Chapter Twenty- Five: Lunch

I promise I'll do someone else's POV soon it's just I wanted to get the whole Zerrie baby thing settled. Thanks! 


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{Perrie's POV}


I toss and turn in bed still thinking of ways to tell Zayn. I only found out earlier today but I still feel bad that he doesn't know yet. 


This is useless! 


I climb out of bed and walk over to my bag, grabbing the ultrasound. I head down into the area behind our bed. I stand by the window and look around. On one of the walls there's three pictures of Zayn and I and on the other end wall there's a quote that Zayn got put in when we bought the house as a gift. 


"Every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favourite." 


I sigh and look down at my stomach. I place my left hand on the tiny bump. No matter what everybody thinks this is our baby and they already hold a big space in my heart. I look out across London and then back at the sonogram in my right hand. 


I feel arms snake around my waist. Shit. 


{Zayn's POV}


I roll over and go to pull Perrie in close but she's not there. I sit up and look around. Um, where's Perrie. I stand up and go to head out the door but here her sigh from in the little part at the end of our room. I slowly make my way around there and see her looking out the window. What's she doing?


I walk over and snake my hands around her waist. I feel her tense a little but continue to rest my chin on her right shoulder. What the heck is that?


I look at the thing she's holding in her right hand. A- a- a ultrasound picture. I look at the name on the top of the scan. 


EDWARDS- MALIK, Perrie


"Pep?" I ask groggily standing up and removing my hands from her waist so I can rub my eyes. When I open them Perrie is facing me holding the scan in her hands still. She shakily hands me the scan and I look at it before moving down to her stomach. I can't see anything due to the fact she's got a flowy top on. I don't even know how far pregnant she is. 


"Come on, let's talk about this is the morning," I pick her up and she wraps her legs around my hips as I carry her back to our bed. I lay her on her side and hop in next to her. I pull her in close and wrap my arms around her waist. 


"I love you, and our baby," I whisper in her ear. Our baby. 


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I wake up and see Perrie sleeping peacefully next to me. The covers are down around her thighs and she has her arms sprawled above her head. I chuckle a little at how cute she looks until I see that her top has come up and there's a little bump. Recognisable but not if you don't know what her stomach normally looks like. 


I wonder what our baby will look like. Probably darkish skin, dark hair, Perrie's eyes would be adorable although they may get my eyes. If it is a girl she can do ballet if she wants, or play football and hopefully be artistic and if it's a boy he can play football or do ballet, I wouldn't care. I'll just protect them with my life along with protecting their Mummy. 


I look at Perrie who is slightly snoring, which is adorable. I place my hand on her cold bump and draw circles with my fingers. 


"That's cute." I look up and see Perrie waking up with a smile on her face. She rubs her face and then looks at me, still smiling. I don't know how to reply so I just scoot closer to Perrie and kiss her forehead whilst rolling on top of her. She laughs. 


"What are you doing?" Perrie asks. I place my finger over her lips to 'shhh' her and then I kiss her. Perrie pushes me off and sprints to the toilet. I follow her and hold her hair back. 


Once she's finished throwing up last night's dinner we head back to the bed. 


"So, I'm pregnant if you haven't figured it out yet," Perrie says as she sits cross legged on the bed. I grab the photo from my nightstand where I left it last night. I look at our baby. 


"How far are you Pezz?" I ask looking up at her. 


"Two and a half months," she replies. I nod. WAIT!


"TWO AND A HALF MONTHS!" I yell a little shocked. Perrie nods looking as shocked as me. I run my hands through my unstyled hair. 


"Woah. Honeymoon hey?" I ask. She laughs and nods. That was a nice night and I forgot to wear a condom. Well done Zayn!


"Um, so are we going to keep this baby?" She asks. What? Is she thinkig of getting an abortion? I'm not going to let her. 


"Do you want to get an ab-"


"Definately not Zayn!" She doesn't let me finish. "Do YOU want this baby?" She asks. 


"Yes," I nod. She smiles. "Of course! I mean, we know nothing about being parents but I don't think any new parents do," I reply. She laughs. 


"Um Zayn," she says. I nod. "We're probably going to want to learn to drive," she smiles. I crack up.


"I'll make a call today," I reply. Perrie hugs me tightly. "I love you so much and our baby."


"I know. I heard last night," she giggles. "And I love you too." 


The home phone starts ringing and I pick up the phone that's kept next to our bed. "Hello Louis," I answer.


"Lunch at mine. Simon's coming," Louis says before hanging up. I listen to the beep and stare shocked at the bed. I put the phone back and turn to Perrie.


"Yes?" She asks nervously.


"Lunch at Louis'," I say. She shrugs as if to say 'and?'. Well Perrie, Simon's coming. "Simon is going to be there," I say. She chokes a little on her own saliva. 


