Teenage Runaway

Chapter 12

Two police cars showed up in front of the condo building.The cops and their crew found, disassembled, and collected all seven of the surveillance videos found around the house. One of the cops, whom Taylor recognized from earlier at the clubhouse, gathered all of the notes and camera surveillance equiptment, each in seperate evidence bags.

"If you two boys come down to the station we can give you your money back." The unfamiliar cop told Niall and Louis. "We found the bags at the scene."

"You can drive my car." Taylor offered as she signed the citation papers.

"Thanks."

Niall and Louis followed the cops that spoke to them out of the house and and down to the police station. The officer also told Taylor that if she, also, came to the station whenever it was convenient for her to she can sign a few papers for her father and recieve the key to his apartment. She thanked the officer for his time and walked him to the door.

Liam took a quick look over the citation papers that the cops had left them. Eleanor took a seat on the couch and started typing on her phone that she had stolen out of the bag, sitting next to Sam, who had also stolen her phone back.

"I can't believe that my 'baby daddy,'" Taylor used air quotes for emphasis, "Was behind all of this."

The two girls laughed. "How did that even happen? You and Jake seem like the most unlikely couple ever!"

"We weren't a couple," Taylor held in her laugh. "I guess anything can happen when you're drunk at a party after a dumb Winter Formal school dance."

"Was he your first?" Sam asked and Taylor shook her head no. "Did your first hurt as bad as it did with the men?" Sam turned red at her own question.

"A little bit," Taylor laughed out of embarassment for herself. "Wait, you and Niall have never...?"

"I wanted to wait until marriage." Sam said in a more serious tone of voice. "But the men..." She trailed off. "I mean, Niall and I have done things, just not all the way."

"I don't know how he does it..." Taylor said, trying to push out the images of the men taking advantage of Sam out of her head.

"What?"

"Niall. I mean, how does he keep his hands off of you?" Sam's face turned bright pink. "Face it, you're one hot tamale, mamasita."

The two girls burst into fits of laughter again, giggling even more when Niall walked into the basement.

"What?" He gave a crooked half smile. "Did I do something?"

"No, no," Taylor stood from the bed, trying to control herself. "I'll leave you two to your... things." She said, causing her and Sam to break into yet another fit of laughter as Taylor proceeded to her bedroom.

"What the hell is wrong with you two?" Niall questioned as he crawled into bed next to his beloved girlfriend.

Liam was waiting for Taylor in her bedroom when she finally appeared in the doorway, shaking off her laughter. She glances around the room as if it were the first time she had seen it. Worry crossed her features as her eyes landed on a specific picture frame.

"Liam, what is today's date?"

"October second," He said as if it were nothing.

"Shit!"

"What?"

"Bentley's birthday! It's in two days!"

"Oh, well, what did you guys do last year?"