chapter twenty-two

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Point of view Zayn

"Liam stormed off mad while I just wanted to talk to him I don't know where he is I searched the whole top floor" Louis says "Zayn maybe you can search for him he talks to you" I nod and get some stuff I walk upstairs I think I know where he is, they don't know I use the attic as safe place when I'm scared I don't fully trust them yet while I'm here for ten years I close the door I see something shining it looks like a knife, where did he get a knife?

"Put it down I want to talk to you and help you out" I say sitting down he does as I tell him to do and crawls over to me "I don't want to talk about the past it hurts" I look at his arms and hug him I don't know who did this but I need him to know he can talk to me "I've been protecting Niall since I was four and all I get back are him telling my secrets to everyone where am I doing this for?" Liam says "you do this because you love him."

"And honestly I think Niall knows how you protect him and he wants to do something back but doesn't know what he found a safe place Liam and wants you in it by them getting your trust I don't trust them either but okay" Zayn says "I've never looked at it this way, why don't you trust them? You are here for ten years" I say because my parents sold me to them after making me miserable and it never felt like I could trust them I never told then they didn't just abuse me they sold me to people every day.

And they did horrible things to me "I always got hit with a belt for no reason or they used me as ashtray to make their cigarettes out or used glass and knives to hurt me someone from the orphanage gave me this knife to protect me and I used it a couple of times" Liam says "people did the same by me but as I grew older I forgot all the pain and now you too are here and it reminds me of my past life especially you Liam you are just like me you don't see that but I do"

I walk back down "I didn't find him" I say "when we're you going to tell us you use the attic?" How do they know that? Fuck the camera's I forgot about them they can hear us talk and see us, I say I wasn't going to tell you at all to be honest but you figured it out Harry says we can make it more comfortable for you and Liam so you can talk and do things there we heard the whole conversation with the both of you, Fuck this wasn't supposed to happen.

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