when we were eighteen - book one ✔️

Chapter Sixteen **

LOUIS // DECEMBER 2016
Song of the Chapter: Right Now by One Direction (look them up guys. Great band, great lads)

{ A/N: the asterisk indicates that there will be a smutty scene within this chapter — ENJOY! }

It was Louis's birthday, he was officially twenty-five years old. He felt very old, and not much for celebrating. He just wanted to spend the day with Harry and Olivia, and maybe his family if they decided to come home early from house hunting in London and show up today.

Louis was woken up by a little a chubby hand touching his face. He opened his eyes and saw that Harry was holding Olivia's hand up to his face. She turned three weeks old the day before and she was growing fabulously. She had a check up yesterday and got a few shots, her pediatrician said that Olivia was doing great and was gaining the perfect amount of weight at six pounds, eight ounces.

"Happy Birthday, Papa," Harry whispered in his baby face. Louis smiled, sitting up and swaddling the baby up in his arms. He kissed her on the face and listened to her coo. She was his everything.

"I love you, nugget," Louis told her.

He then turned to his boyfriend and captured a kiss from him. Harry chuckled and gave him little kiss back. Harry had been a little mellowed out since he started his medication. He didn't really get worked up over things that he used to. It was actually nice.

"Happy Birthday, Lou," Harry said.

"Thank you, love."

"What do you want to do today? We can do anything you want," Harry said.

"I just want to spend the day with you and Olivia."

Harry sighed, "Come on. That's so boring. You don't want to hang out with Niall? Or just anything else?"

"Nah," Louis shrugged. "Turning twenty-five is making me feel old. I just want to be you guys today. And if my mum gets back from London at a decent time, maybe get dinner with them. But there's nothing I really want to do."

"Well, You're leaving a lot of pressure for me to make this birthday perfect."

"What will make it perfect is just watching movies with you and our daughter," Louis assured his boyfriend.

That's actually what the boys did. Harry made breakfast, which was just waffles with strawberry jam and sausage links. They watched some movies that they had both wanted to watch (Superman V. Batman, Deadpool, and Suicide Squad) and snuggled up with each other and Olivia. Around five, Jay called and asked if they could stop by with pizza and Louis's birthday present. Louis, of course, accepted it. He was getting a free dinner.

It was just Jay and Lottie that ended up stopping by, Dan took the other girls and Ernie home. They sat at the small kitchen table, eating pizza when Jay slid a little square present over to Louis. Louis smiled at it and unwrapped it. It was a DVD.

"What's this?" Louis asked, handing it over to Harry.

"It's a video that I thought you would like to look back on. We can watch it after we eat," Jay smiled at her son, a snide smile on her lips.

"Is this something embarrassing? It's my birthday, I don't want to be embarrassed."

"You'll have to watch and see."

After they ate, Louis nervously put in the DVD and the moment it started up, he knew exactly what it was.

---

DECEMBER 2009: It was Louis's eighteenth birthday.

It was in the afternoon, after Harry and Louis shared their first kiss. Louis had gotten a guitar for him his grandparents and invited over Harry so they could play their guitars together. They were sitting on the couch down in Louis's basement that was converted into a den, Louis was strumming an unknown tune.