#liam's are fascinating these days especially because you have no idea what you're gonna get

[alba8688]

Love hurts

Word count :1470 she is is a small one .

Dani’s pov

Nathan's birthday was approaching on February 11 and I wanted to make it special for him he was turning 6.

If you're wondering how he is turning 6 and I'm just 22, well I got pregnant at 17 around May and had him in February of the following year . He was supposed to be born on February 25 but he arrived a bit early.Well a few weeks early .

You can say Nate was my birthday gift when I turned 18 .

Now back to the birthday planning I wanted to make him something nice, nothing big cause I know how much he hates parties with a big crowd so I was just inviting pure family and close friends that he knew .

Right now Nate was so into D&D thanks to Eddie and Dustin they took him last week on Tuesday then again on Thursday to their campaigns and he loved it .But the campaigns were special campaigns with no loud music or screaming just for Nate .

I really appreciate everything that Eddie does for my son he doesn’t have too but he does it anyway without me telling him .It really scares me because what if this doesn’t work Nate is going to be the one hurting

The days after the campaign Nate would come home talking about how Eddie was the bestest Dungeon Master in the world and that one day he wanted to be like him .and that scare me even more because that meant Nate look up to Eddie and I was afraid that Eddie might not be there for the long run or get scared of being with someone that has a kid .

All of those things float in my head every time I see Nate and Eddie together but I try my best I swear not to thing of all the negative things .

So back to the party planning and enough of my thoughts .

So I've been thinking so damn hard of what Theme to make for his party and I made the decision for it to be a D & D theme .I mean that’s his new obsession.

I'm glad I had order some D&D decorations last week for his party even though I was still

Undecided last week about what birthday theme I was going to do for him but I still ordered the decorations.

Also the party was going to be at Steve's house. His parents were leaving on vacation for two weeks so he had the whole house to himself and he offer his house

I had so many ideas of how I was going to decorate .

Steve said I could do whatever I wanted and that’s what was going to do .

Today I had to place the order for the cake I wanted to order it  in time ,but I'll have to go after I get out of work Because right now I was dropping off Nate to Liam's hotel ,so he can stay with him until Friday.

Plus Liam was taking him out to the movies  today and shopping for new shoes and clothes .He also promised to take Ozzy to the groomers .

I parked at the front of the hotel to get Nate down with Ozzy so we wouldn't have to walk far because it was snowing and I didn't want Nate getting sick close to his birthday .

"Baby ." I whisper turning back to see him

Asleep .

I smiled at how adorable he looked ,my baby was all grown up and I had missed a year of his life because of his grandma.

But I wasn't gonna miss any more years. I was gonna win this fight no matter what it takes .Liam and I were gonna do everything in our hands to get our son back no matter how much money we had to spend on lawyers .

I kept staring at Nate. I still couldn't believe I had him with me again.I was taken out of my trance by Ozzy licking my face .

Signaling he had to go do his business but Nate was still asleep on his car seat he was tired from last night he didn't want to go to sleep early because he wanted Eddie to read to him.

Eddie eventually cave in and  read The Hobbit. Nate loves it especially With the voices Eddie made for each character .

He was fascinated ,just the way I was .

Eddie ended up reading more chapters than he was supposed to read, getting a little too excited that Nate was actually liking the book and  that's how they both ended up sleeping late .

So now Nate won't wake up no matter how much noise I make ,so I'll just call Liam to come pick him up from the car .

The phone didn't even ring much and Liam answer.

"Hello ." He answered

D:"Hey can you come get Nate he is still asleep ."

L:"ok i'm going ."

"Ok." I responded then hung up before he tried making conversation with me ..

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After dropping Nate at Liam's I headed to work.

Today was still cold and I had forgotten to bring my stupid jacket and I was freezing so now here I was sitting inside my car with the heater on regretting my decisions.

But I don't know what I was waiting for is not the like the snow was gonna melt by me staring at it or it would magically stop snowing ,but fuck it was cold.

Before getting out I check on my back seat to see if I had an extra jacket but I didn't .When I always did.

"Fuck!!" I hit the steering wheel with my hands .

I'm gonna freeze to death .

*Tap tap tap *

I turn my head to my right to see Eddie tapping on my window with my jacket on his hand and a big goofy smile .

I turned off the car and got out quickly, getting the jacket from him and putting it on before I caught a cold.I really wanted to kiss him right now  for saving my life .Eddie was a lifesaver. I'm glad I had him in my life .

And thanks to him I wasn't gonna freeze to death .

Well I wasn't gonna really freeze I was just overreacting.

"Thank you Eddie ." I said softly

"I wanna kiss you really bad Baby ." Eddie whispers softly but I know better than that .

"Me too ." I bit my bottom lip and he moved closer to me and I do too.I don't think our brain stop working properly right now because I don't know if he remembers we were in school.

"I love how you look with glasses ." Eddie whispers

"Yeah." I said softly moving closer now inches apart

"HELLO!!!" Gareth jumps in between us hugging me awkwardly.

"Hey Gareth ." I awkwardly hugged him back not knowing what the hell what's happening .

"What The fuck man!! "Eddie pulls him away from me ,grabbing him from the hem of his shirt and pushing him against his van

"Eddie man ,you were about to kiss her and I-I just stopped it ." He stutters, putting his hands up on defense .

