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Leah's POV

"We need to go out and get the little things now, before you are on bed rest."

I sigh and slowly, with the help of Harry and Mady, stand from the couch and wobble to the stairs. I have one week until my next doctors appointment and from the looks of it I'm most likely going to be put on bed rest. Because of that, Mady and Avery want to go baby clothes shopping while I still can. Of course we still don't know the gender of the babies, and Harry and I have allowed his mom and sister to purchase some clothes, but I would still like to have the experience of shopping for my own babies clothes.

"Okay, just let me change." I agree and start up to the bedroom, but hands on my waist stop me.

"No, you look fine." Harry whispers in my ear. "I'll go get your bag and some comfy shoes. You don't need to be walking up and down stairs so much. We don't need you to go into labor to soon." He kisses my nose before bounding up the stairs.

He has been home for a week and a half now and he has made my life so much easier. He likes to play doctor and confine me to one room or one floor for the day and is always at my beck and call. I love him so much.

"We won't be out for long. So your hubby has no need to fret." Mady jokes just as Harry is descending the stairs with my belongings.

"Thanks babe." I take my bad from him and slip the shies n that he picked out.

"Try to get some sleep while we're gone, okay?" I cup his cheek in my hand and wait for his subtle nod before pecking his lips.

"Don't stay out too long." He scolds and I roll my eyes.

"Yes, daddy." I whisper for only his ears to hear. With one more kiss, the girls are dragging me out of the house and helping me into the car.

Curse my extra large belly. Curse my swollen feet. Curse my back aches. And finally, curse my lack of energy and lack of self sufficiency.

"We should have invited Kade to join us." Avery speaks up as she takes a right.

"You know, I haven't seen her in a couple of days. She had dinner with us a couple nights ago but that was it. She ended up getting really sick and we had to take her home." I responded and watched out the window as the now familiar scenery passes by.

"Have you met her mom, asked her what's up with Kade's health?"

"Yeah, I met her mom. She is a really nice woman, but she doesn't like talking about whatever's going on. I've even had tea with her mom at their house after I brought her home once." I pick at my nails and look between the two girls in front. "I haven't met her dad, but from how she talks about him, I don't think I want to."

"Have you talked to her at all?" Mady turns around in the seat to face me.

"She text me every once in a while to tell me she is okay, but when I offer to visit she refuses. She says she don't want me seeing her. She doesn't want anyone seeing her."

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"I know Anne and Gemma have picked out clothes, but do you have bottles and bowls, food, nipples?" Avery asks and shrug.

"Woah, wait. What? What are 'nipples'? Aren't your real one good enough?" Mady asks causing the two of us to burst into laughter. Mady just looks confused.

"That thing that babies suck on on bottles," Avery explains, "that is called a nipple." Mady's mouth forms an 'o'.

"You know nothing about babies do you?" I ask and she shrugs again.

"I know they cost a lot, they hurt like hell coming out, and they are adorable once they are cleaned up. Other than that, I don't know all the specifics. I might of had a lot of siblings, but I only payed attention to their cuteness." I laugh and continue looking through the rack of little clothes.

"Well you will need to study up a little bit before you and Louis have ten kids." I comment.

"Who said we were going to have ten kids? Who said we were going to have kids at all?"

"Have you not seen him with little kids? Either you can conceive one or he might as well steal one."

"True." Mady eventually agrees and shifts through more onesies too. "Oh, look at this one!" She exclaims and holds up a white one. "It says "Diaper Loading".

Isn't that adorable?" It is, it is very adorable.

"And this one. It's pink though, so not gender neutral. It says 'I'm cute, Mom's hot, Dad's lucky'." Avery holds it up and I smile.

"I think I like this one best." I hold up a black onesie that reads, 'I had boobs for breakfast, what did you have?'

I grab that one and a few others Mady and Avery pick out including a green one that reads 'All Mommy wanted was a back rub'. It's green, so it's gender neutral right?

"Should we look for bottles?" I nod and place the clothes in the basket hanging off Mady's arm.

"Yeah," We turn to walk towards the aisle promoting all the bottles and formulas as well as burp rags. "How about you look for rags and I'll get the bottles?" They nod and walk a few feet down from me as I read the labels on different packages.

"How about this one?" I pick up on another couples conversation from the other side of the aisle, and decide to eavesdrop.

"No, that's not a trusted brand." The woman argues and I smile at the inter action. Harry and I had a similar fight over brand or off-brand wipes. I won, we got the brand name.

"But it says Natural Nipple." I hear the woman sigh and I furrow my eyebrow. I'm getting a weird feeling...

"I promise you, love, that looks nothing like mine." Her voice... I snap my fingers and catch the attention of Avery and Mady. They shrug at me looking confused but I just wave them over to me. I put a finger to my lips telling them to stay quiet, and point to my ear to tell them to listen.

