Forever My Father

Chapter Ten

The car ride is long to say the least. Even with Louis breaking half of the speeding regulations out there to get home faster, Zayn feels as if they'd been driving for days. No matter how hard Niall hugged him or how many times Louis assured he's gonna be alright and that they love him, Zayn just couldn't get the words out of his head.

"It's your fault she's dead and now you get to live with that on your conscience." That one line played on repeat in Zayn's head like a symphony. Finally after what felt like an eternity to all three boys in the car, they find themselves pulling into their driveway where they are met by a furious looking Harry and Liam.

"I know you're pissed and what I did was totally irresponsible, but please don't yell at us right now! I can't get Zayn to talk and he's still crying and I don't know what to do!" Louis cries out, tears now falling down his cheeks. Once Harry and Liam heard what their son had to say, however, their faces immediately turned from angry to concern which is why Harry immediately ran to the side of the car to grab the youngest boy, and Liam opened his arms for Louis to crash into (which the boy did gratefully).

"Zaynie, hey bubba, hi baby. Look at me please, what happened?" Harry coos as he lifts the boy out of Niall's lap. Instead of receiving an answer, though, Zayn simply falls limp against Harry's body and continues to cry. "Niall what happened?!"

"We-we just wanted to he-help! We didn't- we didn't think he would hurt him," Niall stutters with tears brimming his eyes as well. And though Harry wants to continue questioning Niall to figure out who hurt who, as a father he knows comforting the distraught boys is the first thing he must do.

"Come here, baby, it's alright. Everything's gonna settle itself out," Louis coos while pulling Niall into his side and leading the boys into the house. Soon enough, Liam and Harry found themselves trying to comfort three crying boys while also trying to figure out what exactly happened. After another fifteen or so minute, however, Louis sits up from leaning on Liam, wipes his eyes, and clears his throat.

"Um, I don't know the whole story of words said, but we might want to consider calling a lawyer of sorts," Louis mumbles while still slightly wiping his eyes of tears.

"Louis what happened? Physically wise, what happened?!" Harry asks with desperation evident in his voice.

"Unc- uh, I mean Yaser he, dad I can't say this with Zayn crying in front of me like this," Louis pleads which is why Liam quickly collects the sobbing boy into his arms and makes his way up the stairs.

"Dad, uh, Yaser he's living this whole other life! He has two kids, a wife, a house, a car! He's been lying for years, and, uh, he sorta, um, Dad he- he hit Zayn again. Hard," Louis finally manages to stutter out and when he does Harry feels his heart break a bit.

"Did he say anything at all? Or did he just hit ... hit him," Harry asks after a moment of composing himself.

"They spoke for a bit but me and Niall were in the car, so we couldn't really hear. But there was yelling. A lot of yelling. And just it happened so fast, one minute Zayn was yelling at him and the next he was on the ground clutching his head. Dad I wanted to protect him but it happened so fast!" Louis says while new tears began to form only for Harry to wipe them away.

"Shh, you're alright, baby. You protected him, yeah? You protect him every day, don't worry. Me and Papa are gonna talk to him, and we're gonna get him a bit of help until he's completely happy again, okay? You did good, Lou. Both of you did good," Harry says while he pulls both boys in for a hug.

The three stay in the embrace for a couple minutes before finally Louis makes the first move to pull away, shortly followed by Niall. Now the three are simply seated on the couch thinking about the information they just saw/heard, and all they can think is how they didn't notice sooner. After a few more minutes, Harry finds himself getting up from the couch and walking up the stairs. It doesn't take long for him to find the room Liam took Zayn into because he can hear the man whispering the sweet nothings while Zayn lightly whimpers, which is the exact sight Harry sees when he walks into his bedroom.