Forever My One Shots

Smile For Me In The Morning?

Zayn: 15 years old

Niall: 16 years old

Louis: 17 years old

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Zayn had been off. Everyone could tell. His uncles, cousins, teachers, friends, teammates. They all could tell something was off about Zayn Malik, however, with his father just passing a bit over two months ago everyone decided to keep blaming it on that.

They decided to blame his lack of involvement because of it. His harsh, constant attitude. His what seems to be permanent scowl. Everything seemed to be because of Yaser's death, but in reality that was just one more thing Zayn wanted to add to the list of what he doesn't care about anymore.

"Zayn, breakfast!" Harry yelled up the stairs.

Seeing as though it was the weekend and Zayn was currently on his small off season break from hockey, Harry and Liam allowed the boys to sleep in. However, Zayn seemed to be taking too much advantage of that because the family has been waiting downstairs for him for five minutes now.

"Zayn you better not have gone back to sleep!" Liam shouted next.

When none of them heard any movement from upstairs, Liam let out a frustrated sigh as he went to get up only for him to be stopped by the mumble of a frustrated groan. With that the two adults let out a small smile, however, within two minutes it's once again gone due to seeing the scowl on Zayn's face.

"Morning, sweetie. Good sleep?" Harry asks as Zayn occupies the empty seat next to him.

"Yeah until I had to wake up," the boy mumbled as he reached to grab the bowl of eggs. "Is that sausage?"

"Yup. Scrambled egg whites with feta cheese, green peppers, and sausage," Harry says with a proud smile but it quickly disappears upon seeing Zayn's displeased look.

"I'm a vegetarian, I can't eat that," the boy says seriously which causes his two cousins plus Liam to break out laughing. "What? What's so funny?"

"Since when are you a vegetarian?!" Louis laughs out as he looks at the boy as if he were insane.

"Since there was a proven study that eating meat can increase your risk of cancer! Especially sausage," the young boy retorts, and in return Louis mockingly holds up hands in defense.

"Well you need to eat something, Zayn. What if I separate the sausage from the egg whites and then you just eat that and maybe a biscuit and some fruit?"

And much to the pleasure of Harry, Zayn nods his head.

Breakfast passes much smoother after that. Zayn eats all his food and occasionally joins in on the family discussion of the moment, however, just barely. Once everyone was done eating though, the three boys were quick to run up to their rooms before coming back downstairs five minutes later fully dressed to leave.

"And where is everyone going to today?" Harry ask as he cuddles himself into Liam's chest while finishing his cuppa tea.

"Promised Eleanor that I would accompany her to her little cousins birthday party. I'll be home by 4:00," Louis says as he kisses both parents' cheeks and grabbed his car keys before leaving the house.

"Josh is having a little day jam at his house," Niall says, however, before he can do what Louis did and just leave Liam stops him.

"Are his parents going to be there?" The man asks with a raised brow.

"No but they know it's occurring. They spoke to the neighbors and they said if it gets too loud or it looks like there's more than twenty people that they should call them immediately."