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7.

"I don't think Harry would do that" I say remembering his defeated face

Ethan turns to look at me with wild eyes. "You don't even fucking know him! What the fuck did he do to you?" He screams

"Nothing" I say shaking my head

"Bullshit. Tell me now Mia" he growls.

"I said nothing. Let's go" I say dragging him by the sleeve

When we're in the car he turns his body to look at me.

"Never again. This isn't going to happen again" he says looking me dead in the eye.

I break the eye contact and put on my seatbelt.

The drive home is silent and he doesn't look at me again.

At home, nobody is in sight. Mom's probably watching her tv shows, dads in his study again working on his cases and Ryan is somewhere in the house. I walk the stairs to my bedroom quickly and shut the door behind me. Today has been a really big mess and I don't want to think about it and how mom and dad would react to it. I need to know why Harry locked me in there. I truly don't believe he has bad intentions, but I need him to tell me that. And if he does, I will try to be friends with him. Nobody deserves what happened to him.

I'm really not afraid of Harry. The look on his face was not one of a murderer's. I saw the flicker of pain in his eyes when Ethan mentioned Hailey. He was devastated. The more I think about it, the more it pains me.

A loud but gentle knocking on the door startles me.

"Mia, open the door. We need to talk"

Ryan. Ethan must've told him already. I just hope mom and dad don't know yet. I unlock my door and Ryan walks in with Ethan behind him, still wearing his mad expression.

Ryan sits on my desk chair as Ethan and I sit on the edge of my bed. Ryan runs his fingers through his hair before taking my wrists in them.

"Tell me what happened. Right from the start" Ryan says

I take a deep breath before starting.

"I got hit by a soccer ball in the face so I was going to come home, but I wanted to apologise to Zayn about what Ethan said to him so I went back to school, when I was in the lockers I was going to change my shirt and Harry came in. He started talking to me, he told me about his dates and stuff and said the rumours about him weren't true. He desperately wanted to be my friend, so when I told him I had to go and apologise to Zayn, he told me he was busy with a clumsy girl in class and that I should at least wait until class is over. So he took me to that building and took me upstairs. It was a room with a pool table" I say trying to remember all the details.

"We sat on the couch and he told me about himself and how he was living with his parents. He never mentioned her.." I mumble trying to remember if he actually mentioned her. I'm pretty sure he didn't, which I I'll ask if I see him again.

"Of fucking course he wouldn't" Ethan says.

"He told me all about himself, except for that. He wanted to know everything about me. Then the power went off and we couldn't get out because his card wouldn't read and he said he didn't have his phone on him. So we just slept on the couch waiting it out. Then Ethan called and woke him up. You know the rest" I say sighing, recalling the events just makes me see how fishy it really does sound.

"Out of all people, why Harry Styles? He's the most dangerous person on hand right now and you go prancing around school with him" Ryan sighs

"Never again. Don't ever go off with someone you don't know without letting us know. Your phone, it's going to be with you at all times. Wherever you go, I don't give a fuck where, but you have to let us get in touch with you. Do you know how freaked out Ethan was? Do you understand what would happen to this family if you were to end up with the same fate as Hailey? We wouldn't be able to make it Mia, they made it through. They've forgotten her, they erased her from their memory. That's their way of coping with it"