The first of February had arrived and Harry was woken up with many kisses on the face from his alpha, his eyes were teary and his cheeks were still pink. His lips were swollen and the pain did not allow him to sit up properly in bed.

"Good morning, little bear." The blue-eyed murmured, bringing Harry to his chest, he settled in and began to give little kisses to the alpha's chest.

"Good morning, my sun." He joined their lips together in a deep kiss.

"Happy birthday, love, do you want to see your present?" The curly man nodded with a smile and Louis got up.

He took a little bow from the drawer of his nightstand and stuck it to his chest, all under the confused look of the curly, but without erasing his smile.

"Surprise! Your gift is a beautiful blue-eyed alpha, willing to do whatever you want him to." Harry gave an adorable laugh.

"It's a nice gift, but I think my alpha is better." He murmured with a playful smile.

"I don't think so, what does he have that I don't?"

"Well, he cares for me, he treats me very well, he has a beautiful physique, and every night he hugs me and kisses me until we fall asleep, and the most important thing is that he has my heart." Louis looked at him with eyes full of tears and a beautiful smile on his face.

He walked over to his omega and wrapped him in a warm hug, tears had started to fall down his face and Harry was beyond confused.

"Why are you crying, love?" Asked the omega.

"Because I couldn't have asked for a better omega in my life, I love you so much, Hazz." They melted back into a soft kiss, Harry caressing Louis's hair and the alpha ran his fingers gently over the omega's cheeks.

When they separated, the green mixed with the blue, telling each other things that they would probably never be able to express with any amount of words, because their feelings were so pure that words would never be enough.

"How about another round before I go out to bring your actual present?" The alpha proposed raising both eyebrows, the omega laughed and nodded before they went back to bed.

It was still early.

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It was seven in the morning, and Niall already had to get out of his bed, which still had Shawn's smell, to go to Zayn's office. He had no idea what he wanted to say to him, because he was supposed to be free that day due to Harry's birthday party.

"How are my little apples and my precious omega doing today?" He listened to Liam once he was out of Zayn's office, he rolled his eyes with a smile.

"Liam, stop please, they're not apples, they're our puppies." Zayn murmured, but even in his reproachful tone, he could identify the love he had for the alpha.

"But they're the size of an apple." And before he could say anything else, the blond entered the office, still adjusting his tie.

"Until you finally arrived, useless alpha," Zayn claimed with a smile, "I need you to go get Harry's cake."

"Why do I have to go? Can't one of the guards go?"

"Yes, but these last few days you've been so glued to the hip with Shawn that you haven't done anything, so please go." Niall nodded reluctantly and left the office.

And speaking of Shawn, he could tell him to come with him on that little errand, there was always a good excuse to go out with the omega. Once in front of his room, he knocked on the door and waited patiently for the curly to come out.

"Did you stay with the desire for more or what are you doing here so early?" Asked the omega opening the door, he was wearing some black sweats and sweatshirt, Niall laughed and shook his head.

"I was wondering if you wanted to go with me for Harry's birthday cake, since according to Zayn I haven't done anything these days." The alpha explained and the omega nodded.

"Sure, I can take the opportunity to buy him a gift." He closed the bedroom door and they both began to walk towards the exit of the house, where a van was already waiting for them along with a security guard with the keys to it in hand.

They made their way to the centre of London, where one of the best bakeries was already waiting for them with the cake that Louis had specially ordered for his omega, Niall hoped he could reach that point of relationship with the omega that accompanied him, but he knew that it was little by little and had to be patient.

The ride back to the house was fairly uneventful, until they entered the property lines and Shawn began to fidget in his seat.

"Don't you think it's a little hot in here?" Asked the brown-eyed one and Niall looked at him confused.

"Shawn, it's literally snowing, how could it possibly be hot in here?" He asked and Shawn rolled his eyes.

He didn't say another word, but by the time he turned to look at the curly again, he was already unbuttoning his shirt.

"Hmm, I was talking about another kind of hot." The omega replied with a playful smile.

"Shawn..." The alpha squeezed the wheel and tried to look away, but the temptation was stronger.

"Stop the car, Niall." Shawn ordered, and the alpha pulled up in front of the house, his eyes already darkening.

