alleyway [h.s]

chapter 7

*this chapter contains violence*
this chapter will switch from Ruby's and Harry's POV

HARRY'S POV

It was currently 11:30 am and Ruby is still sleeping. Unless she's too scared to come down here and she's just staying in the guest room. Either way, she's still up there. Today, I have to drive her to her place so she can pick up some things she needs. Hopefully she's not too fucking stubborn and argues with me to stay at her house and that she doesn't want to come back with a "dick" like me. I really wasn't trying to be a dick to her, but I'm so used to being one with the boys that it's become a habit I guess. But fuck, she can be really god damn annoying when she argues or asks tons of questions.

We still haven't heard anything from Luca after last night. Who the fuck knows how long we'll have to wait and how much longer I'll have to put up Ruby. It's good though that Niall is less of a dick to her than I am, she seems comfortable enough around him for us to talk to her about what is going on. I don't know why they automatically volunteered for her to stay at me place. They know that I like being alone, as a private person. Fucking assholes.

I decided to make my way back upstairs from where I was sitting in my living room. I found myself curious on what Ruby was doing and if she was actually still sleeping. As I got in front of her door, I couldn't hear any movement so I slowly cracked the door open a bit, just enough so I could see inside the room, to see her still sound asleep on her right side so I could see her face perfectly, curled up in the sheets. Instead of closing the door and walking off, I found myself frozen in the doorway staring at her. She looked so peaceful, not stressed at all right now. Her hair slightly messy on the pillow, her right arm pressed against her chest, her left hand tucked under the pillow. Her lips were slightly parted as she was breathing. I couldn't see the rest of her body due to the blankets that stopped at her waist. After a few more moments, I backed up and closed the door, making my way to my own room.

I sat down in the chair black leather I had there and scrolled through my phone. After a while, I shut my phone off and tossed it on my bed. I shut my eyes, still in my chair, and just waited. Waited for Ruby to wake up.

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RUBY'S POV

I started to toss and turn, as my eyes slowly opened, my view a little blurry at first. At stretched my arms and legs then reached for m phone on the bed side table.

12:30pm

I don't know what time I feel asleep last night, feeling slightly in edge and uncomfortable being here, but it must've been around 2am or 3am at the latest. That gave me roughly around 10 hours of sleep. I never wake up this late, but I was really tired after everything that happened recently, ever since that night in the alleyway. I found myself tossing and turning all night, every night, getting a couple hours of sleep a night.

It had been a week and a half since my so called vacation that my boss so kindly suggested to me. Which meant that I have to go back next week, today being Saturday. I don't think I was able to though. Because if this whole situation. If I wasn't aloud to sleep in my apartment, in my own bed, no way was I able to go to work out in public where anyone can come in. I'd have to ask Harry if I can stop by work today and make up lies to tell my boss because I couldn't exactly tell her "oh hey, Vanessa, yea I won't be able to work for a while because I met this group of drug dealers/murderers and I've been chased down by some man's body guards and I can't be seen in public because that's risking me possibly getting killed."

I hate lying to people I know and trust. And I'm a terrible liar anyways so it never works out for me. My mom always told me that she knows when I'm lying because I can't look the person I'm lying to in the eyes. I always look down to my feet which I never even noticed. So, my whole childhood, I couldn't lie without being caught, but I had to try today.