They seemingly got the room put back together which made both happy, at an equal level. Zayn grinned when he found Niall passed out on the plushy rocking chair in the corner, one of the pastel blankets draped over the lower half of his relatively large babybump.
Zayn wandered in just as his gorgeous blue eyes fluttered open. He smiled tiredly and yawned a little, ruffling up Zayn's already mussed hair as he knelt infront of him and planted light kisses all along the bump. "Hey little one."
Niall bit his tongue, immediately thinking back to when Zayn did that the last time he was expecting - finding it hard to keep a straight face. "He's kicking." Without much notice he grabbed Zayn's hand and stuck it right where his was before, earning a small chuckle. "Getting anxious in there, buddy?"
"He's definietly taking his angst out on me. I think I've wee'd more today than I ever have." Niall sighed, resting his head back against the chair as he closed his eyes again. "It's real this time, isn't it."
"As real as it gets." Zayn replied softly, peppering loving kisses all over niall's face.
After much cuddling and conversing, Zayn excused himself to go to bed - Niall said he was going to stay put for a little while longer, and once he was alone he rubbed a hand over his seven month tummy, smiling. "You're there, I feel you." Almost overwhelmed at the situation since he'd never felt the first baby kick, not even once.
*
It was four o'clock in the morning when Niall was jolted awake by a sudden pain in his abdomen, he nudged - or rather punched - Zayn awake and laughed through the pain, genuinely happy when it was merely a contraction. A real contraction, not just Braxton Hicks. He was nine months along now, and both men were relieved they'd made it through the full term.
On the drive to the hospital was when the real pain started, Niall was screaming the whole way. "Fuck you, Zayn. This is your fucking fault you fucker!" He yelled, squeezing his eyes tightly closed. Zayn just chuckled to himself and nodded along, parking the car and helping his fiance into the hospital.
