Night Changes

9.

"So does this screw go in this leg or this leg?" Louis asked holding up a screw as the three of us pieced together the crib.

"Uhhhhh..." I searched over the instructions turning pages utterly lost in how to answer Louis' question. "Yes?" I answered in more of a question.

"You know since the baby is going to be staying with us, Louis." Liam trailed taking the screw gun and screwing the bolt into the white wooden leg.

Louis turned his head to Liam and gave him some of his attention, "I think Harry should get the bigger bedroom with the baby." Liam finished introducing the idea to Louis.

"What? No way I won that bedroom fair and square." Louis protested hammering together the different parts.

"Yeah well now we have a baby and Harry needs the extra space. There's no way this crib is fitting into Harry and I's bedroom. Come on Lou, do it for the baby. The sweet sweet baby..." Liam convinced moving his gaze over to Asher who was only a few feet away laying on top of a blanket sucking on a passie.

"Really Liam?" Louis arches a brow and slumped his shoulders as if he were about to give into Liam.

"Look," I said moving over to grab Asher and hold him in my hands. Taking him and holding him till he stood in my lap I narrated for him. "Come on. Uncle Louis do it for me!"

"Fine!" Louis sighed heavily rolling his eyes and going back to helping with the crib. "But only for you, don't think I'm doing this for your dumb ass daddy."

"Hey!" I said just as I saw Asher drop his passie and smile towards Louis.

"See look he agrees your a dumb ass too!" Louis pointed returning a smile to the baby that began to give an airy laugh.

"Well now I'm the dumb ass that gets a bigger room." I widened my eyes and laughed as Louis rolled his eyes not being able to protest against what I was saying.

"You wouldn't be the dumb ass with a bigger room if it weren't for Asher here." Liam pointed out as I turned him around to see his little face that looked around busily. "You would just be a dumb ass."

He was so unaware of the circumstances he was put into. His eyes searching my face as he reached out to grab my cross necklace that hung from my neck. How could the mother ever have left him alone like she had? He was so little and understood nothing of his situation.

+

"Harry Styles?" A young nurse with a long blonde ponytail and friendly brown eyes searched around until I stood up and came towards her.

"That's me." I gave her a smile while I held Asher in my arms. He was caught up sucking on his passie and half asleep for him to even care about what we were about to do.

Last night had been among the worst. He had woken up a total of four times, twice to eat and twice for a diaper change. I was utterly exhausted and having to pull myself up out of bed for this was a dreading feeling that tugged on my mind.

"Come on back here with me and we will take care of you." She gave a pearly smile as I followed her back behind the door where others in scrubs walked around tending to other patients needs. "Right in here." She said opening up a room for us.

"Thanks." I said to her coming in as she shut the mahogany wooden door that was dressed in different brochures concerning prenatal and post natal care for women and their babies.

"It looks like today we have a check up and paternity test to do today. So why don't we start with the check up first." The nurse said looking over a folder with various information. She was knocking me off guard with her beautiful brown eyes that gleamed under the yellow lighting of the room.

Sitting down in a swivel chair she crossed one leg over the other and looked at me as she parted her perfectly pink lips to speak. "First and for most, how old is your little guy?"

Looking down to the blanket he was wrapped in I gave her a slanted smile that conveyed my unsure expression. "Here's the thing... I don't know. He was dropped off on my doorstep a few days ago and I really don't know how old he is."

"Okay well let's take a look at him and take his weight and see where we are at." She suggested brushing pass the question. "If you could undress him and then we can head out and weigh and measure him."

"Okay yeah." I nodded laying him in my lap and unwrapping him from the blanket he sat in comfortably. Tugging off his little blue sweats to reveal his little legs he spit out his passie as I unbuttoned his long sleeved onsie. Pulling it up over his head he began to stir not liking the exposure and lack of warmth conducted by this clothing I had removed.

Laying him in my chest I handed him off to the nurse as we left the room and out to where the baby scale sat. Setting him down on the wax paper he began to look unsettled from being naked and without anyone to hold him.

"It's alright little guy! I know this is all a little scary." The nurse said giving him pouty lips as she talked to the baby that was wiggling all around. "He is eleven pounds and..." She trailed measuring his length, "twenty two inches long. Which leads me to believe he is about 2 months old. However when his medical records come in we can be one hundred percent certain that he is."

"So he is healthy right?" I asked her as she picked him up from the scale and handed him to me once again.

"He's a little bit under weight but that's nothing that can't be fixed. You know he's a spitting image of you." The nurse who I just barely noticed her name tags read Kasey.

"Well thank you. That's what everyone keeps telling me." I told her as she smiled at the baby that was playing with his hands.

