Mr. X |harry styles| ON HOLD

c h a p t e r s i x

"What?" Harry stands from where he was sitting on my bed. "How? Is he okay?"

"I don't know. He had this girl named Shayna drop off the phones and there was a note in there that said X found him. He said to let him come to us." I rake my hand through my bangs.

"You guys can't do this," Harry says. "Shane is already in trouble because of me, and I don't like that. You guys are young, you have long lives ahead of you, I don't want any of you getting hurt because of me."

"Shut up, Harry, we're doing this. Shane is smart, he'll know what to do," Emily says from the bed where she's holding Ella.

"Okay, Alex, what the hell is going on?" Logan speaks from his spot between Louis and Niall.

"Language, Logan," I reprimand him. "Emily, will you take Max and Ella into the playroom?"

"I'll come with," Liam says. "No one should be alone from now on."

"Thanks, Liam." Emily smiles and ushers my youngest brother and sister out the door. I hear Max excitedly tell Liam about his toys, and Liam's reply sounds just as happy. I grin at that, I love seeing my family happy.

"Right, Logan," I begin. "I was going to feed all of you guys, including mom, some bull story about how one of the boys asked me out or something so I'm traveling with them. After what just happened, I don't think you'd believe that." Logan shakes his head, his eyebrows furrowing. "I'm finding the person that's trying to kill Harry. The thing is, they know we're trying to find them."

"What the hell, Alex? Those people are crazy! You could get killed!" Logan exclaims, his eyes starting to water. "I don't wanna lose my big sister just because you want to play hero for some band that doesn't even give two shits about you!"

"Logan, language!" I remind him. "Listen, it doesn't matter if they care for me and Emily or not-"

"Which we do," Harry cuts in.

I ignore him. "What matters is that these boys saved me, and I'm going to do my best to save them."

Logan sighs and nods. "I guess I can see where you're coming from..."

I take in my brother, from his gangly limbs that he hasn't grown into yet to the smallest details like the faint smattering of freckles across the bridge of his nose. He's still a baby to me, I don't know if he can handle what I'm about to ask of him. He shouldn't have to be handling this. "Logan, with me gone, you're going to have to protect the family," I say quietly. "Max, Ella, mom..." I sigh. "You have to keep them safe. You can't tell mom or the kids what's going on at all. The people that are after Harry, they know I exist, which is one step closer to them knowing you guys exist."

Logan looks petrified, yet he still speaks "I can do this, Alex."

I look around to the boys, all of them watching with their eyes looking a little misty. "You are one brave little boy," Louis says. "I could never handle the pressure you're about to go under at your age."

Logan shrugs. "Anything for my family."

All is silent for a while, all of us trying to gather our thoughts, the only sound being the kids playing down the hall, Liam's laugh mixed in with theirs. After about ten minutes, I hear the front door open. My head snaps up. "Alex..." Logan says quietly, his eyes filling with fear.

I shush him, grabbing my old softball bat from my closet. "I'll be back, stay here."

"I'm coming with," Louis says. "Niall, stay with Harry and Logan."

"But-"

"Shut up, Harry," Louis and I say together.

Louis and I creep down the hallway, and I start down the stairs. About halfway down, I can see my mom's feet, and breathe out a sigh of relief. "Alex, where is everybody? And why do you have a bat? And is that... Louis Tomlinson?"

"Um, hi mom, so One Direction is kind of here right now." I bite my lip, looking back to Louis. "We were just gonna go hit the ball around outside, Louis said he was interested in baseball, so I told him I played softball a few years ago."

"Right... that doesn't explain why they're in our house."

"I found Alex through Twitter," Louis lies smoothly. "We started talking, and I thought she was beautiful, so I asked her to be my girlfriend."

"Yeah, and I asked Louis to come over, and he brought the other boys, because I had mentioned that I was a fan of the band," I add. "So here they are."

My mom still looks skeptical, but nods anyway. "Kids upstairs?"

"Yeah, Liam and Emily are playing with them," I answer.

"Emily is here too? We have a full house today." My mom puts her purse down on the coffee table. "Is everyone staying for dinner?"

"About that..." I tug at the collar of my shirt, nervous about breaking the news to my mom. The last time I lied this much, I was Max's age. "Emily and I are going on tour with them, we're leaving as soon as our friend Shane gets here." I pray that she hasn't heard the news about Harry nearly getting shot.

"Oh, honey," my mom sighs. "I guess I can't stop you, you're eighteen," she says. "Have fun."

"I will, mom," I grin. "C'mon Lou, let's go get the others."

I go back up the stairs and hand Louis the bat. "Go back to my room, I'll get Liam and Emily."

Louis nods and heads off in the direction of my room. I turn and go to the playroom. I stand in the doorframe, watching as Liam lifts Max to put a block on a tower that's taller than me. "Liam, Emily, c'mon," I say, nodding my head in the direction of my room.

Liam puts Max back on the ground. "I'll have to come back and play with you again some day, okay?"

"Yeah, LiLi!" Max cheers. He hugs Liam before going to Ella and playing with her.

"If my mom asks, I'm dating Louis. That's our lie," I whisper so only the two of them hear.

"Well, that's fun," Emily says. "Why not Niall?"

I shrug. "Louis was with me."

"Why did she ask that?" Liam asks. "Was Niall your favorite?"

I laugh. "Yeah, I just find Niall really attractive," I say. "Personality and looks."

Liam nudges me. "Maybe I can set you up."

I blush and shrug, reaching in front of us to open my bedroom door. "Mrs. Tomlinson!" Harry cheers, grinning.

"Shut up, Harry." I find myself saying this phrase a lot.

"As soon as Shane comes, we go," Emily says. "We can't stay here any longer. It's putting the family in danger."

"Alex!" my mom's voice is heard, muffled by my door. "Your friend is here!"

I look around, taking in the faces of the people surrounding me. "Time to go."

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So basically this is really shitty and all over the place but the family needed to know so yeah

Lalex is currently a fake thing to keep mommy safer

I thought Liam getting as excited as Max to play was cute idk

OKAY BUT I WENT TO A 1D CONCERT ON THE 25TH AND IT WAS MAGICAL, LIAM IS SO MUCH BETTER LOOKING IN PERSON, LITERALLY PICTURES DO HIM NO JUSTICE. NIALL"S ASS IS ACTUALLY BETTER THAN LOU'S IN PERSON, JUST SAYING. OH MY GOD IT WAS GREAT I LOVED IT

Okay scheduling starts now because the first day of school is tomorrow. Mr. X gets updated Sunday, Misfits is Monday.

All the love xx