No memory-5sos-ot4

Chapter 14

Ashton sat on the floor of his basement bedroom, but it wasn't much of a bedroom anymore, it was more of a torture chamber now. His hands were chained painfully above his head to the wall, he had bruises covering his body from head to toe, blood stained the clothes we was wearing, and his right ankle hurt so bad, almost as if it was broken. All of the clothes and nice things that Michael, Luke, and Calum had bought him had been burned and destroyed, including his glasses. The could hear his parents guests above him all the time but he couldn't get their attention as he had a gag locked tightly in his mouth. He really hoped that Michael, Luke, and Calum got the hidden message in his letter, because if not he wasn't sure what would happen to him. He was so hungry and thirsty having been unable to eat or drink much since being back with his parents. He was also so tired but he was afraid to sleep, fighting it off until he literally couldn't anymore. His eyes closed and he fell into an uncomfortable, dreamless sleep.

"Get up." Someone said kicking Ashton in the stomach.

Ashton forced his eyes open and looked up at his dad.

"You're being sold today." His dad said taking the gag out of his mouth.

"Sold?" Ashton asked and he didn't even recognise his own voice.

"Yeah. Sold. You go to the highest bidder, we get money and also get of rid of you for good." His dad explained harshly.

"To who?" Ashton asked.

"I don't fucking know. Nor do I care, he's paying good money." His dad said undoing the chains from Ashton's wrists.

Ashton's dad harshly yanked him the stairs not caring that Ashton's ankle felt like it was on fire. Ashton felt loopy and a bit light head from lack of sleep as well as food and water. His dad pushed him into someone's arms, took the money then slammed the door. Ashton felt himself being picked up and eventually placed into a vehicle.

"Hey, Ashton, how are you feeling?" Liam asked, sitting next to Ashton.

Ashton blinked a couple of times before recognising who he was.

"Horrible. What's going on?" Ashton asked.

"Well, for now you're coming to mine and Zayn's house as I need to make sure you're going to be okay. But after that you get to go home to Mike, Cal, and Luke. Which they're at mine and Zayn's currently." Liam said.

"I'm so confused." Ashton said.

"Just, relax a bit for now, you'll be okay." Liam promised.

The moment Zayn pulled into his and Liam's driveway Michael was running out of the house and to the truck. He opened the back door, very carefully picked Ashton up and carried him inside to the room Liam told him to.

"Okay, as much as I hate to tell you this, you're going to need to leave the room for a while." Liam said.

Michael didn't want to but he did as told and went to the living room where Luke and Calum were.

"He didn't look very good." Michael said sitting next to Luke and Calum on the floor.

"He didn't?" Luke asked.

"No." Michael said.

Calum laid his head in Michael's lap, yawning as he became sleepy, curling into a ball. Three hours, it took three hours before Liam was able to give them an answer on Ashton.

"He'll be just fine. Extremely exhausted, a little malnourished, and dehydrated but just fine. His ankle is also broken but he'll be okay." Liam said.

"Are you sure?" Luke asked.

"Yes. He's currently sleeping. You can go in the room as long as you don't wake him up, he most definitely needs this sleep." Liam said.

Michael, Luke, and Calum, who has woken up, went to the room Ashton was in. There was a couch bed in the room that had been pulled out prepared for Luke, Michael, and Calum so they could stay with Ashton until he was better. Michael and Luke fell asleep pretty quickly but Calum just couldn't so instead he sat across the room, on the windowsill, quietly playing with his stuffed animal as he sucked on his dummy.

"Cal, baby, why are you up?" Ashton's hoarse voice said catching Calum's attention.

"Me touldn't sweep." Calum said looking at Ashton.

Ashton motioned for Calum to come and lay down with him, which he did, careful not to hurt Ashton in anyway.

"Is you otay?" Calum asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Ashton said.

"Weally?" Calum asked.

"Really." Ashton said.

Calum wiggled himself beneath the covers with Ashton and carefully curled up into his side.

"Is dis otay?" Calum asked softly, looking up at Ashton through his long eyelashes and bangs.

"Yes." Ashton said, loosely wrapping his arms around Calum.

Calum end up finally falling asleep but Ashton couldn't, he was almost afraid that if he did he'd wake up in the basement even though he knew to some level that he wouldn't. However, Ashton did eventually end up falling asleep again which was for the best as he really needs sleep. Ashton heard hushed whispers and quiet giggling so he opened his eyes to see Calum laying on the couch bed giggling at something he was watching on Luke's phone, and Michael was talking to someone at the door, Luke was still asleep.

"Mikey." Ashton said getting Michael's attention.

"Good morning, Princess, how are you feeling?" Michael asked turning to him.

"Hungry. And thirsty." Ashton said.

"Okay well Zayn is fixing all of breakfast which will be done soon." Michael said carefully sitting on the end of the bed.

"I'm still not really sure how I got away from my parents. I wasn't entirely coherent." Ashton said.

"We got your letter that you sent us and we instantly began looking into your parents. It took us a little while but we eventually found out that they were selling you to the highest bidder, which is disgusting. But anyways, we made sure that we were the highest bidders and had Zayn and Liam pick you up since Liam is a doctor and they would've recognised me and Luke." Michael explained.

"So my letter worked?" Ashton said.

"Yeah. It was really clever and smart." Michael said.

"Can I get some water?" Ashton asked.

"Oh yeah. I'll go get it." Michael said getting up.

Michael left the room but quickly returned with a cup of water.

"Are you going to kill my parents?" Ashton asked after taking a pretty large gulp of water.

"Well, we haven't really decided yet." Michael said.

"I want to do it." Ashton said.

"What?" Michael asked.

"I want to be the one to kill them." Ashton said.