The directions gone wrong

Gift Shopping

I close my eyes and let myself drift off into my dreams. When I wake up Liam's carrying me back to the motel. Don't I feel like a damsel in distress I think. He smiles as I look up at him like a baby kitten.
"Your my damsel in distress" he says kissing my nose. I quirk trying to get loose.
"No no let me carry you." he says. I sigh as I give up. I snuggle up against him.
"What time is it?"
"Midnight my darling better hurry home before your magic is gone" he says taking his time as he walks.
"But I'll still have dorkiness"
"Yeah and that's what I love about you the most even if your not beautiful and a old lady I'll still love you even if I am breaking the law" I laugh.
"Okay" I say burring my face in his shirt as his scent surrounds me.
"You smell nice" I see without really thinking about it.
"Yeah I know" I smile as we get to the motel. He goes into our room and sits on the edge of one of the bed and putting me on his lap. I wrap a hand around his neck. He smiles as he places his hand on my waist making sure I don't fall off. He pulls me closer and kisses my chin. I smiles leaning against him.
I lay my ear against him. I'm still a head shorter then him. I listen to his heart beat loud and clear. At least I know he's not going to die of heart problems hopefully. I feel my phone buzz. I pull it out looking at it. It's a unknown caller ID I shrug and pick up.
"Would you like to buy some inflate table pantaloons?" Says the person on the other line it's a male voice in a German accent. I hear snickering on the other line.
"Sure why not what color of pants do you have?"
"Blue, purple, red, orange, black and other colors" I hear other snickering.
"What is your name sir?"
"Lulu van snidensnuff" the man says
"Isaac stop selling me pants you freaking tard!" I say in the phone. I look over at Liam who's trying not to laugh. It makes me laugh.
"This isn't Isaac this is Lulu van snidensnuff"
"Give it up Isaac who else is with you?"
"Noah, Zach, Maddie, and Marisol"
"Where's Quincy and Emily?"
"Um..." I can hear him swallow.
"Emily is in the hospital she's in a coma"
"What happened noo not my Emily"
"Skiing accident"
"What about Quincy?"
"It's complicated you see" he hesitates. "S-she's dead" I drop my phone onto the bed. No no no this can't be happening I burry my face into Liam's shirt again trying not to cry. I lift my head leaving a small wet spot of tears on his shirt.
It seems everyone has decided to leave me. Liam hugs me comforting me. I hug him back silently crying. I close my eyes wanting all of this to be a dream but it's not a dream it's reality. It does this to you reality is cold.
You feel like your having a good life and then it pushes you off the ladder of success forcing you to start again. Reality is hard and you can't avoid it it's something we all live in. I wish I could just punch reality in the face. I finally stop crying at about 12:40am. I'm tired and I need sleep. I walk over to my bed not really wanting to change into some cat pajamas. I curl up into a ball and slowly I cry myself to sleep.
I wake up I look over at the digital clock 7 am. I shrug and wake up dragging my feet to the bathroom with a change of clothes. I take a shower and change. I look at myself in the mirror. I look terrible. I splash cold water on my red eyes that still stings from tears.
I look at myself. My black shirt read the words life in rainbow colors and a pair of skinny jeans. I throw on some sneakers and walk out of the bathroom as I pass Liam. He grabs my wrist as I walk past. He turns me and looks at me.
"You look terrible" he says running his fingers across my check. He pushes a strand behind my ear. His hand lingers at my ear a little too long. I smile at him as he slowly moves it away.
"Thank you I try" I say flipping my hair. He laughs as he walks into the bathroom. He comes out wearing some baggy jeans and a shirt with dolphins on it. I lean next to the the door frame as he puts a hand against the wall above me.
"Do you like what you see?" He asks
"Yes I do"
"Good good"
"So what's the plan?" I ask as he checks his phone
"We're going to meet up at the park I took you too yesterday"
"Okay"
"Yeah each of us has been tracking Harry's movement he isn't near us now. He's near some houses now"
"Oh I better make a call." I say worried. He nods. I pick up my phone from one of the drawers. I call my mom making sure he doesn't know where I live. The phone rings and then my mom answers.
"Hi is there anything you need?" She asks
"Just making sure your okay your okay right?" I ask. There's no reply I wait a little more no reply.
"Mom mom mom are you okay mom?"
"Yes dear I'm fine" says a voice Harry's voice to be specific.
"DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH HER YOU CREEPER"
"Oh don't worry I promise I'm not going to touch a hair on your head but only if you come and see me alone and no funny business and she get it"
"Ok I'll come but she better not be hurt when I get there"
"Okay okay I'll see at about 2 hours"
"But that's not enough time"
"Fine tomorrow the dead line is midnight tomorrow." He says hanging up. I ball my hands up into fists he have better not. I turn and look at Liam to see if he heard. He doesn't pay notice to me. He looks at his hands as he plays with them. He looks up at me.
"You okay?" He asks.
"Yeah I'm okay did you hear any of the phone call"
"No I zones out"
"You promise" I say holding out my pinkie.
