New World (One Direction)

Chapter #13

{Louis’ POV}

We had been riding for hours, Liam and Zayn had tried to persuade Chloe to give up. But she didn’t see the point, we had come that far already.

Even the horses looked like they were about to give up.

“Chloe, I think we need to stop somewhere, you know its not safe to ride into the night.” Hannah tried to persuade her.

“No, Hannah! We need to reach the next pendant before the Burke’s do.” she replied in a desperate voice.

“This whole thing sounds like a video game..” I heard Zayn mutter on the horse beside me.

He received a dirty look from Chloe, but Hannah just smirked at him.

Chloe ordered her horse to turn around and greet Zayn’s, in which she then confronted him.

“Listen here, I don't have to think twice before abandoning you and your friends out here, If you think that this is all a big joke to you, then feel free to leave.”

“I want to help..” He muttered in reply.

“Oh yeah? Well you have a funny way of showing it.”

We rode in silence for the rest on the night, until Liam claimed someone was following us.

“Okay, guys this is getting freaky now, I swear there’s someone behind us..”

If only we had believed Liam in the first place, as about 10 minutes later Hannah spotted the Burke troops on their own horses.

“We need to leave the horses, they’ll only make it easier for them to find us.” Chloe said to us.

We obeyed her instructions and abandoned the horses in the middle of a field.

Chloe took off running and motioned for us to follow her.

“This is mental..” I half-yelled over to Liam, who had caught up to me.

“I agree.” He simply answered.

We ended up sprinting through several towns with the Burkes still on our tail, and only managed to lose them when me and Liam were pulled into a nearby cafe.

“Liam you’re on my arm.”

“Oh, sorry about that.”

The cafe was deserted, tables and chairs flipped over, glasses and alcohol smashed behind the bar.

It hadn’t occurred to me who the mystery person had saved us, I didn’t get a glance at their face.

“Hey Liam, did you get a glace at their face?”

“The person who just grabbed us then? Nope.” He replied, still trying to brush the dirt of his t-shirt.

I got hold of Liam's arm and dragged him with me to investigate.

I searched behind the bar and in the games room while Liam took a glance into the stock cupboard.

“There’s nobody here Louis, maybe we should just go?” Liam called to me.

He had taken a seat on one of the tables and stared hopelessly at me.

I was about to agree with him, until I noticed bootprints leading down into the cellar.

“Hey Liam, follow me.” I told him.

He followed, muttering something about the dark, and creepiness.

We slowly made our way down the steps leading to the cellar to find a locked door, but my curiosity go the better of me and I took a glance through the door’s little window.