Mr CEO (Harry Styles AU)

070

"That you what?" Violet's father asks.

"I am the father of the baby." He repeats.

"What?" James asks again as he processes the information. "I didn't know you were dating."

"And we are not. It was a one time thing." He explains.

"Fucking shit Brad! Haven't you heard about condoms and safe sex! For god's sake!" James shouted at him.

"Yes I have. It's not my fault the condom broke!" Brad shouts back at him.

"Dad, Brad, you need to calm down." Leo tries to put some peace but is soon ignored.

"I can't fucking believe you. I knew you will do this with all that sleeping around! There you have your reality check." James shouts.

"Well I am sorry dad. What's done is done. She is going to abort anyways." Brad says and as he speaks the last part he begins to cry again.

"Brad its fine." I tell him while I pat his back.

"I just don't want her to abort. This is my baby, I can't kill it." He says in between tears.

"I'm sorry son. I shouldn't have shouted at you." James says with a sigh.

"No, dad, you are right." He says.

"No son, you are right. I am proud of you." James says.

Brad looks up to his father with glossy eyes. His expression shows pure confusion. James smiles up to his son with that proud smile I have seen lots of time.

"I am proud of you because you are thinking about your kid instead of yourself. That's how I know you are already a good parent." Violet's dad says.

Brad smiles before pulling him in a hug. The two of them hug for a long while as tears streams down their face. Violet smiled at me before pecking my cheek. I smiled at her and put an arm around her waist.

"You call her now and tell her how you feel about this." James tells Brad when they pull away.

Brad nods and goes for his phone. He marks the number and we all begin to leave the room to give him intimacy. We waited outside occasionally hearing Brad's voice through the door.

"I can't believe I am going to be a grandad again." James mutters to himself.

"And I, an uncle." Leo says.

Violet smiled at them before patting their backs. Then she turned to me and examined my face.

"Are you okay? You need some ice?" She asks.

"No it's fine. Don't worry." I say.

"I must say that was my best punch son. You have a tough face." James joked making himself laugh.

However, I didn't. I don't know why but it reminded me of my dad. When he used to punch me on daily basis and complain about my need of toughen up. Suddenly, I felt the punch all over again and now it began to burn my skin.

Everyone else realized of the change on the atmosphere of the room. Violet held my hand and gave it a squeeze while her dad looked at me with apologetic eyes.

"God I am so sorry Harry. I shouldn't have joke about it. I didn't think it will remind you of that." He says with his hands held up in surrender.

"It's fine James. I know you didn't mean to. I just don't know why the memories came back." I say looking into the floor.

"I'm so sorry son." He pulls me into a hug.

And in that moment I started to cry just like Brad did minutes earlier. My dad never told me he was sorry. He never made any effort to apologize or even showing some kind of remorse for what he did to me or my family.

But here we are. James Lane just apologized to me and added son at the end. I know it is not my father but I appreciate him and he reminds me of the dad I wished I had. I know he is not but he shows me that I just had bad luck with my father. That doesn't mean all dads are like that as well as I will never have the chance of having a father who treats me right.

"God Harry, you okay?" James asks worried.

"Yeah, it's just...You apologized and called me son, my dad never did that. He died without apologizing." I explained as I stopped my tears.

"I get it. I should probably shut up because I am making everyone cry." James jokes making me smile. "But being serious now, if you want to talk about it or just need to let it all out and cry, you can count of me."

"Thank you James." I say with a soft smile.

"I, of course, don't know what he did and said to you but I can imagine. Most likely he tried to bottle up your emotions by saying guys don't cry and shit like that. I am telling you know that men cry and men have feelings too. We speak about them and we cry a lot." He says.

"I know, sometimes I forget but I know." I say with a slight smile.

He pulled me in yet another hug before patting my back. We were instantly interrupted by the room door being pulled open. Brad stepped out of the room with his phone on hand.

"So? What did she said?" Leo asked as soon as he stepped in.

"She says that she understands me. We have agreed to meet in two days to talk about it. We will discuss it and make a decision. She promises she is not making any harsh decision without taking me into a count." He explains with a hopeful smile on his face.

"So those are good news?" Violet asks.

"I think there may be good news but I don't want to put my hopes too high." He says with a big smile.

We all cheer being careful because we don't want to wake everyone else in the house. After that we all go to our bedrooms, saying our goodbyes and wishing us a merry Christmas. Hopefully the rest of the holidays will be more relaxing.

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A/N: Harryyyyyyyy *cries* it broke my heart to write the part about his feelings about his father :(

About Brad and if you had any doubt, he is the father of the baby Martha is expecting just so I make it clear. Some of you were expecting him not to be but yes he is. I am saying this because Brad's story is going to be more background for now on.

Sickness update: I am feeling like a did yesterday so not much changes :( And thank you so much for your wishes xxx