Daddy Direction (Zayn Malik Love Story)

Chapter Twelve: Unwanted Guests

Chapter Twelve: Unwanted Guests

Zayn POV

Leas cried loudly next to my bed. It was about 7 in the morning and I really didn’t feel like getting up.  My hand was bruised and broken and it probably looked like I lived on the streets. That’s what I’ve looked like lately. I still couldn’t get Lexi’s voice out of my head from a month ago. Even the lads knew I wasn’t the same and I felt even worse for Niall being that he had to live with my smelly dickheadedness.

I rolled over and grabbed Lea out of her crib. She’s much bigger now being that she was now 9 months old. She was a little fat nugget thanks to Niall feeding her all the time. She began to quiet down now in my arms, probably had some type of nightmare.

“Yeah,” I mumbled. “I have those too.” Her light brown eyes looked up into my own, glistening in the slither of sunlight that I let through my blinds. Her mouth opened slightly as she reached up and touched my scratchy face, feeling ever hair that I missed when I attempted to shave. She made a small noise but then her arm retreated back, going back to sleep in my arms.

I ran my hand over my face. I never in any way felt like this after a bad breakup. Usually I would be the one issuing the dumping but now the tables have turned and I felt like shit. I guess I never really cared for anyone as much as I cared for Lexi. Maybe I should call her by her real name, and not her street name. That would make the pain go away… or not.

“Up.” Niall burst in my room and opened the blinds, making Lea and I shriek in the process. He crossed his arms over his chest at the end of my bed.

“Oi! She was about to go back to sleep.”

“She’s a baby; she can sleep whenever she wants to. She is your daughter,” he said using a smart tone. “You on the other hand, need to get your lazy arse up and get ready to leave.”

“Where are we going,” I asked as I ran my hand down my face.

“Well, we are going to cheer you up a bit and then get packing since we start our world tour tomorrow.”

I groaned. “I hate packing. And I have to pack more since Lea will be with us now.”

He shrugged. “Maybe you’ll keep it in your pants this time.” I stared at him, eyes filled with fire. He raised his hands in defense. “I love Lea but still, stop complaining.” He reached over and picked up a tired looking Lea and placed her on his topless hip. “I’m going to feed her while you get a shower. You smell like shit.” He turned on his heel and walked out of my room, not even closing it as he left. He knew what he was doing when he did that, making me get up and close it myself so that I would be up and walking to the shower afterwards. Well, today it worked since I had to go have a wee. Fucking ass Irishman.

Niall POV

“Wanna call mommy,” I asked Lea in my best baby voice. Of course, I knew that Lexi wasn’t her real mother but she was a baby and for all anyone else knew, Lexi might as well be her mother. She would have to be Kayla’s replacement.

“Hello,” Lexi asked after I had been transferred.

“Lexi, it’s Niall.”

“What do you want Niall? I was sleeping.”

I rolled my eyes, glad that she couldn’t see it. “You and I both know that that’s a lie. I’m from Ireland too, I know the whole schedule over there.”