Earned It [zarry]

Chapter 14

Walking into the daycare, Harry fixes his tie and makes sure his suit is positioned correctly. Inside the building was very spacious and lively with laughs and giggles from every kid inside. There were kids by the windows painting and colouring. There were kids outside playing all kinds of activities, and the kids inside playing with blocks and other toys. Walking in further Harry looks around and sighs a bit when he spots Alicia. He sees a little girl next to her, and she looks a bit shy but really excited as well. Harry noticed her wide green eyes first and then her brown hair, it isn't curly like his, but her dimples are probably as deep as his are.

Harry wasn't sure if he should talk first to the child. He crossed his arms firmly for a moment, before smiling nervously at the little girl and offered his hand out to her.

"Hi, I uhm....I'm your dad" Harry said in a soft soothing voice bending down to the girl, "It's nice to meet you, Avani." When the girl shied away from his hand, Harry furrowed his eyebrows and cleared his throat. Stooping down to sit on his heels in a crouch, he softened his smile and looked up at Alicia anxiously.

Alicia's expression changed slightly and she sighs as she looks down at Avani. "Baby it's okay. Your daddy wants to spend time with you remember? He won't hurt you."

The girl nervously nodded and released her mother's hand and shook Harry's, smiling shyly at him from beneath thick brown lashes. Avani was a beautiful little girl, all blushed cheeks and big green eyes. After a brief handshake, Avani released Harry's hand and ran behind her mother's legs, tangling herself in Alicia's limbs. Harry stood up then and takes a deep breath, the resemblance between him and Avani was striking.

"Baby girl you're all set to go," Alicia tried not to sound sad about it.

"Thanks, Alicia. I appreciate it," Harry says and he looks down at his daughter still, eyes warm and soft. Avani looks up at her mother asking her if it's alright, and when she nodded. The little girl takes a deep breath and steps around and in front of her mom to stop in front of Harry.

"I made you this," she mumbled, her little chest puffing out in pride. Handing it to him, she hesitantly hugged his legs before stepping back and looking up at the tall man.

Harry held the paper up and pushed some of his fallen curls out of his face. Avani had doodled a big, giraffe-like figure with "Harry" scrawled above it. Each "r" in his name was backwards and if it wasn't cutest thing ever, Harry didn't know what was. There was a orange sun hanging in the corner of the picture, and butterfly flying with a bird off to the side. Harry smiled, feeling it stretch across his whole face. It has felt like a long time since he had really smiled.

"Mommy said you're as tall as giraffe..so I made a giraffe for you," Avani says. Harry then noticed her two canines were missing and that she had some blue in her eyes along with the dominating green.

"Well you seem like you're fine now. Im gonna leave her then. Call me to pick her up whenever," Alicia says and Harry raises an eyebrow at her, but she was already walking away and out the door.

"Mr. Styles?" a man with greying hair asked as he looked down at the man. "You're Harry Styles, from Styles Enterprise," the man says with his wrinkled face brightening at the sight of the millionaire. "What's the pleasure of seeing you here?"

"I had to pick up my daughter Avani here sir."

"Didn't know you had a child Mr. Styles? But Avani does have a lot of your features." The man's southern drawl was soothing to Harry, and he felt like he could talk to him all day. They talk for a bit more until Avani is tugging on Harry's hand to get his attention. "Are we going to get food soon? I like pizza." The "za" sounding like a "tah".