Niall’s POV

It’s been a week and a half since Luna’s mother and father passed away. We had the funeral a few days ago. I can’t believe her parents are actually gone. I have no idea what I’d do if I lost even just one of my parents and she lost her’s in a little over 24 hours.

Luna’s sister Beth is still in the hospital. She isn’t doing much better, but she isn’t getting worse which is good. She is a wife and a mother of two kids so when her husband is at the hospital with Beth, we get stuck watching the kids. Even when Luna is at the hospital with Beth too. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I love kids. It’s just weird being around them this young. Elaine is 5 and Jacob is only 2! Elaine and I are best friends now though. We even made friendship bracelets out of pipe cleaners to prove it.

The worst part is when the kids ask where their mommy is or why they can’t see her. It breaks my heart when they say stuff like that. We try to distract them by making get well cards for their mom or drawing her pictures. Luna brings them when she tries to visit.

Luna’s health isn’t doing so well. She rarely eats or sleeps, she’s always exhausted and she’s very depressed. Harry and I have tried to talk to her. We tell her that she needs to take care of herself. She needs to stop trying to take care of everyone else and put herself first.

Management wants us to go back on tour soon. We get a call from them almost everyday asking us our plane. They always call either Louis, Liam, or Harry, never Luna or me. They’ve even mentioned canceling the entire tour. We can’t do that. But we do need to go back soon. The fans are supportive, but miss us.

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Luna’s POV

It’s been a week and a half that feels like a year and a half. I know we need to go back on tour, I know that, but it’s so hard to do. I never know. One day, my sister could be fine and the next day she could be gone with Mom and Dad.

It’s frustrating when she doesn’t get better or worse. There is no end in sight for us.

My phone starts ringing and it’s Simon Cowell. I’m currently at the hotel with all the boys, watching Beth’s kids. “Hi Simon, how are you?” I start off.

“Hello, Luna. I’m fine thank you. My condolences on your parents.” he says very proper.

“Well thank you, that means a lot to me.”
“Listen Luna, I’m going to be straight up with you. I know you’re going through a tough time and your sister is still in the hospital, but we need to do something about this tour. You guys either need to go back the day after tomorrow or cancel the entire tour. We can’t reschedule every single show. You’ve already missed 6 that we have to reschedule now.”

I knew this call was coming. I had a feeling. “We’ll come back on tour day after tomorrow.” I say emotionless.

“Thank you, Luna. I will have my assistants contact the boys with any details, so you can be with your family until then.”

“Okay, goodbye.” I hang up the phone. Well, this is it. I knew this would happen so I planned out what I would do when the time comes. And, this is the time I guess. Tomorrow, we will have a ceremony where I say goodbye to my sister. This way if she passes away, I don’t need to take a bunch more time off because I will have already said goodbye.

“Luna?” Louis sounds nervous, “Why is Simon texting me plane tickets to go to Colorado Friday morning so we can play Friday night?”

“Because I decided we need to go back on tour.” I say calmly earning confused looks from everyone, “I just talked to Simon on the phone. Everything is okay. We’re having a ceremony to say goodbye to my sister tomorrow. It’s not even a ceremony, it’s just me bringing her flowers and saying goodbye to my sister.”

The guys all looked shocked to say the least. I don’t think any of them saw this coming. But I have to do this. Everything at home will be okay, hopefully.

“Um, I’m going to bed. Goodnight guys, love you”, I say before I walk to where Niall is playing with the kids. I give the kids a kiss on their heads’ to say goodnight and Niall a kiss on the lips, “I’ll be in bed honey. Goodnight.”

“I’ll put these kids to bed and then join you. I love you.” he tells me.

“I love you too, Nialler.” I love how good he is with kids. I know it will never in a million years happen, but I imagine Niall playing with kids of our own and putting them to bed. There are butterflies in my stomach just thinking about it!

Tomorrow I’ll say goodbye to my sister for what could be forever. That’s enough to make me start balling. Which I do as soon as I’m in bed.

About 30-ish minutes later, I hear the door to my hotel room open. I’m still a crying mess. Niall comes over to me and lays with me until I slowly stop crying and fall asleep completely relaxed next to him.

I’m so grateful for this man.

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