Never Forget

Stand Together

        Louis and Harry got to my house first. Louis grabbed me and hugged me when they got inside of the house. "Hey girl. Haven't seen you in forever." 

        I smiled, it was a real smile. "I know right?" I said.

        Harry opened his arms and I hugged him. I noticed both him and Niall were eyeballing each other but were friendly. I hated to see the two of them upset over something as insignificant as a girl, it made it even worse knowing that the girl was me. Luckily Zayn walk into my house right when things had gotten really awkward. He never knocked when he came over to my house, but it didn't bother me in fact I'd be okay wih it if all of the boys looked at my house like it was just as much theirs. I hugged him and we all sat down in my living room. "So we basically wanted everyone's opinions on what we've heard. They said that someone said that Josh had gone home before they did. Did any of you talk to anyone?" Liam said being the leader he always was.

         We all lightly shook our heads. "Why would they say someone had said something is they hadn't?" asked Harry.

        "Exactly." I said "That's what we're wondering, what are they pulling?"

        "Maybe they just didn't want to deal with the case." Niall said getting annoyed.

        Louis looked at Niall, "Why would they just put a case away without at least trying to find out as much as they could about it?" he asked.

        "Well what are you all saying? Do you think they know something? If they knew we'd all be in jail." Niall said.

        Zayn looked at each of us and then back to Niall "I'm worried that someone else covered for us." he said.

        "I hadn't thought of that." Niall said.

        "Who would cover for us though?" I challenged.

        "Who was the last person to leave that night?" Harry asked.

        "I think it was Andy." Liam said.

        We all looked at Liam. "Would he do that?" I asked.

        "I don't know." He admitted.

        "Why wouldn't they want to talk to us as well?" Louis asked.

        "Maybe whoever it was, if it was Andy. Maybe he said something to make them let us off of the hook." Zayn said.

        "Why don't we find out?" I asked.

        "How?" Harry asked.

        "Well," I said, "Let's have diner tonight and invite Andy over. He's bound to slip something if they talked to him."

        Liam looked around the room, "I'll ask him." he said. Liam pulled out his phone and wrote a text. We all sat in suspense when his phone went off we all stared at him while he read the message and sent something back. "He'll be here around five." 

        "That's a long time." I said.

        "That will give us enough time to decide how to get things out of him without him finding out about what happened." Niall said.

 

        The time had passed really slowly we waited and did our best to hold a conversation. Andy got to the house right at the time that he said that he would. I opened the door and hugged him, he looked closer to himself than any of us did but he still didn't look quite right. Andy and I walked into the dining room where the boys were "Hey Andy." all the boys said trying to act natural.

        "Hey guys." he said sitting down at the table. 

        Liam stood up and whispered to me "Breath, it's going to be fine."

        I nodded. The boys began a conversation and Liam and I went to the kitchen to cook. I was mashing potatoes and Liam was checking the meat when Andy walked into the kitchen. Liam and I both paused and looked at him. "Hey love, you alright?" I asked.

        He looked at me "You can calm down. I know what's going on." Andy said. Liam and I both looked at each other. "I just want answers. What happened that night?"

        I looked at Liam who was pale and no where near ready to talk about it. "It was an accident." I said thinking back to that night. I looked at Andy "None of us meant for anything to happen. Josh got mad for no apparent reason, Liam tried to calm him down and Josh fell."

        "Why didn't you tell someone?" Andy asked.

        "Partly because we were intoxicated. Partly because we were afraid of what people would say. The boys are roll models, what would that tell kids? That it's okay to let things go too far?" I asked.

        Andy looked at me "Why didn't you take the blame then? I had to go into a police station and be pried at because they thought I knew something. I knew it was all of you and I had to cover for you." he said.

        "You're right. I should have." I said.

        "No." Liam finally spoke up. "She had no reason to take the blame for that. It wasn't her fault."

        Andy and I both looked at Liam. "Where is he?" Andy asked looking at me again

        "Why does that matter now?" I asked.

        "I don't know, maybe because we're all stuck in this now." Andy snapped.

        "You know we didn't want that." I said.

        "No, but it's the way it worked out. If I'm lying for you then I deserve to know what you did." Andy said.

        "We took him out to the middle of no where and buried him." I said.

        "Do you honestly believe that no one will find him?" Andy asked.

        "Yes." I said.

        "Alright." Andy said "I trust you."

        I looked at Liam, "Can we just pretend like nothing happened?" Liam asked.

        "We have to." I said looking back to Andy.

        Andy looked at both Liam and I "It never happened." he agreed.

        

        I pushed pass Andy and walked into my dining room. I looked at the boys that were sitting at the table. "He admitted to it." I said.

        Louis looked at me "He was the one that talked to them?" he asked.

        I nodded, "We're home free because of him."

        "Wow." Harry said "I think we really ow him."

        "We do." I admitted. 

        Liam and Andy carried the food out to the table and we all sat down to eat. I knew Andy was annoyed that I hadn't taken the blame for what happened, but he did his best to hide it. We tried to act like nothing was wrong with any of us although we knew better. We laughed but it didn't fell genuine. But I think that we all found out that no matter what we had to stand together.