Forced Family Fun

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One of the biggest things that Louis has enjoyed since he met Harry is how his weekends have actually become social events again. It's not that he hated them before when they were just him, Zayn and, on occasion, Ashton when he wasn't on tour, but he did miss being able to have intellectual conversations. Since he and Harry began dating he has been able to actually enjoy conversations while still spend enough time with Zayn seeing as they both had children.

Tonight, though, Louis was intending on leaving Zayn at his mum's house because the woman hadn't seen them in a while, but last minute Jay called needing to cancel. Being a nurse, schedules are always changing so Louis knew not to hold it against her, however, now he was short a sitter. Obviously, he knew Harry wouldn't mind the little one coming over seeing as his own kids were to be at the house, however, the problem was that Zayn wasn't necessarily in one of his happy moods today.

"Baby, c'mon, let's go take a bathy so we can go see Haz, Li, and Niall," Louis cooed for umpteenth time but Zayn just shook his head as small tears began to fall from his eyes.

"No, dada," the toddler whimpered as he crawled out of his father's lap again only to be stopped...again.

"How about bath later and we go see Haz, Niall, and Li now?" Louis tries but he receives the same response.

"Stay," Zayn says as he crawls off the sofa and lands softly onto his nappy clad bum.

"You don't wanna see Haz and the boys?"

"See."

"Then we can't stay."

"Stay."

And now Louis can only groan in frustration because this is why he needs intellectual conversation. As Louis continues to stay frustrated with himself Zayn begins to play with his animal noise keyboard, but turns to his daddy when he notices the man didn't follow him.

"Dada!" Zayn squeals from his five foot distance away from Louis causing the man to snap his head up. "Play," the little boy giggles which causes Louis to laugh as well as he began to now walk over.

"Yeah let's play for a bit," Louis replies as he sits next to the boy and begins to press keys to which Zayn then imitated the noise that followed.

The two continue to play with this for a good twenty minutes before Louis feels his phone vibrating and quickly pulls it from his pocket to see who was calling. He sighs upon seeing it's Harry but, nonetheless, immediately answers.

"Hey Haz," Louis sighs.

"Hey, so I'm at the store picking up food. You said Zayn was gonna be at your mum's so we don't have to have mashed potatoes or pasta, and I was thinking making a nice steak?" Harry asks, and Louis can practically hear the smile on his face.

"Uh, actually I was gonna call you, but, um, Zayn's not really working with me at the moment," Louis sighs as he presses another key for the boy. "My mum had to cancel so I was just gonna bring him over, but he doesn't want to leave the house however he does want to see you guys."

"Oh, that's not a problem! How about we go to you? I mean if you don't mind. I'm already at the store so I can just pick up some things for us to make," Harry says and Louis wonders why he didn't think of that earlier.

"Yeah, yeah that sounds great. Rather than steak, though, why don't we make a homemade pizza? I'm craving it," Louis says and Harry obviously agrees.

The two hang up, agreeing that they'll see each other soon enough, and now Louis is left smiling like an idiot. He continues to play with the animal noise keyboard for about fifteen minutes before Zayn gets bored and moves on to one of his books that plays a different song with each page. Seeing as though the boy was now well off on his own, Louis begins to clean up the living room area so that when Harry - and possibly his kids - arrive the flat appears to be somewhat presentable.