"I promise" he says linking his pinkie with mine.
"It was just a regular call nothing really happened"
"Okay then lets just go to the park" he says
"Okay let's go" I put my phone in my back pocket. We walk outside as he grabs some keys. We walk to the park slowly. Along the way I bump him on the arm and he bumps me back and then we kept bumping each other having this bumping war.
We meet up with the others near a fountain with a Cupid in the middle as it spits out water into the fountain.
"Let's get to it any spotting of Harry?" Caitie asks everyone shakes their head.
"Any information?" She asks
"He's at a range of houses he's staying within a house for quite sometime" Louis says
"Address?"
"He's blocked us from getting the address" Niall says. She sighs and rubs her temple.
"Ok then Cass do you have any information?" She asks. I hesitate thinking about the phone call. This is my job and I need to do it alone.
"No" I say
"Okay then let's go get launch." We all nod as we walk off to a nearby cafe. We sit deep inside the restaurant. I order a cappuccino and a full loaded macaroni. It's like a full loaded baked potato but with Mac and cheese. I eat it quickly I've been starving since this morning,
I stir my drink with a spoon. I take a sip then another he about ten until my cup is empty. We leave and split up. Caitie goes to the library Niall stays in the park Louis goes to a nearby animal shelter Zayn goes to the gym and Liam stays with me.
"Let's go shopping" he says out of the blue I almost laugh.
"You want to go shopping?"
"Yes there are a lot of great malls here"
"Okay then let's go shopping then Liam." I say as he takes my hand and leads me through the streets. After about 3 blocks we reach a mall a huge mall. We walk into it. There is a glass arch ceiling. There are 5 floors and a bunch of shops and little cart shops too. This would be a perfect time for a montage if this was a tv show but it's not.
We run around stores trying on silly hats and clothes so we decided to split up each with 100 to buy something for the other person. So I got him a stuffed whale, a shirt that has a sleepy bear on it wearing a tuxedo, I also got a fedora, a cane, a monocle, and a note card with a mustache cat that sings a really out of tune version of twinkle twinkle little stars.
I walk around with all of this in a bag. I have 10 dollars left. I check in the cart shops on the fifth floor. I can see down to the first. I walk around until I see a shop full of electronic stuff. I search around and I decided on this neat little robot that tells time and dances.
I walk out with my arms full. There's a fountain on the third floor where we're going to meet up I walk to it and sit at a nearby bench. Liam comes and sits next to me. We exchange gifts one at a time. I give him the whale first he gives me a stuffed fluttershy. Next the shirt he gives me a ring with a amethyst with copper wire holding it in place the ring itself is also copper I put it on admiring it.
I give him the fedora a red and black checkered fedora. He gives me a heart shaped box of chocolate. I give him the card he laughs and hands over a box. I untie the ribbon and open it the object is covered with newspaper. I unwrap it it's a actual music box with a dancing ballerina inside.
He even put the music box with adventure time and stuff into it. That's why I couldn't find that. I smile as I hug it. I open it as it plays the tune opening theme song of adventure time, I listen to it as it changes to the song he sang me and he to the story of my life finishing with the adventure time closing theme song melody I never actually listened till the end. At the end it plays a melody a kind of haunting melody he smiles as he sings to it.
"I'm a ghost that's been wondering these empty halls, trying to get through life as I haunt this mansion. My heart has ever been whole until you stumbled into my house from the cold rain. Your hair dripping wet as I watch you from the shadows. You call out feeling a little scared and then when I knew. That I'm a ghost and i want to do is make you warm and have you in my arms. I look at you your beauty really shows.
Girl your beautiful and I want you in my arms. Even though you probably can't see me as I walk these lonely halls all alone. Why don't you become a ghost like me and together we could fall in love. Come and take my hand and we could fly over this city together. It'll just be the two of us just the two of us.
I try to get you to notice me but you alway ignore me. The sky is already dark the rain purring hard and the wind blowing out the fire. Baby don't hide from the truth I know you know I'm here and I would never hurt you. So girl just let me hug you and make you warm. All I want to do is have you in my arms. Why don't you come and be a ghost and we can fall in love. We can fly over this city together and no one will bother us. It'll just be the two...of us cause all I want to do is.....have you in my arms and we could fall in love" he sings as the tune stops.
I smile at him as I look at the crowd he's attracted. I blush feeling me arrested he smiles back as he hugs me. "What do you say?"
"What?"
"What do you think about it"
"I like it and we can both be ghosts just not right now I really don't want to die right now" he laughs at my reply.
"Let's sing together"
"sing?"
"Yeah let's sing"
"I don't sing"
"Come on please" he begs with his puppy dog eyes
"Fine" he stands up on the edge of the fountain holding out a hand. I take it as he pulls me up.
"We can be a ghost together and no one will bother us again" he starts singing I join in as he lets me sing.
"We could fly over this city and it'll only be the two of us and no one has to ever know about it and all I want is to have you in my arms"
"I don't care what people say about it we're meant for each other" he changes the tune as he grabs a guitar from a nearby bench as he starts strumming it.
