One Direction's Big Break: The End

Chapter twenty three

Liam's POV

"Tori's gone to the store, so we have time to plan and run it by her before she gets back." Patrick said.

"Alan could be killing lena right now, Patrick. We need to do this. Soon." I said.

"We can't just go in on this without a plan." Patrick said.

"We can't just sit around forever!" I retaliated.

"Everybody calm down." Someone said.

We turned and saw none other than Zayn standing in my kitchen. "Zayn? Where have you been?" Harry asked.

"I could ask you the same thing." Zayn replied.

"We have to find lena." I said.

"Maybe none of this would've happened if you'd taken my advice and told her everything to begin with back in New York." He replied.

"That's not the point." Ashton said. "What matters now is finding lena."

"Daddy?" Keira asked. She'd been napping, but I supposed all of our arguing had brought her to wake up and come see what was happening.

"Yes baby?" Ashton asked.

"Is Mummy back yet?" She asked.

"No honey," Justin said. "Mummy's still gone."

Keira's adorable little chubby face crumpled, and she began to cry. "But I want my mummy!" She wailed.

"Oh baby." Calum said, scooping her up. "Shhhh. It's okay. I know. Mummy will back soon."

"Mummy's right here."

We all whirled. Lena was standing there, next to pregnant Tori, and I couldn't believe my eyes. She was bleeding, leaning on Tori for support. But she was here.

"Alan?" Luke said what everyone was thinking.

"I called the cops and sent them to him. He's out cold." Tori said.

"What happened?" Harry demanded.

"I wrecked his van." Lena said.

"You and fucking cars." Zayn said, shaking his head.

"Give me my baby." Lena demanded.

Justin was at her side now. "Sit down, you're hurt." He said.

"Give her to me!" Lena shouted.

Calum came over and have Keira to Lena. Keira was excited, no longer crying, asking Lena where she'd been.

"Mummy had to do something to make you and daddy safe. But it's over now. Mummy's here." Lena said.

"Mummy?" Keira asked. Now that she was happy to see her mother, I could see my niece getting sleepy after her interrupted nap.

"Yes love?" Lena asked.

"Can I take a nap?"

Lena chuckled. "Of course honey." She said. "Who do you want to take you to bed?"

"Can Uncle Lukey take me?" She asked.

"Uncle Lukey remains the fav!" Luke shouted, snatching Keira from Lena's arms and running off.

"Uncle Liam!" I called.

"Uncle Niall! I'm the closest!" Niall said.

"True." Justin chuckled. We all stopped joking and looked to Lena. "Should we take you to the hospital?" I asked her.

"No. We need to talk. All of us." She said.

"She's right." Zayn said.

Lena's POV

I took a deep breath and said what if prepared in the car with Tori. "First, all of you lied to me. Justin, Liam, Zayn, Niall, Kathryn, Louis, Ashton, Calum, Mikey, and Luke-you all kept huge secrets from me. I have a right to decide how to live my life and you took that from me by lying and manipulating me." I said.

Everyone looked away from me, except Harry. "Harry," I said. "You didn't lie to me, but you gave them a reason to. I remember what you did to me. You hurt me. You were supposed to love me, supposed to be my friend, and supposed to protect me. I understand you thought I didn't love you and that I loved Ashton, but you never gave me a chance. And then you ignored me and refused to give me closure with you after our break up. Then you shattered my heart again and it nearly got me killed."

I then turned to Justin. "Justin, you broke every promise you ever made me. How am I supposed to trust you if the only reason you ever stayed near me was because my brothers money."

"Kathryn, Niall, Zayn, and Luke, since I know you're eavesdropping, the four of you have been the ones I would call my best friends. Out of everyone in this building, I have never doubted any of you and cannot believe that you were all in on this lie. Betrayal doesn't even begin to cover it. I trusted all of you, and now I'm not sure if I can anymore."

Finally, I looked at my brother. "Liam." I said. "You were the reason all of this started. You started the lie, you made all of them lie, you paid Justin to date me, propose to me, and would've paid him to marry me. Rather he fell in love with me or not doesn't matter. You're my big brother, and you are supposed to protect me and be loyal to me. And you claim that you were protecting me, and maybe you were trying to. But what good did it do me anyway? Did you think I'd go running back to Harry if I knew he was the reason Id nearly died? Did you think Justin and I wouldn't ever love each other if you didn't pay him to love me? Did you think my parents being psychos would've effected me any differently than it had when I could remember it? No. But now you've taken those choices away from me and ruined our relationship. I can't trust you anymore. I can't trust any of you."

There was a long silence. "What are you saying?" Harry asked finally.

"I'm saying that I need time to forgive all of you." I said. "And I need to have that time alone."

"Lena no." Liam begged. "Please. Don't leave."

"Stop. I'm not arguing about this." I said. "Keira and I will be returning to New York, and then she and I are going to move to a different place. I have no intention of telling any of you that place. Ashton, you can have the same visitation with Keira that you've always had, but I'll bring her to you rather than you come get her. Always. You won't come to my house. None of you will. Justin, I'm sorry. I can't marry a man who only stayed with me for my brothers money. I can't live with people and work with people who I can't trust at all. Harry, I know you still love me. But we were broken up four years ago, and I think it's best we stay that way. This is over."

Leaving them all shocked, I left.