Night Changes

12.

"Hello is this Harry Styles?" The voice on the other side of the phone sounded familiar.

"This is him." I said picking up my phone and tilting my head to the side so I could continue solving the math problem at hand.

"Hi Harry! This is Kasey from the Pediatric Clinic!" That was who it was! The nurse from the clinic who hit on me.

"Oh hi!" I responded only paying half attention seeing at the problem I solved was wrong. Going back and erasing the entire problem I went to redo it once again.

"We are just calling about your test results. They just came in and we would like to go over them with you." Kasey explained as I began to figure out the logarithm. Quickly shooting my gaze up and over to Asher who was laying in his swing just a few feet away in the living room I became more alert to the conversation.

"Oh yes! That would be great! What did they come back saying?" I wondered standing up and biting my bent finger awaiting the results. Not that I was going to be surprised if it was positive, I have been told multiple times Asher is a spitting image of me.

"It says here that the test was positive, he is in fact your baby!" Kasey said with expression, none of this really surprising me much. "We also got his medical records in and it says here he was born August 17th at 2:35AM which does makes him 2 months old. We would also like to schedule you another appointment for when he is three months for a check up."

"Okay... Umm you wouldn't happen to have his birth certificate do you?" I asked wonder if the mothers name would be on that. It would be easy for me to track down the girl if I only had her name. Working off of one letter wasn't really helping comb through the women I could suspect.

"We do." Kasey paused pulling it up most likely.

"What are the names on the birth certificate?"

"We have the father as you and the mother as Valerie Clement." Kasey read off causing me to reel back into my mind. I had a last name to work with and it was time for me to think real long and hard. The only issue was I didn't know a Valerie! Plus the note had read K!

"Okay, thank you."

"Does October 25th at 12:15PM work for you regarding the three month check up?" Kasey asked me as I became more distracted now trying to come up with a first name.

"Yeah that works fine thank you!" I answered Kasey looking back at Asher with one hand on my hip. He was busily sucking on his passie and wiggling about in his swing.

"Okay see you then!" Kasey hung up causing me to do the same.

Going back to sit at the kitchen counter to finished up my piling math homework I couldn't help but go through all the Valerie's I knew. In my time I had come across a lot of girls with the last name Clements, it was a pretty common last name. Although I didn't know a Valerie, that didn't sound remotely familiar.

Making noises in his swing to try and get my attention I felt bad ignoring the baby who wanted me to give him my full attention. I had other things like homework, I couldn't give him what he wanted as he talked and babbled a little louder to attract my attention.

"What are you talking about baby?" I asked him still keeping my eyes and attention on my math homework that I was trying to speed through.

Replying to my little question he squealed out, happy that I responded to him. Making more baby sounds I heard the door open with a "Hey mate!"

"Hey Lou." I called turning the page in my textbook for the next problem to solve.

"Hey baby!" Louis greeted taking Asher into his arms and throwing him up in the air while catching him. Turning around in my chair I saw Asher's face turning pink from laughing at Louis' faces he pulled when throwing him up and catching him. Dropping his binkie from his mouth onto Louis's face; he gave a shocked face.

"Did you just drop your binkie on my face?" Louis asked him blowing into his stomach to hear Asher squeal in laughs. "Did you drop your binkie on me?" He blew in his stomach again letting Asher laugh once more before bringing him down into his arms and walking over to me.

"What are you doing?" Louis asked coming up to see my open textbook that had papers scattered over the table.

"Solving equations and logs." I told him sighing just looking at the 4 other assignments I had lined up next to finishing this one.

"I just got back from English and we have a ten page paper on Taming the Shrew... I didn't even read the book!" Louis stressed just as Asher reached his little arms out to me.

"Bud I can't hold you right now." I declined as Louis propped him upright so he didn't fall out of his arms. "Daddy's got work to do."

"You hear that, daddy is putting work first over you!" Louis said into Asher's ear even though it was still audible to me on purpose.

"Why don't you make yourself useful and feed him?" I asked Louis writing my name at the top of the assignment before searching in the book for my next assignment.

"Did you not hear me? I have to write a ten page paper!" Louis told me going into the kitchen to fetch a bottle and formula.

"Let's be honest here Lou, are you really going to write that paper?" I asked him not bothering to look up from my own work.

"I have to, it's 10% of my overall grade. Why can't your baby feed himself?"

"Because he can't hold his own bottle yet." I told Louis who was prepping the bottle making Asher excited just seeing it. Bouncing in Louis' arms he began sucking on a fist watching Louis make his food.

"Like father like son." Louis said watching Asher's reaction to him shaking up the bottle. Giggling and bouncing in Louis' arms he tried to reach out and grab the bottle before it was even shaken up.

