University Of London (BEING EDITED)

Maddie’s P.O.V
I got hardly any sleep last night because Brooklyn was crying. Harry got up a few times but then it was my turn. At 5.30am I decided that I couldn’t go back to bed anymore. I opened my laptop and went on Google. I typed in ‘Harry Styles’ baby’ and pressed search. The first article read: ‘Harry Styles and girlfriend Maddie Anderson had a baby girl on Monday. They have named her Brooklyn Faye after Maddie’s sisters. The paparazzi have been told to keep their distance from the couple and their new-born child as they would like as much privacy as possible. They still managed to get a picture of the couple walking out of the hospital hand in hand towards their car with Harry carrying the baby in her car seat.’ I looked at the picture. All you could see was the back of us so I wasn’t bothered. I shut my laptop again and went into the nursery. Brooklyn was lying awake in her crib. I took her and cradled her in my arms. It felt so good to be a mum. I put her back down and went to make some milk. I fed her and she fell asleep so I went back to bed. When I woke up Harry was already up. I walked into the kitchen. “Morning,” he said. “Morning,” I replied walking over and kissing him on the cheek. I looked in the fridge. We had nothing. “I’ve got to go shopping, we have nothing in.” I said to him. “I’ll come with you,” he said standing up. “No you stay here and look after Brooke. I don’t want to take her out.” I said. I got dressed and left. I was so happy that I could drive again. I drove to the store and bought all the food that we need. I went to the tills and the cashier recognised me. “Congratulations Maddie, you must be made up,” she said “Thanks, yeah I am, are you a fan of Harry’s?” I asked her. “Yeah, I love One Direction. I’m not one of those people that hates on their girlfriends though, I love you guys.” I smiled. “Thanks, I love the fans that don’t hate us,” I laughed. I paid for my shopping and left. I drove home listening to the radio. The news came on and the first thing they said was, “Maddie Anderson was seen going shopping in high heels today, leaving her daughter at home with Harry. The pop star’s girlfriend had her daughter on Monday and didn’t take long to get back into those heels that she couldn’t wear.” I laughed. Everyone knew I had an obsession with high heels. I couldn’t stand not wearing them when I was pregnant. I got home and dumped the shopping on the kitchen table. “I knew it wouldn’t take long for you to get back into those heels.” Harry said walking into the kitchen. “Yep, and now I’m all over the news.” I laughed packing the shopping away. When I had finished I sat down on the couch. “I met a really nice fan today,” I told Harry who was in the nursery. “Did you, when?” He asked. “She was the cashier, she congratulated me and said she’s not one of those people that hate your girlfriends and that she really likes us all.” I replied. He walked in with Brooke in his arms. “I like those fans.” He said handing her to me. I took her from him, “Me too.” I said. I got up and changed Brooklyn. She was wearing the same clothes as yesterday. “You could have changed her!” I shouted from the nursery. “Sorry,” He shouted back. I changed her into a pink top and some leggings and some pink sneakers. She looked so cute. I put her into the high chair and went to make her some milk. I fed her and picked her up again taking her into the living room. “You want to go next door?” Harry said looking at his phone. “Louis wants to see his niece,” he laughed. I laughed as well. “Come on then.” I said walking towards the door. Harry opened it for me. We got to Louis’ and it was just him and El. “Can I hold her?” El said. “Yeah of course,” I said giving Brooklyn to El. “Why was Belle here yesterday?” I asked curious. “Hasn’t she told you? She’s kinda seeing Niall,” Louis said. I was surprised that she hadn’t told me. “No she hasn’t said anything, since when?” I asked. “She probably didn’t want to bother you, she started dating him on Monday before you went into labour so she probably didn’t get a chance and since then you’ve been rushed off your feet with this little one.” Louis replied stroking Brooke’s head. I wanted Louis and El to be her godparents as well as Perrie, Zayn and Belle. I didn’t want Brooke or Faye to be her godparents because they would never get to see her so it wouldn’t be fair. “Umm… Do you two want to be Brooklyn’s godparents?” I asked them. They both looked up. “Really?” They asked at the same time. “Yeah, you’re our best friends and you obviously care about her, so do you?” I said. “Yes! Of course!” Louis said hugging me. I laughed. “Who else are going to be her godparents?” El asked. I looked at Harry, we had already discussed this. “Perrie, Zayn and Belle,” Harry said. “That’s great, she has 3 famous godparents and a famous dad!” El said. “More like 5 famous godparents and famous parents. You and Maddie are famous for being our girlfriends and Belle is going to be once she announces her relationship with Niall,” Louis told her. “I guess…” El agreed. “I can’t believe you’re back in the heels already Maddie!” Louis shook his head at me. I laughed. “What can I say, only Brooklyn can keep me away from my heels, I’m not pregnant anymore!” I said. “You have an obsession with heels.” El said. “I know…” I replied. Brooklyn started to cry, “We better take her home, she’s getting grouchy,” Harry said. El handed her to him and he went back. “I’ll see you soon guys,” I said following after Harry. When I got back Harry was in the nursery trying to get her to sleep. I took her off of him and changed her before trying to get her to sleep. “You’re a natural Maddie,” he said when I had finished and Brooke was asleep. “I’ve had experience with Faye, but Brooklyn is different, she’s ours.” I told him. I kissed him and went to make dinner. By the time it was ready it was 6pm. We sat down, ate it and talked for a while. “I want to go on Twitter,” I told him. He went and got the laptop and opened it. “Here, but I’m staying with you the whole time.” He moved next to me. I logged into Twitter and started looking at my mentions, there were lots of ‘Congratulations’ and ‘I’m so happy for you and Harry,’ but there was one that stood out. It read ‘I hope Harry sees sense soon and leaves you and your ugly child. He doesn’t even want to be a Dad and especially not to a child whose mum is you.’ It really offended me. She called Brooklyn ugly for one and said that Harry doesn’t want to be a Dad. Harry looked at it because I’d stopped scrolling. “Come on, you know that isn’t true. I love you and Brooklyn so much and she’s not ugly okay,” He told me. “I know Harry, I love you too, I just want to know where they get that from, no pictures have even been released of her so they won’t know if she’s ugly or not!” I said. He laughed. “She’s beautiful just like you baby,” he said. “Can I put a picture of her on here?” I asked. “Yeah sure, go take one.” He said. I walked into the nursery and took a picture of my sleeping daughter. She looked so cute. I put it on Twitter with the caption ‘Meet mine and @Harry_Styles ‘s daughter, Brooklyn Styles.’ I showed Harry. “Go for it,” he said so I posted it. Almost at once everyone commented on it saying ‘Awh,’ or ‘She’s so cute’ and then I saw Eleanor’s ‘Awh look at my baby goddaughter, so cute and beautiful just like her parents,’ I laughed and Harry read it too. “Only El would say that in front of millions of fans, they’ll interpret it as her fancying me or something!” Harry laughed. “I’m going to bed Haz, I’m so tired.” I told him. I got up and kissed him before going to have a shower. I got out of the shower and changed into my pyjamas before going to sleep. I heard Harry come and join me just before I fell asleep. At about 1am I heard Brooke crying. “I’ll do it,” Harry said getting up. “No, you stay here, I’ll sort her out.” I told him. I went to the nursery and took Brooklyn out of the crib. “Hey baby, it’s too early,” I said quietly rocking her. She calmed down quite quickly but I sat down and continued to rock her. I loved being a mum; I don’t care if she wakes me up at 1 in the morning. I love her to pieces and I can tell the others do too. I put Brooklyn back in her crib and went back to bed. “Is she okay?” Harry asked. “Yeah she’s fine, go to sleep.” I told him. We slept until about 6 before she woke me up again. She was getting later so I didn’t mind. Harry wasn’t even woken by her this time so I got up and fed her. I want to take her out somewhere today, I don’t mind where. I was sitting with Brooklyn in my arms when Harry walked in. “Good Morning gorgeous,” He said kissing me and then Brooklyn. He took her from me and sat down. “I want to go somewhere today, with Brooklyn.” I told him. He nodded his head. “Okay, do you want to go to the shopping centre? We can take the others as well if you want?” He suggested. “Okay, let’s call them after breakfast.” I said. I walked into the kitchen and made myself some toast. “Where’s mine?” Harry said wrapping his arms around me. “I didn’t do you any, make your own!” I said. He groaned and started to make his own breakfast. When we had both finished I went to get dressed and then went to the boys apartments to ask them if they wanted to come. Belle was there again and so were the rest of the girls. "We’ll all come!” Everyone shouted. “Okay, okay, be quiet there’s a baby next door!” I reminded them. “Sorry…” They said. I laughed. “We’ll go in an hour. See you then.” I said walking out. I got Brooke dressed and sorted out the stroller. Harry went and got ready as well. There was a knock at the door. I opened it. “Hey, we’re all ready if you are,” Zayn said. “Yeah we are, be there in a sec.” I said shutting the door. I put Brooklyn in the stroller and got Harry. We opened the door and everyone was standing chatting. “Hey, how’s Brooklyn?” Perrie asked. “She’s great thanks, but I’m tired.” Harry said. I laughed. “You didn’t even get up so I don’t know what you’re talking about!” I said. Everyone laughed. We went to the lift and some of them went down the stairs. Zayn and Perrie came with us so I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to ask them to be Brooklyn’s godparents. I nudged Harry and he knew what I wanted to do. “Umm… Do you guys want to be Brooklyn’s godparents?” Harry asked them. Perrie’s face lit up. “Yes! Thank you so much! I knew Louis and El were her godparents so I didn’t think you were asking anyone else.” Perrie said loudly but not loud enough to upset Brooklyn. “It’s you, Zayn, Louis, El and Belle.” I told her. “Thanks guys,” She hugged me. “It’s okay,” I said. The lift stopped at the bottom floor and we got out. Harry told me that we were taking his car because he didn’t want Brooklyn in mine at only a week old. I laughed and agreed with him. I took Brooke out of the stroller and put her in the car seat that was already in his car. He folded up the stroller and we got in. All the others followed after us. Liam and Dani were in a car with Niall and Belle and El and Lou were with Perrie and Zayn. We didn’t want to take 5 cars and some of them can’t drive anyway. We got to the shopping centre and I put Brooklyn back in her stroller. There were some paparazzi but I didn’t mind. I’m with 6 famous people there are going to be some paps everywhere we go. Harry stopped to sign a few autographs with the other boys and we kept walking. Some fans hate us so we didn’t want to risk it. We waited in the shopping centre for the boys and started to shop when they joined us. “A fan said that she’s never seen someone as beautiful as you,” Harry whispered. I laughed. “Yeah right,” I said. We went into some baby shops and bought some clothes for Brooklyn. We had a lot of clothes already but some were way too big for her at the moment. We finished and went back to our apartment with everyone else. We talked for a while and then Brooklyn started to get tired so we put her to bed and everyone except El and Louis went home. “We’ll look after her tomorrow night if you guys want to go out.” Louis said. Harry smiled. “That would be great, thanks mate,” He said. I started to think Harry was plotting something.

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