corrupted highness - mgc - 5sos - 1D

Chapter Twenty Six; Ready To Run.

"... then there's me inside a sinking boat, running out of time."

ALEXANDRA

The coming days after the horrible night at the London hotel, were spent at 5SOS house. Or at least for me and Kylie.

Lia was home with her parents, among with Ashton (!) and I hoped that she was on her way to become the old Lia again.

My heart hurt so much of seeing her like that and the nightmares of it happening over and over again kept haunting me every night.

After three night of waking up sweaty, screaming and not being able to go back to sleep, Calum decided I was gonna sleep in his room for a while. Which actually helped, and I got a chance to sleep alright again. But it also made me wonder how all of this was for Lia.

I mean if I couldn't sleep at night, how bad was it for her?

I had spoken to Lia, but mostly to Ashton since she never wanted to pick up the phone anymore. And we had all been visiting her in her house, but she was so un present and we were all so scared of saying something that might hurt her more than Zayn had already done.

 Speaking of Zayn; none of us had heard from the 1D boys since the day of it all happening but trust me, the articles and photos from that night were not the best promo for the boys.

First there was tons of photos of Luke and Kylie screaming, then there was photos of Michael holding Ashton from running after Lia, then photos of Zayn and Lia making out in the bar, then even more photos of me crying; running up to Michael and then the amazing photos of Lia and Ashton running out of the hotel with all the security in the house, and of course photos of 1D leaving with Zayn bleeding and the others not even helping him, and then at least photos of me, Kylie, Luke and Calum walking out of the hotel, all with cry marks in our faces and me and Kylie looks like we've just witnessed someone die.

Which was kinda true in a way I guess. What Zayn did to Lia would haunt her for the rest of her life and it was all his fault.

"Elisabeth Holland making out with Zayn Malik at the press release party of One Direction's new record FOUR is nothing but wrong. And now we're all wondering what Zayn's fiance, Perrie Edwards thinks about this", the lady on the tv said, making Calum turn it off.

"If they only knew", he mumbled.

"Calum, you can't tell anyone", Luke warned, while trying to meet his best friends glance.

"I know that, but he deserves it. God he deserves it so much", Calum got up from the sofa and looked at us all (as in me, Luke and Kylie).

"He does deserve it, but it's not up to us", Luke said. Me and Kylie said nothing; basically because we wanted everyone to know what a complete douchebag Zayn Malik was. And even though someone at the hotel might leak info to the paparazzi's, I wanted to be the one doing it. I wanted people to know that Zayn was the one causing Lia all this pain, not Ashton or whoever they blamed. All Zayn.

My phone started buzzing and without looking at the caller ID; I answered. 
"Hello?"

"Alex, it's Harry", Harry's voice said.

"Hi there."

"You okay?", sweet sweet Harry, always making sure you're okay even when you're not the one hurting.

"Kinda. What's up?", I asked. And I saw how Kylie, Luke and Calum were very interested in what was going on in my phone.

"Me and the boys, no Zayn don't worry, are coming over to 5SOS's house. You all there or?", Harry suddenly sounded nervous.