baby babbles - Chapter 3: Chapter 3

Zayn looked at his two year old as they continued to walk through the park. She held her ice cream against her lips and she was making a mess.
"I'ma throw it away daddy!" she announced and Zayn laughed shaking his head as he followed her over to the trash can lifting her up so that she could throw it away before setting her down. He bent down and turned away from her for one minute to get a napkin out of his ck pocket. When he turned ck around he spotted her dark head of hair bouncing away from him and into a crowd of people.
"Annabelle!" He screeched as he ran after her but she was already lost within the group of people and she was going right through them. She had to be running after something. But what on earth could she be running after.
"Annabelle Malik!" he shouted but that didn't seem to affect her at all she just kept wondering he wondered if she could even hear him over the shouts of people.
Niall had been wandering around his small Maltese dog on it's leash. He hadn't been paying to much attention trying to text and walk at the same time only for the dog to get out of his grip he cursed under his breathe and began to chase after the dog a frustrated look on his face.
"Buttons!" He hissed as he chased after the dog.
It wasn't long before Niall noticed a little girl chasing after the same ll of fur he seemed to be chasing after. It made him smile he adored kids and right now he wanted to scream because damn did that dog run fast.
Niall continued to jog after the dog as the small girl caught up to the small ll of Black fur and threw herself on it effectively causing the dog to stop and the little girl to squeal in delight.
"Puppy!" She giggled and Niall finally caught up to the small girl and his dog. He groaned slightly out of breath as he crouched down and took the leash ck in his grasp as he looked at the little girl who was clung to the dogs neck cooing about how pretty the puppy was.
"Hi there sweetheart, Thanks for catching my dog for me," He hummed appreciation to the small female and she looked up at him with her gigantic brown eyes. They took up most of her face and her hair was dark and up in to little pigtails. She gave him a smile that might as well outshined the sun at this point.
"Puppy!" She squealed again and
Niall nodded. He tied the leash to his wrist tighter than it had been before so now the dog wouldn't get away.
"Doggy d, Doggy ran away from daddy," Niall sighed as he looked at the black ll of fur and suddenly it was like a switch flipped and she began to frantically look around and shake her head as if she was looking for some one.
"Daddy?" She let out a small whimper tears starting to roll down her cheeks and Niall felt like his heart had just broken into a million pieces.
"Where is your daddy?" He asked quietly and she shook her head starting to cry even harder. Niall lowered himself down onto the ground sitting down against the ground and opening his arms.
"Why don't you sit down and play with Buttons and I until we find your daddy ok?" The little girl hesitated but sat down in the grass with the older man her arms going ck around the small black dog.
Zayn was still running around frantically but he'd lost his daughter he had no idea where she had gone. Lucky for him Niall as soon as they got seated had called the park official's and notified them that he'd found a lost child so when Zayn called only a few minutes later saying he lost his daughter they were able to direct him to the man that was sitting with his daughter.
Zayn broke through the crowd as he listened to the direction from the person on the phone finally spotting his daughter sitting with a blonde male and a small black ll of fur.
"ANNABELLE!" he shouted hanging up the phone he'd have to remember to thank them later. She glanced up from where she was sitting and the blonde looked up as well.
"Dada!" she cried as she jumped up and ran smacking into the males legs. He lifted her up into his arms and held her tightly. She was pretty small for being a two year old so he often doted on her.
He held her tightly to him his large hands covering her ck and pulling her against him his face pressed into her hair he felt like he could just sob. She'd run off and he'd almost lost her. His life was hard enough right now he didn't need to add losing his daughter to that list.
"Don't you ever run off like that again," He groaned into his little girl's ear slowly pulling his face away from her and looking at the man who had found her. He breathed and let him self take in the boys appearance. He was stunning his bright blue eyes and his blonde hair, he was fit very fit it was wonderful and he felt his own cheeks flush.
"Thank you so much," He was breathless from losing his daughter but he was also slightly breathless from the man in front of him.
"It's no big deal, She caught my dog so I suppose I should probly be thanking you," he laughed shaking his head. He seemed so carefree but his crystal clear blue eyes gave away that he had been a little worried about the girl.
"Daddy, Puppy!" She squealed as she turned away from his neck and pointed down at the black ll of fur. Zayn glanced down at the small dog before he laughed shaking his head his hands still shaking from when he'd lost his daughter.
"Yeah by that's a puppy," He hummed gently an exhausted look on his face. Niall frowned gently at the man's expression he was gorgeous beautiful brown eyes much like his daughters and his dark hair stood in a quiff and he couldn't help but bit his lip at the way the man was built.
"Daddy! Ni ni!" the little girl shouted and pointed to the blonde who couldn't help the small blush appear on his cheeks.
"Ni-ni Cool!" she declared putting her little hands on her hips and Zayn let out a small laugh.
"We keep?" She pouted and Zayn and Niall both let out a loud laugh.
"by Ni is a person, We can't keep him," And the pout that over came her features was enough to have any one cktracking.
"You can be his friend though," Zayn added in a rush to make the pout go away. Niall nodded eagerly as he held his arms out and the girl squirmed until her father handed her over to the blonde.
"Fwiends?!" She smiled brightly as she hugged her small arms around Niall's neck a little giggle falling from her lip. Niall couldn't help the small laugh that slipped from his lips.
"Best friends," he hummed in agreement. He adjusted her on his hip before glancing up at Zayn.
"I'm Niall by the way," He introduced and held his free hand out as the other continued to hold the small girl in his arms. Zayn smiled affectionately at his daughter before taking the blonde's hand. He had quite the cute Irish accent.
"I'm Zayn, that's my daughter Annabelle, She's two," He breathed out a small sigh when the girl released the stranger and crawled ck into her fathers arms setting her head against his head tiredly.
"Dada? Ni ni come ober fo nummies?" She asked quietly. Asking if Niall could come over for dinner later. She poked her bottom lip out and looked her father in the eye and Zayn groaned softly before nodding his head.
"Would you like to come to dinner with My daughter and I? We'd both really like it if you'd join?" Zayn asked a bit nervous having not asked any one out in over three years so it was always a little uncomfortable and the fear of rejection was like a huge ll in his throat.
"I'd love to," Niall hummed "Let me call my brother to come get the dog and I'd love to join you guys for dinner," He smiled.
Zayn felt his heart flutter having no idea what this little accident had started but he knew he was for whatever life brought his way and if Niall was what the world had to offer he was more than happy to accept.