52 Birthdays With Lou

age: 50

When Harry turned fifty, his midlife crisis hit him right on time.

He spends the majority of his birthday on his laptop, looking at cars and motorcycles that he can afford to buy, but Louis has seen this coming and has frozen their accounts until he's sure Harry's crisis has passed.

It's his last birthday with Zach home, so he makes sure that Zach sticks around at home, despite the moody preteens protests that "it's uncool" to hang out with his Dad, "even if it is his birthday."

He makes Zach sit through as many videos as he can find of One Direction during the X-Factor days, as he reminisces on the past, and it's finally Louis who puts a stop to it, muttering that Zach looks like he's about to die of boredom.

"You're so uncool Dad," Zach mutters, once the video is turned off, "Just let go of the past."

"Zach!" Louis exclaims but Harry has to agree a bit with Zach, because maybe it is time to let those days go.

So he wishes, as he blows out his candles at their kitchen table, to be able to let go of the longing to return to the past. And in some ways it comes true.