Adopted

Sick Little Babies

"You did so well eating your lunch, Baby," Zayn praises. The black haired man opens a high up cabinet and reaches up and Harry's face practically glows with excitement when he sees the plastic purple bowl. His and Louis' treasure trove! Zayn grabs two little packets of M&Ms and a peanut butter cup for himself and puts the bowl back in it's place. He tears the paper and spills them onto the tray in front of the boy. "This will be our little secret, okay," Zayn smirks.

"Otay, Papa," Harry grins and sticks a few of the chocolate candies in his mouth.

Harry busies himself with organizing the M&Ms by color while Zayn goes into the living room. When there isn't an even amount in each group he eats the extras but then realizes that he ate too many. By the time he's done, each color group has only two left. He starts with the brown, because they're his least favorite color. Then he eats the yellow, which for some unknown reason he named Fred and Barney. Because yellow M&Ms should always be named Fred and Barney. Then he eats the orange, followed by the read. What's left are green and blue. He slides them by each other and decides he likes how the two colors look together. With hesitation, he eats all four of the candies at the same time, not wanting them to be alone.

Zayn returns and takes Harry out of his chair. The boy holds onto his sippy cup as he's brought to the living room.

"Louwee," Harry squeals, seeing his brother laying down on the couch, wrapped up in a warm quilt.

The older boy looks tired, but nonetheless extremely happy to see Harry as well. "Hazza," he sings out.

Harry struggles against Zayn's hold to be put down. "Okay, Harry, Louis. Because Louis is sick, we don't want you boys getting too close. No kisses, in fact, just please keep your faces away from each other," Zayn says in a firm tone.

The younger boy nods and promises. Zayn trusts him enough that he let's the boy go. Harry skips the few feet over to the couch and plops down next to Louis. Louis criss crosses his legs and pats the dip in the middle. Harry seems to know what he wants and lays his body down so that his head rests in Louis' lap.

"I missed you," Harry says, looking up intensely to the blue eyes.

"Me too. Hate being away from you," Louis tells him.

"Feeling better," Harry asks.

"For now," Louis tells him. The nap and medicine are indeed helping, but he's still groggy and his tummy still aches.

"Good," Harry smiles up at him.

Harry notices that the couch is covered up by two large blankets. Zayn did that while Harry was eating his dessert just in case Louis got sick again because it's much easier to wash a blanket than clean a stain from a couch.

Zayn takes a seat in the chair across from the couch after placing the disk In the dvd player. He skips through the seven movie previews before pressing play. Harry smiles when he sees the opening scene to Beauty and the Beast.

"Love this movie," Harry says.

"I bet I know why," Louis smiles.

Harry's eyebrows pinch in confusion. Louis chuckles and wishes he could kiss Harry's forehead. Louis wasn't going to tell him it was because the boy is as beautiful as Belle. At least not while Zayn is in the room. After waiting a few seconds for Louis to respond, Harry gives up and turns his head again to watch the movie play out.

"Gaston is a stupid head," Harry says of the film's villain as he continues to pester Belle despite the girl rejecting him multiple times.

"Harry, don't use naughty words," Zayn warns.