Save ourselves- One Direction

Roxanne

The first time I had seen Hempton physically punish someone, I had been here merely three months. It had been a boy called Brendon Urie. He had been making fun of something with his buddy Spencer and hadn't done his job fast enough.

At the time he hadn't even shouted beforehand, he'd just picked up a club and hit him.

Brendon hadn't even had a chance to fight back against that bastard. And I had watched in horror.

Before, I had just thought that this camp was just boring as hell and no different from any other institution for the hard to educate.

But that day I learned that it was different here. Hempton was a bastard with a power complex and anyone who stood in his way would be broken. And since I also lost my temper once, Hempton also punished me and broke me.

After that I kept my head down and stayed out of his way for the most part. I thought that would be enough and that I could serve my 15 months in peace like that. But yesterday I had realized that even then I wasn't safe.

What Avery had done today had been stupid. She hadn't known what happened when you messed with Hempton. But she should have known that with Hempton there was no getting away with provocation.

Daisy and the boys might say it had been brave. But it wasn't. Because of her, Niall, Harry and Liam got hurt. And Avery was in the hole.

And Hempton had been mild with two days. Normally, he probably would have ordered five days.

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After Avery was taken away, Daisy and I, had taken Linda, Niall and Liam to the infirmary. Harry was dragged along by Louis as well, although he kept saying he was fine.

At the infirmary, Linda was the first to be examined. The baby had been under a bit of stress, but otherwise she was fine. However, she was to stay there overnight. Liam's condition was worse. He was given painkillers and had to stay there for the next two days. Harry was still lucky. He had a bump and some bruising on his ribs. Niall had bruised ribs and was to stay in the infirmary for at least a couple of hours until they could be sure no ribs were broken.

While Louis, Harry and I headed back, Daisy decided to stay a little longer because she wanted to be there for Linda, Liam and Niall.

At least that's what she said, but I believed it was more because she wanted to take the opportunity to spend time with Liam.

We made our way back in silence. We had been driven to there by a chaperone because it was quite a long way from our campsite. The infirmary was also a favored place to try to get away from the camp, as it was right in a courtyard outside the entrance gate. But as far as I knew, no one had ever managed it before.

Arriving at the campsite, the mood was downbeat.

Zayn, who had been waiting for us there, had Louis tell him how the others were doing. Then they built up the logs in our fireplace together so that we could start a fire later. Harry simply went to get dinner for us. Either he would ask Munch for a rifle or a fishing rod so that he could hunt or he would search for mushrooms and berries in the forest.

I, on the other hand, went a little way into the forest and started smoking a cigarette there. I had to let this whole day sink in.

I ran my fingers through my red hair. Fuck.

One year had gone by. There had been low points for me in this camp from time to time. Whether it was because of my father, who only realized much too late that I had done him a favor, or because the counsellors made my life miserable.