"Move to the back seat." The omega smiled victoriously and hurriedly jumped into the back seat.

Meanwhile Harry looked out the window anxiously, every year on his birthday he spent it only with his sister and his mother, this would be the first year that they gave him a real party, not counting those parties full of alcohol and drugs that his ex-boyfriend, Sebastian, organised at the university, for him those parties didn't count, much less after what had happened, this was a real party, with a big cake and surrounded by people who love him. As soon as he saw the truck arrive, he couldn't help but run towards it.

"Honey, don't run so fast, you're going to fall!" the alpha yelled, still standing in his place, he turned to the window and saw how the truck began to move. "Harry, no. Wait!"

Louis ran after Harry, but by the time he caught up with him it was too late, the omega was already frozen a few metres from the truck, which kept rocking and strange noises were coming from inside, the curly man's cheeks were red and an expression of surprise, embarrassment adorned his face.

"Why is it me who always happens to appear when they are doing this?" The omega lamented, Louis laughed and took him by the hand.

"I have an idea, follow me." They both ran and took one of the remaining vans, Louis drove slowly and parked next to Niall.

He gave Harry a mischievous smile and began honking the horn repeatedly, until they saw two heads stick out quickly, Louis rolled down the window of the van and began tapping on the glass of the other. Niall opened the window too and leaned out, always trying to cover Shawn.

"Hey Ni, we need the cake now, what time did you plan to enter the house?" Asked the teasing alpha.

"It's in the back... I... I'll give it to you, don't worry about it." The blond stammered and Shawn leaned out, taking Niall's shoulder.

"Hazza! Happy birthday." Shawn said with a, maybe too big, smile, his lips puffy and his cheeks red.

"Thank you, Shawn." Harry replied with a smile, and Louis broke into a laugh.

"How much do you want to bet? I know those two are going to end up together for real and not just because of the deal." The alpha said.

"Of course they're going to end up together, it's only a matter of time." They both went down with a smile and the blue-eyed one hugged the curly one.

Inside the house everyone had started preparing for the party, the omegas in charge of the food had started to prepare it and some others were cleaning the large dining room. There was a huge rectangular table filled with plates and crystal goblets in the centre of the room. Zayn had asked them to hang decorations on the walls and make sure everything looked perfect when Harry walked in, this wouldn't be a typical house party since it would only be them, there would be no partner to impress.

"We shouldn't have done that," Niall whispered as he walked into the house next to Shawn. After their awkward encounter with Harry and Louis they had dressed as quickly as possible and Niall had parked the car next to the others, "I've had enough of Zayn's scolding and now Louis is going to start bothering me with this too." Omega looked at him offended by his words, although he knew he wasn't wrong, maybe it would have been a better idea to park further away from the house.

"But we already did it, so don't start complaining now." The omega walked faster in the direction of his room, he had to get ready for the party and he didn't feel like putting up with Niall.

Niall walked into the dining room with the cake in his hands and handed it to one of the omegas, but before he could leave Liam stopped him with a huge smile on his face, it seems that gossip flew around the house.

"Don't even think about it." He continued walking and the brown-haired man laughed as he followed him.

"I wasn't going to say anything, I swear," the blond rolled his eyes, "I just wanted to ask you if you finished the papers I asked for yesterday." Niall stopped and tried to remember which papers he was referring to exactly, and the brown-haired man noticing his expression he sighed. "Really, Ni?"

"Sorry, I completely forgot, but I'll finish them today." He tried to excuse himself but Liam didn't seem to be up for it.

"You know that Zayn is going to find out this, besides that we have all been working double and you are leaving your responsibilities aside for courting that omega."

"Well, that omega you say is part of the job, in case you didn't notice." He muttered with annoyance in his voice.

"Exactly Niall, his father is the one with whom we're making a bad impression by not having progressed with the merchandise, and you know perfectly well that you're responsible for that, so if you want to avoid problems with Zayn you should start worrying a little bit more about work." Said that he began to walk to his omega's office, he would not wait for any response from the blonde because he knew perfectly well that he was only going to make excuses for why he had not worked, but it was no secret that he spent all day and all night next to the omega with curly hair and brown eyes.

