Lola Crush & the Pursuit of Happiness [Nathan Sykes]

Chapter 3

please read the authors note in the previous chapter!

DARSEE'S POV

Jay had invited the group over to his house for the day. He said he had developed an ingenious plan and he wanted to tell us all in a secluded, safe place. I picked a chocolate chip muffin out the cupboard and began making my way towards Jay's house.

I decided on walking as I hadn't done much physical exercise in a few days and I may possibly die from clogged arteries. And now I was eating a chocolate chip muffin with about 100 calories, I am probably going to die. Hopefully it's not before the Grease play. Wait, Grease, cholesterol, clogged arteries and heart attacks. This is too ironic.

I'm not really sure what to think about Lola right now. Out of everyone, I am the closest to her. Sure, I have visited her a few times to comfort her, but all she did was sit there, hardly talking. The majority of me wants to do everything I can to help her, but I can't ignore that small part of me that just wants her to snap out of it and realise we are all hurting too, and we need her.

I have know Ash for a very long time, and I know that his death is supposed to be effecting me more. But to be honest, I have sort of grown numb to that feeling of loosing someone close to you. It was five years ago that my mum died to cancer, and then my dad passed the year after in surgery. I am lucky to have my older sister to live with and take care of me. I'm not sure whether to call myself a strong person, or whether I'm just immune to the feelings of loosing someone.

One type of feeling I most certainly am not immune to is love. I am highly certain that I am in love with Zayn. Of course I can't tell him now as that would be so inappropriate. I haven't known him for long, hell I only met him this summer, but I know that he is the one. We have so much in common yet we are so different. He is shy and mysterious while I'm as loud as a goat at happy hour.

I can't help but feel bad for coming to conclusions that I am in love with Zayn. The reason for this being that Lottie just lost Ash. Sure they only knew each other for a couple of months, but I could tell by the way they looked and acted around each other that they were in love.

Gee, if Lottie and Ash acting like how they did around each other was called love, then I'm not sure what to call Nathan and Lola's behaviour. I am almost certain that they are soul-mates and have always been subconsciously in love. God, I miss Lola, I want her back. I want Ash back. I just want everything to go back to how things were.

If I see Jake again, I swear to God I will rip his throat out with my bare hands. He killed my best friends brother and hurt Lola! I can't believe I didn't see through the shell Jake was hiding behind, I couldn't see the true side of Jake, the evil that is him. And I hate myself for that. I hate that I couldn't protect my best friend when I had the chance. Now he was free, roaming the streets, when he had just killed somebody.

I reached the front door to Jay's, before I could hit the door with my fist to knock, the door opened.

“Darsee! God, we were worried sick! We were just gonna go out looking for you!” Niall said with a panicked look on his face, Siva was by his side.

“Sorry guys, really.” They ushered me inside towards the living where everyone was already seated in a circle.

Zayn smiled at me and inched over so I could fit on the sofa right next to him. I sat down and he wrapped his arm around me.

“Please answer your phone next time.” He whispered in my ear, I guess they were really wondering where I was. I didn't think I was that late.

Everyone was pretty on edge seeing that Jake was still out there... somewhere. I didn't even occur to me that walking around alone was dangerous. He does know me after all, and he has always hated me, as I have him.

Jay broke the silence. “Ok everyone, so as we all know, Jake is, well, around. And I don't want anyone else to be out there alone. Darsee, don't ever do that again. You seriously can't just go walking about alone, I mean, we even tried ringing you and you didn't answer, do you know how much we were worrying! None of us can be alone, at all. God, Jake killed somebody, someone we were all close to.”

I looked down. Jay was right, so right. We couldn't be alone, none of us.

“And no matter what, we have to protect Lola, she can't protect herself. All of us have to make an effort. Go to her house and even when she tells us to leave, stay. And us guys, we have to go out looking for Jake. The sooner we find him, the better. The police are on the lookout too.”

I do recall Zayn rang me up and told me that him and the guys went to the police and told them everything. Everything about what happened that night. The police were now fully aware of our situation.

We were finished with the talk after a bit of discussion and planning. Dallas turned on the television and sat back down to watch Coronation Street. I looked up at Zayn with my head on his chest and his arm around me.

“Do you think we will find Jake? What if he has run away?” What a stupid question to ask.

Of course Jake hasn't run away, he isn't scared of anything. He only cares about revenge. He's already shown it to us. A few days out of jail and he goes out and kills someone.

“We'll find him Dars. I swear it.” He smiled and pecked me on the forehead before getting up to go to the bathroom.

I pulled my phone out of my shorts pocket. 17 missed calls and 9 messages. All the calls were from the group and so were the messages, besides one.

Lola: can you please come over at 7 xx

SO DARSEE'S PARENTS ARE DEAD AND SHE LOVES ZAYN AND LATHAN HAVE ALWAYS BEEN 'SUBCONCIOUSLY IN LOVE WITH EACHOTHER' APPARENTLY AND LOLA WANTS TO SEE DARSEE OMG WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN.

I have drama planned in this, like something big will happen and it will cover like three chapters its going to be really suspenseful and scary trust me. I will only give out one thing and that is that the group ARE NOT SAFE.

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