Forever My Father

Chapter One

"Zayn get your ass downstairs! We're gonna be late!" Louis screams from the bottom of the stairs as he waits for his little cousin to hurry up.

"Louis, it's literally 7:20 AM. Can we try to keep it a no cursing zone till at least noon?" Liam asks his oldest son with a raised brow while sipping his coffee.

"Sorry, pops, but can you tell Zayn to hurry up!" Louis says back and Liam just rolls his eyes.

"I'm here relax! We still have like forty minutes to get to school, calm down!" The young boy said with an eye roll.

"Finally the princess is done! Get your bum in the car, we need to pick Nick up still," Louis says while beginning to push Zayn out the door only to be stopped by his fathers.

"I know you're not leaving without saying goodbye!" Harry shouts out, and Niall, Louis and Zayn run back in the house and place a quick kiss on both Harry and Liam's cheek before going to leave again. "Zayn don't forget, you need to come home right after school!"

"Got it! Bye Uncle Harry!" Zayn shouts as the door shuts, and then the three are off. They sit in a peaceful silence, listening to the gentle hum of the radio, as they pull up to Nick's house where Louis honks two times before the boy runs out.

"Morning, lads. We stopping for coffee this morning? My treat?" Nick offers with a smile and Louis looks at the boy skeptically.

"Should I be scared? Is this a trick of some sorts?" The blue eyed driver asks with a raised brow.

"Can't I just want to be nice?! I'm treating you, so are we stopping or not?"

"Yeah we're stopping!" Louis replies as he pulls into the coffee shop a few blocks from the school. The four boys get out of the car and order their drinks, with Nick paying, before piling back into the car and off to school. Louis quickly parks in his designated spot, and just as Zayn goes to runoff to find his friends he's stopped.

"Zayn wait a minute! I have football practice after school so I can't take you home. You can either take the bus, hitch a ride with Ant and Danny, or I can ask Luke if he'd mind dropping you off?" Louis asks the boy.

"Uh, can you ask Luke? Ant and Danny stay late on Wednesdays and the bus takes forever," Zayn says back and Louis simply nods.

"I'll text you later if he can take you. See you in lunch." And then the four split off into different paths. Zayn quickly makes it into the school, trying to be out of the cold as much as possible with it being early January, and over to his locker where a group of his friends are waiting.

"Aww were you guys waiting for me to get here, so you can make sure I got to school safely," Zayn teases while pinching his twin friends, Ant and Danny's, cheeks.

"Toss off you wanker! We're waiting here cause we need your part of the project to staple together," Danny replies while shoving the slightly shorter boy away from him with a chuckle. Zayn quickly remembers what Danny is talking about before reaching into his mess of a bag and pulling out a four page, nice and crisp, report.

"It should get us a hundred! I spent almost all of break editing and perfecting the paper plus our board is good and well organized, so I don't see why we won't get a passing grade," Zayn says while handing the paper over.

"Yeah it better! You made us spend New Years doing this shit!" Shahid said, finally speaking up.

"I made you guys leave a party an hour early, boohoo! It was boring anyways, you should be thanking me," Zayn says matter of factly, and the other three boys just roll their eyes. Before anyone else can speak, however, the warning bell is ringing and the three boys are off to get to class.