A/N: Some lovely person has requested this and as always, I aim to please so here you go! I decided to give it a fluffy ending tho. Also, I’m a Calum girl so ya’ll are getting me in my feels with these gifs
Calum was a busy man. Whenever he wasn’t in the studio writing songs with his friends, he was travelling the world, giving concerts, doing interviews, shooting music videos, doing all types of things that were expected of him as a musician.
So, he was definitely not expecting his first born. Actually, scratch that, he wasn’t expecting his girlfriend to be pregnant but they made a mistake and she had been. The first few months were rough. She was sore, tired and bloated and she wanted nothing more than to sleep throughout the whole day and with Calum travelling, things hadn’t been good between them.
When his first child was born, he wasn’t there. He hadn’t known either because she called him during a concert and he couldn’t answer his phone nor did he have it on him. So, naturally he was angry. Horrified. Frustrated. Nervous.
He was feeling so many things at that moment that he couldn’t explain and for a split second, he wondered what it would be like to just leave it all behind. Leave and never look back, but he knew this had been his doing as well. He couldn’t just leave her to deal with it alone.
So, he found the first plane ticket home and by the time he got to the hospital, his daughter was already wrapped in a pink blanket besides her mother. The both of them sound asleep. His heart thumped loudly. The little bundle opened her eyes and stared right at him. It seemed like the world had stilled and nothing else held enough of his attention. Nothing but her and he was sure, nothing could ever matter just as much as she did.
Weeks went by and they were aloud to bring their daughter home. To the lovely crib Calum had set up for her in the pink bedroom with the white drapes, chosen by her mother.
They were happy.
At least for the first days, then it all went downhill.
They had named her Lilo, which in Hawaiian meant the generous one. Lilo cried nonstop. Either because she wanted food, or a diaper change or because she was bored, had gas, had an ear infection, because she caught the flu. Either way, she was crying and Calum couldn’t hold it any longer so he began to leave. For days at a time until she was old enough to not cry as often.
But Lilo’s coming meant their relationship wasn’t like it used to be.Y/N grew tired of being left alone with a small child. She grew heavily tired of not sleeping and barely eating. She began to loose weight at a rapid pace and Calum noticed.
When Lilo was two months old, Y/N decided to call it quits. She was tired, fed up and hurt. Lilo was small, the greatest happiness of her life and yet Calum seemed to not reciprocate the feeling. He seemed to despise them both and Y/N was done with it.
One day, when Calum came home, she was standing there. Lilo being held against her hip as she carried two large bags on her other shoulder. Calum was stuck to the ground, keys hovering over the bowl and phone in hand as he froze mid-step.
“Where are you going?” The words came out jumbled. His hands started to shake and he dropped the keys. She was flushed. Lilo was leaning her had against her mother’s neck. He stepped forward to meet them halfway but Y/N dropped the bags and held her hand up.
“Away Calum. I’m not taking Lilo away from you, you can still see her whenever you feel like it, but this is it for me.” She took a deep breath and looked at her daughter for support. The child did nothing but play with a strand of her hair.
“Things aren’t the same anymore. Nothing is the same anymore. All you’ve been doing is leaving. For months, days, weeks at a time whenever you’re supposed to be home, and we barely see you anymore, so I figured, now you don’t have to leave the house to ignore us. You can come home now Calum, it’ll be empty with no one to bother you any longer.”
He was breathing heavily. He stepped forward fast enough for her not to stop him and wrap his arms around his girls. Lilo whined as he squeezed her too tight and pushed him away and the thought of her growing up pushing him away broke his heart.
“I’m sorry.” He whispered, biting down harshly on his lower lip. “I should’ve been here, but I was so scared! I wasn’t ready for this! And she never stopped crying and I couldn’t stop her so I panicked and I found the first easy way out.”
He pulled away, rubbing his eyes to keep the tears hidden from her.
“I didn’t --” He stopped himself and breathed in. “I don’t want you to go, please. We can fix this. Just -- I just -- Give me one more chance.”
She considered it for a second and nodded her head. Only for a brief second and if Calum wasn’t paying attention, he’d never even see it.
That night, he thanked her over and over again.
But history has a way of repeating itself.
And so, three years later , Kane was born.
Kane hadn’t been planned either and it seemed to only edged the both of them on to a never ending fight.
Whenever Kane wasn’t screaming, Lilo was.
Whenever the children weren’t screaming, the parents was and Calum found himself going back to old habits.
Y/N found herself alone at home with two screaming children and she did try. She tried her best to calm them down but nothing she ever did was working. Her nipples were sore from Kane biting on them so much, her shoulders hurt from how tense they were and she sometimes had difficulty moving her neck.
This time, she wasn’t expecting Calum to help, so she left.
She left before he could even get home so this time he couldn’t persuade her into thinking things were going to change. She knew nothing would ever change.
So when Calum came home two days later, he found it empty.
Usually, he’d be appreciative of the silence but this time around it meant something he knew had been long time coming. She left.
The photographs were gone, the small toys scattered across the living room were gone and Duke wasn’t the same around him any longer. The tiny animal seeming to understand how he had abandoned his family and began ignoring him.
He knew the guys were secretly helping Y/N but none of them mentioned anything to him. Still, he knew there was something he had to do, so he began rebuilding the nursery to fit a bunk bed. The crib to the left with white drapes over the windows. He bought his children everything they needed and then called Y/N to their house.
She was against it at first, but after some persistence, she agreed. He was standing in the middle of their brand new room when she showed up with Kane in his chair and Lilo in her lap. He immediately took the girl from her arms and peppered her face in kisses. His little tiny bundle of joy.
The same one who always yelled daddy! as soon as stepped foot inside. The same one who rambled nonstop about the things she did and learned that day. The same one who made him cereal for breakfast because she thought daddy needed food.
And he had done nothing but take her for granted.
“We’ve been down this road before.” He placed Lilo on the ground and let her roam the room. Kane was sleeping in his chair. “Nothing I can say will fix the thousands of things that are wrong with our relationship at the moment, but I can try. I’ve been a lousy boyfriend and a lousy person these past years and I know you resent me for it so I want to change that. I want to prove that I’m someone you can trust and if it takes thousands of years to do so, then I’ll wait. We can have another 20 kids that I will never leave you alone again. I’m sorry. Cross my heart.”
He knew things weren’t okay between them even the slightest but when Y/N smiled and promised to try, he felt like his heart was going to explode.
And he thought that maybe, just maybe, having a family wasn’t half as bad as he thought.
Can you please do something with Calum and Y/N being pregnant with their 2nd child? You can do it whatever you like 🌼
I sure as hell can lovely! Will post it in a second! I’m sorry for not posting it as a response to your requests but I honestly feel more comfortable in just making a post with it. Thank you for enjoying my work tho!
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