dark prince

Gemma

I'm forever chasing after time

Harry

I stare at niall like swallowed my tongue, I don't think I ever mentioned Gemma to niall. It's a pill I've been holding in my hand

"Niall where did that question come from?"

He shrugs softly and looks at me

"I saw a book on the bookshelf door and it was very pretty, with dandelions drawn on the cover, it was a peter pan book inside of it was a letter that said 'I'll see you when you return gemma' on the front I didn't open it though I just put it back on the shelf where did Gemma go?"

Just hearing her name makes part of my world shatter as if it were a glass house

"Niall come with me"

He nods so I take his hand and walk to the bookshelf and grab the Peter pan book then I lead him to a library that no one knows of except liam and Lou

Niall looks around in awe and gasps

"Oh hazzy, there's so many books in here of all sorts I never knew you had this place?"

"That's because I never showed anyone this room that isn't liam or Lou"

He then looks at me with those heavenly blue eyes that I adore I swear I can stare into his eyes all day and feel all my troubles vanish, I can look at the universe just by looking at his precious eyes

"Why doesn't anyone else know about it?"

"Because this is Gemma's room"

He nods "when will she be coming back?"

"Never." He looks confused so I grab a photo of her in the garden next to flowers with blue jeans, a striped sweater and a black hat and I show him the photo

"Is that her?"

I nod "yes that's her, my big sister Gemma"

"You guys look alike except the makeup"

I chuckle "I got that a lot when we'd go to parties that her friends threw, she'd always be asked what it's like to live with a guy like me and she'd tell them it's family"

"You two must've had a tight bond I see you in her eyes, you two are one in the same really"

"Thank you ni" I smile slightly and fidget with my fingers

"Harry, you don't have to answer but what happened to Gemma?"

I gulp my throat feels dry and o go numb until niall puts his hand in mine immediately I remember where I am while look at our hands I feel my mouth open and words come out

"Gemma was adventurous I lost track of how many trips she'd go on or how many times I wasn't home for the week due to her soaring mind, she loved to read about fairy tales and other places her favorite was peter pan because she claimed to be Wendy at heart never truly wanting to grow up but accepted it nonetheless without a doubt in my mind everyone loved her very much but one night her friends were throwing a birthday party and I couldn't go, I insisted on taking a guard with her but she said sh was strong and can handle it on her own but I should've sent a guard with her" I make a fist with my free hand

"It's okay harry"

I shake my head "she made it safely to the party but someone drugged her drink and without her noticing it so as she was leaving this boy tried to rape her he succeeded in getting her top off and groping her but she scratched his eyes and rushed to car and she tried to get in but he smashed her head into the mirror and raped her while she was conscious and she blacked out, she never woke up after that, when I got the call I was devastated I broke down and refused to come out of this room because I just wanted to be surrounded by something of her I remember the letter I wrote for her when she'd return I put it in the Peter pan book and she never got to read it so I read it at her funeral, I never went to parties or small get-togethers because I always went with her I remember her drawing dandelions on the book and how much she would say I'm peter pan"

My voice cracks and tears start flowing out of my face niall just wipes them off and holds my face in her hands

"Harry, I know that what happened to Gemma was awful no one should go through that but I know that she's proud that you are able to go on without losing memory of her you keep her close to your heart look around you hazzy, you managed to keep the one place she loved so much alive and I think she still reads here because it's a safe haven that her brother gave her and by keeping this here you're honoring her in the best way you can peter pan never forgets wendy"

I'm onto full on sobbing by the time he's done speaking he truly is amazing in every way possible I don't think I'd be able to go on if I didn't have niall with me and I think he knows that when I pull into a bear hug and I give him all my love

"Thank you niall I love you so much I never felt like this for anyone else but you baby" I kiss him passionately and I'm happy that he kisses back I feel so much love in this kiss

He breaks it much to my dismay but he smiles whole heartedly

"Hazzy can I read in here?"

✘

I hear laughing echo from one side of the house as take a bite out of a chip and liam laughs as he looks at me

"You let him in there"

"Gemma would've loved him, I think peter pan found a special lost boy"

And for the first time I smile while looking at that door and for the first time in a while that room is filled with laughter

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And that's all for this chapter I had trouble with this chapter because I was thinking of Gemma's story so I hope you liked it