A 1D Member Will Be a Dad and My Soul Is Crushed — but Not For an Obvious Reason

Source: ITV

First Zayn left the band and now Louis is supposedly going to be a dad. My little One Direction-loving heart is just in shambles. Shambles, guys! I've said it before, and I'll say it again, being a One Direction fangirl is a rough (but rewarding!) life. As far as I'm concerned, you don't just casually like One Direction. You either go big or go home. So being as invested in this group as I am, this news has hit me but hasn't sunk in yet. I'm a bit of a wreck about it, but maybe not for the obvious reasons.

When Zayn left the group, my first thought was, "This is it. The boys are done." Jokes about Two Directions and Wrong Direction were flying around everywhere, and frankly, all those jokes were a bit tired and predictable, ya know? Also it's rude to kick a fangirl when she's down. But Harry, Liam, Louis, and Niall were there to assure fans that they weren't going to leave us. They talked big about recording new music and hitting the road and keeping the 1D spirit alive. So even though I still feared that this current tour would be the last one (I mean, why else would they end a world tour in their home country when all the other tours ended in the US?), I had hope.

Until today when Louis went and destroyed it. Soul = crushed.

If this news is true, and Louis is about to be a dad, I can't help but think this is truly the end of One Direction. I have no issues with him being a dad — I think he'd be good at it. (Have you seen him with his siblings? Adorable.) But if he wants to be the kind of dad who is present in his child's life during some extremely important years of babyhood, he's going to have very little time for the group. Then what would they do . . . continue on as three? Go on hiatus? Both of those options sound like crap if you ask me.

They should have gone out on a high note while they were on top rather than let themselves fall onto this slippery slope into insane drama. (Does Naughty Boy ring a bell?) The best they can do now is finish strong at the end of this tour and say farewell on good terms. Then Louis can go be a daddy, Liam can hang out with his giant dog, Niall can carry on being a soccer fangirl, and Harry can . . . well, Harry can just be Harry. As for me, I'll just be over here listening to my superdeluxe copy of Up All Night and not handling my emotions in an adult manner at all.