Escaping - Larry Stylinson (rewriting)

Chapter Nineteen

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Chapter Nineteen

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Liam's POV

"What? You're a cop now?" Zayn says, raising his eyebrows. "What happened to the 'I want to travel around the world. I need space. I'm sorry, Zayn' thing?"

He's confusion and somewhat angry. I don't blame him, though.

I swallow the lump in my throat. I can feel the stare of the other boys burn on my skin too. Especially Niall's. My colleague whispers to me, asking me what the fuck was going on, but I ignore him. I give Zayn an angry look. It's a look I used to always give him when I wanted him to shut up. It still works.

I clear my throat. "Zayn, I'm here to do my job. We'll have to talk about it later" I say professionally. "Are you Harry and Louis?" I ask, turning my attention to the boys I haven't seen before.

I try to ignore Niall's stare as well. I know the poor kid is crushing on me and now this happens.

"Y-yes" the curly one answers quietly.

"Good" I say, more to myself.

"What do you want?" He asks. Even though he seemed scared just a minute ago, his green orbs are shooting fire now.

"You guys have been reported as missing" I start.

"Oh we're not missing!" the other boys cuts me off in annoyance. "Isn't it obvious?"

He's a sassy one, this kid. His hair is a bit straighter than the other and his eyes are a deep blue, much like Niall's eyes.

I look at them in confusion, feeling a little insulted as well. "Well, your father Jack is very very worried about you and he wants to have you back" I explain. That's what Jack told me at the police station. Why aren't they happy to be able to see their father again? "He'll be so relieved when he sees you"

"Jack isn't their dad!" Niall shouts at me. "He's mental, absolutely crazy! He's after these boys because he's a homophobic"

Something snaps inside my head. Is this true?

"W-what? I don't get it.." I stutter.

I'm mentally yelling at my co-worker for just standing there and letting me do all the work.

"Uhh.." Someone begins and I turn my head in the direction where the voice comes from. "Jack is my stepdad... He uhh..- He used to beat me up everyday since I came out as gay with Louis. I-I couldn't take the pain, so I-I left. W-we moved. But he..-" the curly boy, who I assume to be Harry, begins to explain. But he's not able to finish what he wants to say, because tears well up in his eyes and soon he's crying. The baby in his arms looks up at him and begins to cry as well.

Niall walks over to the boys and takes the baby out of Harry's arms. He starts to cradle the baby and make funny noises. The baby stops crying and Niall carefully lays him down in the crib in the back of the living room. After that, he walks back to Harry. He takes the still crying boy in his arms, giving him a friendly hug.

Louis takes this as his cue to walk over to me. He holds out his hand for me to shake.

"I'm Louis. That's Harry" he says, pointing to the curly boy.

"Liam Payne"

"Nice to meet you" he smiles, quite sincere. "Listen, Jack isn't a good man. He's abusive and he's literally ruined our lives so far. Especially Harry's. You can't hand us over to him. Please don't take us away from here"

He's practically begging me and tears appear in his eyes too. Something is wrong, I know it. I just can't drop this case.

Zayn walks closer and for moment I think he's walking over to me, but he stops once he's next to Louis. He places a hand on Louis' shoulder, standing strong together.