Run (One Direction) [Watty Awards 2012]

Chapter Ten

 Louis

“He's got to be here somewhere” Zayn says. “He wouldn't just leave.”

I realise that I'm not breathing, and I gulp down some air.

“I'll look for him” Preston says. “Stay here.” He leaves, and I wonder what he's thinking.

Probably the same thing as me.

Nobody would have kidnapped Harry.

He's got to have just wandered off.

“D'you want to go upstairs?” Liam asks Callin.

“I . . . whatever” she says.

Her eyes are on me.

I feel like she can read my mind or something.

That she knows that, as soon as the others are in bed, I'm going to go look for Harry.

Liam supports her up the stairs, and they head into his room.

Niall and Zayn don't move.

“After everything that's happened, he has to do this now?” Niall asks.

I fall back onto the couch.

This is going to be a long wait.

-

Callin

“You really don't mind?” Liam asks me. “I mean, you hardly know me.”

“It's no problem” I tell him. “You seem like a nice person.”

He's silent until we get to his bedroom.

“Bed on the left” he says, and he turns like he's going to leave.

“Liam?” I ask.

“Yeah?”

“What's going on with you and Louis? Why are you mad at him?”

Liam sighs, and turns to face me.

“It's a long story” he says. “But . . . he scared us all really badly for awhile.”

I don't press him.

He obviously doesn't want to talk about it.