"Right! Need to try and keep my food down," Perrie says. I nod. "And will we tell him?" Perrie asks.


"Might as well," I reply. "And what about the others?" I ask.


"They can wait. We might do that in a couple of days. Get them around here and then mention it. As for press, they don't have to know for a little while," Perrie smiles. 


Cool! Let's just hope Louis hasn't cooked pasta. 


{Liam's POV}


I walk up to Louis' front door with Indie. I squeeze her hand and knock on the door. She was running around wild due to the fact she will be meeting the one and only Simon Cowell. 


The big black door swings open and Harry is standing there, doing his famous lean. His leg has healed really well. There's a scar but apart from that he's fine. 


"Hello Liam. Indie," Harry hugs us both. "Come in," he smiles. We follow Harry in. I've got a bottle of wine  in my left hand after Louis stated 'Liam, you have good wine. Please bring some'. Indie has a salad in her right hand. 


We go into the lounge room. Louis' lounge is connected to his dining room by french doors and the dining room is open plan to the kitchen. I notice Jesy and Jordan sitting on the couch together, all happy. Jade, Leigh and Niall are fighting over something in a magazine. Eleanor is talking to Louis who is brushing down their gorgeous Border Collie, Barnabe. They got him last year and he is a beautiful and friendly dog. 


"Liam!" Niall waves. I can't see Zayn and Perrie and can only hope they're okay with the whole baby thing. I haven't really thought about anything else and won't until they confirm to me that they're okay about it all. 


Indie goes and gives the wine and salad to Eleanor and I feel a hand on my shoulder. I look to my right and see Zayn standing there. Perrie comes over and hugs me. 


"Thank you again," she smiles before walking over to Niall, Jade and Leigh. Does that mean they're not keeping the baby?


"Thanks for looking after her Liam," Zayn smiles.


"Are you keeping the baby?" I whisper in his ear. Please say yes!


"Definatley!" He smiles happily. I cheer and hug him. 


"Congrats," I whisper. He laughs. 


"Thanks Liam," Zayn chuckles. I go and sit next to Perrie. She turns to me and gives me the biggest smile. 


"It's great Pezz," I say. She nods and hugs me tightly. 


The doorbell rings. Since when does he have a doorbell?


"Since when do you have a doorbell?" Niall asks Louis. Louis runs off and Eleanor sighs. 


"Yesterday." She says. We crack up and Simon walks in with Lauren and Eric, whose now four. 


"Hello," we all smile. 


"Hi." Lauren smiles back.


"Liam, Perrie, Leigh- Anne, Niall, Jade, Jesy, Jordan, Harry, Zayn, Eleanor, nice to see you all again," Simon smiles. "And you must be Indie, nice to meet you," Simon smiles at Indie, who is on my right. 


"Hello," she replies.


"Hey Eric!" Niall waves at him. He waves back shyly. 


"Please, have a seat. Lunch will be ready in like, two minutes," Louis points at the couch. They all sit down. 


"Um Lou, what's for lunch?" Jade asks Louis.


"Pasta!" Louis smiles. I look at Perrie who clasps her stomach. Shit Louis! Zayn shakes his head.


"Something wrong with pasta Zayn?" Louis asks Zayn. Louis then looks at Perrie. "Oh! Are you still not well?" Louis asks Perrie. She shakes her head. "Oh gosh! Sorry!" Louis sighs before heading to the kitchen.


"Um, do you need to go and see a doctor Pep?" Jesy asks. Already done Jesy. "You might have celiac disease," Jesy suggests. Or she's just pregnant. 


"Um yeah I might go and see a doctor," Perrie replies. We all nod. 


"Lunch!" Louis calls from the kitchen. We all get up and walk into the dining room, sitiuating ourselves around the big dining room table. 


"Drinks?" Eleanor asks. "We have red wine, white wine, water, milk, chocolate milk, beer, cider or apple juice," Eleanor explains the options. 


Simon, Harry, Jordan, Niall and I go with beer. Zayn and Jesy go with water. Perrie goes with apple juice whilst Eleanor, Lauren, Indie, Louis, Jade and Leigh have white wine. Eric chooses chocolate milk. 


Louis brings out the pasta and gives everyone but Perrie a bowl. "Um, what can I get you?" He asks Perrie.


"I'll be fine with salad," Perrie nods at the eight different salads. A few of us laugh before starting to eat our pasta. 


"So Uncle Simon, why are we here?" Louis asks Simon. We all turn and look at Simon. 


"Right," he places down his fork and rests his hands on the table. "As I'm sure you're aware, this year, X Factor UK has been brought forward due to the new show happening at the end. I tried to get them to leave X Factor at the end of the year but they said no so now this year X Factor is middle of the year and the new show is at the end. Next year it will be back to normal," Simon explains. We all nod. "First live show was yesterday night and next week is the second one," Simon continues. "Will you nine, as in One D and Little Mix, perform another mashup I found. Salute and Kiss you," Simon smiles.


