Once in a lifetime

Chapter 60 Icarus

Zayn had just finished his welcoming speech when he saw them. It was like the waters opened and made a road for him to get to them. Harry, his Harry, as handsome as ever. And Maddie, good Lord, Maddie was beautiful on her desi clothing. Zayn was happy he didn't have to make any other speech, because he was positive he wouldn't be able to. His body almost went limp, so he leaned into one of the columns. He watched them walk right toward him, and for some weird reason he wanted to run.

"Hi baby..." Harry whispered, and Zayn felt the tears coming down his face. He didn't even know he was crying already. He tried to reply, but he choked on his own words.

"Zen! I missed you so much! I like your paintings, well the ones I could see, daddy didn't let me check them all. He said we had to wait for you, and I wanted so bad to say hi." Maddie rambled, Styles mode.

"Hi meri jaan, you look absolutely ravishing. That lehnga choli looks perfect on you. The colour combo."

"Thank you! Daddy helped me put it on. I chose it because I knew you would like it. It is green and yellow; daddy said your favourite colour was green. Are those sad tears? You are not happy we came?"

"These are tears of happiness, doll. I am so happy you came to visit. I love how you look on your dress, you look beautiful." Zayn said, still without making eye contact with Harry. He sighed, summoning all his inner strength, and looked right into Harry's eyes. His Harry, there, so close he could reach out to touch him. His Harry, the love of his life. Zayn wiped his tears away and finally spoke.

"Hi... Hi babe. Didn't expect to see you here." He spoke, wishing already to be in private and climb into Harry's lap. He had missed them so bad, he felt like he was dying out of sadness.

"Liam called. Why didn't you, Z? Why didn't you say anything about tonight, hm?

"Maddie, would you mind going to Anne? Daddy and I need a minute, doll. I'll let you know when we can go check out all the paintings and I even will tell you funny stories about them, yeah?"

"Yes, Zen. I can go with Mama Anne. So you are happy to see us, then?" She wanted to make sure.

"Extremely." Zayn replied looking at her, then he glanced at Harry and said, "Seriously, very happy."

Maddie hugged him one more time, because how could she not? She had Zayn back, she ought to hug him all the time. Zayn was happy to see them, so now they could be a family. They would stop being sad.

"Are you truly happy that we showed unannounced? Don't you wanna kill Leyum?" Harry joked.

"I do wanna kill him, but for not telling me. I could've gone to the airport to meet you guys."

"Oh don't worry, Maddie slept most of the time." Are we gonna play pretend? Harry thought.

"I think there is an elephant in the room, innit? And we need to address it, yeah?"

"Yeah, we must. Can we, uh, can we talk here?" Harry asked, looking around, lot of people near them.

"We have an office. We can go there." Zayn said, started walking and Harry grabbed the rim of Zayn's suit jacket. When they got to the office, he closed the door and when he turned, he felt Zayn shoving him against the door, leaning his full weight on Harry's body, intimacy speaking volumes between them.

"Oh shit. I missed you so fucking much, Zayn." Harry whispered, ripping off a moan from Zayn's throat.

"I missed you too, love. Not one day passed when I didn't think of you, of Maddie, of us." He replied, hovering his lips over Harry's, not quite kissing him, just brushing them together.