The Bet [Zarry AU] **UNDER EDITING**

17. Baby Girl

Dedicated to my love : zarryslovrrr love you babe 💕😘
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After having his dinner he went straight to his mom's room. She was reading a book, sitting on her bed.

"Mom", he whispered.

She looked up from her book and smiled at her spn, but her smile faded immidiately as soon she saw her son's sad face.

"Harry? What happened baby? Come here.", she scooted over, making some room for her son to sit and patted on it.
He walked over to his mom, sat beside her and placed his on her lap.

"Mum, I'm tired. I saw him today. He's Zayra's school teacher. And he called me just before I came here, to you. He wants to see Zayra. I don't want him to meet her. What if Zayra becomes attatched to him and again he leaves her. I won't be able to see my baby's sad face mum. She's already so sad that she doesn't have a mommy or other father like her other friends. I don't know mum what to do. I want to give him a chance but at the same time I don't want to.", he poures his heart out to his mother, while his mother ran her fingers in his curls. The motherly touch instantly soothed him.

"Harry, I know it's your and Zayra's life but I think you should give him a last chance. I know what he did to you was wrong, but I couldn't miss the look in his eyes at your last appoinment in Holmes Chapel. You rememember that day?", his mom asked, smiling a bit.

He didn't say anything, but he remembered. How could he forget that day? When destiny decided to show Zayn up at his last appoinment in Holmes chapel. That was the last day he saw him.

After spending an eventful 3months, it was the day of his last appoinment in Holmes Chapel and he couldn't stop smiling. And why should he? It was his graduation day yesterday and he had topped this year making his Mum, Gemma and Himself  proud. After receiving his degree when everyone clapped at his achievement, he saw Zayn  from the corner of his eyes. He saw him with Josh and his group who were busy talking to each other. As their eyes met, Zayn turned around and walked away, making Harry sigh. "This is it", he thought.

These three months had been the most peaceful three months of his school life. No one punched him, not even threw any nasty comment on his pregnancy or he should say, no one dared to do that. That day after seeing the usually fragile Harry's other side, no one dared to tease him. Some even wanted to befriend him but he waved them off. "You guys want to become friends with me and have always been felt sorry for me, really? Where were you guys when they used to beat me mercilessly?" he would tell them and walk away. He had become more confident, he had started walking with his head held high unlike other times where his head would be bowed down in shame. People had started talking good things about him but as usual he wouldn't listen to them. He'd listen to some girls though who would ask him if he had started looking for some names, or which food he should avoid this time. Sometimes they would suggest him some names including boys and girls as he didn't know about the gender yet. And he would grin widely at the mention of his pumpkin.

He would ignore Zayn and he Harry though. Zayn didn't want the responsibility and fear to loose his reputation and ended up like his last school where would become the subject of people's laugh just because he was gay. With Josh and his gang he didn't need to fear about that. He did break Harry's heart and thought it was nothing at first. But as the time passed by , the guilt started intensified. It had became so intense that he couldn't even look at Harry without feeling guilty. He ignored the tingles as nothing, whenever Harry would grin at a girls cute comment on his small baby bump. He'd sometimes stop by the empty lockers and listen to him talking to his small baby bump, rubbing it and smiling. He'd ignored the want to walk from where he was hiding, rush to Harry and hold him in his arms. He'd ignored his urge to kiss him, everytime a part of pastry would smeared over his upperlip and he'd lock it away.

So he ignored his want to rush to him and hug him tight as nothing when Harry had walked through the door in the doctors cabin where he was sitting on a chair waiting for his cousin Doctor Summer to come and meet her before leaving to his hometown Bradford to attend the UNI there.

Harry was so shocked to see him at his doctor's appoinment that even when his mother asked him "What happened Harry? Who's this?", he couldn't reply. It was Zayn who cleared his throat, bringing Harry back to the reality and he said, "No one. Just a classmate.", he said coldly, with blank eyes making his mum eyeing him suspiciously.

Zayn ignored the stinging pain in heart as nothing too.

"Oh that's great. Nice to meet you. I'm Anne, Harry's mum, what's your nane honey?", she asked smiling, bringing her hand forward for a handshake.

He stood uo from the chair and shook her hand. "Uh, nice to meet you too Mrs. Styles. My name's Zayn", he introduced himself and took his hand back. Her smile immjdiately faded away as soon she heard his nane and understood why Harry gave him such a cold shoulder.

Awkward silence, was the word to perfectly describe the situation.

"Hey Harry, sorry for being late, got caught up in some work. Anyway, this is Zayn, my cousin. And Zayn, this is Harry, my favourite patient cum friend"  she introduced them cheerily, not aware of the fact that Zayn is the father of the nephew/niece she didn't know she was having.

"Uh, we know each other. We used to go to the sane school.", said Harry.

"Oh I see. So Harry, ready to find out the gender?", she asked excited.

"As ready as I'll ever be", he said, grinning side. Okay, lets go to the ultrasound room. And Zayn, so you want to come or sit here waiting for me?", she asked making Zayn and Harry's eyes go wide.

Zayn stood there shocked for a second. He didn't know if he wanted to go and see the baby he had declined to be his. But something inside him told him to go. So before he could stop himseld, he said, "Sure, I'd love to go if he doesn't have any problem", and he lookedat Harry.

Summer looked at Harry smiling, hoping he would say yes, and he didn't want to make her sad. So with a fake smile, he said, "Sure, I don't have any problem."

"Cool, lets go"

And with that she walked out of her cabin to the said room and switch off the lights.

By now Harry knew what he was supposed to do, he had done this many times in these past 3months. So he lay on the bed and pulled his shirt up a but.

Zayn was in awe with what he was seeing. A small baby bump. And suddenly he felt something inside of him, a feeling of protecting that little bump, no matter what.

A soft "Thump" brought him back to reality. "what's that?" he asked summer pointing to the figure on the monitor.

Summer smiled and said, "That's Harry's baby and the 'thump' you're listening to is his baby's heartbeat."

Zayn couldn't help but his eyes became blurry. "Baby", he whispered so no one could hear, but Harry did anyway. He was stunned to listen to that but he waved it off that it's his hormones talking and Zayn would never say that, not after abandoning his own flesh.

"So Harry, what are you seeing in here?", she asked pointing at the monitor.
He furrowed his eyes in concentration but saw nothing.

"Nothing", he said.

"Exactly. You're seeing nothing 'cause there isn't anything like penis. That means, you're having a healthy baby girl. Congratulations.", smiling excitedly she said.

And Harry burst into tears, smiling.

"Mom you listened? I'm having a baby girl, my baby girl.", he said through the tears.

Anne was in tears too. She came forward and hugged him, "I heard baby boy, I heard. I'm so happy for you"

And again, Zayn ignored the feeling of running to him and hugged him tight, crying hard on his shoulder as nothing.

But he couldn't ignore the feeling that urged him to whisper, "I'm going to be a father, we're having a baby girl"