I Wanna Save You

Chapter 13

•Chapter Thirteen•

(Ivy's POV)

I wake up to banging on my door. I then realized I'm in the bathroom. Memories from last night flood in. The boys trying to talk me into letting them adopt me... the boys discussing putting me in an orphanage... Harry kissing me...

The last memory is just... yuck. How could he do that? Why would he do that? What's wrong with him?

Someone bangs on the door again. "Ivy!" thry call angrily. It's Harry. Greeeeat. "Open the fu-"

"Language!" Liam shouts.

"-fudging door!" Harry finishes.

"She's not going to come out if we shout at her," Niall's voice scolds. There's some shuffling around, then: "Ivy, love. Can you please come out?"

"No," I say, my voice wavering.

"Hey!" Louis shouts. "She answered!"

"Ivy," Liam's voice says. "We've been trying to get you to come out all night. Why didn't you answer?"

Why didn't I answer? Oh yeah. "I fell asleep."

"That explains the snoring sound I heard," Louis says.

"Hey!" I say.

"Love," Niall begins. "Love, why won't you come out of the washroom?"

"I think you should ask Mister Nineteen-year-old Styles," I growl.

"What'd you do to her mate?" Liam asks.

"Well..." Harry sounds uncomfortable. Good. He should be uncomfortable. "I... er..."

"What'd you do?" Liam demands.

"Well..." Harry trails off.

"Tell him what you did, Styles, or I will!" I shout.

"Fine!" Harry scowls. "I kinda, er, accidentally, uh... kissed her?"

"You what?!" Liam screeches.

"You heard me." Harry doesn't sound pleased. Then again, neither does Liam.

"I can't believe you!" Liam shouts. "You kissed a girl five years younger than you! What is wrong with you?!"

"I couldn't help myself!" Harry yells back. "I can't help that I get feelings for some girls. I kissed Ivy because I liked her, ok? And I don't like her in some 'let's be friends' kind of way. No, I like her in a 'let's start dating' kind of way. Go ahead; call me sick that I'm crushing on a thirteen-year-old and I'm nineteen. I don't care! Because I can't control my emotions!"

There's silence, and then a door slams in the distance.

"Is he gone?" I ask shakily.

"Yeah," Niall replies. "Gosh, Harry kissed you? No wonder you don't want to come out of your bathroom."

"I'll go talk to him," Louis offers and leaves.

"Will you come out now?" Liam asks.

"I don't want to." My tummy rumbles loudly.

"I'll go make some food," Zayn says and walks away.

"Oh!" Niall exclaims. "Food!" I hear his footsteps grow fainter until I can't hear them any more.

It's just me and Liam now.

"Since you won't come out, can I come in?" Liam asks.

I stand up and walk over to the door. I unlock it, open it, drag Liam in, then quickly close and lock it again.