What A Feeling // 1D AU ✓

Chapter 7

~When the air ran out and we both started running wild~

"I'm not just letting you go flirt with random girls." Louis frowned at his boyfriend.

"Louis, it's for the job."

"Doesn't matter. You're actually attracted to them, somehow. You could fall in love with one of them." Louis picked up his daughter. "We're coming with you."

"You're so stubborn, I hate you." At that moment, Zayn came traipsing down the hall, barely wearing any clothing, scratching at the kitchen cabinets, looking for caffeine.

"Harry, help." He whined. Harry walked in there, opening the cabinet with all of the tea packets. Zayn started making himself a cup, and then Liam walked in, frowning.

"Zayn, put on some clothes."

"I'm wearing boxers." He shrugged, sticking his tongue out at his friend.

"Okay, we're leaving." Louis said, grabbing the diaper bag and Harry's arm. He kissed Harry's cheek, and Harry blushed like a schoolgirl.

"Niall's not here to blog about your cute stuff, so you don't need to do it." Liam told them, going straight for the coffee.

Louis dragged Harry out of the house. "There's not enough hours in the day to get ready for the mission and for small talk."

They went to the park. It was the weekend, so plenty of people were milling around. Louis hung back, carrying Fin in a carrier. She was happy and gurgling, enjoying the summer air. "She's so cute! Is she yours?" People kept coming up and asking him.

"Yep. 100%. Look at her eyes." And then Louis and the stranger would fond over his daughter, while Harry looked like a beggar ahead of them, trying to catch the attention of any girl.

Harry eventually stormed over to his boyfriend, who was calmly strolling down the sidewalk, drinking his grasshopper mocha and carrying his baby. "I hate you, so much, Louis Tomlinson. You're drawing the attention of literally everyone in the park with Infinity, and you're cute yourself and it's infuriating."

"Take her then. See how much better it goes." Louis knew that people couldn't help themselves when they saw a baby, and he also knew that Harry wasn't that good at flirting. I mean, Louis had to be the one to get the guts to ask him out. But Louis liked it like that. He liked being the flirtatious one.

After a while, Harry started getting more attention, and Louis was extremely jealous, so he cut that off very quickly. "We need to get back now."

"But this is fun." Harry giggled.

"No it isn't." Louis said. "Come on, if we don't get Zayn some coffee, he's going to lose it." Louis showed the text messages, and they headed back towards the car.

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Liam had a clear view of the backyard from the gym, where he was working out. He was already in good shape, but he had to be top notch to break out the four of them. But in the backyard was the car Harry and him were building, electric green flames on the side. It was atrocious but they didn't care. It had to be flashy, Simon said. And he had only gotten them green, red, and yellow paint.

"Zayn!" He yelled, stopping the treadmill. There was no response, so he went down the hallway to the office. Zayn was in there alone, on playing Papa's Cupcakeria on Cool Math Games. "What are you doing?" Liam questioned.

"Nothing!" Zayn jumped as he heard Liam's voice, closing the tab and going back to coding.

Liam shook his head. "Can you come spot me, you dork?"

Zayn stood, finally wearing clothes, since Ed wanted the office at a pristine sixty degrees always. Ed was taking a nap now and had left Zayn to his own devices. "Fine."

The two of them walked into the gym, and Zayn just kind of watched Liam lift the weights, since he knew he was more than capable of it. Liam was lost in his own head, humming Disney songs while Zayn watched the sweat drip off of him. He was thinking about Liam's videos, and the Liam in front of him. They seemed like two different people. Except the whole vlog where Liam met a cute dog at the park and couldn't stop thinking about him. That was Liam.

Zayn had a hard-core crush on Liam. Not the one he had had before, but a deeper one now. Who was Luke again?

Liam was slowing down, nearing the end of his workout. Zayn suddenly had an urge to kiss him that he could not deny. So he leaned down as Liam put the weights down, kissed him on the forehead, and went back to playing Papa's Cupcakeria.