Daisy's Daycare 🧸 Zouis {COMPLETED}

CHAPTER 7

Louis here's the doorbell ring, and he hops up to answer. "Wow, Louis, you seem very excited to see Zayn," Lottie says, and Louis ignores her, opening the front door.

Zayn and Niall stood on the porch, Niall with a Thomas the Tank backpack on his back and a fuzzy blanket in his hand. "Come in," Louis says, steping to the side so they can walk in.

"Sorry about the late notice," Zayn says. "They pretty much just kicked everyone out this morning, no warning at all."

Zayn' apartment had to be fumigated leaving him with nowhere to stay for the night. Thankfully, Louis was fine with him coming to his house.

"My dad is at work, and he'll be back late so you probably won't see him," Louis tells Zayn. "Everyone else is here though. I'll show you where you guys will be staying."

Zayn follows Louis upstairs. Louis opens the door to the boys' room, Harry is on his iPad and Liam is playing with his dinosaurs. Liam runs up to Niall when he sees him. "There's an extra mattress in here, so Niall can sleep with the boys. Sorry, we don't have a guest room."

Zayn takes Niall's stuff and sets it on the floor. "Alright Niall, why don't you play with Liam for a bit. I'll be back soon." Then the two walk out of the room.

Louis walks to his room hesitating before he opens it. "Like I said- we don't have a guest room. So I was thinking uh that you could stay in my room with me," Louis says. "But you don't have to, of course! It's just that, our couch is really uncomfortable and my bed's pretty big so-"

"That's fine," Zayn chuckles, setting his bag down. "I'm fine staying in your room."

"Great. I mean- ok." Louis knows his face is probably bright red, but hopefully Zayn doesn't notice. "Have you eaten dinner?"

"Not yet, I was hoping we could eat here, if that's not too much trouble," Zayn says. His eyes wander Louis' room and he notices a picture of him and his mom on his nightstand. He's a baby in the photo, and Zayn thinks he looks adorable.

"It's not trouble at all," Louis says. "We haven't eaten yet either, and Harry's probably hungry, so we should go have dinner."

"Ok." Zayn follows Louis as he opens the door to the girls' room. Lottie is still downstairs, but the twins and Felicite are in the room still.

"It's time for dinner girls," Louis says. Zayn thinks it's sweet that they eat meals as a family. "Why don't you come have dinner with us Fiz? You never really met Zayn, and he's going to eat with us, so I would like if you could join us and I can introduce you."

"Ok," Felicite says as she smiles at Zayn. Her and the twins get up and head into the kitchen.

Then Zayn and Louis walk to Liam and Harry's room. Niall runs to Zayn when he sees him, hugging his leg. Zayn picks him up and hugs him. "Dada."

"Alright boys it's time for lunch," Louis says and Harry and Liam jump up. Louis laughs a little bit. Are kids always hungry or something?

Once everyone is in the kitchen, Louis begins cooking. He makes some Mac and Cheese. He passes out plates to everyone and they all dish their food.

Niall gets cheese all over his face and hands. "Come here Niall, lets clean you up," Louis says. He wipes Niall's wash and hands with a wet washcloth. "There you go."

Once everyone is finished eating, the girls head back to their rooms. "We should get Liam and Niall to bed," Louis says. "It's getting pretty late."

Zayn agrees and they go to put the boys to bed. Once they're in bed Louis stands there awkwardly. It's not exactly time for bed yet, so he doesn't know what they should do in the meantime.

"Uh, I'm going to go clean up dinner," Louis says.

"I'll come help you," Zayn offers. Louis nods and the two go back into the kitchen. They wash all the dishes and clean the table.

They stay up a little longer talking and then they decide to head to Louis' room. "You can change in the bathroom," Louis says, pointing to the room attached to his bedroom.

"Ok." Zayn grabs his clothes and goes to change, and Louis changes in his room while Zayn is in the bathroom. After that they brush their teeth and get in bed.

Except after 30 minutes, Zayn realizes he can't sleep. He tries to just suck it up and go to bed, but it's kind of hard when Louis is right next to him. They haven't talked about the time they almost kissed, and Zayn doesn't know if he's grateful or upset.

Lately he doesn't know how to feel anymore. He thought Louis and him were just friends, but now it seems like they could be more than that. Is that what Zayn wants? Does he want to be in a relationship with Louis?

He's been to scared to even consider relationships after what happened with Niall's mother, and he's never been in a relationship with a guy before. He doesn't know how he would bring it up, or even if he should. What if he's just reading into things too much?

If Louis doesn't like him, then he doesn't want to say anything and make things awkward. Besides even if Louis did have feelings for him, does he really want to be dragged into Zayn's life?

"Lou? Are you awake?" Zayn whispers, and he doesn't know whether he wants the boy to be awake or not. He stares at Louis' back.

He feels some shuffling in the bed and soon Louis has turned to face him and Zayn is met with his beautiful blue eyes. "What's up?"

Zayn doesn't say anything, but moves closer, ducking his head down and pressing it to Louis' neck, wrapping an arm around Louis' waist. "Is this ok?"

"More than ok." Zayn feels warm and slowly begins to get tired. Eventually he's dozing off, but not before he feels the kiss on his forehead that sends butterflies shooting through his stomach.