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"Love, are you ready to come out?" Louis asked from the other side of the bathroom door. Harry had been in the shower for at least thirty minutes and Louis couldn't wait to give him the gift, he had been hiding it from Harry's eyes for at least a week.

"If you want to come in you can!" He yelled over the sound of running water and a smile spread across the alpha's face.

"Are you implying that you want to shower together?" He asked and Harry laughed.

"Open the door, Lou." The omega didn't have to repeat it twice by the time the alpha was already inside the bathroom.

"Have you had the water running for the past half hour?" He asked as he watched his omega sitting in the bathtub, it was barely half full and steam filled the room.

"No, first I took a shower and then I thought it would be better to take a bath, so here I am," he hugged his legs and smiled adorably at the blue-eyed man, who couldn't help but smile back, "what do you have there?" He pointed to the small box that Louis had in his hands, the alpha began to slowly approach the bathtub and brought a chair that was to one side of it to sit down.

"It's your gift." He said and handed him the box, it was wrapped in shiny gold paper and a black ribbon.

"I thought you already gave me my gift." He added with a flirtatious smile, and Louis shook his head.

"That was just a gift for... well, never mind, open it." Harry looked at the box and began to undo the bow, he removed the lid and his eyes sparkled.

A beautiful golden blouse, it had a fairly pronounced neckline which would make the bite on the omega's neck visible, as well as his tattoos, Harry looked at it with a huge smile on his face and raised himself just a little to attract the alpha to him, causing the water to splash a bit and Louis now found himself inside the bathtub.

"Thanks! Thanks!" He kissed him between each word. "I love it, I'll wear it today for all to see."

"I'm glad you liked it, I was afraid you wouldn't and then it would become my first bad gift." They both laughed and the omega hugged Louis tighter.

"Of course I like it, Lou, besides I'm going to love any gift from you, because it's not the gift, it's the intention you put on it." The alpha kissed him a little calmer than before, trying to enjoy that moment while he felt the water wetting his clothes and his omega's body under his. "I think you're going to have to take your clothes off." The omega suggested as he began to lift up Louis's damp shirt.

"Harry, as much as I wanted to say yes, I have to..." Harry silenced him with a kiss, "Hazz... I... have... to..." He put his hand over the omega's lips to let him speak, "I have to go." He got up and closed the water faucet since the bathtub was about to fill up, he turned down and looked at the curly man's body, he swallowed hard trying to ignore what his alpha was yelling at him.

"But I thought my gift was a blue-eyed alpha willing to do my every whim." He said using all his charm, and pouted until the alpha approached him again, but this time he took him in his arms and lifted him up, got out of the bathtub and began to walk to the bed, where he dropped him.

He leaned in to spread kisses all over Harry's face, down his neck and up to the mark, kissing the area calmly as the curly began to stir desperately to feel his alpha. Louis looked up to meet those beautiful emerald eyes that he loved so much and with a flirtatious smile on his face he bit the omega's neck, opening that wound that had already healed, a gasp left Harry's lips as he had not imagined that Louis would do that.

The alpha began to lick the wound so that it would heal while distributing kisses around it. Neither said anything because the bond had just been strengthened, the emotions of both and their thoughts had come together. Their lips met one last time before Louis walked to his closet to get dry clothes.

Harry just stared at the ceiling with a huge smile on his face, he was happy, he was head over heels in love and he had no way to describe it, he had simply lost himself in the moment and didn't feel when his alpha left the room. But now he had to get dressed, after all he couldn't be late for his own party.

After an hour in which he got dressed, did his hair and was even able to put on a bit of makeup, highlighter, mascara and a glittery gold eyeliner, he left the room and ran into Stella and his mother.

"Love, happy birthday," Jane said with tears in her eyes, taking her youngest son in her arms, "you are already quite an omega, with an alpha who loves you and with whom you are going to start a family, and I am so proud of you, my puppy."

"Thank you mom, thanks for everything," Harry replied, trying as hard as he could not to cry.

"Happy birthday, Hazzie, I can't believe you've grown up so fast." Her sister joined the hug, it was a beautiful family image, a family that started incomplete and ended up expanding more than they expected.

The three of them went down to the event room, where a huge table was already set up where several of the omega's favourite dishes were served, Harry smiled at the image, in addition to the fact that his new family was already there waiting for him, Niall, Zayn, Liam, Shawn, and most importantly, Louis, who with a smile held out his hand for Harry to take.

