My Best Friend's Brother

Epilogue

-Harry

"Daddy! Papa! Wake up! Wake up! It's Valertime's Day."

"It's Valentine's Day, Sunshine." Alistair comes in behind her with his arms crossed.

"Calm down Alistair. She's only four." I sit up and put her on my lap.

"Please call me Ali! Alistair is so proper." Sunny shrugs him off and looks up at me.

"He only likes to be called that because Luca called him that yesterday." I look over at Alistair, who's red in the face.

"I don't know what she's talking about."

"I was the same way when I was your age."

"And what way was that?"

"Like the river in Egypt, Denial." He rolls his eyes at the funny joke and sits on the ottoman.

"How is your morning?"

"Great, Papa! You need to get up now!" She taps on Zayn's leg again but he pulls the cover over his head and groans.

"Let's let Daddy sleep and make pancakes."

"The heart shaped ones?"

"The heart shaped ones." She squeals as I lift her up in my arms with Alistair following behind.

>>

"These pancakes are yummy!" I look over at Alistair. I grab his phone but he looks at like he's the Joker about to kill to I hand it back to him slowly.

"Why isn't he texting me back?"

"Why would he want to?" Alistair gives Sunny a dirty look then sticks out his tongue.

"Maybe he has a life with his own family?"

"That's impossible! They're away on business."

"Alistair, put the phone down."

"Fine but if I miss a text from him, it's on you." Sunny pushes her plate away and sighs.

"What's wrong with my little Sunshine?"

"I feel bad."

"Is it your tummy?"

"No."

"Then what is it?"

"We are leaving out Daddy."

"What do you mean."

"We are eating these yummy pancakes but Daddy doesn't have any."

"We have plenty." I point towards the stack on the island counter.

"No. I mean, Daddy isn't with us right now!"

"Which is good. I don't want him yelling at me for eating his peanut butter and nutella celery sticks which I haven't because those make me want to throw up just by saying it an-"

"We need Daddy."

"He'll be up in a couple hours, just eat."

"I will not eat without Papa."

"Sunshine."

"Papa."

"Fine." She jumps out of her chair and waits for me to get Zayn's plate ready.

"Don't forget the orange juice!"

"I know."

"And away we go." We walk back to the master bedroom and open the door slowly. I see Zayn sitting up, reading with the book rested on his swollen tummy.

"We brought you breakfast." Zayn looks up and smiles at us.

"You really didn't have to."

"We wanted to. Right Daddy?"

"Right." I lay the tray in his lap and he starts eating.

"How do they taste?"

"They taste delicious, my little Sunshine."

"You hear that Alistar? He liked it."

"Whatever. You owe me for cleaning the kitchen after you left it a mess." He ignores that she pronounced his name wrong.

"We take care of you so you owe us about 15 years worth of work." Zayn finishes eating and sets his book aside and lays his hand on his tummy.

"What's wrong Daddy? Is Butterfly kicking again?"

"I thought we agreed that you weren't naming it Butterfly. I mean, we already have a Sunshine!" Sunny smiles when she hears her name then lays her hand on Zayn's stomach.

"We're not sure whether it's a boy or a girl so we just stuck to naming it Butterfly. Deal with it." Alistair rolls his eyes and sits on the edge of the bed.

"Happy Valentine's Day." I pull out a card from under my pillow and let him read it over. He looks back up and smiles.

"I love you too, Harry." He pecks my lips, keeping it PG with Sunshine in the room. We look back at her and she's smiling while gazing up at us.

"What?"

"You two are so in love."

"You wouldn't know what love is if you tripped and fell in it."

"I do so! Louis and I are very happy."

"You can't marry Louis, honey. He's your uncle."

"Oh. Well, I will always have Tofu!" She picks up our family cat and smothers it with kisses. Alistair looks up from his phone and smiles a bit.

"Uncle Javadd did tell me that I was a love child so if I was a love child, how exactly did you and Dad meet?" I smile down at Zayn and look back at Alistair.

"I thought you'd never ask."

>>

After hours of explaining our story, it still left Alistair confused and Sunshine ready to be put down for her nap.

"I love all of you. Alistair, Sunshine, a-" Sunshine perks up and smiles.

"Butterfly is still cookin' in your oven."

"Right." Zayn rubs his tummy while running a hand through Sunshine's hair.

"And that's what happened when I fell."

"Fell for what?" Alistair looks at me confused.

"My best friend's brother."

That's it. If the ending sucked, I'm sorry but I actually felt good about it and that's all that matters. This was my very first story and thank you to everyone that helped me along this journey. Love you all. Thank you and farewell....