(this is just a random picture has nothing to do with the chapter but yes this is how harry looks in the story and I CANT STOP SCREAMING AT HOW CUTE HE IS LIKE HOW—)
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a few days after zayn's disastrous interview, harry started to feel better. they found out he had a stomach virus, so he was practically sick as a dog for the last couple days, helping out as much as they could, but also being careful so that they nor anyone else would catch it. thankfully after nearly a week, it was clearing up and he was better now. he was eating normally and able to keep his food down. he was happier.
however, there was still the abuse rumors circulating all over social media, and zayn was so agitated. he wishes everyone would just mind their business as well as stop reading so much into every little detail. he wanted to address this issue directly, but he honestly doesn't know what he can say to these people to make them change their mind about him. as frustrating as it was, zayn just kept off social media for the next couple days trying to let this blow over before he said a word about it. for right now, he needed to have a talk with harry now that he was feeling better.
after that little performance he put on for everyone, zayn was beside himself. he wasn't going to blame harry for any of the things that sparked because of it, but he definitely knew he could not let harry slide with the way he acted. he needed to know that that behavior was not allowed, whether he was sick or not, it was just completly unacceptable. zayn knows in his mind he tended to baby harry a lot more than he should do there was really no one else to blame but himself. nonetheless, he was going to fix this right now, because he never ever wanted to deal with that again.
harry was up in his room, lying flat on his stomach with his legs swinging behind him, playing animal crossing on his switch. he hums softly to the music playing in his headphones— not hearing his door open and shut to indicate someone entering his room. he doesn't notice until he feels a body sit next to him and tap his arm. harry is startled slightly, but when he sees zayn, he grins and takes off his headphones.
"hi baba." harry greets as he sits up to puts down his switch, going to climb into zayn's lap, but zayn stops him. harry frowns, sitting down next to him looking at zayn's face. "what's wrong baba?"
"we need to have a little talk, harry." zayn tells him. harry bites his lip.
"am i in trouble?" harry asked with a worried look.
"yes, you are."
"but i- i didn't do anything daddy." harry says, pouting out his bottom lip.
"today you didn't, but that stunt you pulled the other day was unacceptable harry. i was just trying to wait until you felt better again to have this conversation with you." zayn tells him. harry looks down at his lap, playing with his fingers. he knows he was really bad, now he feels bad because he knows he gave his baba a very hard time, and upset him so much.
"oh."
"listen to me, i know you weren't feeling too hot that day, but that gives you no right to act like that. i've been letting you slide by with that behavior for too long, it ends now. that was completely unacceptable, you're too old for that." zayn explains to him sternly.
"m's-sorry baba." harry mumbles, beginning to sniffle softly.
"i know, but i want you to know that it is absolutely not okay for you to act like that, under any circumstances okay? if you're feeling sick, you need to tell somebody, and if you're having a bad day just say so, everyone has bad days, i understand that, but don't act like that ever again." zayn says. harry nods, looking up from his lap to look at zayn.
"o-okay. i won't daddy, i- i promise." harry answers sadly.
"good. now, for your punishment." zayn starts. harry's eyes widen.
"i-i'm getting a spanking?"
"no, but you need one and you will get one if you ever do that again." zayn deadpans. "for now, you're just going to get all your electronics taken away, no tv, no outside, no entertainment, no nothing for the next two weeks. okay?" zayn tells him. harry sucks in a breath, before exhaling heavily.
"okay." harry says dejectedly. zayn holds out his hand expectantly. harry huffs softly, grabbing his nintendo switch along with his headphones that was connected to his ipad. he also has to hand over his phone and laptop, and the tv remote, and basically anything that would remotely entertain harry. harry already knew the next two weeks were going to be so boring and long. but, he understood that it's what he deserves for acting the way he did. he hated when zayn was mad with him, so he felt more sad about that rather than his games being taken away. he hoped that zayn will no longer be upset with him. "daddy, i'm really sorry. i know i was really bad but i don't want you to be mad at me." harry says.
"i am not mad at you, i'm just very disappointed. you're supposed to be my good boy, but you let me down, so i'm just really sad you did that."
"i'm sorry, i am your good boy daddy." harry pouts, sniveling, his eyes flossing over with fresh tears.
"then show me, be a good boy for me from now on, okay?" zayn tells him. harry nods, sniffing softly. zayn smiles softly, wiping away harry's tears. he didn't like this anymore than harry did but it needed to be done and harry needed to be punished, he needed to understand that as behavior is not acceptable under this roof. he's sure now that harry got the memo by the way he's so emotional for making zayn disappointed with him— and hopefully he'll never act out like that again because zayn won't hesitate to spank him and he couldn't care less about what anyone says. harry looks at zayn with big sparkling watery eyes.
"kissy?" harry asks. zayn leans down to give harry a kiss. "love you baba."
"i know h. okay, all your stuff is going away, you're not allowed to have it until two thursdays from now. don't even think about asking your brothers to use their stuff." zayn replies. harry frowns slightly, but nods slowly.
"okay."
zayn stands up, gathering all of harry's stuff, walking over to the door to leave, while harry lies down on his bed and pulls the blankets over himself. before zayn leaves the room, he pauses at the door. "one more thing." he says. harry looks over at him, expecting to have more punishment added on.
"i love you as well, h."
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double update for you guys after that horrendous chapter!
how was that? punishment fair enough?
what should happen next?
i have ideas but i wanna wait to get a little more deeper into the story 😭😭