"He's a little cutie just like his daddy!" She scrunched her nose and gave a cute little smile that caused me to follow behind her back into the room we were in before.

Did this girl really just say what I thought she said? Did she just flirt with me?

"You know, he's not the only cutie in here." I said back as she scribbled things into the Manila folder.

"The doctor should be in here shortly to get the shots started. He will have one oral and two others, I'll be back in to assist." She said to me with a little flirty smirk before walking out of the room.

"Did you just see that?" I asked Asher who furrowed his brow while I held him. "She was totally coming onto me!" I smiled at him dropping my jaw and readjusting myself for when she would come back in.

"Alright boys shall we get started?" A plump woman with big brown eyes and boobs bigger then my future came in along with the nurse called Kasey.

"Is it going to hurt him?" I asked looking down at the baby that was unaware of what was about to happen.

"Well first I thought we would get this paternity test started, that's only a cotton swab from yours and the baby's mouth then we can get the shots over with." The mocha colored women said as she came over to grab Asher who was put out onto the paper covered table. "Kasey will you swab Harry while I do the baby, and then I'm going to need you to help me with holding him down."

"Yes." She nodded coming over to me with a swab as I opened my mouth. Swabbing the inside of me cheek and smiling as she walked away.

"When can I expect the results?" I asked her as she took Asher's swab and packed it properly in the kit before putting it in a side table to be taken for testing.

"About a week is usually the average wait time. You will get a call from the office discussing the lab results." The plump woman said readying the three needles that were inside a clear case.

"The first one is oral, Kasey can you open up his mouth for me?" The doctor asked as I stood up from the chair and made my way over to where I could see Asher.

"This ones the easy one." Kasey assured me as the gloved hands opened up Asher's mouth as the other slowly injected clear liquid into his mouth.

"You're being such a good boy!" The dark plump doctor said smiling at Asher who returned a smile and began to wiggle as she injected more of the medication. "Your not going to like me too much after this though."

"Is it going to hurt him?" I asked once he was done with the oral injection. His blue eyes wondering about as the doctor pulled out the three needles.

"It will just be a little pinch." She said as she then instructed Kasey to hold down Asher since he was a bit of a wiggle worm.

"Okay ready, 1, 2, 3." The doctor said pressing the needle into Asher's leg and quickly sticking a bandaid over the hurt area as Asher began wailing. His face turning red and face scrunching up in pain.

My heart broke seeing him in pain as he screamed out trying to kick frantically. I hated watching him cry out like this and it made me uncomfortable just standing here doing nothing for him.

"It's okay buddy!" Kasey said rubbing his leg where the reminder of the shot sat covered under a bandaid. His eyes filling with tears as he looked over at me with his grey blue big eyes.

"Ready 1, 2, 3." The doctor went in for another shot that pierced his skin causing him to scream out louder then before. I wanted to take him into my arms and hold him close to me but I knew that I couldn't.

"Ooooh I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry!" Kasey gave him a pout and rubbed the top of his head while the last needle was inserted into his other leg and again covered over with a bandaid.

"All done!" The doctor said while I went to take him to my arms. Laying him in my chest and rubbing his bare back as he cried frantically still trying to calm down from the pain he experienced. Rocking back and forth while doing what I could to calm him down he soon laid in my chest only whimpering softly now.

"Now we just need to do a physical check up and you guys can be on your way." I hated giving him back up to the doctors but I knew it was for his best interests. Handing him back to Kasey she laid him on the table only to hear him cry out again.

"He's got a strong pair of lungs on him." The doctor joked as Asher wailed. Checking his eye sight and other functions he began to cry out a little louder once his diaper was taken off and they began to check his genitalia.

"He's looking good!" The doctor finished up her inspection by clasping the tabs to his diaper back onto his waist. "You did such a good job today little man!" The doctor said handing me back Asher who I laid in my arms as he calmed himself from my body contact.

After going over his charts and informing me he was a little underweight from what they wanted I dressed Asher back into his clothing which seemed to help soothe him better. Wrapping him up in his blanket and laying him in my arms we walked out with his eyes slowly closing from the walking.

"We will call you about your results as soon as we get ahold of them." Kasey said as I left the back office where we had been.

"That would be great."

"Good luck! You know he is a real cutie, and I'm not just talking about the baby." Kasey winked causing me to smile and nod before walking out the door to the cold air outside. Fall was setting in and the temperatures were no longer warm.

Looking down at Asher I saw he was slowly falling into a sleep while I walked with him in my arms to the car. Today has been hard seeing him getting his shots, I didn't ever want to experience that again.

note// Here's the double update chapter;) I thought since I was sick I would put something up. Anyways it's cute now that Harry wanted to hold him durning his shots