Searching For Nothing

Chapter 11

Zayn's POV

I was just chilling in the living room when the doorbell rang, no one was around so I got up to get it.

"Um hi," I said to the woman at the door.

"Oh my gosh, you're so grown up," she gushed.

"Umm Dad?" I yelled.

Within seconds he was downstairs and his eyes almost popped out of his head.

"Zayn go to the other room for a second," he said darkly.

I would have challenged him but I wasn't about to mess with him, I immediately went to the living room where Uncle Louis was sitting with Uncle Liam.

"Who was at the door Zee?" Uncle Lou asked.

"I don't know, some lady telling me about how much I've grown, and then dad made me leave."

Uncle Liam and Uncle Louis' faces paled which made me really question what was going on.

"Who is she and why is she here?"

"No one, how about we watch a movie?" Uncle Niall said.

"No I wanna know who she is!"

"We will tell you later bud, but for now let's watch a movie, how about Ted? We won't tell your dad!" Uncle Louis said frantically.

"Fine," I huffed as I slumped in my seat.

Harry's POV

"Emily," I growled under my breathe as she smiled sweetly at me.

"Hello Harry, it's been awhile."

"What are you doing here?" I asked as I stepped outside closing the door behind me.

"I was missing our son so I looked up where he was and came here to meet him."

"You didn't just randomly think about him! You must have heard that he was with me, and now you want to see him, well I'm sorry but that is not going to happen."

"Harry he is my son."

"No he is not! You gave him up without telling anyone! You didn't tell me that I had a child, I could have taken care of him for twelve years instead of him being stuck in homes!" I screamed.

She sighed and looked down recollecting herself before looking back at me.

"I did what I thought was best! I was young Harry, I made a stupid decision, we both made a stupid decision to have sex without a condom and have a kid!"

"Zayn is not a mistake, he just wasn't planned. Why do you even want to see him if you think he's a mistake?!"

"You know what I mean Harry, I just want him to know who his mother is, I'm not asking for custody, I just want to have a relationship with him."

"Emily, you can't just show up, because you will run the second something happens or something good comes. That's what happened when you got pregnant, you ran and left me without answers, I was heartbroken! I never got a phone call, a letter, a voicemail, hell I didn't even get a text or a post it taped to the refrigerator!"

"Harry I'm not like that anymore, I have a stable job as an artist, I'm living fifteen minutes away, and I'm ready for a relationship with my son. You should want him to have a relationship with me now, instead of him setting off to find out who his mother is without telling you. You may not like me but he deserves to know both his parents."

I sighed as a million and one thoughts raced through my head, but I knew there was only right solution to this.

"Okay fine, tomorrow pinewood cafe, twelve pm, me and Zayn will be there, I will sit at a separate booth and you two can talk. If he wants to see you again we will go from there, if not then there will not be anymore contact."

"Deal, thank you so much Harry, I will see you tomorrow."

I nodded and watched as she walked back to her car, pulled out of the driveway, and drove down the street. I let out a breathe of air that I didn't even know I was holding as I walked back inside and called a family meeting so I only had to tell this once.

"Well, that was Emily at the door," I started as I took a seat.

"Wait Emily as in my mom Emily?" Zayn asked.

"Yes, and after a long talk we decided that Zayn me and you will meet with her tomorrow, you two will talk and then if you want to keep seeing her and grow a relationship with her then we will go from there. If you don't want to see her anymore we will end it, just go see her once okay?"

"Yea, deal," Zayn said.

He came over and gave me a hug then I pulled him on my lap and held him as everyone else filed out of the room.

"Please don't be mad, but I'm kind of excited to meet her."

"Zayn I can't be mad at you for that, I could never."

"It's just, I'm excited to know who I came from, if we're similar, if she's nice. I also want to know why she left me, just a lot of questions."

"That's completely understandable, Zayn it's not that I don't want you to know her, I just want to make sure she won't hurt you, not physically but emotionally."

"Would you be upset if I ended up wanting to have a relationship with her?"

"No, in fact that's best case possible, as long as she is nice to you, and acts as a mother to you then I want you to have a relationship with her."

"Thanks daddy, I love you."

"I love you too, now get in the shower and get some sleep, we have a long day tomorrow."