baby boys.

thirty two.

"Why do I have to go to? I have a son to take care of." Louis groaned as both of his hands are being pulled by Niall and Liam.

Niall rolled his eyes. "So does he but you ain't seeing him complaining."

"Well, first of all, Horan, If his kid cries he'll be right there, we cant leave Freddie here and- his son isn't sick and Freddie's starting to get hot again."

"Just take him with us, I'm sure Harry has an extra crib." Liam suggested, stupidly.

"Literally no one in the world has an extra crib." Louis stated, the three boys continue to argue some more until they decided to bring Freddie and now Louis can't back out of the fucking dumb dinner.

Niall knocked on the door next to their apartment, calling out Harry's name.

Louis honestly don't know why he's doing this.

Harry opened the door with the biggest smile, so happy to see them show up, he let the boys and the baby in, closing the door behind him.

"Harry, do you happen to have an extra crib?" Liam asked, again, stupidly, "We couldn't leave Freddie."

Harry looked down at the baby in Louis' arm and nodded. "He can stay at Laurent's bassinet, it's in his room- Laurent's also asleep." 

"Why would you put his crib and bassinet in the same room?" Louis asked as he follows Harry inside Laurent's room.

Harry smiled, opening the door quitely. "I usually don't I just know you'll bring Freddie so I moved it in."

Well.

Louis lays him down inside the bassinet not taking too long to be alone with Harry he immediately leaves the room with Harry following.

"So," Niall started. "Where's dinner?"

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The dinner wasn't awkward at all, in fact Harry won't stop talking and so does Niall and Liam, it was kind of awkward for Louis since he stayed silent and eat the lasagna- he had missed Harry's cooking so much.

Louis was sitting across from Harry and next to Liam, Liam was sitting across Niall who was sitting next to Harry, it was so awkward to be face to face with Harry but he thought Niall and Liam did it on purpose since they practically ran to sit across from each other so Louis was left to sit across from Harry.

"I need to purchase more herbal tea from you," Liam said somewhere in the middle of their endless conversation. "You still haven't give me any sort of discount on it."

Harry laughed, "Yes, of course, I'll give you a discount- I do have this new herbal tea brand in my store, if you want I can give you free sampl-"

He was cut off by Louis who finally said something after being dead silent on the table.

Not only he said something, but he also leaned in towards Harry, his thumb brushed something off of the corner of Harry's lip. "You got something on your-"

What even more awkward was he brought his thumb back to himself  and instead of wiping his hand off somewhere, he licked it off his thumb, making the three men stares at him with their mouth open.

Louis didn't realized what he did until they stare at him. It wasn't awkward for the boys before but now it is.

Niall cleared his throat trying to get rid of the silent, starring at Liam who was starring back.

Harry stare down at his food avoiding any eye contacts while Louis was looking everywhere but the three men.

The silent was broke when a baby- followed by another started crying.

Harry didn't hesitate to stood up, didn't even excuse himself as he made his way into Laurent's room.

Louis didn't want to be alone with him, but his son was also crying and Niall and Liam wasn't going bother and check on Freddie, so Louis had to follow Harry inside Laurent's room.

"Hey buddy, what's wrong?" Louis picked Freddie up from the bassinet, he wasn't feeling better and his temperature was getting high again this afternoon and Louis was kind of worried because he was fine this morning and now he's feeling even worse.

He took a glance at Harry who had Laurent in his arms. "Oh, he started it." Harry said. "Need to change,"

Harry took the baby to his changing table, cleaning him up and change his diaper, while cooing at his baby trying to make him stop crying, which, it works because Laurent stopped crying and started giggling, Freddie also stopped crying, he was whimpering quitely, head rested on Louis' shoulder.

"Is he okay?" Harry asked as he put his baby back inside his crib, walking towards where Louis was standing.

Harry reached for the baby's forehead, feeling it burning even worse than this morning. "Did you give him his medicine?"

"I did, Harry, I'm not that stupid." Louis scoffed. "He'll be fine,"

The truth was, now that Harry mentioned it, he asked himself if he already did give Freddie's medicine this afternoon- now that he recall, he had forgotten but Harry didn't need to know that.

"At least you have him back," a small smile crept up Harry's face.

Louis sighed. "He's not staying, he's going back to Briana soon,"

Harry didn't said anything to that, he took a deep breath before saying. "I know you're still mad about-"

Louis knows what he's going to say, so he didn't let him finished. "Just forget about it, Harry, she wins- you win, just let me spend some time with him while I still can."

Harry sighed. "Louis, I'm sorry I did what I did, but you were being selfish and I know exactly how she feels-"

"This is nothing like you and your baby!" Louis raised his voice, not loud enough to make the babies started crying. "You and whoever the fuck that guy name is- was married! You care and love your baby, you wanted your baby you just don't want his fucking father!"

Harry didn't said anything, letting Louis continue. "Briana and I, wasn't together- still not, didn't plan a baby and she made it clear the second he was born that she doesn't want anything to do with him. How do you expect me to just hand my baby to his mother just like that?!"

Harry looked down at his shoes, still not saying anything.

"I know that you think Briana is going through the same thing as you but she's not!" Louis continued. "And she can't take care of him any better than I can, so what's the point of defending her ?"

"I'm sorry," Harry's voice cracked as he look up, eyes locking with Louis'

Louis didn't said anything, he just turn on his back and left the room, he didn't even said anything to Niall and Liam as he made his way out of the door with Freddie in his arm.

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This chapter is so boring I'm sorry !!!  I will update as soon as possible and maybe it'll be less ugly lmao. -sylvia. xx.