Story Of Our Lives

Hide-and-Seek Day 1: Pt. 1

Harry heard a knock on the door. He opened it with a slight crack, saw it was Niall, and threw it open. "Ya ready?" he asked.

"Yeah! Let me just get my stuff."

Harry grabbed his bookbag and a plastic bag off the couch. Niall stared at the bag in his hand. "What's the bag for?" he asked.

"Well, me mum always packed snacks for a roadtrip. And, this kinda counts as one so...yeah," Harry explained.

Niall smiled. "Cool! Louis' waiting for us outside the complex."

Harry nodded and locked the front door. They made their way down the stairs. "Did your dad believe the Liam story?" Harry asked. Niall nodded.

They heard a beep and saw Louis slowly driving up to them. "C'mon! We got us a mum to find."

Harry and Niall exchanged grins and jumped into the backseat with Liam, throwing their bags in the trunk. Louis sped up and hit the highway.

"So, where's our first stop, Styles?" he asked. Harry gulped. Crap! I didn!t think about that...

"Styles?"

"Umm...the first exit, I guess."

"Wait, don't tell me we're stopping every mile!" Louis complained.

"Louis, this wasn't going to be a fun trip! Like I said, a search for me mum using your car. You wanted to come along so-"

"Well duh! It's my car! I don't want anyone else driving it." Louis drove of the next exit and stopped at a diner. "Okay, I'll leave it here. Let's go searching," Louis instructed. The boys began walking to the diner when Liam exclaimed, "Hey! If they see us staying parked after we leave..."

The boys shtugged and went back to Liam. Harry gave each a boy a different picture of his mom. "Okay. We'll split up. Each of us go to a different spot. Umm...Zayn, you go to those three building next to the diner."

Zayn looked to the left and nodded.

"Niall, to the right three."

Niall studied his buildings.

"Liam, you go to that gas station and the two buildings to it's left. I'll take the three to it's right, and Louis the three to the right of my third building."

Liam and Louis nodded.

"Cool. Ask as many people as you can. When you're done, meet by the car. And...break!" The boys headed their way. Zayn and Niall going to opposite sides of the diner as Harry, Liam and Louis waited to be able to cross the street.

Harry's first building was a small pawn shop. He entered inside. It was rather empty, but that was okay. "Hey! Welcome to Laddy's Pawn Shop. Need anything?" a man in the back with an accent like Niall's asked.

Harry stepped foward and responded, "Yes. Umm...I'm kind of looking for someone."

Harry took the picture out of his jacket pocket and showed the man. Have you seen her? She's me cousin and I'm helping me mum and aunt find her."

The man furrowed his eyebrows, studying the small picture. "I can't say I have, but let me ask the others." He dissappeared behind a wall. Harry looked around at the stuff they sold. Most of it was garbage and tourist stuff, though he wasn't sure what there was to tour at this stop.

The man came back out with four others. The first was a black man with long hair. "Lemme see!" Harry gave him the paper and he held it close to his face. He shook his head and handed it to a skinny but tall girl in a red leather jacket. "Nah. Neva' seen 'er!"