Adopted

Chapter 41

*Riley's POV*

"STOP!" I screamed. "STOP! Dad stop, please stop, I'm begging you." I sobbed.

He started punching me harder.

"If anyone asks, fag, you got beat up on the streets." He sneered in my ear. He kept hitting my face until he moved on to my stomach. He hit me so hard, I lost my breath for what seemed to be an eternity.

There was the sound of the doorbell. Or me hallucinating.

"Stay. Here." He growled. I stayed where I was, laying on the ground, blood dripping from the cut on my right eyebrow, bottom lip, forehead and cheek, clutching my stomach, gasping for the air that my lungs refused to take.

"RILEY!" I heard Harry scream. He can't be here though. "What happened? Was it your dad? Did he do this? Come here." He picked me up, bridal style, passed my dad- I overheard Louis calling the police- and Harry put me in his car.

The cops soon arrived and Harry and Louis went to talk to them while I stayed in the car. My dad was taken to the police car with handcuffs around his wrists. He looked at me, as if a warning, before they forced him in the car.

"What're you guys doing here?" I asked them. "Oh, and uhh, thank you." I stuttered.

"Welcome" Louis said glumly.

"And Avie's in the hospital." Harry said.

"What? Why? What happened? Is she okay?" I asked quickly. I don't care what anyone says. I'm 18, my last year of high school, and I know what love is. My love is only Avie. No one else.

"Sh-" Harry couldn't speak anymore as tears were falling down his face. So Louis took over.

"She cut herself. A lot. She almost died." He said and I almost lost it. No, not my princess.

*Avie's POV*

"I was released yesterday. They said I should be fine and to take it slow. My knee is still in this stupid cast and I'm going to be sore." Ashton told me and Luke.

"So..." Luke furrowed his brow together. "Why?..." He said breathily. I knew what he was talking about.

"I- they wanted me gone and- I didn't care anymore-" I felt
The tears roll down my cheeks, the words got stuck in my throat, but I didn't feel anything. I just wanted to feel something. Emotion. Pain. Something. Anything.

"Hey, we don't want you gone. I love you, Av. And what about Riley?" Luke asked.

"I-I don't know." I mumbled.

"Hey" Daddy said as he walked in. "Riley's here." He said and Riley walked in.

"Hey baby. Do you know how many reporters are out there? Like, they were trying to ask Harry questions, and I almost laughed when I saw how pissed he looked." She laughed and I laughed with her. She has one of those giggle-laugh crossovers that you have to laugh with. She's amazing.

"I wasn't that bad." Daddy said and both Riley and Dad laughed.

"Yes, Hazza, you were." Dad said and kissed his cheek.

"Okay. Whatever." Daddy rolled his eyes and mumbled, "I was better than you were."

Dad just raised his eyebrows and shrugged it off as Riley kissed my cheek.

"Awwww!!!" Dad cooed at us. "It's so fluffy I'm gunna die!!" He mimicked that one girl from Despicable Me. We all laughed.

"Avie, you have 2 new visitors." The nurse, Kourtney, told me. Kourtney was one of Daddy's school friends and they stayed in touch and are now really close. She's like an aunt to me.

"Okay, send them in." I said with a smile.

Michael and Calum walked in, hands laced together.

"Umm, we have something to tell you guys..." Michael said. "Uh, C-Calum?" Since when was Michael Gordon Clifford shy?

"We're in a relationship." Calum said and Michael blushed. Mikey nodded and hid, just the tiniest a bit, behind Calum.

"Awww!! I told you all Malum as real!" Riley laughed.

"Yeah. You also told us about Lashton and Ravie and every other ship out there." Luke rolled his eyes.

"Okay, okay. they're all so cute though!!" We all laughed and talked until the nurse told them visiting hours were over.