Why Me?

Chapter Ten

[That is how I imagined Adelaide to look like.]

Adelaide's POV

I am still in the basement when I hear the faint sound of screaming. I would get up but I don't have enough strength. I have been down here for about a week. I can't sleep down here; it's just not possible for me. It's just too hard, almost impossible for anyone to sleep on this rock-hard bed. I hear thumps coming from the stairs, so I look up and see Brianne lying on the ground at the foot of the stairs; following her, the other brown haired boy (not Louis or Harry) picks her up and throws her over his shoulder. I hear more footsteps coming down, and there he is. Joseph is all in this, too. Who in their right mind would do such a horrid thing? I should have helped her and told her that he would do this to her. He is such a horrible person. Have fun with this Bri, you have no idea how bad this is going to be, I mentally tell her. She looks over at me as if she knew I was here and that she got my mental message.

"How long have you been here?" Bri peeps.

"About a week." I mouth her.

"How long do you think we will be here for?"

"I don't know, probably forever, or at least until we escape."

"Oh, I can't believe Louis or Joseph would do this."

"I know, that was exactly what I was thinking. I thought I could trust Louis."

"I thought you knew about Joseph doing this." "Nah, he doesn't tell me anything. How could either of them do this?"

"I knew they were bad people but not like this. I thought Joseph had changed when he convinced me he was."

I thought I could love someone even after the betrayal that I had gotten from Joseph. I thought Louis was tough on the outside but soft on the inside. I thought there wasn't anyone else like Joseph. I thought he was the only one like that.

"How would you girls like to give us a show?" I hear Joseph say.

"Uh...No!" Bri and I say in unison.

"Whatever, I will force you tomorrow."

"I don't care. We will hopefully be out of this dungeon by then. I will find a way to get Bri and I out."

I can't stand it in here. No one can stand it in here. I don't want Bri to suffer as much as I had. I need to save her more than I do myself. I have been scarred for life, and even if I put it to the back of my mind, it always gnaws at me to find it's way back up front. The two of us need to find a way out of here, especially her. She is lucky that she didn't have to give a show like I did. I don't understand why Louis and Joseph would force Bri and me to be attracted to the same sex, I have never imagined of dating a woman, let alone be fancying one. I can't stand the thought of him replacing my attraction toward men to an "attraction toward women."

Harry's POV

I need to get those girls out of here soon. Since the boys are leaving to go grocery shopping, I am going to stay here to verify that the two girls stay in the basement. Instead of keeping them in this torture-filled place, I am going to check those girls out of Louis Hotel Of Torture. These girls are too innocent to be in this kind of place, especially just to put on a show. As much as I liked having fun with Adelaide, I can't let her be tortured. I need to get Louis, Niall, Liam, and Joseph in prison for as long as possible. They need to feel the same torture as all seven of the girls they kidnapped did. They deserve to die. No girls mean anything to me, I just hook up with them at parties and drop them right after. My parents are divorced because of my mother. She got drunk and violent twenty-four seven. I hated it, and to be honest with you I still do. I can't stand being around her anymore because I have no clue if she has changed as much as she claims she has. I can't trust her anymore. I never have.

"Harry, the boys and I are leaving." Niall calls.

"Okay!" I scream across the house.

I walk down the stairs and see the girls curled up on their rocks crying. I walk up to them and lift their heads to force them to look up at me. Bri flinches away as does Adelaide.

"Look at me." I snap.

"Okay." Adelaide says, voice shaking.

"Girls, the rest of the boys are gone so I am going to let you guys escape and I will come with you to get the boys arrested. Understand?"

"Yes sir." they say in accordance.

"Good."

I see that Adelaide has her phone but I don't bother to ask if she had already called the cops or not. I get them up the stairs and into the car. They buckle up without hesitation. I reverse out of the endless driveway and start in our way to...I don't know where actually. This is taking ages, I don't want to be driving everywhere but I need to so none of their families worry, and also so that those boys will get put in prison. God so help me with this horrible situation. I need help to get through this escape safely with the girls and many others. I need this to carry out in the right direction, not the wrong direction. This needs to be accomplished, not fail. This is my mission; my goal. I need to get this on the right track.

"Harry, why are the boys like this?" I hear Adelaide ask defenselessly.

"I don't know. I am helping you out so be grateful, don't talk keep your mouth shut or I will bring you right back into that basement and please myself." I roar.

They stay silent for the rest of the ride, so I drive into a hotel's parking lot, get out with the girls, and buy a triple bed room. The three of us stay in a bedroom each of us with our own bed. I can't let them have their own rooms. The boys could find them and myself. I need to protect them, and those girls should be lucky that I am a light sleeper. Maybe I just shouldn't sleep tonight, just to keep them safe. I decide not to sleep and keep them safe instead of risking it. I would usually risk things, but when it comes to something like this I won't. I can't let them be taken back there.