Always & Forever

Chapter 44, "Just us boys"

Harry's POV

After leaving Kara and Zayn alone, I walked back into the room with Jayda. I was in the middle of convincing her to let me stay in the room when everything went to complete shit. I can't believe Kara really just told me not to claim her as a sister anymore.

"You okay?" I asked her.

"Me? I'm fine. Are you okay?" she retorted.

"Yeah." I laughed. "So...."

"Don't even try. You're still sleeping on the couch." she smiled, giving me a kiss on the cheek.

"But-"

"Aht. I'm going to go get food ready for the girls and the kids. You should probably get dressed." she said, patting me on my back and exiting the room.

I should've just chosen to stay with my wife...

I took a shower and put on a nice Gucci black floral shirt, black jeans, and brown Chelsea boots. I walked out the room to find all the girls sitting on the couches.

"Well don't you look dashing as always," Jayda smiled, motioning me to come to her.

"Thanks love. What happened to cooking?" I asked, giving her a quick peck.

"We're ordering in. I don't feel like cooking."

"Figures. Where's Kara?"

"From the sounds that's coming through their door, I'm going to say she's in her room." Eleanor said.

"You're kidding." I sighed.

"Nope." Maya followed.

10 minutes later, the rest of the boys came down and we were just waiting on Zayn. Finally, he joined us a couple minutes later.

"Ahhh nice to see you mate." I teased.

"Oh shut up. Are y'all ready?" he asked.

"Are we ready? C'mon we're taking Harry's car." Niall said.

"Whot?" I laughed.

"Have fun boys." Jayda said, giving me one last kiss.

We all walked out the house and head for my Range Rover.

"So, where exactly are you taking us Harold?" Louis asked, getting in the passenger seat.

"We're going to a bar lads. Buckle up." I smirked.

about 30 minutes later...

We pulled outside of Be at One and all got out. The place was already packed which was absolutely no surprise. We shoved our way in and headed straight to the bar.

"A round of vodka please." I shouted to the bartender.

"Coming right up."

The man passed all of us our glasses of drinks and we gulped them down quickly.

"It's on me tonight." Niall yelled.

"In that case, let's get 5 more rounds." Louis laughed.

The man passed us more drinks back to back and we threw them back without a care.

"Jesus Zayn, you must really needed this." Liam said.

"Liam. I am not in the mood." he said sternly.

Oh lord.

I love Liam but sometimes he needs to learn when to just not say anything.

"Hey mate, what's going on with you and Kara anyways?" Louis asked.

Zayn took a deep breath, I'm guessing to decide on whether he was going to tell us or not, but he opened up nonetheless.

"Well...her management team basically told her she wasn't doing enough for her career and so now she's working to find all these new projects, and I just don't think she should be stressing herself out like that." he explained.

"Wow." I said.

"Yeah but that's not even the part I'm mad about. It's the fact that she's willing to have a bunch of nannies raise our child. She literally said that she won't be there for the baby as much. What type of shit is that?" he huffed.

"Nannies? Oh yeah that's just wrong. What happened to the Kara who didn't give a fuck?" Niall questioned.

"Mate, I kid you not, that's exactly what I said. Like since when did she start caring about what other people think of her? I think there's a different reason behind all this but she just won't let me in." he sighed.

"Oh I think she let you in." Liam chuckled, but no one else joined in.

"Liam..." I frowned.

"Sorry. I didn't mean to say that out loud."

"Whatever man. I didn't want to even go there with her but she forced me, literally. I tried to stop her but next thing I know her mouth-"

"Hey, hey, hey. Keep the details to yourself please." Louis said, slapping his face to his hand.

"My bad lads. No but I don't know what's going on. I didn't mean to lose my mind earlier but she really tries my temper. Thank you guys for stopping me, well the three of you at least." he said, glaring at Liam.

"Of course mate. You've got a special one on your hands that's for sure. I don't know how you do it." Niall laughed.

"Yeah...me neither. There's no doubt that I love her though."

"I know mate. It'll work out. Now, can we stop moping around and celebrate?" I asked.

"That's what I'm talking about!" Niall shouted.

We headed to the dance floor and began to shout the lyrics to whatever song came on. Niall and I even went up for karaoke. I've missed this. Just the boys and I how it used to be. It's moments like these that make me wish I could soak in them forever.

Louis kept ordering drink after drink for everyone and slowly moved on to something stronger. I took my sips slowly knowing I was going to have to be the one to drive us home. I lost track of time by now due to the thrill of excitement that everyone was having. I could tell we all needed this. Just a little time away from our women and for Louis and I, the kids.

The guys were completely wasted so I guided them to the car and practically had to put them all in myself. I was a bit tipsy, but I was able to get everyone home in once piece....hopefully. Niall kept speaking complete gibberish the entire ride there making all of us about to pretty much piss our pants.

"I'm tired." he slurred.

"Niall lad, you're always the first one to tap out" Louis laughed.

Once we arrived home, I guided the boys inside trying to be as quiet as possible, but Niall's continuous laughing was making that pretty hard. Amelia soon came out and took him in her hands thankfully. Everyone dispersed into their rooms while I sneaked into mine hoping Jayda was asleep.

Thankfully, she was and I slipped right next to her. No couch for me tonight. I began laughing to myself but soon stopped when Jayda began to move.

"Harold what are you doing?" she asked tiredly.

"It's just a dream. I'm not really here." I said, laughing to myself and trying to convince her.

"You're drunk. I'm going to go get you some aspirin." she sighed.

"Thanks love." I smiled.

She brought me some aspirin and juice and held me as I fell asleep. My wife. I love her so much.