"You should know that better than anyone." I can hear the sarcasm drip from the girls tone of voice and my muscles go stiff.

"Yeah, so would-" The man starts to rebut but is cut off.

"Will you ever stop bringing him up? It's over. I left like you asked me to, and now I'm knocked up. I don't even want to hear his name anymore. He's nothing to me." She sighs angerly. Hormones, I totally understand.

"You say you got knocked up like its a bad thing." The boy pouts and when I look at the girls beside me their faces are pure shock.

"I know, I'm sorry. It's a wonderful thing, really. Besides, it's something he could never give me." I look over the top of the aisle to see a bun made from brown hair start to walk towards the end of the aisle and around the corner. Closer to us.

I push the girls forward in hopes of escaping before we are seen but we only get a few steps away before we're stopped.

"Leah?" At the sound of my name falling from her lips my nose scrunches up in disgust. I take my time turning slowly around to face a total stranger.

"Hey, Eleanor." I wave and then place my hand around the twins. They start kicking like they are ready to go to war or something.

My eyes scan her body and nearly pop out of my head. She is huge!

Eleanor is wearing a black floor length dress that clings to her baby bump. Her hair looks perfectly tangled, if that's possible, and pulled half up half down with a bun. She has that pregnancy glow, but it doesn't look as good on her as it does other mothers.

"It's been forever! How are you? Oh, and congrats by the way." She points to my bump and I slightly flinch away. She doesn't seem to notice. "Do you know what it is?"

Woah, girl. Chill.

"Yeah, um, we're doing great. Close to the due date actually, thanks. And no, we don't know. I'm having twins." They kick on cue. "Congrats to you too. You look great. Do you know what your having?"

I can't see her, but I'm sure Mady is mentally cursing the baby inside Eleanor's womb.

"Thanks, and we do actually." Eleanor grabs ahold of Max's arm and smiles up at him. Yuck. "It's going to be a boy, and his name is going to be Zachery Davis Hurd." Hum, it's actually a cute name.

"Oh did you get married?" Mady spoke up. I know she only asked the question because she already knows the answer.

"No actually. We were going to during the pregnancy but the little thing is growing too fast. She would probably go into labor at the alter." Max answers and looks down at Eleanor.

"Yeah, four inches I'm two weeks." She giggles. "Do you wanna see a picture from the other day?" We don't have time to answer before she pulls out her phone.

She hands it over to us and once again, she actually looks nice. A long sleeve, clingy, black shirt and skinny jeans. Shows off her curves nicely.

"Woah you are getting big." I compliment, but I hear Mady and Avery snicker.

"It's very stress full with one, so I can't imagine you with two." She smiles and claps her hands together. I smile and nod along.

I stelthily slip a hand behind me and tap my back hoping the girls get the unspoken message as I lazily stumble around on my feet for a few seconds.

"Le, are you alright?" Avery grabs my arm to steady me and I blink my eyes a bit. Thank goodness she understood. I love how girls can talk without actually talking.

"Yeah, just a little tired. Been on my feet too long." I lie straight to her face and turn back to Eleanor and her boy toy. "I think we need to get going Harry's probably getting worried." That's more than likely true.

"Okay, well it was nice running into you." She takes a step closer and hugs me. She actually has the nerve to hug me! When she pulls away she looks straight to Avery with out acknowledging Mady. "You too."

We all smiled back before turning on our heels and walking to the check out.

No one says a word about the encounter until we are seated in the car.

"Eleanor's pregnant." Mady states like we didn't all just experience that together. "At least it's not Louis'."

"I can't belive her." Avery gasps.

"You should have heard everything she said about Louis." I roll my eyes and rest my head against the window.

"Woah, what did she say about Louis?" Mady leans up and looks at me. I just shake my head.

"Nothing that needs to be repeated." I grumble. "Are you going to tell him?"

"Would he rather hear it from me, or twitter." Mady reasons and pretends to weigh objects I'm her hands.

I nod my head giving her a point.

"So," Avery starts the car, "where to now?"

"Home." I answer. "I think we're done shopping."

((Okay, so Eleanor is pregnant! Did any of yoi expct it? The picture at the tkp is the pic she showed the girls.

It's been a while since my last update (actually when Zayn left) and I just want to make some things clear for those of you who are still reading this story.

I started this a long time ago and I think it sucks. It doesn't get a lot of reads, comments, or votes. This isn't my top priority at the moment. I promise to finish it! Do I know when? No. I know I've said this same thing before.

I do appreciate those of you who message me and tell you are enjoying it and can't wait for another update. Bad news is you will have to wait.

I'm almost our of school for the year and I will get the rest done this summer.

Thanks for reading this bad chapter and my small rant. Hope you enjoyed!))