- April -
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I gasped when I hear a door swing open and closed from above.
"There he is." Zayn smirked, nearly just kicking Liam out of the way so he could get through the door.
I felt almost.. Bad, for killing him. I'd feel bad, even if it was just anyone. I was never a killer. Until now, though.
Harry pulled me towards him as I gulped.
I barely hear the conversation that they're having as we all remained silent.
I hear the footsteps coming back, as I watched Zayn come back in, along with the guy behind him. He didn't look as scary as Zayn, but looks may be deceiving..
He had a frown on his face, as he looked at Zayn.
"Niall, these are all the girls. And--"
"Who's the girl? And Harry.'' He tilted his head in confusion, his blue eyes also showing confusion.
Instead of trying to kill us, he does what I really didn't expect.
He snatches Zayn's gun, and hits him in the back of the head with it as my eyes widened.
"What the hell Zayn, that is no way to treat a lady! You shot her?" Niall narrowed his eyes at the boy as I look at Harry in confusion.
He just shrugs slowly, not really knowing what he was up to either. "L-Liam shot her."
"I'm sorry, about Zayn. He's stupid sometimes." He shakes his head. "So is Liam, where is the lad by the way."
"Dead, mate." Zayn replied as he nods slowly.
"Good riddance. Who killed him?"
"This one did." He smirked at me, as Niall looked at me in surprise.
I couldn't help but notice his thick Irish accent, I mean it was like an elephant in the room. I couldn't seem to just ignore it.
"What's your name?" He asked so nicely, I was even more confused on why they called him the big boss.
"A-April." I stammered.
"Oh. Well, you two look beaten. Stupid Zayn, am I right. Hey, I think you owe them an apology." Niall glared at Zayn who had a frown on his face.
"Yeah, sorry.'' He said insincerely, as I looked at Niall. Just by the look on Harry's face, I knew he didn't trust him. So why should I even think about it?
Niall slowly kneeled down in front of me, observing me. "Come 'ere sweetheart, don't be scared." He spoke softly as Harry immediately takes my hand.
"No." He tells Niall, as I remained frozen.
He chuckled slightly. "Let me guess, protective boyfriend?"
"Wannabe boyfriend." Zayn corrected, making both of them laugh.
Harry was angry, as I felt him grip my hand.
I glanced at him reassuringly, telling him to relax. If he didn't and if they both got ticked off.. That would probably end all our chances of trying to actually escape.
"It's about noon, do you guys want some lunch?" Niall smiled, as Zayn nudged him.
"This isn't your fucking call, Zayn. Just go back upstairs. I'll bring these two along with me." He spoke lowly at him as he gulped.
Was Zayn scared too?.. This told me a lot, then.
"Come on, I don't bite. Unless you bite it first." Niall smirked at his saying, as Harry made a face of disgust. "Come on, you two can get all your wounds cleaned up too."
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Harry had slung an arm over my shoulder as I helped the boy upstairs.
Although before I had left, I gave Perrie and Jade the look that said Harry and I would get them out of here. All of them. We just had to find the precise time to..
"Here you go guys, give you two some alone time." Niall had a slight smirk on his face but he tried to hide it.
"Are you fucking serious.'' Harry dryly laughed as the smirk faded. "You think we actually believe this bullshit act, if you think we do then you're just stupid."
"Don't, test me mate." Niall said menacingly, as he grabbed Harry's face in his hand to make Harry look at him.
"Let him go." I whispered softly, avoiding eye contact.
"Be out in ten minutes, Zayn's got a loaded gun.'' He said before making his way down the hall and disappearing.
"Come on." Harry sighed as he pulls me into the bathroom and closes the door behind him. I lock it, as I breathed out, looking around frantically.
My eyes immediately catch an open window, as I glanced at Harry. He seemed to be looking at it too, thinking the same idea.
Harry begins to quietly rummage through the drawers and found nothing else useful, except for a large pair of scissors. They would do.
"Hey, here." Harry whispers, picking up one of the towels and slowly tying it around my shoulder. "Just keep pressure on it."
I nodded, as we both sat there in silence, still trying to take everything in.
"I.. We have to help those girls, Harry."
"What? No. No it'll just risk more than it has to."
"We can call the cops, once we get everyone out safely."
"So what. So they can find me? So I can go back to my old life? I hated that life, April. I'm not going back to it just to save all those girls." His voice was barely above a whisper.
"You know, think about other people for once okay? Not just yourself." I blurted out. I'm still phased by how I got myself to stand up to him.
