Thank you so much for your request, @elizalde5144! This one was extremely fun to write, but I think it didn't turn out too great tbh. Let me know what you think! :)
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Liam's POV
»HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!«
What the fuck?
»HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!«
Where does that music come from? Did I accidentally change the sound of my alarm?
»HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR DADDY DIRECTION!«
Wait, what? Oh my God, right – it's my birthday!
»HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!«
I opened my eyes and what I saw made me smile brightly: All my mates were standing around my bed – Niall with his guitar – to wake me up with a birthday song.
»Happy birthday, Payno!«, Harry and Louis screamed and jumped onto my bed to hug me.
»Come on, tell us, how does it feel to be old?«, Harry asked and quickly jumped to the side as I playfully tried to punch his arm.
»Excuse me? I'm not even the oldest one of us. You should ask that your boyfriend!«
»I don't act as old as you do«, Louis said laughing.
»At least I don't have wrinkles already.« I grinned at Louis' shocked expression.
»Wrinkles?! Where? I don't have wrinkles! Haz, do I have wrinkles?«
I laughed loudly as Harry started studying his boyfriends' face attentively. »Come on, get out of the way, you silly two. There's someone I wanna kiss.«
I pushed Harry and Louis aside and smiled as I looked at Niall. He had put his guitar on the carpet and now finally sat down next to me.
»Happy birthday, my love«, he said as he hugged me tightly. »And happy anniversary of course.«
»Thank you, Nialler. I love you so much. Happy anniversary.«
After a few seconds we let go of our embrace and kissed. Even though we were a couple for already five years – exactly five years to this day – I still felt my heart beating faster when being so close to him.
»When you two are finished, can we finally go and eat some birthday cake?«, Louis asked eagerly. »I'm hungry.«
I hesitantly stopped our kiss. »You made a cake for me?«
»Well, Harry did«, Louis said. »Which means we can expect something great!«
»Don't«, Harry said jokingly. »I feel stressed now.«
»No need to do so. I already got a taste and I can tell it's perfect.«
»You did what?!«
»Only a really tiny bit, you won't even see it's missing«, Louis defended himself.
»Okay, okay, let's go down before you start a fight«, I said laughing and got up.
As we went downstairs Harry and Louis were still arguing about the missing bit of the cake which was quite funny, but I was kind of distracted by Niall. He was unusually quiet today, wasn't he? And he hadn't even said how hungry he was when Harry and Louis had started talking about cake. Was something going on? But if so Niall would definitely tell me. He was probably just a bit tired, but as soon as he would eat some cake he would be back to his normal funny and chatty self for sure!
Niall's POV
»The cake is fantastic, Harry!«, Liam said when he took the first bite. »Thank you so much for making it!«
»You're welcome, Li. I'm glad you like it!«, Harry said chewing while Louis looked like he was close to having an orgasm from the cake's deliciousness. Usually I would have laughed loudly and made some funny comments, but right now I was too busy keeping the cake actually down.
I had felt it the second I had woken up this morning – I was sick. At first I had hoped I would be able to hold it back until tomorrow, but right now I realized there was no way I could ignore the pain and the feeling of nausea that was growing in my stomach. It was probably some disgusting kind of stomach bug, and eating a big piece of chocolate cake didn't really make it better. But there was no way I could refuse eating because if I did the boys would instantly suspect something to be wrong with me. And I didn't want them to know. Because this was my boyfriend's birthday AND our anniversary. I wanted it to be perfect for Liam. So I pulled myself together and ate the rest of the cake hoping nobody would notice the distressed expression on my face.
Almost done, Ni, I thought to myself while chewing the last bit of cake. Just swallow it.
But I couldn't. I suddenly knew I would immediately throw up if I did so.
»Time for your birthday presents!«, I managed to croak out. »I left mine in my room, I'll be back in a minute!«
With those words I ran out of the kitchen and made my way to the bathroom as fast as I could. Just in time because as soon as I locked the door I started gagging and a second later I spilled out my stomach contents into the bathtub.
Shit. This couldn't be true. Not today on Liam's birthday. But the bitter taste in my mouth and the sight of the bathtub filled with the gross stuff that had once been Harry's cake proved me wrong – it was true. Very true. I just wanted to cry.
