Save You Tonight (One Direction Fanfic)

Chapter 1

My feet pounded against the hard wet pavement as I ran through the ally. I can hear him behind me. He’s close, too close for comfort. I push on faster skidding through turns in the ally.

It stank here in the ally, or maybe I just wasn’t used to this smell. Every time I left it smelled different. Outside did, I mean. I’ve been cooped up so long I almost forgot what year it was. 2012, right?

My cheek burned from when he slapped me before. I couldn’t take it. I had to leave him. I’ve had enough of his abuse. My stomach hurt from where he had kicked me.

I could still hear him as I ran. I know he had a weapon. He said he wanted to kill me, so why not now? Just what kind of weapon did he have?

“TINA SUMMERS!” He screamed. “Get back here you bitch! You slut! You deserve to die!”

His words hurt; they scared me, which made me run faster.

You may be asking why I am running. Well, you see my ‘boyfriend’, Jack, is, uh… not very nice. I loved him before but then I witnessed something I shouldn’t have and now he won’t let me go, afraid I might tell the police. He would beat me until I was half dead lying on the floor. He wouldn’t let me go outside at all or eve watch TV or use the radio or phone. My friends left me thinking I hated them because I, well, Jack broke off contact with them. After that he moved us to New York City and he became even worse. He went out every night and drank until he could barely stand and after he was good and drunk, he… He… I can’t even think about it. I just have to get away.

I ran faster.

I could see the main street! People! There were people! So many more than I remembered!

I ran fast onto the crowded sidewalk. I was surrounded by people. I looked back. Jack was still coming. AND HE HAD A GUN!

“Shit!” I screamed. I turned away from him and ran as fast as I could through the crowd of people. They were looking at me strangely and cursing me for pushing them. I didn’t care I had to get away.

The crowd got thicker. I still pushed through. I had to get away, I have to get away, I have to get away, I repeated to myself pushing harder through the crowd.

It was getting loud now. There was a lot of screaming and I’m not sure why. Maybe people saw Jack’s gun running towards me.

“TINA!” He screamed in rage. I ran faster.

If it was even possible the crowd got even thicker. I pushed through harder, a scared rumble started in my stomach. Now mostly girls were all around me. Some had signs. Why? I couldn’t stay and ask I had to keep running through the crowd. Then it got even thicker.

There was an opening in the crowd. I tried to break through to get to it. The screaming got even louder. The scared rumble got worse in my stomach. My breath hitched when I looked back. He was really close. I was so scared now tears were in my eyes leaking out of the corners of my eyes. I ran faster. I was so close to the opening now.

The crowd went from girls to a line of big burly men. A few tried to hold me back as I ran. I looked back and screamed. He was right there behind me. I ducked under the men and into the opening of the crowd.

In the opening were 5 teenage boys. They looked shocked to see me there.

“TINA!” Oh god Jack. I looked at him. I could feel the fear shining in my eyes. Before I could react he pointed the gun at me and pulled the trigger. The shot rang out around us. The 5 boys dropped to the ground when they heard it. People started screaming. All this happened the second the bullet penetrated my body. I jerked back and screamed louder than anyone else. I fell to the floor. The bullet had penetrated my left shoulder. The pain was worse than anything I have ever felt. Tears streamed out of my eyes so much I couldn’t see; my screams echoed through the street louder than anyone else.