"I'm thinking of you okay. Is that not enough. I want you safe." He neared me, our faces inches away in this not so spacious bathroom. I felt as if the walls were slowly closing in on us. But it was just my mind.
"Harry, please." I whispered. "We can figure it out. You don't have to get caught, if you don't want to. Think about all those innocent girls, Harry. We can't leave them with Niall and Zayn." I shook my head.
He sighs, closing his eyes. "Okay look, we have seven minutes left before Niall comes back and knocks on this door so we have to move as quickly as possible. I want you to do exactly as I say and we'll get out of here safely, okay? There's a white van parked up front, and I think it's Niall's. When I walked inside, I noticed the car keys right on the kitchen counter. If I can make a run for it with those keys, I can drive to the back where there's an opening right below your friend's bed. It's a vent that leads to the outside." He explained quietly, as I managed to digest every single word he was saying.
"Perrie's bed." I remembered the opening that could fit a human body through, although barely. We'd have to crawl it.
Harry nods as I bit my lip anxiously.
"And what if they follow us." I whispered.
"I'm going to try and get ahold on one of their guns. As soon as Niall comes back, I'm going to take my chances and get out."
"No, th-they can easily take you. It's two against one."
"Hey, not if we're in this together." He tells me, as my eyes flicker to his face. His pink and slightly plump lips pressed against each other in concentration as his tongue strided out slowly.
Before I can even process what I was doing, Harry leaned in tentatively as his delicate lips met mine quite harshly. I breathed in, as our lips moved in sync for a little. This time, I wasn't uneasy.
Pulling away with a startled look on my face, he pushed his brown hair back with a hand as he smiled lopsidedly, his dimples prominent.
My stomach did a few flips, and I knew what this was..Butterflies? Or was it just my uneasiness slowly coming back to me?
"Some motivation, for you." He says, as I felt my lips slowly curl up into a small smile.
"Let's do this." I breathed out slightly.
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Harry had lifted me so I could climb through the window as I looked at him once more.
"Promise me you'll make it out."
"I will. I promise." He reassured me, as my eyes locked with his once more.
Nodding once, I hopped out quietly as the leaves rustle under my shoes. Closing my eyes, I exhaled, hoping and praying that none of them just heard that.
Jogging to the back of the old and abandoned house, I had scanned the large stone wall.
Immediately spotting the opening, I ran towards it. Hastily, I fumbled with the opening as I forcefully pulled at it so it could open. "Come on." I spoke to myself. "Come on, come on." I was nearly whining in frustration that I couldn't even get it open.
I gasped when it withdrew, as I dropped it to the side. Crawling in as quickly as I could, my breathing became shaky.
Seeing the light and seeing the same room that I was previously in, I pushed hardly at the screen. It opened with a budge, as everyone looked startled.
I held a finger to my lips in sign for them to be quiet as Perrie gasped.
"Okay, we're all going to get out of here." I tell all of them in a whisper. "Just follow me and I promise we can get out of here, safely."
"Harry is getting the car," I tell Perrie as I unchained her, following Jade.
"Oh my god." Jade beamed, just happy that we were all finally going to get out of here.
"No one will call the police." I say loud enough so everyone can hear me.
"What?" A girl frowned. "You're telling us all that we aren't going to turn in those criminals?"
"No, no we aren't. We're killing them, and that's that, okay." I say as Perrie began to unchain the others. Once I finished with Jade, she began to do the same as quickly as possible.
In about two minutes time, all nineteen girls were unchained. This time I had counted precisely.
"Okay, come on w--"
"Going somewhere?" A voice behind me said as I turned around quickly.
Liam.. Apparently, the two shots didn't kill him, but it did weaken him.
Backing away, my eyes widened. Motioning the girls, they began to go through the opening that I had gotten through as they crawled out.
"Do you not see what Zayn's doing to you?" I began to stall as Perrie stayed by my side. Jade looks at me before she had crawled behind all the other girls.
"He's my friend." He simply says.
"What kind of friend does this? He's overbearing, and he doesn't care at all. He thought that you were dead! And he didn't shed one single tear, okay. He was using you. You were his puppet, and he used you." I say, shaking my head. "And you know it."
"April, we have to go." Perrie tells me, as I glared at Liam.
"Clear your head a little, and think about it." I say, as Liam had shakily pointed his gun at me.
"Never tell me what to do."
This time, he cocked the gun and pulled the trigger without hesitation at all. I gasped, my hands immediately covering my stomach as I thought it had hit me.
But no..
The bullet had gone through Perrie.