GOTTA BE YOU (HARRY STYLES)

12

Ten years later.....

As EJ walked into her flat, exhausted from work, Daniel came running up to her holding a photo album.

"Mum," he said, opening the album. "Who are these people?"

"Which people?" she asked, setting her purse, keys and phone on the table.

Daniel placed the album on the table and pointed to a picture of herself, Stella, Jessenia, Khristina and Lisette.

"Oh," EJ said with a sigh. "That's my old friend, Stella. And those are your aunts. My sisters Jessenia, Khristina, and Lisette. You probably don't even remember them, you were only a baby the last time I saw them."

She kissed Daniel's cheek and went to start dinner. She was happy, but there was something that made her always go back to Harry. Daniel, in fact, reminded her of him frequently. Daniel, even though he was not related to Harry in any way, looked a lot like him. He had the same dimples and the curly hair, but instead of medium-brown it was chocolate brown, like EJ's hair.

EJ and Daniel were still living in England, in the very apartment she had move into. She had a job as assistant manager at a clothing botique and had Daniel in a private school. Things were going great for them. Daniel knew that EJ was not his biological mother, but he love nonetheless.

"Mum," Daniel said, coming into the kitchen. "Do you know who One Direction is?"

"Where did you hear about them?" EJ asked with surprise.

"Jason's mum," he replied, "she listens to them all the time when she drives me home."

EJ sighed "I know who One Direction is," she said, opening a box of instant mac and cheese. "Why do you ask?"

"Because Jason's mum is always saying that I remind her of one of them," Daniel explaine, hoisting himself onto the counter. "She says that I look like the one with curly hair."

EJ stopped what she was oing and closed her eyes. Even though it had been ten years, she was still not quite over Harry.

"Mummy, are you crying?" Daniel asked, he jumped down and ran to hug her. "Don't cry."

"I'm just remembering something that happene a long time ago," she replied, getting on her knees to hug him back. "Do you remember the story I told you once? The one about when you first came to me?"

He nodded "Uncle Louis and his friend, Harry, were there."

EJ had kept in contact with Louis, but made him promise to never tell Harry. Daniel knew Louis as his uncle.

"Yeah, well, Louis and Harry are in One Direction."

"Really?"

EJ nodded and sighe. She took Daniel's hand and led him down the hall to her room. She picked up her old iPad and opened the picture alum.

"That is the first day I took you shopping," she explained, showing Daniel the picture Louis had taken of Harry wearing him in the pouch.

Daniel looked at it for a moment. "Did he really love me, Mum?" he asked, climbing into her lap.

"I suppose he did," EJ replied quietly. "He held you a lot the first couple day I had you."

"Was he going to be my dad? Will I ever get to meet him one day?"

"He was....I don't know....."

A notification popped up on the iPad, saying that she had a new Email from Stella. EJ opened it. It had been a long time since she'd heard from Stella.