Break me free

chapter eleven

Harry’s POV.

I looked down at our hands as her grip tightened around me, gripping on in fear as we stepped through the front door to her house. Her parents were away, it was just me her and the rest of the lads, we wanted to make her feel comfortable and safe once again in her own home, but the way she reacted made me realise It might take us a while to get her back to that stage of security. It was important to me that in the sense of your own home you had to feel safe, comfortable and secure and she didn’t and it was our job to help her to get back. I felt her tense up dramatically as we walked through the house hand in hand towards the main living room where the boys were. Something banged behind us causing a loud noise to echo through the house sending  Anna into hysterics. She jumped a mile, shaking in fear as she clung onto my arms. Tears fled down her cheeks as I tried to assure her everything would be ok, she was terrified. She stood rooted to the spot paralysed, unable to move. She just stared at the stairs to where the noise had come from.

‘’Anna, Anna, Anna’’ I called out. No response.

‘’Anna’’ I called a little louder, waving my hands in front of her pale face. She looked as though she’d seen a ghost.

‘’Anna!’’ I almost shouted, causing her to turn her head a little, her eyes leaving the stairs for a split second to gain eye contact before switching back to the stairs. I sighed.

‘’Lou!’’ I shouted. Louis’ head popped around the corner of the door smiling. But when he saw Anna’s face his expression turned sour.

‘’what’s up princess carrots?’’ he asked, trying to bring humour to the awkward tension that filled the air around us. She just smiled, her eyes never leaving the stairs.

‘’Anna nobody’s up there’’ he sighed, rubbing her back for comfort. Her eyes filled with tears once again as Louis wiped them with his thumbs.

‘’there is’’ she whispered. Her voice barely hear-able against the sound of mine and lou’s heave breathing as we tried to keep our composure.

‘’I heard them’’ she whispered again, her lip trembling slightly. I frowned worriedly glancing at Louis who had the same worried and concerned expression on his face. Stepping towards her I placed my arm around her petit shoulders rubbing her arm up and down soothingly to try and calm her, she shuddered under my touch. She was shaking, a lot my brow furrowed further as I looked at Lou again, his eyes had fixed on her. One of us need to check, just to put her mind at rest I thought. Lou seemed to read my mind as he looked up at me and then back at Anna.

‘’I’ll go check for you angel’’ he said gently. I smiled gratefully at him as I pulled her into my embrace. She wrapped her arms around my neck tightly and buried her head in my torso weeping silently into my t shirt. I rubbed her back slowly. I wanted her to know I cared, I wasn’t going to hurt her, I wanted her to be safe, I wanted her to feel care free around me, I wanted to be the one she trusted, I wanted to break her free from the trap she was stuck in. It made me feel sick knowing that somebody out there some sick man had my girl wrapped around his little finger and he would quite clearly go to all extents to hurt her. It killed me knowing that if I left her alone for even 1 hour anything might go wrong. It scared me, never mind how she felt. And it was that very day I promised myself that I would never let anything happen to her no matter what.

Anna’s POV.

I couldn’t focus, I couldn’t think straight. Everything in this house reminded me of that night. It terrified me. Hearing the noise behind me and harry absolutely freaking shattered my nerves to pieces. I couldn’t hear what was going on around me, I could only focus on the stairs waiting for him to emerge to hurt me again, I could faintly hear harry calling my name but my eye sight was blurry apart from the stairs. I felt somebody wrap their arms around me tightly as I heard Louis say he would check for me, I smiled at this knowing Louis would keep me safe. I liked Lou, he meant a lot to me. When Louis went off I wrapped my arms around Harry’s neck and cried into his torso. I didn’t believe I could cope, I thought I would die, I thought it was the end I really did. Harry managed to make me move towards the living room and placed me on the coach, wrapping his arms around me. I glanced around the room to see Liam, Niall and Zayn sat there looking scared for me. Liam came and sat the other side of me and rubbed my knee, It was nice and comforting I felt safe around Liam, he had something about him that just made you feel at ease when you were with him, I looked into his deep brown eyes full of worry and smiled at him putting my head on his shoulder I slowly close my eyes, shifting into a comfier position. I think Liam must of gotten Harry’s approval because harry removed his arm and Liam wrapped his around me. Snaking it around my shoulders and squeezing for reassurance. I couldn’t fall asleep, not when I didn’t know whether he was here so I just rested my eyes. The boys must have thought I was asleep because they started talking to eachother in low voices. Liam’s arm never leaving my side as I ‘slept’.

‘’what happened?’’ I heard Niall say, his Irish accent singing through my ears.

‘’We came in and she kind of tensed underneath my grip and she had tears in her eyes, she was ok though and then we heard a bang from upstairs and she looked around and burst out crying. She was shaking and her eyes never left the stairs, it was as though she was waiting for something to happen to her again, me and Lou tried to get her attention but she wouldn’t move her eyes from the stairs so Lou’s gone up to check for her and she just cried into my shoulder. I don’t know who could have done this to her’’ harry sniffed, I think he was crying his voice seemed a little off and he was sniffing a lot.

‘’poor girl’’ Liam whispered playing with my hair.

‘’I know, she’s been through a lot I wonder who it is?’’ Zayn said, it was the first I’d heard him speak all night and he too sounded like he was crying. I heard footsteps walking back down the stairs as they neared I shifted uneasily until I heard Louis’ voice. I smiled discreetly happy it was him.

‘’Nobody’s here’’ he whispered sitting down on the opposite side of the room.

‘’she gave me a fright there’’ he added admit tingly.

‘’me too’’ harry whispered, it was now clear that he was crying. His voice was low and hoarse and his throat sounded clammy. The sound of him speaking echoing through my ears. I wanted to open my eye’s but I wanted to hear what they would say next to instead I opened one slowly a tiny bit. I could see Louis sat opposite me with his legs crossed playing with his thumbs, Niall sat in the arm chair next to our sofa eating a sandwich and Zayn was sat on the other sofa at the side of Louis he was lay down playing with his hair.

‘’ I think she’s stirring’’ Louis whispered looking at me intently.

‘’ act natural’’ Niall giggled. Causing Liam to laugh a little from above me. I sat up slowly using Liam as support rubbing my eyes I looked around, all eyes were on me. I shifted uneasily in my seat.

‘’how are you?’’ Liam asked smiling at me his warm brown eyes stared into my own.

‘’I’m ok’’ I managed to croak out before looking at harry. It was as I had suspected, he had been crying. His green eyes were full of tears and his eyes were red and puffy and his cheeks were rosy and tear stained. I sighed and hugged him carefully putting my head on his shoulder.

‘’why are you crying curly?’’ I giggled.

‘’you scared me’’ he whimpered. Just loud enough for me to hear.