it was a girl, he must’ve seen it in my eyes but instead of saying something, he just kissed me senseless. “Thank you.” Was all he mumbled against my lips, I kissed him one more time before I pulled away.

“No thank you for giving me something so precious.” He hugged me and stared at the screen. “Did you already think about names?”

“I did but we can discuss that later on, she is not here for at least a couple of months.” I wiped the gel from my stomach and sat up, Niall helped me get off the table when the doctor came back with two pictures, one for me and one for Niall, she told us to come back in a month and wished us luck.

We grabbed lunch before he had to leave to make his flight, when we saw a flash go off, Niall immediately directed me into the lunch room and a bodyguard appeared out of nowhere, he was making sure no one would follow us in. “It’s starting isn’t?”

“I’m afraid so, I’m sorry.” I shrugged and waved his apology away. “We knew this was going to happen sooner or later.”

“I know but it still sucks.”

“I will just have to ignore them.” I smiled at him to reassure him and he relaxed, we ordered our food and eat in a comfortable silence, I could see he was thinking about something deeply but I didn’t want to disturb him, as it probably had something to do with the baby or me. I focused myself on my drink and waited for him to say something.

“Winter, what happened to James?” that was a question I didn’t expect. “I don’t really know but I guess everything turned out fine, as you are still here, the only thing I did was making sure, we couldn’t be family.”

“Do you think he found love?”

“I hope he did, why are you asking me this?”

“I don’t know, I just felt guilty for being so happy, while we took his happiness, you know.” I hadn’t even thought about that but he had a point and to be honest I wasn’t sure how I felt about it all, my excuse was that I really didn’t want to think about him but I hoped he found happiness even though I put that spell on him.

Niall looked at his watch and I saw the frustration when he saw the time, which meant he had to go. “I’m going to miss you.” He pulled me out of my seat and hugged me tightly. I listened to his steady heartbeat and just closed my eyes and enjoyed his warmth. “I’m going to miss you too.” He pulled back and kissed me gently before grabbing his coat. His bodyguard was already waiting for him. “Call me when you land okay?” I asked him and he nodded before disappearing into his car.

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