Read Between The Lines

Part 4

Zayn's POV

The car was silent, completely and utterly silent. Nobody spoke a word the only sound that could be heard was Niallers stomach occasionally interrupting the steady breathing coming from the rest of the lads.

Nobody had to say it, but we all knew what we were thinking about, the girl and the song and how the hell we could help her. We were staying in a hotel a mere 10 minutes away from where we found the girl, but for some reason the journey felt a lot longer because of the steady silence throughout the car.

Slipping through the door into our hotel apartment, I sat straight down on the couch and put my head in my hands. I needed to think. That song had so much emotion and was so pure, especially when she sang it. The thought just gave me Goosebumps all over again. We needed to find out more about this girl, if we could, I mean she wouldn't even tell us her name. And she did appear to hate us, the things she said to us were so vicious and thought out. Like she had been holding them in for so long and it was as if she almost expected to be able to say them to us one day. Sighing I got up and made my way to my room to shower calling out a soft 'goodnight' to the lads.

I slipped into bed, put my headphones in and listened to the song again, hearing it in the silence of the hotel apartment made it even more stunning, almost as soon as that thought entered my head I could feel the drowsiness seeping into my body and I let myself fall into a deep dreamless sleep.

The next morning I woke to find harry and Louis giggling over me, I instinctively touched my face and could feel the wet liquid from the water they chucked on me to wake me up. Hiding a grin from them I yelled 'Right that's it, Styles your gunna get it' and I was off chasing harry and Louis through the apartment. Heading into the kitchen I saw harry and Louis hidden behind a confused Liam. Thinking fast I yelled 'Liam there's a spoon over your head' the horrified look on his face was almost enough to make me cry from laughter but I held it together as I watched him duck. I then leapfrogged over him and tackled harry and Louis to the ground before they could even realise my master plan.

'Boobear, if we die like this, remember I will always love you' Harry said.

'And I will always love you!!!' Niall sang has he walked into the kitchen. That was it then I couldn't take it anymore I was still holding in all the laughter from Louis and Harry’s prank as well as Liam’s face and finally we all burst out laughing, rolling around on the floor in hysterics.  'I love you guys' I stated as I got up from the floor helping Louis up as I went. 'Do you love us enough to go shopping?' Louis asked. Hearing Niall screech 'YAY FOOD' I smiled and chuckled fondly, 'how could I say no to that?'

20 minutes later I was sat in the car almost at the shops. When suddenly I had the urge to get out and walk, I did just that and got out the car beginning to walk down the rough dirty streets. Pulling on some sunglasses and a hat, I saw some people in school uniform and realised that it was a Monday. God I sighed inwardly, I used to hate Mondays, they were endless. Always came around too quickly after the weekend and then stretched out endlessly before you. But that was before the lads and the band. They completely changed my life and I loved them for that.

Suddenly a shout of 'whore' pulled me out of my thoughts and I searched around looking for the source of the commotion. My eyes snapped up to see a group of 5 people stood around someone in a circle. Scrutinising the bully’s I saw they were all girls with incredibly short school skirts, and I concluded probably had bucket loads of make up on. Debating whether or not to go and help the person, I heard a ringtone go off and instantly recognised our hit song 'what makes you beautiful'. I grimaced in frustration as I realised that now however much I wanted to I couldn't go and help the person. As these sluts were probably fans and they could recognise me, meaning it might get messy.

So with a heavy heart I turned away and entered the co-op.

In what seemed like no time my arms were laden down with heaving bags as I inwardly cursed Louis and his insane love of carrots I regretted walking some of the distance to the co-op. I heard a honk and saw that my regret was unnecessary as the car was just up ahead so I wouldn't be carrying these bags for much longer.

Liam's POV

'Hunnies I'm home' Zayn yelped making us all jump off the comfy couch and crowd round him.

'Food' Niall gasped as he saw the Bradford boy laden down with masses of bags. 'CARROTS' Louis shouted as he cheekily kissed Zayn on the cheek. Man that boy was obsessed. Rushing over to Zayn I sent him a wink as I began taking bags from him 'get in' I mumbled. He hit me round the head as Louis shouted 'He is in'. Chuckling I turned around and began putting the food Zayn bought away.

After 20 minutes we had cleared all the bags and we were exhausted. Sitting down on the couch I overheard Zayn telling Niall about a commotion he saw outside the supermarket. I interrupted 'what supermarket did you say you went to Zayn?' A blank look crossed his face as he stated 'co-op'. Suddenly I became a lot more interested; I listened as Zayn started telling us all about the 5 people that were surrounding an unknown person.

I was instantly reminded of something as Zayn continued with the rest of his story. That girl in the alleyway, she was near the co-op when we found her singing that song. I tried to shake off the unease in my stomach but I had a random urge that this girl had something to do with this.

*Flashback*

Her head snapped up taking in the five of us before stuttering out 'Yo- Youu can't hurt me anymore then you already have' Even though she was merely 8 metres from us it sounded like her mind was being pulled from somewhere a lot further away.

*End of flashback*

That was it. The girl she was scared of us and thought we were the gang coming back to give her another... Another beating? I shuddered how could anyone be that cruel, I knew the girl was damaged and  me and the boys had vowed to help her but now I found myself speculating just how broken she actually was. 

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Hey guys next part is up! I really hope you like it was a bit of a filler chapter but gets you ready for whats to come. Keep reading I love you all <3