Infinity

Chapter 25

Carra's POV:

I climbed into my car and drove. I drove for what felt like forever. Finally needing to stop for fuel, I pulled into a small gas station in the middle of nowhere. The sign on the side of the road a few yards ahead of me read '10 miles to St. Louis'. I was at least two hours away from home. I filled my car, keeping my phone in my hand as I scanned the gas station. It was kind of run down and there was only a few men here. The men looked to be in their 40's and were kind of chubby. Their cars were parked to the side of the gas station's parking lot.

My head spun as my phone rang. It was Niall.

I let it ring.

I went to the cash register and waited for the guy to ring up the few things I had grabbed. Niall tried calling again. The cashier looked at my phone as it rang and I let it.

"Boy trouble?" He asked.

"Um, yeah." I said.

"Did that say Niall?" The guy asked. I looked at him. He was younger then the men outside the gas station. He looked to be in his late 20s and had just a shadow of a beard. His dark drown hair swept across his face as he turned his head sharply at the door opening.

"Hey Pretty Thing." one of the guys from outside said to me.

I ignored him. "As in Horan?" I asked the cashier.

"Yeah, that geek from the gay boyband." he said.

I wanted to slap him.

"They are not geeks, or gay!" I said.

"Was that him?" He seemed surprised.

"Yes, we are friends. I have to go." I said, watching as the guy that came in walked around me and stood by my side. Another guy came into the station and stood by my other side.

"How old are you Pretty Thing?" the first guy asked me.

"Umm, 17." I said warily. The cashier stood there, so confused, not saying a word, and observing everything happening in front of him.

"What's this?" Asked the other guy, reaching over and pulling down the left side of my sweater to see the tip of my scars peeking out. I swatted away his hand and snarled for him to not touch me.

"Pretty Thing's got some scars." Said the first guy. He reached up and grabbed my wrist.

"Let me go." I said, pulling and trying to get out of his grip. I broke my hand loose and I bolted out of the gas station. I got into my car and peeled out of the parking lot. Back on the highway, I watched the road signs tell me which ways to go as I got closer to St. Louis.

After parking in the parking lot for the mall in St. Louis, I hopped out of my car and into the doors with 'Hot Topic' on the sign above. I made my way through the aisles and found myself in front of their body jewelry section. I looked through their collection of tongue rings and thought about getting another one.

Surprise! I got my tongue pierced when I was 16. I pulled it out before we went on our vacation and haven't been able to find it since.

Finally deciding to go for it, I grabbed a plain tongue ring and then went to look around. I looked through their shirts and decided on a white crop tank top with Ariel pulling on her hair on the front. I went to check out and something caught my eye.

Hot Topic had a One Direction display set up with a bunch of One Direction merchandise. I walked over to it and started to look through the t-shirts.

After going through the t-shirts, I went around the other side and my heart flipped. They had One Direction varsity jackets!! I looked for one in my size and found it. It had 1D on the front where the sports logo would go and on the back was the boys' last names.