"Papaaaaaaa!" Louis rolled his eyes for what felt like the millionth time that day. "Can't you just take him downstairs, please. I'm trying to plan the party with Liam!" Niall pointed to his best friend to prove his point.
"This is your brother Niall, be nice to him please. He doesn't understand when he's being a burden." Not that Harry was ever a burden, just, overly clingy... that's it.
"He's older than me papa, he should understand." The eight-year-old grumbled, and pushed Louis out of his room, carefully, he had Harry on his hip, slamming the door once they were out making the 'keep out' sign fall to the ground and Harry whimper.
"I didn't mean to papa, didn't mean to make Ni-Ni mad." Harry said sheepishly, he just wanted to play with his brother and tell him about the fun day he had with his papa. Harry also loved when Niall told him stories from his day, the funny things that happened at school since Harry was home schooled and missed out on the whole experience. They did try to put Harry in school though, several times actually, but public school just wasn't right for the little boy since he was a little bit behind, and Niall didn't want to be home schooled; he wanted to hang out with his friends.
"It's fine bubba, I know you didn't mean to, let's just let Ni play with Liam for a bit now okay? We could snuggle and watch paw patrol, doesn't that sound nice, huh?"
"Yeah papa! We gotta watch Chase!"
"First I think we need to change a certain little someone out of an icky nappy, am I correct?" Louis coos, successfully making Harry blush and look down to the floor. "It's fine baby, we're still learning." The man plants a kiss on the boy's head. They were trying to potty train but things were going slow but practise makes perfect.
Harry whined when Louis placed him on the bathroom counter, he hated this, he wanted to be like his brother Niall and go to the big boy potty, but he just couldn't and he didn't understand why. "Shh baby, it's almost over." Louis cooed, taping another monsters, Inc. nappy around the boy's waist and helping him put his dungarees back on. "All done now. We should be able to watch one or two episodes before daddy gets home with the cake and the guests start to arrive." They were celebrating Niall's ninth birthday today, though the boy doesn't turn nine until about a week and a half from now, but it was the only day both set of grandparents could be in town so today was the day.
"Papa."
"Hmm baby?"
"Will Ni-Ni get lots of presents?"
"Yes he will, because we're celebrating his birthday."
"Will Harry get any?"
"Baby, it isn't your birthday, you'll have to wait a bit. Today is for Niall so you'll have to be nice." Louis tried to explain. He knew Harry had the mindset of toddler so he got jealous very, very easily. "But I wan' presents papaaa!" Harry whined, tears starting to gather in his eyes. "Hey, none of that Harry. We don't want to get corner time, do we?"
Harry quickly shook his head and wiped his tears away, he hated the dreaded corner. "Thank you baby." Louis praised Harry for not throwing a fit, something that shouldn't be needed for a ten-year-old but was necessary for Harry. "When do I get presents?"
"Hmm, well next up is papa's birthday and Christmas, that's about three months from now, then it's daddy's birthday and then it's your turn, it's not very far away. Plus, you always get so many presents on Christmas!" Louis cuddled Harry closer as they watched and episode or two of paw patrol until Zayn arrived home.
"Daddy!" Harry squealed, running up to the man as soon as he walked through the door, almost making him drop the birthday cake. "Careful Harry!"
"Sorry daddy." Harry said sheepishly, waiting patiently for Zayn to put away the things before receiving a massive cuddle from him. "Daddy, guess what?!"
