Adopted By Zerrie

Chapter 25

~~~~~Jade's POV:~~~~~

It has been only two weeks and I can tell that I'm getting thinner. Too thin for my liking. Every meal is the same. Hard bread, water, mouldy jam. 

Every night, I wake up at midnight, crying so much I swear my eyes are soon going to become too dry and stop shedding tears, after experiencing the same nightmare:

...I sit alone in a dark room with a small window high up on the wall. I can't reach it but I can hear voices coming from outside. 

"HELP!" I shout.

The voices keep talking, they obviously can't hear me. 

"Please help me.: I whimper. The voices stop. I look up hopefully. Then I hear a familiar voice.

"Arianna!" I cry, desperate.

"Keep her in there boys." I hear her say maliciously.

"Noooooooo!!!!!!1" I scream, hysterical.

The bolts are slid away from the big, steel door behind me. I whip round quickly. A man stands there menacingly. He holds nothing but those hands say everything. Huge, and capable of doing anything.

I jump away and press my back against the opposite wall. The man walks closer and closer and closer...

Then I wake up.

After these nights of the same nightmare, I've just turned into a freakin' scaredy cat. Everything, even just a mouse scuttling across the stone floor scares me to death. The only thing that keeps me sane are memories. Of better times. But even those are starting to fade away. I try to hold onto them, but they slip between my fingers, never to be seen again.

~~~~~Arianna's POV:~~~~~

I control my tears and go back downstairs with Perrie. The guys look at me concerned but don't say anything.

Louis breaks the awkward silence. "Liam has become so sensible that he is starting to watch the news! Do you mind if we watch it? He's too scared to ask you himself, Perrie."

Perrie smiles slightly and nods her head. 

"Of course! Do what you like! And this is Zayn's house too after all. Why didn't you just ask him?" she was answered by no one but the tv, so she just shrugged and sank onto the sofa. She patted the spot beside her, indidcating that I could sit there. I gladly took her offer.

The newsreader's voice fills the room as he reads out the daily news. It finishes and Louis is about to turn it off when Liam stops him. 

"Wait!" he says, "There's still a bit left."

"News has just come in of a kidnapping. New parents to 16 year old orphan Jade Houston-" I didn't wait to hear any more as a picture of her came up, the picture of us in our bikinis.

"Jade!" I cry and run to the screen. 

"Jade's parents beg for any news of her. Please call the news company if you have any information of her where-abouts. Jade is an average sized girl with dark brown hair, dark brown eyes-"

"I know what she looks like." I mumble as I crumple to the floor, tears dripping down my cheeks again. I stare disbelieveingly at Perrie, Zayn and the boys. They all are looking at the screen, taken-aback. Harry is the first to recover.

"Come here." he says to me, opening his arms.

I run into them and he hugs me tight.

Everyone recovers apart from Niall, who is still staring at the pictures of Jade popping up on the screen. I find it strange but I don't go any further than that because I have better things to worry about.

Like how I had to get Jade back. Somehow.