"Who doesn't like food?" I asked Louis scribbling numbers on my paper. Maybe if I finished at least two more papers I could take a break and play with Asher since he didn't seem to want to take a nap today. Every time I tried to lay him down he only held onto my finger and gave me sad eyes as if to ask me if I were really leaving him to nap alone. So this resulted in him not taking a nap at all.

"Here you go fella." Louis said laying Asher into his arms and pushing the bottle n****e to his mouth and sat next to me while I concentrated heavily on my homework.

"So what have you been doing today?" Louis asked me looking at my different assignments I had finished through out the day.

"Homework and taking care of the baby." My answer was short not because I didn't want to talk to Louis but because I was trying to solve the problem at hand.

"Did you go to class?" Louis asked me with his black Jan sports backpack still hanging on his back.

"Gemma had a last minute tutoring session so I couldn't. Which isn't going to be good since I'm already behind in biology! Damn I'm just stressed the f**k out." I breathed in heavily feeling a weight settle on my shoulders.

"Hey! Don't swear in front of the baby!" Louis poked as I dropped my pencil to look at him.

"Sorry, Ash!" I told him running my hand over his head as he drank away his bottle. "The test results came back positive."

"Oh really?" Louis said sarcastically as if he expected it to.

"His medical records also came in and I asked for the names on the birth certificate."

"What did it say?" Louis became more engaged now once I told him what my conversations with Kasey entailed.

"She said the mothers name is Valerie Clement." I told Louis slouching slightly.

"Wait hold up... The note read K, not Valerie!" Louis told me things I already knew as I brought him up to speed.

"Mate I don't remember a Valerie! I don't think I've ever been with a Valerie!" I told him thinking to my long list of one night stands. Even trying to conjure up relationships I had, but none of them brought up a Valerie.

"I have! Valerie's are great with hand job, just saying." Louis arched a brow as if he were thinking back to his explicit s*x life.

"Don't say that in front of the baby!" I furrowed my brow shaking my head of the thoughts.

"Listen, why don't we look her up on f*******:?" Louis asked me, pulling the empty bottle away from Asher who was aided in sitting up by Louis.

Reaching his arms out for me once again his features became pouty as he began to whine out for me.

"Alright little man, come here." I took him from Louis as he went straight into my chest and nuzzles his face into my shirt rubbing his eyes. Kissing the top of his head Louis went into his backpack and pulled out his laptop.

"Why would Valerie or K or whatever the hell her name is lie?" Louis puzzled as he logged onto f*******: and typed in the name Valerie Clements. Positioning Asher over my shoulder once he became restless I found burp rag near by and began to pat on his back.

"Maybe she doesn't want to be found." I said to Louis squinting at the screen to see all the results "Valerie Clements" pulled up. Nothing however looked familiar to me, none of the girls pulled up looked even remotely familiar at all.

"Well she's doing a damn well good job." Louis commented scrolling through the pages of all the different Valerie's until it became ridiculous.

"Whoever she is, she's not going to let us find her as easy as going onto f*******: and typing in her name." I explained hearing a burp come up and out of Asher's mouth.

"There has to be some way to track her down..." Louis thought putting a deep thought into how we could scheme to get Valerie out of wherever she was hiding.

"I just want to know why. Why did she leave him? Why didn't she tell me? Why now?" I told Louis while Asher sunk down into my chest and yawned grasping onto my t-shirt. It made it hard to lay him down when he did this and whenever I tried to pry him off he would end up waking up and realize what I was doing.

"I don't know, maybe she was broke off her ass, I mean why else would you leave your baby on someone's doorstep?"

"I'm not just someone, I'm his dad and she knew that. I just don't get where she ran off to, is she ever going to come back?" All these questions circulated around in my head. They were all unanswered and I couldn't help but let them float around in my mind.

"If she were a decent human being she would at some point! For hells sakes, it's her son!" Louis stressed as Asher calmed down further and began to close his eyes. "But then again you have been with some very questionable women."

"Oh and you haven't?" I shook my head giving him a look. Louis had been with more women then I have, although ever since we have had a baby in the house our dynamic has been different. There had been fewer hook ups then what it was. The baby had changed all of us.

"No, all my women have been respectable."

"Pfft.... Okay Louis, we can all pretend that's the case." I laughed thinking about some of the slutty girls stumbling out of here in the morning, hungover from the night before.

"You, yourself are questionable sometimes." I spoke again earning a glare and roll of the eyes from from Louis.

"At least I'm not the one with a baby." I laughed at me as I scoffed not able to compete with that. Looking down at Asher whose eyes were droopy, I was happy that he was finally resting. Maybe he would sleep all through the night now that he was napping so late.

"Wow shots fired!" I told Louis laughing it off and rubbing Asher's back. Even though I didn't picture my life to take a tail spin like this I could help but think it was for the better. Maybe this was a sign that I needed to figure my life out and straighten up since I had lived a life full of s*x and alcohol. Asher coming into my life was maybe teaching me a lesson about my own life.

note// who is your favorite character?;) thought I would double update!