➡Zayn's POV:
We all rush to the bathroom once Lily starts to scream. Silently praying, we run in and see Niall tickling a bubbly Lily, much to our relief.
"Oh my god," Louis sighs in relief.
"Mate, you had us worried!" Liam yells at Niall but there's relief in his voice too.
"Sorry," Niall mumbles apologetically.
"It's alright. At least Lily's okay," I reason.
"Yeah," Harry agrees.
We all sorta stand there and watch our beautiful daughter play in the bath. She gets distracted so easily. Just got tickled and started screaming in laughter then starts to play in the bath, incident forgotten. It looks like she forgot we were in here also.
After a few moments, Lily looks up and fear is in her eyes. No.
"W-who are y-you?" She stutters.
"Lily, I need you to please calm down. We're here to help, not hurt. We're here to love and care and spoil you," Louis whispers softly.
I've heard those words before, I realize with a start. It's basically the same thing Louis said to Lily on the car ride on the way to the doctor's.
"But-but, who are you?" She repeats.
"We're your family," I respond quietly.
"Why don't I remember you?" Her stuttering is gone replaced by curiosity.
"Because you have a head injury that makes you forget stuff," Niall explains in a tender voice.
"Oh." A pause then, "Hi! Why are you all in here?" Lily is back and remembering.
"Well, uh, just wanted to see how you were doing," Harry lies.
"I'm doing good," she responds politely.
"That's, um, really good," I say then leave quickly. That was awkward, honestly. Liam and Harry follow me out. I guess Lou wanted to keep an eye on Niall so he doesn't pull anything like that again.
"Whew!" Harry says, pretending to wipe sweat off his brow.
"Yeah. I'm hungry," I state and wander off to the kitchen.
"Zayn, are you okay?" Liam asks with a smile.
"Yup," I repond, popping the p.
I grab some pretzels and strawberries, not really realizing what I just grabbed and how gross it is together. I'm actually not okay, I'm worried, but I don't even know what I'm worried about. I just have a gut feeling something is going to go bad.
And they're usually right.
I sigh and walk back to my room. We have a concert tonight, four plus hours, and then we leave for Ireland tomorrow.
Niall has been talking about going forever! It's all he's been blabbing his mouth about, which is fine, but it starts to get annoying like Lily when she can count to five on her fingers because Liam taught her. Cute but gets annoying after about three times.
I smile at the memory of Lily first counting. I have a video of it on my phone, all the lads do, and I've sent it to so many people.
I sigh and just sorta plop down in the hotel hallway. I have no idea what's wrong with me today, I'm just not in it. Oh well, at least on stage tonight I can act stupid with not a care in the world.
Our fans are the best.
Perrie surprises me and sits next to me. "What's up?" She asks.
"The sky," I respond, sounding like Louis.
"No, silly! What's wrong?" she says with a smile.
Sighing I explain, "I don't know. Everywhere we go, something bad happens to Lily. And I'm afraid something will happen really bad this time."
"Aw, babe, you can't live in fear. This is your tour! Live a little! Lily will be fine, trust me," she comforts.
I smile at her and kiss her, long and soft. She smiles into the kiss and we stay like that, locked together until little footsteps reach us.
"Ew! Zaynie and Perrie are kissing!" Lily screams and runs off, repeating it over and over loudly down the hallway.
She runs into Louis on her way down and she bounces off and hits the ground hard. "Ouchie," she mumbles, probably close to tears.
"Oh my god, baby are you alright?" Louis asks frantically while I'm down here trying to hold my laughter in. No offense, but it was hilarious!
"Zayn, it isn't funny!" Perrie scolds me but she's trying hard to fight the smile growing in her lips.
"Yeah I'm okay. My bum-bum hurts though," Lily says so adorably.
"Bum-bum? Where did you hear that?" Louis asks Lily. Then he sighs and yells, "Niall?! Why did you tell her bum-bum is a word?!"
Niall comes out of the bathroom, soaking wet and starts to laugh. Then I realize what's so funny; Lily is sitting in the ground in just her panties and bubbles.
I start to burst out laughing and soon, everyone is. Harry, Liam, Sophia, and Eleanor come out of their rooms to see what we're laughing so hard at. Once they see, they can't stop, and soon no one can, and Lily just sits there on the floor, playing with the carpet.
Once we kinda calm down, I get up, pick Lily up, and hand her to Harry. "Please get her some clothes, mate," I tell him. He smiles his cheeky little smile, shakes his head, and runs off.
I would swear under my breath but Lily is right in front of me, and she picks up everything we say. And I mean everything.
I sigh and take Lily to Harry's bedroom. I mean, all her stuff is in his bedroom so why couldn't he just change her?
The cheeky little you-know-what.
Lily starts to squirm in my arms so I set her down in all her almost naked glory and she takes off, running into Harry's room and, oh no, nononono, she locked the door. "Lily!" I yell, pounding on it. "Lily! Open up!"
"I can't," she responds in a scared voice.
"What?! Lily, open up! Now!" I demand.
"I can't! I can't reach the lock!" She shouts back. She's so scared.
"How did you lock the door?" I ask quieter.
"I didn't."
I spin around and glare. "Who locked the knob but left the door open?!"
Niall hesitantly raises his hand. "Sorry! I didn't know! I was gonna lock it when I was changing Lily so know one walk in but then she ran out and, I don't know, I guess I accidentally locked the door."
"Mate!" I growl dangerously. This close to exploding. This close.
"Can we pick the lock?" Louis suggests.
I turn to the knob and shake my head. "There's no hole." I turn to Harry who entered the hall again. "Don't even dare to make perverted jokes about that."
He closes his mouth with a snap.
I push my shoulder against the door roughly. The lads come and help me hit it while the girls try to get someone to come and help.
"Daddy? Zaynie? NiNi? LiLi? Hazzy Bear? I'm scared. I'm scared. Can you get me out?" Lily pleads. I can just picture her on the other side with tears running down her face, faster than a flowing river.
"Calm down baby girl. Please calm down. No one can give you your inhaler if you get upset. We'll get you out. Promise. Just...stand back, okay?" Louis says softly.
" 'Kay Daddy," she responds.
"On three. One...two...three!" I grunt and hit the door forcefully with my shoulder.
"Again! One...two...three!" We hit it again.
"Stop! I'm sorry! I-I'll be good next time! I promise! Please don't come in! I didn't do it!" Lily screams through the door.
She thinks we're her old dad. And she thinks we're trying to bust in to hurt her.
"Lily, calm down. Please," Louis begs.
"Who are y-you? H-how d-do y-you know m-me?" Lily stutters. On top of all this, she lost her memory too?!
"On three," I whisper. "One...two...three!" I shout and we all hit the door forcefully with our shoulders. I hear it crack then it starts to fall.
"Lily! Move out of the way!" Liam yells.
I see her tiny form back up quickly and she lands on her bum-bum as the door collapses, the sound echoing and rumbling the whole hotel.
Louis rushes in and picks Lily up who's sobbing and breathing hard. "Baby, please calm down. You're alright now. Okay?"
She doesn't seem to hear and Harry gently walks up and places the inhaler in her mouth. Pushing down, I hear him counting softly out loud to thirty.
"So get out, get out, get out of my head
And fall into my arms instead
I don't, I don't, don't know what it is
But I need that one thing
And you've got that one thing," Louis sings softly. It seems to calm her down a bit and she drifts off to sleep, tears stains still on her cheeks.
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Gone by Michael Grant
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