"Like butter on pancakes we're meant for each other I don't care what people say it's just you and me now and the world is just blur as it goes by round and round us it's just you and me and the rest of the world is a hazy blur it's just you and me let keep it at way"
"Like rain a butterfly's in the spring we go so well together there's no way in the heavens be could be apart cause baby we belong together. It's just you and me now in this little world that revolves around us as the world turns into a blur it's just you and me know let focus on us. No one will ever split us apart it's just you and me as the world turns into a hazy blur it'll just be the two of us and let's keep like that"
"Even if the worlds starting to crumble down I'll always be here next to you I'll sacrifice my life just know your alive."
"And if the zombies are coming I'll keep you safe till the end I'll sacrifice my self to know that your alive" he drops the guitar as he strums the last cord. He grabs right hand in his and puts is other hand under my other arm and on my back as he swings me around. I place my free hand on his shoulder. He dips me as my hand falls of his shoulder. My finger tip touches to top of the fountain as it sends ripples through the water.
I smile at him. As he looks into my eyes. I look back at the water as I start freaking up. He tries to lift me up as I fall into the water. He staggers back falling off the the side of the fountain he land on his right hand as he pushes himself up landing on his feet.
He runs back to me. I look at him with a angry look I my eye that makes him jump back. I hesitates then ends me his hand. I grab it pulling myself out. He hugs as I shiver. He jumps off the fountain. I look down probably 5,6 feet tall from the rim that I'm standing on. He holds out his hands as I jump into his arms. He wraps a arm around my waist as I lean into him.
"That was fun wasn't it?" He asks
"Sure it was loads of fun" I say sarcastically
"Lighten up ok" he says taking both bags of gifts "can you even walk" he says seeing me shake worse then before.
"Yes I can walk" I say taking a few steps then I collapse. He sighs and goes into a nearby store and buys a blanket. He wraps it around me as he tells me to hold the gifts. He hen picks me up with a arm under my legs and a hand supporting my back.
"I can walk just fine"
"Tell that to you legs"
"Ok I will legs you need to walk" they shiver in response
"Yeah case proven" I sigh as I lean into him. He smiles holding me tighter.
"Thanks" I say
"No problem my fault anyway"
"My fault for freaking out"
"My fault for dropping you"
"My fault that you had to do that cool one handed handstand landing thing"
"That was my choice"
"You choice to be awesome, say what time is it" I ask. I look the clouds covering the sky. It's about to rain I just know it.
"3 pm milady" he says. I smile at his humor.
"That's why I'm so hungry let's go and get some food" he nods. We walk around as he carries me. We enter a pizza place. He chooses a seat setting me down. I order a cup of hot chocolate when the waitress comes to us.
One of those ladies you'll see at a dinner. Grumpy, puffy bright red hair with a bandana in it. A mole in between her lips and nose. A plump person who tied the tie that holds a pocket of straws and other contents too tightly.
I look at the red heels as she walks away. Smallest thing about her besides her mole. She comes back with two hot chocolates and a large sausage pizza. I drink my hot chocolate. Slowly I stop shaking,
The pizza isn't half bad tie really good to be honest.
"Little fawn I haven't gotten to know much about you"
"Yeah"
"You probably know everything about me"
"Not everything'
"What don't you know"
"There's along gash on your back i don't know where you got it" I say. He tenses as he falls back in his chair.
"I'll tell you later let's talk about you" he says relaxing.
"Okay what do you want to know?"
"How old are you?"
"Seventeen"
"What do you like"
"You and everything you bought me i enjoy the type of gifts I mean" I blush munching on some more pizza.
"Okay about the phone call this morning who were you calling?"
"My mom"
"And did she answer"
"Yes"
"Did you hear anything else"
"No, what are you getting at"
"I'm getting at that I heard the call"
"All of it?"
"Some of it and I heard what you and Harry were talking about" I look at him angry but then my expression saddens thinking that I trusted him and he betrayed that trust.
"HOW COULD YOU I TRUSTED YOU!" I whisper scream.
"ITS NOT ABOUT TRUST ITS ABOUT YOUR SAFETY YOU CANT GO ALONE!" He whisper screams back with anger in his eyes.
"I have to or else this is my problem and I have to face it alone"
"But he's going to kill you"
"No he's not he still loves me and without me he won't be able to live"
"He's doing this because he wants you"
"Exactly he's doing this because he knows that he can still have me"
"But you can't go alone"
"It's my own problem and I can handle it" I pause "please just let me do it"
"Fine just take this lighter" he hands me a cube shaped metal lighter with a cap on top. "Swipe it if your in trouble and I'll be there okay your battle is my battle too." He says giving my hand a reassuring squeeze. I nod as I finish my 2nd piece of pizza.
We walk back to the car he has parked 7 blocks away from the motel. He sends me to my house as he waits 3 blocks. I walk slowly to the door as I knock a specific beat.