But there was no point in doing so. Instead I washed the puke down the drain, then waited a few minutes in case I would need to throw up again. I didn't, even though I still felt really nauseous, but eventually I got out of the bathroom and went to my room to get Liam's birthday present. I didn't feel ready at all to go back to the kitchen joining the others, but there was nothing I could do about it if I wanted to keep my sickness a secret.
Liam's POV
»Do you think he's okay?«, Louis asked, confused about Niall's sudden rush out of the room.
»Yeah«, Harry said. »I think he's just really excited to give Liam his present.«
I wasn't really convinced though.
»He's pretty quiet today«, I said frowning. »I wonder if something's wrong.«
»Let's talk to him when he comes back«, Louis suggested and I nodded. If Niall wasn't feeling well or something I wanted to know. But if so why would he hide it from us? He had never pretended to be fine when he wasn't – it usually was quite the reverse: He was clingy and whiny whenever he was sick, and didn't miss an opportunity to tell us how bad he was feeling. No, he wasn't hiding anything, especially not a sickness. He probably was just excited like Harry had said. However, we would just ask him and then we would know anyway.
About fifteen minutes later the door opened and Niall came back, his face slightly red and a square-shaped package in his hands, wrapped in pink paper with dancing princesses on it.
»Hey Ni, you okay?«, Louis asked right away. »What took you so long?«
»Umm ... I forgot where I hid the present«, Niall said, but I could tell that his smile was forced. So he was hiding something after all. It couldn't be just his excitement about the birthday present, could it? But whatever it was, it didn't seem like he wanted to talk about it in front of everyone so I wouldn't dig deeper right now. Hopefully he would tell me later when we were alone.
»Wow, that's a great wrapping paper!«, Harry suddenly said. »Where did you get it, Ni?«
»Well ...« Niall blushed and Louis' eyes widened as he noticed the princess paper.
»Are you serious, Niall?«, he said annoyed. »I can tell you exactly where he got it, Haz. From behind our wardrobe. That's where I hid it so you wouldn't find it. Bought it as a surprise for your birthday. Great job sneaking around in our room, Ni ...«
»Aww thank you so much, Lou, that's so cute, I love it!«, Harry said smiling brightly and giving his boyfriend a hug and a kiss on his lips.
»Just to remind you, H – this is still my present«, I said laughing at Harry's reaction.
»But it's my princess paper«, Harry said grinning. »You heard Lou, he bought it for me.«
»Okay so I'll take the present and you can keep the paper?«, I suggested.
»Deal.«
We all burst out laughing at our own silliness, but again I noticed something about Niall being different. He didn't laugh as loud as he usually did and his eyes weren't as sparkling. I wished Harry and Louis would leave us alone for a few minutes so I could ask him what he was having on his mind. But I didn't want to be rude and also didn't want Niall to feel pressured into telling me anything so I kept quiet for now even though my Daddy Direction self wanted nothing more than knowing what was going on.
»So – this is for you«, Niall finally said and gave me the package. »I hope you'll like it. I'm not so sure about it ...«
»He'll love it, Nialler«, Harry said and Louis nodded in agreement. »We told you several times.«
»You two know what it is?«, I asked surprised.
»Yep. Niall here needed someone to tell him that it wasn't a dumb idea and that you wouldn't think it was totally stupid.«
»He annoyed us with it for the last couple of weeks«, Louis added.
»Hey, shut up«, Niall said laughing nervously. Maybe his present was indeed the reason for him acting like that.
I had to admit I was really curious by now. What could it be that Niall was making such a fuss about it? I carefully unwrapped the package, trying not to damage Harry's precious princess paper. And I suddenly was holding – a book. But it wasn't just a normal book ...
»Is this ... a photo book?«, I asked, and when I opened it I realized that it was. On the first page there was a photo – my favourite one – of Niall and me kissing, and a text written in my boyfriend's handwriting: Happy birthday and a wonderful five year anniversary to the best mate, boyfriend and person in the world . Love you forever <3
I suddenly felt a lump in my throat. Niall had made me a photo book with text and everything. For my birthday and our anniversary at once. How extremely and unbelievably beautiful, adorable, precious and sweet was that?!
