Forever My Father

Chapter Nine

The rest of the day passes on as normal as it can with the three boys playing FIFA, and Harry & Liam still discussing their previous conversation. Now it's 5:00 AM the next morning and everyone is in their room asleep. Well, all but one. Zayn had decided that if his uncles weren't gonna let him see his father then it was up to himself to do so which is why he was currently packing up his money, skateboard, and phone in sight of catching the first train to Bradford.

Quietly Zayn begins to make his way down the stairs and over to the front door. However, just as the boy goes to open the door he's stopped by a hand being placed on top of his. With wide eyes Zayn quickly turns around to see who is the person that caught him only to be met by a shushing Louis.

"Louis?! What are you doing?" Zayn whispers with a slightly nervous tone.

"I should be the one asking you that! What are you doing?!" Louis retorts in a more serious tone to which Zayn cowers a bit at.

"Uncle Harry and uncle Liam weren't gonna let me see my dad. I need to see him, Lou! I just need to know why! Please, I'm just tired of being sad," Zayn says, voice becoming quieter towards the end and Louis can't help but sympathize for the young lad. After a couple minutes of thinking everything over, Louis sighs before nodding his head.

"Alright, let's wake Niall up and then go. We'll take my car," Louis says while grabbing his coat.

"Wait, what? You wanna come?" Zayn asks bewildered and Louis just gives him a look.

"I'm not about to just let me baby cousin, who I consider to more like my baby brother, take a train alone all the way to god knows where! And Niall is coming because I don't want to leave him out on the adventure. So if you wanna get out of here before papa wakes up we've gotta move fast," Louis says as he quietly makes his way up the stairs only to appear back down a couple minutes later with a slightly sleepy Niall coming along with him.

"What's this I hear about an adventure?" Niall says with a yawn. From there the three boys pile into Louis' car while Zayn inserts the address into the GPS.

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An hour and a half later and the boys have finally arrived in Bradford. Being so early in the morning, however, they decide to stop at some random diner in order to fuel up on food. The boys sit down in the first booth they pass and simply look at the menu in silence. Well that is until Louis decided to speak up.

"So what are you gonna tell him?" Louis asks while putting the menu down, and Zayn can't help but sigh. Honestly he hadn't planned this whole thing out yet, all he knew was he needed to know why.

"I don't- I don't know yet. I didn't really think that part through yet," Zayn says while playing with the necklace around his neck. "I guess I'm just gonna ask him why. Why he lied about the SAS. Why he lied to uncle Harry and Liam. Why he lied to mum. Why he left me. I just wanna know why."

The boys sit in silence for a couple minutes longer until their waiter is coming over to take their orders. Each boy orders their meal politely before going back to their previous silence.

"How long before Dad and Papa are calling?" Niall ask while sipping the tea that was just brought out to them.

"I give it another hour or so? Dad will probably wake up early then go to check Zayn's room only to see it empty along with our rooms," Louis says without the blink of an eye. Truthfully he had been putting a lot of thought into how big of trouble they were gonna be in because he was suppose to go skiing with his friends the next weekend, but he's not too sure that's happening anymore.

"How mad do you think they're gonna be?" Zayn asks this time with a nervous face that Louis can't help but smile at.

"Don't worry I'm sure they'll understand why we did what we did," Louis said while patting the boy on the back even though on the inside he wasn't so sure that would be the case.