Teenage Runaway

Chapter 3

After cleaning up around the condo, the group sat down in the living room and discussed the mad men. They discussed the attack tactics on the madmen based on how they had attacked each of them. They based how they would protect themselves of off the attack tactics the men used. They also discussed why the men wanted to capture them, or maybe even kill them, but they only had theories due to no facts. They discussed who would be the most wanted of the group, and Niall volunteered himself as being named the most wanted, because he had killed one of their men.

"We'll all have to be extra cautious now." Harry pointed out. "I can teach you all how to box to protect yourselves!" He laughed to himself as the entire group shook their heads at his crazy idea.

"So, I guess we just have to hide out here until they find us, yeah?" Zayn said, as if he were complaining.

"Hopefully, they won't." Harry said with a touch of sarcasm in his tone of voice.

"I'm hungry. Are we done here?" Niall whined.

"Yes, Niall. I suppose we are."

"Will you go to lunch with me?" He smiled at Sam. She nodded her head. "Liam!" He called to the man standing in the open fridge with the toddler in his arm. "Sammy and I are going to lunch!"

"Be careful." He warned. Niall waved his hand over his shoulder as he walked out the door, half-mindedly blowing off what Liam had said.

"So, I have no idea where anything is in this place." Niall admitted to his girlfriend.

"I think there's a few places down the street once you get out of the neighborhood, my uncle used to live around here."

They walked out of the neighborhood and to the top of the street, their skin sparkling from perspiration that had started to form on their bodies from being in the Florida heat. Across the intersection, there was a strip mall with various selections of places to eat from. They decided on a pizza place, making it easy. They went in a seated themselves. Quickly, a middle aged redheaded waitress came over and took their orders. Sam got one slice of cheese pizza, and Niall ordered himself three pieces of pizza with bacon, ham, and pepperoni as the toppings. 

The waitress returned with their food, Niall thanked her and devoured two of his three slices before Sam was even halfway through her one. He stopped shoveling food into his mouth and stared at his gorgeous girlfriend. Her dirty blonde hair, deep blue eyes, and winning smile. He loved that about her, it was the main reason he fell for her, aside from her lovely personality. She was always helping people, Niall admired that about her.

"What?" Sam said between bites of pizza when she noticed Niall looking at her.

"You're so cute when you eat." Sam turned a shade of bright red. "Taking little polite nibbles of your pizza." He laughed. 

"Stop," She laughed nervously.

"But Sammy!" Niall pretended to whine like a little kid. "You're just so adorable!" He reached both arms across the table, barely missing her. He made kissy 'mwah' noises to her. "Let me love you!" He joked as they both laughed.

The waitress next to them cleared her throat, turning the couples' attention to her, who had been standing there for a while with the check. Niall turned his neck to face her, his entire face going red with embarrassment. For a moment it seemed as if he had forgotten they were in public. He was just so comfortable around Sam. Quickly, he paid the check and walked back to what they were now calling their "Safe House." They opened the door into complete silence, the condo empty. There was a note on the counter.

"Louis and Eleanor are walking around a few boutiques nearby," the note read. "The rest of us have gone out shopping. Be back soon."

Harry, Zayn, Liam, and Bentley took a cab to a nearby superstore. Harry and Zayn went back to the Mens' section of the clothing while Liam made a stop at the toddler section with Bentley. He felt bad for him, after seeing the small amount of clothes that actually fit him in Taylor's possesion, he decided to do his good deed of the day and help them out. He knew Taylor would argue with him, but he went through the clothes anyways, fingering through the racks and holding out things to Bentley, asking if he liked them. When they went back to the mens' section, Liam also decided to buy some things for Niall, seeing as they all came to the US only with the clothes on their bodies and Niall wasn't with them to buy his own clothes. When they were checking out, Liam realized he barely had any clothing items in there for himself, but he was fine with that. 

They took the bus home, and slipped the driver a few extra bus to take them directly into Taylor's neighborhood, not wanting to walk the few extra blocks from the nearest bus stop to her house in the heat. They slipped through the door and saw Niall and Sam watching a movie on the couch in the living room, which had been folded up from it's bedded state that morning. Sam was asleep on Niall's shoulder, clearly catching up on the sleep she missed the previous night due to Niall's nightmare. Liam quickly slipped into Bentley's room, putting away the clothes he bought him in his drawers and disposing of the bags, hoping Taylor wouldn't notice. He put Bentley down for his nap and made it downstairs just as Taylor was returning home for her lunch hour. Liam greeted her at the door with a kiss on the cheek, earning an eye brow raise from Louis.

"Where's Bentley?"

"Ooh, you just missed him. Two hot girls with matching strollers came and whisked him away," Liam laughed. Taylor playfully hit his bicep. "I'm kidding. He's taking his nap."

"Thank you." Taylor sighed greatfully, making her way to the kitchen.

"No problem." Liam smiled at her, following her into the kitchen. "It won't cost ya," He said, his voice low in her ear, teasing her with every word. "If you let me take you out tonight."