»This is ... Wow, I can't even tell how beautiful it is, Niall. Oh my God, I love it so much. I love you so much. Thank you!«
Before Niall could say anything I kissed him. God, I really loved this boy. And he had made me a photo book. I couldn't quite believe it. And I couldn't wait to look at all the photos he had put inside. This was by far the best present I had ever got for my birthday.
»Woohoo, see Nialler, we told you!«, Harry said.
»Niall, you look like you're about to throw up«, Louis said laughing. »You can stop being nervous now, your boyfriend is in love with the book.«
As Louis said that Niall suddenly pulled away from me and I looked at him in confusion. Then I noticed that Louis was just right. Niall's face was slightly green and his smile had completely faded whilst his hand was on his stomach as if he was feeling pain.
»Love, are you okay?«, I asked worriedly.
And then everything happened quite quickly.
Niall let out a gag and before anyone could get a bucket or even realize what was going on, he violently threw up and spat his stomach contents all over the table, including Harry's gorgeous cake and everything else that was on it.
Niall's POV
Please let this be a dream, I prayed silently, but after a few seconds I was still sitting there bent over the table that was now covered with a large amount of puke, and my hope for this to be nothing but a horrible nightmare slowly faded. Me throwing up on my boyfriend's birthday cake was fucking reality. How could this even be true?
I couldn't stop myself from letting out a sob and tears started running down my cheeks. I wanted this day to be perfect and instead I had messed up everything to the fullest. Why the hell did I always have to mess up things?!
»Shhhhh it's okay, Ni«, I heard Liam say after a few silent seconds of shock. He rubbed my back comfortingly while Harry and Louis started rummaging around and quickly came back with a bucket and a bunch of tissues.
»Are you okay, mate?«, Harry asked while placing the bucket next to me.
I didn't say anything. It was obvious that I wasn't okay, wasn't it?
»Don't cry, love. It's gonna be alright«, Liam said in a calming voice. »Come on, let's go to the living room, okay?«
I nodded and followed Liam to our living room where we sat down on the sofa. Harry and Louis stayed in the kitchen probably cleaning up the disgusting shit I had just spread all over the place. This was more than embarrassing.
»Why didn't you tell us you were feeling sick?«, Liam asked concernedly.
»I wanted it to be a perfect day for you«, I sobbed out. »It's your birthday, Li, I can't be sick on your birthday!«
»Hey, love, it's not like you decided to be. But not telling us didn't change it after all, did it?«
»Obviously not«, I said without looking at him. »But I still don't want you to miss your own birthday party because of me having a stupid stomach bug.«
»Look at me, Nialler«, Liam said and I hesitantly did. »I love you so much and I wanna care for you no matter if it's my birthday or not. I'd rather spend it here with you than at the best party in the world. And I don't care if you're sick – well, I mean I do care, but I still wanna be with you even if we're gonna spend the whole day chilling on the sofa.«
I just looked at him for a few seconds, blinking my tears away. »Are you sure?«
»Absolutely. All I want is to be by your side, no matter what.«
»I just love you«, I said leaning my head on his shoulder, too tired to put my gratefulness into more words. »I'm sorry for messing things up, though.«
»Don't be. There's nothing to be sorry about. I just want you to be okay.«
»Hi Ni, how are you feeling?«, Louis asked as he entered the living room followed by Harry who was holding two cups of tea.
I just shrugged. »Could be better.«
»I'm sorry, bud. We thought you were just excited because of the photo book«, Harry said apologetically. »By the way, it magically got out of this without being thrown up on.«
»Here.« Louis handed me the photo book. »Didn't even get sprinkled.«
»So I guess we're gonna stay here today?«, Harry asked and Liam nodded.
»Yeah, we're gonna make ourselves a chilly day.«
»Doesn't sound too bad«, Louis said and gave me a smile.
I weakly smiled back and Harry handed me a cup of tea. Then we started watching the photo book and Liam became quite emotional a few times and even had tears in his eyes which made me incredibly happy. How could I ever have thought he wouldn't like it?
The day wasn't that bad after all. We were just having tea and watching movies while I cuddled up with Liam. Luckily I didn't need to throw up again, but I had to promise that I would never hide a sickness again. Well, I wouldn't for sure!
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