"Eddie is ok ." I said softly looking around to see if anyone else saw.

Eddie let go of Gareth with a sigh  "sorry man ." He says softly.

"Thank you Gareth ." I was too embarrassed to even look at him after what my stupid self was about to do in-front of the entire school .

I really hate this so much.But I knew better what was getting myself into when I got in this relationship.

After school

Right as the bell rang I got my stuff and looked for Dustin so we could go shopping for the things we needed For Nate's birthday I wanted to surprise him.

Nate wasn't coming home till Friday and I miss him already. I was getting used to him being at home with me ,running around the apartment with Ozzy following him around.

Awww I really miss him so much.Im trying not to get too attached once again afraid that I’m going to lose him but somehow this time I have faith everything will be ok .

After Finding Dustin we headed to the bakery to place the order for Nate’s cake.After placing the order for the cake and buying other stuff for his party ,Dustin and I stopped by a store that was for crafts and bought some cool paper that looks like scroll parchment paper for the invitations.

I was making them and hoping they came out just like I envisioned them.

So I had everything set for Nate's party now to wait for his birthday on Saturday to get the party started…

Next chapter

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1/? the thing about louis' interviews is that he is so alike harry in the sense that he doesn't wanna talk about his personal life. the difference is that while harry doesn't answer ANY question (which makes his intentions obvious for everyone listening) louis DOES answer everything they throw at him, it's just the same recycled stories. but for the gp or even the interviewers it doesn't sound weird like it does to us, the fans who watch every step he takes. of course every artist out there +

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2/? will repeat some stories in different interviews because that’s just promo strategy but they’re often told differently and repeated when the question is similar (because we know questions get repeated a lot) and not applied to different questions yknow. i think we can see that clearly with liam and niall. anyways i think the point for louis is not only to say private (like it seems to be for harry) but mostly to feel like in control of stuff. in control of his narrative and how people +

3/? perceive him and imo that makes him more comfortable and allows him to be laid back in interviews. because it’s obvious for me that between the four guys he is usually the most strained in interviews (even when he’s super confortable) while liam and niall especially appear to be almost always super chill and unbothered? thats just my perception anyway. and thats obviously not a problem or any criticism to him! promo cycle sounds super boring and nerve-wracking and after everything +

4/? he’s been through i dont blame him for that; i think he does what he has to do in order to make him more comfortable with this moments (in 1d group interview his strategy seem to be make jokes for example) and im proud of him for founding a way out to bear it you know! lisa said in her tags: “i often get the idea that he’s afraid of performing badly so he’d rather back out when it comes to things like this. he’ll put his whole heart in to music and performing maybe because he knows +

5/5 knows that he’s good but something out of his comfort zone he’ll step out lean on charm and laugh it off its all or nothing” regarding the play doh thing and i think it sums up his behaviour in interviews. so basically liam seems to think honesty about EVERYTHING is the way to go, niall is amazing at sounding like he’s being honest even when he’s not, harry doesn’t wanna be honest and louis wants to open his heart with his lyrics but not in interviews bc the honestly in his music is enough.

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There’s a lot to unpack here, and this hit just as I finished watching two full (and vastly different) Louis interviews, so I feel almost qualified to answer, lmao. My take is slightly different, but kind of in the same vein? Interviews are PR performance, pure theater, so I tend to watch them for entertainment more than for any deep insights (and this is true for any artist; I know most people here don’t follow anyone else, but I guarantee it’s a game that is gamed across the board, this is work, the most tedious part of the job, etc.). But getting back to the D, yeah, they all handle it in their own ways: Harry is a terrible liar (in the sense of answering a direct question with a lie, he can’t do it…swerve? YES, but that’s not the same thing), Niall and Louis have zero problems on that front (Niall recently admitted that he and Louis made sport of saying random shit in interviews just to see where it would land, AND GOOD FOR THEM, they don’t owe us “the truth,” especially about anything personal), and Liam typically goes with what he’s supposed to say, but with nobody driving the ship these days, he says whatever he wants to in the moment, damn actual sense or timelines. It’s fascinating because they’ve all been media-trained to within an inch of their lives, but they also came into megastardom during the age of digital microinspection. Every interview, every soundbite is zoomed in on, giffed, edited, and recast, so someone like, say, Louis, who already has perfectionist tendencies, will tend to be VERY careful in how he answers (yet he won’t necessarily answer truthfully, if that makes sense). I also pay attention to how he says it–like you mentioned, he leans on the charm or a laugh, but I’ve noticed (and he also recently admitted) that he tends to do that ESPECIALLY when he’s saying something kind of sharp and sarky. It softens it so he doesn’t look like a dick, but it also absolutely highlights his brilliance. God, I could sit there and admire what he’s like all the live long day. For all of them, I guess the thing I admire is that in the face of this hours-long mindless tedium, they’re all extremely present (or they phone it in, but they never sound bored): they all act like this is the first time someone asked them this particular question, they all give it some thought, none of them roll their eyes, etc. I work with idiots from time to time, and I can’t do that. There are actual living, breathing actors who can’t do it!! Where am I going with this? Idk, but this is why I like to watch everything in full; it’s usually lots more entertaining and you get a feel for the performance writ larger.