🇦 🇸 🇸 🇴 🇷 🇹 🇪 🇩 (ʜᴀʀʀʏ Sᴛʏʟᴇs)

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Seeing my 4 years old daughter crying because she was looking for her dad breaks my heart. It's so painful to see my daughter crying looking for him. I've tried a countless times to comfort her but nothing worked so far. All she wanted was her dad but that is something I couldn't give her.

The thing is, her father called it quits with me after he found out that I was pregnant with his baby. He left me knowing that I was pregnant with his child. He chose his career over his own family. I could never forget the exact words he said to me.

"I'm sorry, Talia. I'm not ready to become a father. My solo career just have started to reach its peak and having a baby isn't gonna help me boost my career up, it'll just ruin what I've built after One Direction and I cannot lose that. This is much more important to me than to be a father. So you are on your own raising that child from now on. It was your choice to keep it then it is your duty to take care of it since you wanted that baby." Those were his exact words that broke me into pieces. I thought he wanted to be a father and I thought he wanted to have a family of his own but I read the stars, wrong. It was just I who wanted to have a family.

Anyway back to my daughter, Darcie Annie. Yes, I named her after Harry's mother as a tribute to her even though she doesn't know that she have a granddaughter, I chose Annie rather than Anne because I thought Annie suits her much better, it's a cute name. And I also named her what her father wanted to name his daughter. I never held any grudges towards him, I couldn't hate him. So I always tell Annie the good memories that her father and I used to have. I told her that her father is a good man. I showed her some of his photos. I never hid it to my daughter the fact that her father is out there reaching his dreams, his passion, and doing what he loves to do. But that doesn't mean that I have any intentions to actually introduce her to him. As what have Harry told me, I'm on my own now. Annie is my daughter not his. And I chose to hide my daughter away from the public eye. So I left the country and emigrated to Quebec, Canada. Eversince then, I lived here for 4 long years. I changed my identity and my appearance, I changed my name so that if one day, Harry would try to look for us he will never find us. I was just afraid that if he comes back, the heart that he might broke will not just be mine this time but also my daughter. I don't want her to feel what he made me feel back then. I don't want her to know that her father abandoned her before she was even born. It's better that I'm the only one who knows.

Annie has been crying for 2 hours straight, she keeps looking for her dad. I already did everything that I could but my love for her isn't just enough for her. I thought that my love would be enough to replace him, as much as I want to erase him out of our lives, I just couldn't do that to my child. I don't want my issue with her dad, will also be her issue. And none of this would have happened if I didn't took her to the park, where she saw kids with their mommy and daddy while she was the only who doesn't have one. And that made her really sad. Especially when her friends come over for me to babysit, when their parents wanted to spend some time together. I guess that's when she started to look and long for her dad's presence.

"Annie, darling. Please stop crying. Daddy is really busy, honey. Why don't we just watch your father perform on the tv?" I offered, hoping that this would work. I hope that this would distract her from missing her dad. Thankfully, her cries subsided and she calmed down a bit. So I stood up from my seat and turn the TV on and search his name on YouTube. The results came up seconds later. And of course there were a lot of videos where he was in. I let my daughter chose what video of her dad she wanted to watch. And she chose the video where Harry was doing a skits on SNL. All of those SNL skits where he is in, we watched it together with my lovely daughter.

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Third person's POV

"Mr. Styles, I finally found her. It was hard to track her down for she changed her name into something else, that is why it took me a couple of months before I finally found her." The man said, while holding a folder in his hands. That contained the information that lead to where Talia is hiding. Harry just nodded his head and gestured the man to continue.
"I discovered that Miss Talia, emigrated to Quebec, Canada. After she left the country, she changed her name into Victoria Amber Green. She also changed the way she looks, she cut her hair short and dyed the ends with gray. I also found her current address to where she lived in. You can see her address in this folder and I also included some photos of them that is on the folder..." the man paused while handing the folder towards Harry.
"I also discovered that she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, which she named Darcie Annie. She was born on May 15, 2016, at exactly 3:26 in the morning. Miss Talia currently work as a writer on a small publishing company, she works homebased most of the time, to be able to look after her daughter. And that's all I've got Mr. Styles." the man finished his report while Harry was looking at the file in the held in his hands. He was reading all of the information that his investigator has collected after months of searching for her.
"You may leave now, but before that here's your final payment for investigating this long." Harry said, while handing the guy a cheque. The guy thanked him and left.
He was left there with the folder on his hands, his eyes never left the picture right in front of him. He was mesmerized of much she changed after he left her and his eyes couldn't keep off the little girls face. She looks exactly like him. He was looking at his girls with regrets and pain in his eyes. If he didn't left her, then he wouldn't have missed the most important moments of his daughter's life. Like her first word, her first step, and everything that she experienced for the first time and it killed him to think that his daughter might not know who he is.