The Chase [Watty's2018]

Twenty-One

Louis

Zayn grabbed my hand and pulled me away from them, and I let him. I heard Liam yell something, but never really paid attention.

"Louis, its okay," Zayn tried to calm me, but I pushed him away and took a few steps back.

Zayn didn't give up, walking back to me and grabbing me. "Lou."

I looked up at him. "Harry's not gonna hurt us. He's not gonna give us up." Tears started to fill my eyes. "Why doesn't he understand that?"

"Shh, Lou. Liam's gonna talk about it, and he'll talk to us when there's a plan. Its gonna be okay."

We saw Liam and Niall going to a room in the hall, and Harry came out of the hall and came over to us.

Zayn let go of me and I walked to Harry, hugging him. "I'm sorry," I said.

"Why are you sorry? I should be the one apologising." Harry said quietly.

I shook my head and stepped back, moving back to Zayn. "I shouldn't have yelled, just-"

"Stop. You did nothing wrong, Louis." Harry looked at Zayn then back to me. "I know, Liam has always told you don't use your ability to keep you safe, but now, to stay safe you're going to have to use them."

I bit my lip. "Yeah, I know. Just, its scary. I don't know what I'm doing with them. I know how easy it should be but its not."

Zayn kissed the top of my head. "Its going to get easier." I nodded and leaned into Zayn. He wrapped his arms around middle and swayed us back and forth.

Our dad came out of the entry way and looked briefly at Harry before his eyes settled on Zayn and I.

He balled his fist clenched his jaw just like Liam does when he gets angry. Harry got up and moved in front of us, and Zayn moved in front of me.

I saw Liam and Niall come out of the room and confusion crossed both of their faces.

"What the hell have you done to my son!" He yelled. I flinched and stepped backwards, my legs hitting a low shelf.

Liam hurried into the room, going to stand in front of our dad. Niall stood next to me. "What's going on?"

He turned his attention off of Zayn to Liam. "What the fuck is that?" He yelled, making me flinch again.

Zayn looked back to me and saw my shaking figure, so he pulled me to him and tried to calm me down.

"Don't listen to him," Zayn whispered in my ear, then moving his hands to cover them.

Liam started talking, motioning between him and my dad before he pointed at me. I closed my eyes, not wanting to know what happened.

There was muffled yelling and the pressure on my ears slowly started growing as Zayn tried to keep me from hearing.

I felt a push on my back and walked with it, Zayn dropping his hands from my ears to grab my wrist.

"-nything about him!"

We kept waking away, while Harry tried to pull Liam away. "Come on, Li, its not worth it."

Sam ran in front of us, stopping our steps. "You can't leave. We can work this over." She smiled at us, almost making me believe her.

Zayn grabbed Niall's wrist as well as mine and turned us invisible. He moved out of the way as Sam tried to move in our direction to grab us. Once she was past the door we took off running.

"Liam," I said once we had been running for a while. "Harry..."

Zayn let go of our wrists, making us all visible again. "They're gonna find us. We have to keep going," Zayn said while panting. "Its gonna be okay, Louis," Zayn exclaimed softly to me once he saw how upset I actually was.

"Can't loose him. He's everything, he's done everything for me."

Niall grabbed my arms. "Louis, Liam would want us as far away from these people as possible. Its Liam and Harry. Between the two I'm sure they can find us."

I shook my head. "We can't separate. Liam-"

"Lets go," Liam said as he walked past with Harry. He grabbed Niall's hand as he walked past.

Zayn grabbed mine and we walked behind them. Zayn moved his thumb back and forth on my hand. I stayed quiet. I didn't know what to say about what happened.

Liam did not expect that to happen. I know he didn't want that. He was hoping everything would be fine. It's not Liam's fault. He just was trying to make me happy.

Zayn tugged on my hand a bit, pulling my attention to him. "What's going on in Louis Land?"

I shrugged. "I don't want Liam to be mad at himself for this. It was out of his control."

Liam lead us down a street filled with people, and I stopped walking. Zayn stopped too, turning to face me. "What?"

"Aren't we supposed to be hiding? Why are-?"

"Trust Liam, okay," Zayn said with a smile as he pulled me along. Zayn had to push past some people and I just stayed as close to Zayn as possible.

Liam turned and went in a shop, so we followed him in. Once inside he closed the door and locked it, flipping the sign in the door so that it said open on the inside.

The shop was small with clothes and jewelry about on shelves and stands. Liam let go of Niall and told all of us to stay put for a second.

"What's going on?" I asked quietly.

"Not sure." Zayn tried letting go of my hand but I held on tighter, not wanting to be left.

"That's not gonna happen, Lou," Harry said from a shelf where he was looking at something with a lot of papers in it.

Liam came back out to wave us on a door that was behind the counter. Harry set down what he was holding and followed along with Niall. Zayn stayed put, watching me. I watched where they went, a million things running through my head but if someone were to ask nothing would stick out.

"Lou, everything will work out. We have nothing to worry about."

We do, we all knew that. I don't know why saying everything was fine changed the fact. But I nodded and lead Zayn to the door and down the corridor that was well lit. We went through the first door on the left side because that's where I heard Liam's voice. 

I rubbed my eyes, because of the even brighter light in the room. Zayn's hand never left mine as I sat and he stood next to me while Liam talked to someone I had never seen. 

They were tall and blonde with all black clothes on. Their voice sounded different from ours, which put me more at ease that on edge. He used his hands as he talked.

I just hope that Liam was trusting the right person this time.