Teenage Run Away ✘ Harry Styles [2013] ✔

Chapter 14

Louis and the blonde left a while ago, after Louis gave Harry an envelope.

I looked at Harry as if I were demanding something, and he sighed.

"Look, I know what you want to ask Nicki but I'm not telling you until you tell me." He stated. I sighed and began to tell him about my life.

With every word that came out of my mouth, he listened carefully. He studied my lips as if they were the only thing in the room. He nodded his head as I told him usual stuff.

When I began to talk about my parents I started regreting it. I've never told anyone this before and why now? Why Am I doing what he says?

"I don't know Harry.." I stopped talking.

"Nichole." He sighed and ran fingers through his hair. "I told you, you can trust me. With anything, and you know that." I do know that. I know that he can keep secrets and promises. I know that when he says he's going to do something, He will. I know that he is determined on anything he sets his mind on. I know he doesn't give up on anything, and I know I can trust him.

"Ok.." I agreed yet again.

I told him everything. From my first bruise, to my last tear I cried. His mouth hung open and when I finished he had tears in his eyes.

"Nichole.." He finally started talking. "I had no idea this was happening to you. This shouldn't be happening, you don't deserve this at all-"

"It's not just me Harry," I cut him off "It's me and Dylan."

"Well you two don't deserve that at all. You shouldn't go through this everyday." He sighed.

"I can't help it." Tears fell from my eyes "This is how I live and I think I may be stuck with this for the rest of me life. No matter how much I hate it, It's who I am." Harry came over to my side of the booth that he moved from earlier, and held me tightly.

"Shh.." He tried to comfort me. "It's not who you are. And I know you may not want me too, but I'm going to help you and Dylan the best I can."

"Harry.." I raised my head off his shoulder. "Please.. Help." I begged. He gave me a sweet smile and held me tighter.

Harry's P.O.V

How could anyone hurt them? How could anyone find it fun?

It broke my heart after seeing those tears fall from her eyes. It broke my heart the entire time, but after that, she brought me back to reality.

I thought it was all a bad dream. Or atleast that's what I'd hoped. But after seeing her cry like that, I realized that I was awake. And it killed me.

All those times that she said she ran into stuff, all the times she 'tripped' and fell down the stairs. Everything, she was lying. Her parents had beaten her... And she lied about it.

Zayn always believed her. He told me, she was probably just clumzy but I knew better.

I knew she was hiding something. I knew she wasn't telling us the truth but I never couldv'e imagined something like this.

This is heart breaking.

I have to help them. I have to help them somehow, but I have no ideas. My brain is only filled with images of her Father beating her up. Or kicking her, screaming at her, punching her, or anything else he does to her. I can't think straight anymore. Not right now atleast.

We walked back to my car after she calmed down. I told her I had some more places to be, and she said she didn't mind.

I stayed focused on the road but my mind just kept going back to those horid thoughts.

I don't know why I care so much. I mean, I'm never like this. I'm usually rude, angry and mean. But for some reason, whenever it has anything to do with Nichole, I'm putty in her hands. - She can do or say anything she wants and I'll agree with it. -

Like Zayn said. What he meant was that, whenever we saw her, we knew it wasn't going to be the last. We would have something to do with her in some way, somehow. And we had no clue it was going to be like this.

Now that he finally realized that we were all pretty much bestfriends, he blew up. He went balistic.

Zayn's usually the most intemidating one out of all of us. He says that I can be scary, but he is way worse than me. Trust me, I know.

"Harry..?" Nichole asked.

"Hm?" I kept my eyes on the road.

"The price for the money... What was it?" She asked exactly what I had hoped she wouldn't. I knew she was going to ask this at some point, but I had forgoten all about it after she told me about herself.

"I uh.." I stuttered and rubbed the back of my neck nervously.

"Harry." She sighed "Please?"

"The girl." I answered quickly.

"What do you mean 'the girl'?"

"I mean" I paused and sighed agrivatedly "I mean, the girl was the price. He works in some gang for a guy who.. hurts girls.." I said calmly.

"Wait.. Hurt girls?"

"Yes. He.. He pays his buddies to do bad stuff to girls ok?" I snapped. I really hate talking about this. She gasped and covered her mouth with her hand.

"Louis.."

"Is getting payed to hurt that girl." I answered.

"Why? He likes that kind of stuff? I thought he was cool!" He said the last part disgustedly.

"Calm down." I chuckled "He is cool." I assured her.

"You did not just say that!" She screamed making me laugh. I pulled up at the destination I had planned to and cut the car off. I turned to face her and her face made me laugh harder.

She was staring at me with a dirty look and a raised eye brow.

"He doesn't like it." I said seriously.

"Then why doesn't he just leave?"

"He can't." I said looking down. "A while back he was having problems with his family, so he left and did the only thing he knew to do. Get into trouble."

Nichole's P.O.V

"His dad got into a lot of fights when Louis was little, so that's how he was raised. His father.. Joined abunch of people and he got killed.. His Mum was a nervous reck and she didn't really care about Louis. She took her life." Tears flowed down my cheeks that I didn't realize I was holding in.

"About a month later he couldn't take it anymore. He was mad, upset and hurt. He came to America and did whatever he could to forget about his past life.

He met a guy named Sam and he joined his gang. But at the time, Louis didn't know what was happening. When he finally woke up, he tried to leave but they said they would kill him. So him and the others are stuck." He finished. My jaw was hanging open and I was speechless. I think my heart just broke..

"How do you know all this?" I blurted out.

"I was there."