"Happy birthday, Hazza." They all said in chorus, Harry wanted to cry from how happy he felt.

Each one hugged him tightly, and of course Harry was not far behind, as he felt more than grateful that they accepted him in that house.

"Shawn! Come here, I want to introduce you to Harry's mom." The blond alpha said, dragging the curly brown eyed boy along.

"Harry's mom? Shouldn't he introduce her to me?"

"Mom Styles is the coolest of all, besides Barbara, and that's why I already nominated myself her favourite adoptive son," he replied with a smile, they arrived with the woman and she received them happily. "Mom Styles, I want to introduce you to Shawn, the omega I'm courting."

"Oh, you must be the little guy who has all of Niall's attention, Jane Selley, nice to meet you." Shawn took the omega's hand and shook it with a smile.

"I thought it was Styles."

"Oh no, not anymore, I separated from Harry's dad many years ago, but Niall insists it's more practical to call me Mom Styles." She replied with a smile. "But let's not talk about that, Niall was right, you are very pretty."

Shawn's cheeks flushed red and he murmured a soft thank you, and a few minutes into their conversation, Ronan came over with a small, rueful smile.

"Good afternoon, Jane." He greeted, and the omega blushed a little.

"Good afternoon, Ronan, do you need anything?"

"Oh, I was just wondering if you wanted to share this piece with me." He said a little embarrassed, Jane laughed a little and Niall decided to leave with a little smile, apparently no one was saving themselves from love.

"Of course I would, I would be delighted." Ronan took her hand and led her to the small makeshift dance floor, everyone present looking at them with a small smile.

"I was wondering if... perhaps you plan to stay a little longer, we can go out to eat one of these days." The beta began, but Jane cut him off with a sad face.

"Uhm, I don't think I'll be staying for long, I feel like I'd be abusing Zayn's hospitality too much." The mentioned omega got a little closer.

"What are you talking about, Jane? Here you are more than welcome, we even have your room ready for you to visit us at any time, Harry is already part of our family, therefore that also includes Stella and you." Zayn said with a huge smile.

"You are a lovely boy, Zayn," Jane replied with tears in her eyes, "you all have the doors of my house open too, thank you for welcoming me and my children with such hospitality."

The omega began to cry on Harry's mother's shoulder, Jane had inadvertently became a second mother to the owners of that house, and everyone loved the familiarity that had been formed there.

"Why are you crying, honey?" Asked the worried omega, Zayn shook his head and wiped his tears away.

"Sorry, the pregnancy hormones are driving me crazy," he teased, still teary-eyed, "but we would be honoured if you would stay, and accept my good partner Ronan on a date, of course, if you wish."

Jane looked at the beta with a smile before nodding, still holding Zayn in her arms, they'd probably see the omega around the house more often.

Hours later they sang 'Happy Birthday' to Harry, Louis couldn't help but see how good his omega looked that day, and how the bite was proudly displayed on his neck, it matched perfectly with that blouse. Then they cut the cake and all sat down together talking about anecdotes and fun facts, putting work aside.

Harry couldn't ask for more, he felt so happy that he thought he might explode, he received many gifts not only from the heads of the house, his sister and his mother, but some employees had also come to give him even a small detail, That green-eyed omega had earned the affection of many of the people who lived and worked in that house, but he definitely didn't expect what Louis had planned for that night.

"I have one last gift for my precious omega." Louis said, getting up from the table.

The curly looked at him curiously, but still he took his hand.

"Hazz, I remember that you once told me that as a child you dreamed of a small house in the countryside, with a large garden full of flowers and surrounded by green areas," Harry widened his eyes in surprise, and Louis took out some keys from his pocket , "so I've got us a little cabin in a field not far from here."

Harry yelled and threw himself into the alpha's arms, he was so excited that he could faint at any moment.

"It's not true, are you serious?" He stepped aside a little from the alpha and saw how he nodded. "I can't believe it! Can we go tomorrow?"

"Tonight, if you wish." The blue-eyed agreed and kissed his omega.

They didn't even feel the necessity to say 'I love you', because the bite and their hearts already let them know that Harry was Louis', and Louis was Harry's.