My promise to him

Chapter 10

Louie's P.O.V

Em suddenly goes limp in my arms and I hold her tighter. I turn to Olly, "I think we're going to need an ambulance too," I say feeling her go cold all of a sudden. 

"Yeah Franks in a pretty messed up state," he says grinning. "No, no, I mean Em, I-I don't think she's breathing..." I say lowering her to the ground. "What?" Olly says dropping to his knees next to her. He tries to wake her up, "Em, Em c'mon, hey? What are you doing?"

No response. 

He shakes her and more panicky he says, "Em, Em, please wake up, please, c'mon?" She doesn't move. "She's not breathing," I say trying to feel for a pulse on her neck but failing to find any. He looks at me panicking. "Louie, Louie what do we do?" I touch her face but she still doesn't flinch.

"Call mum tell her to meet us at the hospital," I say grabbing my phone from my pocket and flinging it at him. "Shall I call an ambulance?" he asks me hurriedly. "No, we don't have time, can you drive?" I say throwing him the keys. He nods shoving them in his pocket and putting the phone to his ear. I shove my jacket off my shoulders and wrap it round her shoulder before bringing her into my chest and lifting her up, "you're going to be fine Em I promise," I murmur under my breath, praying that it will be true. 

There's a thud at the door as Frank tries to escape and I hold her closer to me.

Zack comes back upstairs, "The police are on their way-"he stops, "What happened," he says rushing up to Em. "We're taking her to the hospital, can you guard the door and tell the police what happened?" I say already starting to make my way downstairs taking two steps at a time. 

He just about is able to nod. A few seconds later, Olly follows me down, "He's gone!" he shouts. I turn around, "What the hell do you mean he's gone?" I say. Opening the car door and carefully placing Em inside. "He must have gone out of the window, I'm going to stay with Zack and hunt him down, he might go after mum, you take Em to the hospital and I'll meet you there." He says throwing me the keys. 

I nod already jumping into the driving seat and starting up the engine.

Zack's P.O.V

I run past Olly, anger pulsing inside of me. I know where he would off gone. He'll be with the others pretending like nothing happened, giving himself an alibi while Emma is in hospital. My heart pounds against by chest, hard, I can't let him get away with it, not again. 

It's my fault, I knew about him, well I didn't know it was this bad, but I knew stuff was happening between them. I should've told someone, I should have sorted all of this out, put a stop to it as soon as I knew.

"Zack," I hear Olly call, running after me but I don't stop. He catches up with me, "W-Where are you going? We're supposed to be looking for Frank," he says as he paces after me down the path. "I know where he's gone, don't you see, he's making himself an alibi by being with everyone when they come back, and the police are here, and plus I want to kill him before the police do get there," I say, the anger like adrenaline pumping through my veins.

He nods running with me, "Shit! Mate, I think you're right," he growls.

We turn the corner and I feel Olly tense up and I spot him in the distance laughing along and joking with the other parents. "Take your mum, she needs to be with Emma, I'll hold him back, we've just got to keep him here till the police arrive," I say between breaths. 

We make it to the table where they are sat. Luckily, Frank hasn't noticed. He has his arm strung around Emma's mum's shoulder which makes Olly tense. Olly goes in first eyeing Frank, "Mum come here," he shouts shoving frank's arm from her and lifting her back away. 

Frank grabs her arm, so I lunge behind grabbing Frank by the collar and slamming him to the floor. Olly drops down grabbing his arms and pinning them above Franks head as he struggles to break free. "What are you doing-"I hear Emma's mum scream making me lose my grip and Frank kicks me in the stomach hard.

I groan in pain as I stumble back on the floor as my dad takes the chance and grabs me by the arms pulling me back, "Zack, what the hell, what happened?" he yells at me. I push away to see Olly fall to the floor hard and call my name as Frank punches him, trying to break free. 

I shove my dad's arms of from me and tackle Frank to the floor and pin him back, "Call the police," I shout, struggling to hold him down, Olly helps me and a few minutes later I hear sirens and the police rush in pulling us all apart. They immediately come in holding Frank to the floor. 

 I watch as handcuffs are attached to mine, Olly and Frank's wrists. I fall back to the floor breathing quickly, my chest is killing me, but it was still worth it. I look over at Frank, he's cowered over in pain, blood trickling down his face, and smile as Olly catches my eye. He's holding his wrist but other than that he looks fine. 

He grins at me as we watch Frank get pulled away first. My chest pounds in pain but I barely notice it until my dad grabs me by the collar, "Tell me what the hell is going on." I wince in pain collapsing to the floor. I turn away from him looking at Emma's mum crying on the floor.

"Emma- Emma in hospital with Louie," I groan in pain barely being able to make the words out, "Frank attacked her, he-he's been doing it all along," I say falling back to the floor as the police come and haul me up of the ground. 

I look at their stunned faces before I'm shoved in the car next to Olly who pats me on the back wincing but smiling. I smile back.