When Harry turns forty-one, Zayn's story had just been leaked to the press a week before, so he politely declines the invitation of dinner at Liam's house.
Instead the adults spend the majority of the meal in depressed silence, mumbling about the diagnosis.
"The Doctor said eight months," Niall whispers, and his wife rested her hand on his hand.
Harry stares down at his full plate, no longer hungry as the idea that Zayn wouldn't be alive to see Harry hit 42, hits him.
So that year, Harry blows out the candle and wishes harder than ever for Zayn to live to see Harry reach 42.
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52 Birthdays With Lou
Fanfiction52 birthdays Harry spent with Louis. whisper_thy_story | Archive Of Our Own
