Jace

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"Madison something's not right here." Niall followed her around as she tried to shake him before sound check. "You never got into any sort of accident before and then all if a sudden you come home with all of these cuts and bruises."

"I told you-"

"Yeah yeah, you tripped, you ran into the table, you fell. But you can't have all of a sudden developed clumsiness."

Louis stepped in front of her, boxing her in between himself and Niall. "You suddenly became 'clumsy' once you started seeing Toby." He used air quotes around 'clumsy' and his tone was harsh.

"My God is he doing this to you?" Niall cried, shocked. "Has he put his hands on you?!"

"WOULD YOU FUCKING JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, making Louis wince and Niall step back. "You're not my father leave me alone! I can do whatever and whoever the hell I want!" Madison stormed away without another word.

"You tried lads," I sighed from the couch. They sighed, Niall slumped down next to me and Louis leaning against a wall.

"She's gonna get seriously hurt," Harry hung his head, playing with his fingers.

"We leave here tomorrow night," I said. "We can get her away from him."

Zayn bit his lip, pulling on a jacket for sound check. "I just hope she can keep her head out of water until then."

*

It was a rough show that night. Katherine fell out of a turn sequence during Midnight Memories and the crowd screamed their disappointment. I could see her tears when she danced the rest of the night. The minute the concert was over, Katherine ran to her bus in tears. I watched helplessly as Madison slid into Toby's car and it peeled out. Louis cussed Toby out as the car left, but he didn't hear any of it. The other boys either showered or stormed into the bus, to upset with Madison's actions, Katherine's depression, and Jace's disappearance to function normally.

Everyone had abandon me.

Why was it, that after Jace left, this whole system seemed to crumble?

I was going insane. I had googled her name, called RoseMarie, even tried Jaden. But Google was empty, RoseMarie knew nothing, and Jaden was very very upset with me for some reason, hanging up after only a few short profanities. Jacelyn Rock had simply fallen off the grid. It seemed impossible with the amount of cameras that were following her, but somehow, she did it.

*

"Is Katherine awake yet?" Niall asked, finishing his lunch.

I looked at the time on my phone, subconsciously checking for any sign if contact from Jace. Surprise. There was none. "It's nearly 3," I said. "Someone should wake her."

"I got it." Niall tossed his paper plate in the garbage and jogged to the dancer's bus.

"You excited Liam?" Louis asked.

"Excited for what?" I focused my attention on the website I was on. "Hey lads look at this. There's a website where I can just put in her cell phone number and it'll show me her exact location."

Zayn slammed my laptop closed. "Ok now you're turning into a stalker."

Sighing, I sat back in the chair. "I know. I need her back."

"Li we'll be in the town of Rock Law in four days. Be excited." Louis finished his sentence from earlier and a glimmer of hope shined inside me.

The dancer's bus suddenly rocked, and the door busted open. "Lads!!" Niall scurried down the steps with such force, that it shook the bus. Katherine followed closely in her pajamas. "Madison's gone!"