Chapter Twenty-Five: Every bad things in life ends soon, anyways.

Three weeks later

Zayn stood in front of Niall’s apartment door, the brunette gave him the address just a few days back and told him to come by whenever he was ready to meet George, so here he was standing in front of his boyfriend’s house (he decided to propose a few weeks ago) with nervousness running through his body just to meet his own son. He put down the box of exclusive marvel toys he ordered just for George, hoping he could work his way into the five year olds heart with his favorite toys. There were so many thoughts running through his mind, what if George don’t like him? Or worse, what if George hates him?

Zayn looked up at the mahogany door and let out a shaky breath as he brought his knuckles up, lightly letting it tap against the hard wood. He stood back, waiting for the door to be opened, but frowned when no one came. Zayn chuckled when he found a door bell just beside the door – how did he failed to see that? He pressed his ring finger down on the bright blue button, hearing the bell rung out from the house.

Moments later, the door opened revealing someone he had never met before with a kid in his arm, the kid that looked too much like him. “H-Hi, I’m Zayn.” He smiled; still glancing at the man up and down, Niall never told him about anyone in these past few weeks so he was having trouble just guessing who his guy with the bright green eyes and blonde hair might be. Just then, the brunette man came out, his hair messily made and dressed in a sweater and some sweats. “Oh, I didn’t know you’d be here today Zayn.” Niall mumbled, rubbing at his eyes as he motioned for the raven haired man to come in.

“Hello sweets.” Niall greeted when Zayn walked in, greeting him with a soft kiss on the cheeks. Zayn smiled.

“This is Kale.” Niall motioned to the boy who had George on his lap, “And that is George, as you probably already figured out.” Niall chuckled, getting the child in his hands and pressing a wet kiss to his cheeks.

“Kale, thanks mate. You can go now if you want, thank you so much again for watching over George.” Niall stood up; trudging to the door with Kale and Zayn can clearly see both of them bidding goodbyes before Niall closed the door. “I’ve never heard you mention him before.” Zayn said as Niall sat down beside George who immediately hid behind his father, scared of the stranger he had never met before.

“He’s my neighbor, he babysits George sometimes.” Niall explained before turning to the toddler, “George, remember when I told you about your other daddy?” The raven haired kid nodded, his blue eyes glancing curiously at the man again. “Well, this is your other Daddy, his name is Zayn.” Niall explained, watching the kid closely as his eyes glance up at the man before slowly walking towards him shyly. He had never thought his other daddy would come to see him, and after five years of longing for two parents, his father is right there, smiling at him.

“Papa . . . ?” He asked softly and Zayn smiled, opening his arms out for the baby to climb in and he did, hugging his dad with all his little arms can hold. “Papa, are those toys for me?” He pointed at the box of toy and Zayn laughed at his son’s sneaky antics before passing the box to him, “It’s all for you, darling.” A wide smile spread into George’s face, inspecting the box as he sat down in front of the fireplace to open it. “Thank you, papa.” He mumbled softly.

Zayn grabbed Niall’s warm hands, occasionally glancing at the toddler  who decided to draw the picture of their family and adding it beside the single picture of him and Niall beside the fridge because now they’re recharged, as George puts it, and at that moment, he felt like a family – no they, felt like a family. It somehow felt like a small little family in a small cozy apartment, and this feeling was something Zayn never, ever want to lose.

Maybe he had done so many, many mistakes when he was young but that’s because he was this naïve and well… young kid that had so much to learn about life. But now, with him being the MD of a large company, he now understands what was going on in life, in real life. And even though it took him multiple years to understand what the actual meaning of life and love actually is, it doesn’t faze him because life will throw things at you when it feels like it and you can’t do anything but take what it give you, whether good or bad.

Those after every single bad thing in life, then the good will eventually come. You just had to wait patiently, like the rainbow that shone after a hard storm. Because that’s what humans are, this is what they do; they withstand the main, and take what fate gives them. Because we’re human.

Zayn glanced at Niall, hands still holding Niall’s pale ones tightly, hopefully, he wish things would stay the same as they were because this is what he wanted, he wanted things to be the way it was now, and he hopes that the bad things that life had threw at them was over.

But the large smile that the other man and the small toddler gave him reassured him that he can do anything if they have them by his side forever and ever.

Because this right here, this warm family and those warm smiles were all he ever need, and nothing, and I mean nothing could break them apart.