Adopted by One Direction

Chapter 6

Sophie's POV:

I don't move a muscle, just sitting on Harry's lap staring down at my feet.

"Sophie, answer me" Liam says sternly when I don't say anything.

"I-I" I stutter with a shaky voice.

Harry starts stroking my back as if to encourage me to keep going. I flinch and starts shaking like a leaf, I know the punishment is coming so I just wait for the first blow.

"You don't need to be scared honey, just answer Liam's question" Harry says softly.

"C-can we just move on to the punishment please?" I ask with a small voice. I rather get it over with as fast as possible.

"Punishment?" Liam says confused.

I see him raise his hand so I immediately cover my face with my arms. I whimper quietly and wait for the pain, but it never comes.

"Sophie?" Harry says worriedly and moves my arms so he can see my face.

"Please don't hit me" I whisper and let the tears stream down my cheeks.

Both Harry and Liam looks so shocked it's almost funny.

"What? I would never hit you" Liam says while looking so broken.

"Please baby girl" he mumbles and moves me to his lap even if I flinch when he touches me.

All the boys move closer to me and have sorrow and pity for me written all over their faces. Liam cups my face with his hands looks me straight in the eyes.

"None of us will ever hit you or anything like that" he says seriously.

"We love you and we just want you to be happy here with us" Harry says and takes my hand.

I look at them unsurely, not knowing if I should trust them or not.

"Sophie" someone mumbles behind me. I turn my head to see Zayn sitting very close to me.

"We still want to know why you ran" he says. I take a deep breath before I answer.

"Because I can't go through another adoption again, I can't take it" I whisper and wipes away my tears.

"You don't have to, you're are daughter now" Niall says with a smile, "forever"

"What do you mean you can't go through it again?" Louis asks confused.

Liam's POV:

I can see how uncomfortable Sophie gets when Lou talks to her. We have understood that she has a troubled past but is it so bad she can't talk to us about it?

"You can trust us" I say and puts my hand on her knee.

She flinches like always and looks at me with teary, scared eyes. After staring at me for a few seconds she starts talking.

"I've been adopted four times before" she mumbles.

"They weren't exactly nice to me but I guess I deserved some of it"

"What did they do?" Harry asks looking absolutely heartbroken.

Sophie carefully stands up and turns her back to us. She slowly lifts her sweater so we can see her back and I immediately gasp and puts a hand over my mouth. To say I'm shocked is an understatement. None of the lads says anything, everyone looking just as shocked and terrified as me. Along with her whole back, Sophie has long red scars, like she has been whipped several times.

"It was my last guardians, a women and a man" she starts telling us.

"One day I didn't want to perform something they asked of me so I got punished. They whipped me for so long I lost count"