We all look at each other and nod smiling. 


"Of course," Harry replies in behalf of all of us. "As long as there are no saucy dance moves," Harry adds.


"Of course. Thanks guys," Simon smiles. This will be fun. I love performing with the girls. 


"Who are the judges this year?" Jade asks. We all look at Simon. I actually haven't watched it this year due to being in the studio a lot. 


"Um, there's Louis Walsh, as usual," Simon says. We all laugh. "Demi Lovato," he mutters. We crack up. They're hilarious on the panel together. "Tulisa," he smiles. The girls squeal. "And myself."


"Nice panel Siimon," I nod. It is a good panel and a funny one too. 


"I know. Louis has the over 25's. Demi has the groups. I have the boys and Tulisa has the girls," Simon explains. 


"Cool drawing Eric," Jade points at the drawing he did. He's in the middle of Jade and Harry. Eric takes a sip of his milk but Louis pulls a funny face, resulting in Eric dribbling milk and having milk come out of his nose. 


Suddenly Perrie gags and rushes to the bathroom, vomiting on the floor a little. 


"Shit!" Jesy leaps up and rushes after her, trying to avoid the vomit on the floor. 


"Well done Louis," Harry claps walking into the kitchen and grabbing a mop for Perrie's vomit whilst Jade helps clean up Eric with Harry and Lauren. 


"Is Perrie okay?" Simon asks Zayn. 


"Um, can I have a word with you Simon?" Zayn asks Simon. Simon nods and Zayn takes him away. I get up and follow Zayn. I push the door of Louis's spare room open and Zayn's on the bed whilst Simon sits at the desk. 


"Um yes Liam?" Simon asks. I sit down next to Zayn for moral support. 


"He knows," Zayn replies to Simon. Simon does a hand action to tell Zayn to speak. "Perrie's two and a half months pregnant," Zayn says right away. Simon stares in shock. "Yes months," Zayn repeats. 


"Well for starter congratulations," Simon smiles. Zayn smiles back. "Secondly, she will start showing soon am I right?"


"Yeah," Zayn nods. "We don't want to announce it yet though. Only Liam, you and obviously Perrie and I know," Zayn says. Simon nods. I wonder how the others will react. They'll probably scream. 


"Right. Zayn, the way I see it. We get the performance done then we can start getting Perrie covered up more as she grows. When she get's to about five months, it's not hideable. Then you can announce it anyway you like," Simon smiles. 


"Thanks Simon," Zayn says. Simon hugs him and we go back out to the others. Perrie and Jesy have returned. 


"You okay Perrie?" Simon walks over to her. She nods. He hugs her and as I walk past I hear him whisper 'congratulations'.


★★★★★


After hanging around for a bit more Simon, Lauren and Eric leave and it's just One Direction, Little Mix, Jordan, Eleanor and Indie. 


"So Perrie, what's going on?" Leigh asks. "Truthfully." She says with a bit of demand in her voice. Everyone looks at Zayn and Perrie and they look at me. I nod and Perrie takes a deep breath before pulling Zayn out of the room to talk to him. 


"You know!" Louis points at me. All eyes are on me. What do I do?


"What? I took her to the doctor yesterday," I shrug. They all intensely glare at me trying to figure it out. 


"Does she have cancer?" Jade panics. Everyone gasps. I shake my head just as Zayn and Perrie walk back into the room. 


"Perrie! Are you sick?" Leigh panics. Perrie shakes her head and smiles. I go and stand near them.


{Jade's POV}


We all stare at Zayn and Perrie. What if she's seriously sick? But they wouldn't tell us like this would they. The only other thing they would announce like this is if she was pregnant, which is highly unlikely. I lean to my left trying to get so I can see Perrie side on. When I'm about to fall I sit back realising she probably doesn't have a bump, if she is pregnant. 


"Perrie? Zayn?" Eleanor asks. 


"Um, here," Perrie places something down on the coffee table. None of us need to move closer to see because we can all see very well it's an ultrasound picture, with a baby. 


I turn to Perrie and Zayn and screech running at them whilst lunging into their arms. The room is filled with creaming, crying and laughing. Once we're all done hugging we all sit down. 


"How far?" Harry asks Perrie. She holds up two fingers. "Two weeks?" Harry asks.


"No. Months. Two and a half," Liam replies. We all stare gobsmacked. 


"How the f**k do you not know you're three months pregnant?" Niall asks. We all laugh a little and Perrie shrugs. 


"So when are you due?" Indie asks. Oh my gosh! The tour!


"November," Zayn replies. We all sigh in relief. Maybe things will fall into place. I look at Harry who looks away as soon as I look at him. Just maybe. 



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