I Wanna Save You

Chapter 16

•Chapter Sixteen•

(Liam's POV)

Today we'll be picking Ivy up.

I walk downstairs to find Harry cooking bacon, sausages, eggs, pancakes and hash browns for breakfast.

"Smells good," I comment.

"It's not done yet," he says without turning around.

I shrug and sit down at the table. It takes a while, but eventually, Harry sets a plate down in front of me.

"Thank you," I say, taking the fork from his outstretched hand and digging in.

Harry walks to the bottom of the stairs and yells up, "FOOD!"

I hear doors opening and Louis, Zayn and Niall speed down the stairs, grab a plate each and shoving food in their mouths.

"Guys," I say and Zayn, Niall and Louis look up at me. "Have you heard of chewing with your mouths closed?"

They laugh and continue eating with their mouths open, just to annoy me.

Once they're finished eating, we walk to the door and slip into our sneakers.

"Harry?" I call. "Are you coming?"

Harry appears and slides into his shoes. "I'm coming," he confirms. "I want to apologize to Ivy." I nod, understanding.

Once we're riding the elevator down to the lobby, I pull out my phone and check the beeping red dot that is Ivy. It's in bed.

With a ding, the elevator opens and we walk into the lobby and toward the backdoor. We spot Louis's sports car, and hop in; Louis driving, Harry in the passenger seat and me, Niall and Zayn in the backseat.

Our song comes on and we all start singing as loudly as we can.

"You're insecure

Don't know what for

You're turning heads when you walk through the do-o-or!"

Since Louis rolled the windows down, we receive a lot of disapproving looks, but we don't really care.

Louis pulls up in Ivy's lane way and stays in the car while Harry, Niall, Zayn and I enter the house.

"Ivy!" Niall sings, dragging the 'y'. "We're heeeere!"

No answer.

Niall frowns. "Why isn't she answering?"

I pull out my phone and check on the red dot. It's still in bed.

"She's sleeping," Zayn says. He must have checked his phone too.

We make our way to her bedroom and open the door.

I creep over to her bed and pull back the blankets saying, "Wakey wa-" I stop because Ivy's not under the blanket. Instead of her is a row of pillows, the bracelet and a piece of paper.

Niall picks up the paper and reads it aloud. "Nice job thinking of the tracking chip. Wasn't expecting it -Ivy R. :)" He looks up at us. "How did she find out about the chip?"

"She must have been eavesdropping," Harry says. "That explains why she entered the room so quickly after our 'secret' conversation."

I snatch up the note and the bracelet, then walk quickly out to the car. Pulling open the door, I say to Louis, "Ivy's not there."

(Ivy's POV)

I sigh, looking away from the grimy window in front of me.

The Bakers and Jade dropped me off at the orphanage. Before, though, Mr and Mrs Baker bought me a phone. I kept telling them they didn't have to, but they refused to return it. So, yeah. I have an iPhone 4 now. Except, I don't know how to use it except for calling and texting.

I have a room here all to myself, thank goodness. I do not feel like making any friends here, since I'm not even going to be staying here long.

The room is painted a sickly orange, which is chipped and peeling in certain places. The floorboards are old, squeaky and rotten, so I have to be careful where I step. My foot has already fallen through a couple times.

There's a window that has dead bugs on the sill and looks as if it hasn't been washed in a while.

I feel my phone vibrate, so I check it. There's a text from Jade.

To: Ives 

Hey! How r u? 

From: Jay Jay

To: Jay Jay 

I'm good, just bored and I almost fell through the floor a couple times. 

From: Ives

I really care about grammar, so I always spell the full word, meaning I don't use 'brb' or 'g2g' and stuff like that.

To: Ives 

U fell through the floor? OMG r u ok?!? 

From: Jay Jay

To: Jay Jay 

I'm perfectly fine. Don't worry. 

From: Ives

I text her for a while until I'm called for dinner. Sighing, I let Jade know I have to go and then, shoving my phone in my pocket, I walk downstairs.

I sit in a rickety chair beside a boy named Roger and a girl called Emmeline.

The matron waits until the last person is seated, then says grace. After the prayer, she passes out supper, which is hot tomato soup and two pieces of buttered toast each.

I finish quickly, then hurry upstairs to my room. My ringtone comes on, signaling someone's calling me. I pull out my phone to see an unknown number. I decide to answer it.

"Hello?" I say, sitting on the bed. It sinks even lower to the ground.

"Hey," says the person. They sound familiar. "It's me, Kylie."

"Hey Kyles," I say, smiling. "Your number showed up as unknown. Weird."

"It's not that weird," she says. "Roxie and I got phones."

"Really?!" I exclaim. "What are your numbers? I need to put them in my contacts."

"Mine is two-two-six, three-three-seven, one-two-three-four, and Roxie's is two-two-six, six-six-two, five-six-seven-eight."

(A/N Sorry if those are real numbers. I made them up from the top of my head.)

I put them in my contacts list. "Awesome."

The matron is suddenly yelling for everyone to go to bed.

"I got to go Kyles," I say quickly. "Text you later. Maybe not tonight though; I'm tired."

"Ok," Kylie says. "Bye Ives."

"Bye Kyles."

We both hang up and I climb into bed. The matron pokes her head into my room.

"Goodnight Ivy," she says, turning off my light and shutting the door behind her.

I close my eyes and think about tomorrow.

Tomorrow, the Bakers should be adopting me. If all goes according to plan, I'll be hidden from One Direction and they won't be able to kidnap me again.

I fall asleep, thoughts whirling around in my mind. 

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A/N

Sorry if this chapter sucks. I had pre-written it before but then accidentally erased the chapter, so I had to try my best and re-write it as best as I could.

Anyway, 205 reads!! I'm actually stunned! I thought I would only have 180, 185 reads but no; 205! That's amazing! Thank you everyone who reads this. I love you all!

~A-very-happy-Small Potato :)