Spaces Between Us- Hold All Our Secrets (ZARRY AU)

A place I have found in you (Epilogue)

3 years later

Harry's POV

Putting the keys on the table and setting the groceries next to it, I heard Zayn shouting my name.

"Coming", I answered, before hanging up my coat onto the rack and putting my shoes next to the door.

Then entering Zayn's study room.

"I'm really done. Like done, done. You know?", Zayn happily smiled, closing the written manuscript on his desk.

"I'm really proud of you, Zee!" I walked over to the chair he was sitting in, standing behind him, so that he could lean his head onto my belly.

"What if they reject it though?"

"How could they?", I questioned back.

"Harreh. I am an ex-criminal. That is the first reason. Secondly, maybe my writing just sucks?", he almost bitterly spat.

"Now stop it with all the self-doubt", I scolded him then going on to continue building him up. "People are interested to see what an ex-criminal wrote. Secondly, I have read your stuff. Remember when I read through your poem book? Or especially that moment on our first date. We were talking about the stars and you just randomly poetized. I was already amazed with you right then"

"You were?", he disbelievingly asked.

"Sometimes you still don't get how gone I was for you from the beginning and how gone I still am", I chuckled.

"It's just I...", he struggled to find the right words.

"It's okay Zee. I will remind you of it, whenever I need to", I cut him off, "Now back to your concern. My point being, besides that your writing skills are absolutely incredible, even if one publishing house would reject it, which I don't think is going to happen, I'm sure that somehow we will find a way to publish your book nevertheless."

"Maybe", he shrugged, not completely convinced yet. God, he could be so stubborn sometimes, if he thought only his point of view could be right.
Wanting him to be less stressed, I began to gently rub circles on his back, working my way up to his shoulders.

"You know me too well, love", Zee mumbled, clearly enjoying my affection towards him.

"By the way was your mom coming over today or tomorrow?", he changed the topic.

"Liam and Niall will have dinner with us today. My family will come visit us tomorrow", I informed him.

"Alright. When are the two love birds coming?", he wanted to know.
"At eight. Why?"

"And what's the time now?", he asked further, so I checked it on my watch.

"Seven thirty."

Zayn's POV

"That's definitely enough time", I smirked.

"For what?", Harry innocently asked, even though he was well aware of what I meant.

"For taking you right here on my desk. Then on our bed. And in the shower", I smugly replied.

"Is that so?", he quirked his eyebrows, a big smile plastered on his face.

"I believe so. After all I did finish editing the book. So I do need a reward. Don't you think so?"