It was 12th January.
Emily and Zayn's birthday.
Emily was in her bed sleeping when Louis and Harry entered the room with a chocolate cake. Louis pulled the curtains and the morning sun's rays fell on Emily's eyes. She opened her green-brown eyes which sparkled in the sun.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!" Louis and Harry exclaimed.
"IT'S MY BIRTHDAY. Wait. Its uncle Zayn's birthday too"
"We'll wish him later.. cut you cake. Your papa made it for you" said Louis.
She ket out a toothy grin before cutting the cake and feeding it to her parents. She jumped into their arms and hugged them hard.
"Come on. Let's see your gift now" Harry held her hand led her outside the house.
"A BICYCLE!?" she exclaimed as she admired the dark purple bicycle.
"Yeah. You like it?"
"I LOVE IT. But I don't know how to ride it....."
"We'll teach you. That's what we are here for" said Louis
"Now let's have some pancakes for breakfast. Then in the evening we have a little get together to celebrate Zayn and your birthday together"
They were eating when Miss Catherine entered the house.
"MISS CATHERINE!!!" She jumoed off her chair and hugged her.
"Happy Birthday Emily!!! Here's your gift" she gave her a box
"A JOURNAL! I'll start writing in it...." she ran to her room and grabbed a pen to start writing in her journal right away.
Its my birthday today. My papa n dad gave me a bicycle. And miss kathrin gave me this journal. It is also unkle Z's birthday but I have not talked to him yet. Okay bye!
She ran down and asked her dad to call uncle Z. She wanted to wish him.
"UNCLE Z!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY"
"Happy birthday Emily! Can't wait to meet you this evening. We will have a good party together. Right?" The black haired boy gave the little girl a big grin.
"Yessss. I can't wait for it" she said with an excited squeal. "Did you know I got a bicycle for my birthday? I LOVE IT"
"Really? Wow Emily. Even I have your gift packed with me. Will give it to you when we meet. Okay?"
"But-but I don't have a gift for you. Oh no"
"Its okay Em. You don't need to get me a gift"
"Yeah. I have to" she handed the phone to her Papa and ran over to her room.
The three boys looked at each other confusedly.
"Where'd she go?" Asked Zayn
"I don't know. Miss Catherine has gone after her. Lemme check" said Louis as he abandoned bis food and went after Emily.
He entered the room to find her on her table with her colors and pens out.
"What are you doing Emily?"
"I'm making a card for Uncle Z. Also, can we go and get something for him? I wanna gift him something" she looked expectantly at Louis.
"Off course sweetie. You make your card and after that we will go out to buy you a dress for the evening and a gift for your uncle Z, okay?"
"Okay"
Louis smiled at his daughter and went down to Harry.
"What is she doing?" Harry asked
"She is making a card for Zayn" he let out a small laugh.
"Really? Oh my god" said Zayn from the phone.
"Yeah. You better not tell her that I told you that. She will be mad at me" he before stuffing his face with food.
Soon enough Emily was ready with her card. She had used her best paper and her best colors and had made a little drawing of her uncle and written a big Happy birthday on it.
Louis and Harry admired the card and said that Uncle Zayn would be very happy. That made her smile wide.
They soon left to shop for the evening.
They were at the mall with disguise on and they entered a clothes store to get her a dress for the evening.
"What do you want Emily?"
"I don't know..... I like that black top" she said pointing to a plain black t shirt
"That's to casual... don't you think?"
Harry reached out to grab a blue frock that had a thick tule skirt and a tight satin top.
He held it up to Emily and she looked down at her dress.
"You like it?"
"Yeah.. Shal I try it once?"
"Off course. Go ahead." Emily ran in the changing room to try it once.
"Do you need any help sweetie?" Louis asked.
"Nope. Its beautiful. Lets purchase this one" she called out.
"Come out and show us once" said Harry.
She came out and twirled once in the dress with a smile on her face.
"You look like a princess." Louis smiled.
"I'll be back.." she went back into the changing to room to change back into her casual clothes.
Harry quickly made payment for the dress and they went on to buy her some shoes. She quickly chose a pair of golden shoes that matched with the stars on her frock.
They walked into an accessories shop because Emily wanted to buy her uncle Zayn something.
She browsed through the shop before picking out a black bracelet with Zayn's initial on it. She got it gift wrapped and they left the mall to go back home.
Back at home Miss Catherine had prepared a wholesome lunch and she dug into it excitedly. Since she was tired off from the shopping she walked herself to her room to take a nap.
Around 5:30pm Harry shook her awake.
"Come on pumpkin. Lets get you ready. We need to get to the venue"
She groaned and turned her back to him. Harry pulled her by her hand and she leaned onto his shoulder.
"I don't wanna go" she whined.
"But uncle Zayn will be sad if you don't show up" she huffed before letting out a big yawn.
"I'll get ready then. Will you do my hair?"
Harry nodded as he left her alone to get changed into her dress
Once she was in her dress, she felt ecstatic. She felt like a princess. She twirled around and called for her Papa to do her hair.
Harry looked at his daughter with glistened eyes. To him, she was the most beautiful girl in the world and no woman or anything was going to change that fact. Emily was perfect. He couldn't have asked for something more. He had everything. He had a perfect boyfriend and perfect daughter. Nothing could ever change the fact that they were a perfect little family.
"Come here. Let keep your hair open?"
Emily nodded at his words. Harry just clipped her hair falling on her face to the back and combed her hair neat. He turned her around and gave her kiss on her forehead.
"Come on. You dad is waiting outside" Emily grabbed the card and gift for her Uncle Z and followed her Papa down to the living room.
"Oh my god! Emily. You look sooo pretty. Come here sweetie" Louis pulled his daughter agaisnt his chest and hugged her.
"Daad! You are gonna ruin my dress" said Emily.
"We wouldn't want that now. Lets Go" Emily smiled and nodded and they sat into their car and drove to Zayn's house where the party had been organized to not draw attention to them.
Louis knocked at the door. Soon enough Niall opened the door abd beamed at Emily.
"Em! You look like a princess."
"Thank you Uncle Ni"
They walked in the house to see everyone already there. Everyone gushed at Emily and she giggled and thanked everyone.
"Uncle Z! Here is your present" she handed him the box and her card. Zayn smiled his biggest smile at the little girl and gave her a big hug, lifting her off her feet.
"Heyy! Not fair. You let Zayn hug you and not me" huffed Louis.
"Ignore your dad. Lets go and cut the cake" Zayn grabbed her hand and pulled her along.
Everyone was in the living room. Louis's, Harry's and Zayn's family. They got to the cake.
It was a two layered cake with a little Emily and Zayn on top. Zayn kneeled down and held the knife along with Emily who was standing in front of him.
They cut the cake together as everyone sang 'Happy birthday' to them. Emily cheered as Zayn handed her, her present.
She tore it open and pulled out the pendant that had a picture of her with the other boys when it was opened. She let out a squeal and hugged her uncle.
"Glad you liked it" Smiled Zayn.
They started dancing along to the music that was playing loud. It turned out that Emily danced pretty good. She moved her hips along the beats to the song and lips to the lyrics of the song. In between the dancing session she threw off her shoes and danced more wildly.
Louis and Harry recorded the whole thing while taking turns to dance along with her.
By the end of the night she was so tired that she passed out on the couch. Harry and Louis also had a lot of champagne so they decided to crash at Zayn's place itself.
Before going to bed Louis changed Emily into some extra clothes by Zayn's sister. It was baggy but comfortable.
Emily snuggled close to her Dad as her Papa draped a protective arm around his boyfriend and his daughter.