Never Give Up: Harry Styles/One Direction Fan Fiction

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Chapter 9

[Author's Note] Play Nothing Left To Say by Imagine Dragons from the sidebar while you read this section.

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I just froze. I don't know what was wrong with me. These despicable girls were hurting the one I loved, and I just froze. Rae threw a teary look in my direction, getting ready to break. I could feel my heart cracking in half at the sight of her. Why couldn't I say something, anything at all? What is wrong with me?

"Fine," she said, her voice trembling as she stepped out of the way. "He's all yours." The group of girls surged forward. I was engulfed in screams again, so loud that I couldn't hear my own thoughts. I tried to see over them, only to catch a glimpse of Rae fleeing from the room. I was losing her. My other half was running from me. From this life. I didn't know what to do. I guess it turns out that this visit didn't go as well as Perrie and the others had said it would. It seemed like everything I did turned into some horrible nightmare anymore. 

"Back off!" I shouted. I could feel tears spring to my eyes, and I wanted to flee as well, but I was trapped with nowhere to run. All the girls looked taken aback. I enjoyed the shocked looks on their faces. A hard silence fell over the room, blanketing everything. "I can't believe what I've just heard," I continued on. "You are not real Directioners if you'd treat the girl I love like that!"

I shoved through the crowd, storming away from the group. I could feel twenty pairs of eyes boring into my back as I marched out the door, and no one spoke a word. As soon as I got out of the room, I bolted. Reaching the front door of the building, I ran outside into the sunlight. I spun around wildly, searching each direction for any sign of Rae. 

"Rae!" I yelled, frantic. She could be anywhere by now, and I knew she was hurt. I just wanted to fix everything. I wanted to apologize and make it all better, I wanted to mend her heart. It was going to be hard to find her; she knew the city better than I did, but I had to try. "Rae!"

Suddenly, the high pitched whine of a siren nearby filled the air. It was a few moments before it finally appeared, rushing past. So many thoughts filled my head. What if it was Rae? It couldn't be, but I had to be sure. I followed the sound of the siren, running fast down the street. As I rounded the corner, I saw the whole scene. Police vehicles littered the area as the street was shut down momentarily. Many people were standing by, witnessing the commotion. I ran over to where the cars were. There she was, being put on a stretcher, her head a bloody mess. I was too horrified to pull my eyes away.

"Rae!" I screamed as hard as my lungs would allow as I climbed over the top of the hood to the police car and began sprinting to her side. I was met by several officers who wouldn't allow me to go any closer to her. They shoved me hard back, trying to get me out of the accident scene. I struggled hard, not wanting to leave. I had to see her. I had to be with her. "Let me go!" I struggled even harder against the men's strong grips on me. I slammed my right shoulder into one of the men causing him to lose his hold on me and stumble, and in the next instant, I lifted my leg and brought it down hard into the other officer's knee. I broke free and sprinted toward the ambulance just as the paramedics were beginning to shut the doors. "Wait!"

The paramedics banged on the back of the doors to tell the driver to go. The ambulance rushed away, and I was left standing in the middle of the street all alone. The officers who had recovered from the assault, came up to me and started to click my hands into cuffs behind my back. I wasn't paying attention anymore. I was such an idiot. Rae could be dead, and it was all my fault. I had no one to help me, and now I was going to go to jail for assault. What have I done?