Orphan

Chapter 44

For the next hour the longest car ride had begun. Maybe it was the never ending nothingness of road and dirt. Or maybe it was the fact that I felt like my life was ticking away, each second longer than the next. Like waiting for a dripping faucet to fill a swimming pool.
"What's the matter girls? We're awfully quiet, aren't we?" Eyebrows muttered glancing at us from the mirror. "Well sorry, having your life completely ripped apart takes the shit out of you." I snapped sarcastically as he frowned.
Was that sympathy I noticed?

Probably not.

"Don't worry. You'll be back to your families soon." He breathed out with a small huff.
"That's not what I meant." I sighed softly against the glass; watching my breath create circles of evaporation on the window. Disappearing just as quickly as it came.

This wasn't going to be easy; that I could understand, but I wasn't aware that it would be quite this...hard.
The car came to a very sudden stop, sending me face first into the seat in front of me. I frowned muttering several curse words before glaring at the empty drivers' seat.

"Lets go ladies. You'll have time to do your make up before the court session. Right now though, its into holding." I rolled my eyes at the sexist remark made by some tanned, tall police officer who had opened my door. I stepped out of the car and immediately felt a strong grip on my cuffs, followed by a blinding flash, and another, and another. A mob of news reporters and families stood by the gates of the station. All screaming and crying, all people I knew. Some of them calling my name, I hadn't seen them in so long. I struggled to find my way inside through the mob and murmurs, it was overwhelming to say the least. I heard a siren and then doors slamming and strained voices, screaming, wailing, cursing. As my head turned, I watched the boys getting out of the police vehicles, people were spitting and clawing at them. The police did little to stop them as they made their way inside. "Harry, Harry are you okay?" I mumbled as he broke away from the officer and made his way towards me. "I'm okay, don't stress this will be over soon I promise." His face remained unchanged, stone cold, if you will.

"No communication!" Harry was yanked back by his cuffs. "We're just talking you bastard!" I scolded stomping on the officer's foot. I was immediately forced to my knees and had my arm twisted behind my back in pain as a gun was placed to my head.

"Don't you dare touch her!" Harry yelled as his face turned red and a very clear vein stood strong on his forehead, clenching his jaw. "You shut up, take him to his cell."
"I swear to God you do anything you're dead! You're all fucking dead!" Harry's screams were tortured and vicious as he squirmed beneath the cuffs and tried jumping forward towards me before he was pulled aside and more officers stood armed and ready. "Harry stop it! Stop bloody resisting!" Liam scolded in a deep monotoned voice glaring him down as Niall rolled his eyes. "Liam shut up, everyone's sick of your act, give it up."

"Sick of my act? Oh fuck me, if it wasn't for me your sorry arse would be dead by now. Twenty times over," Liam laughed as Niall lunged forward and Zayn sighed. "You two, you're only giving these douche bags more ammunition."
"True, true. But then again... Stop being such a wet towel Zayn. I'm quite enjoying this." Louis grinned nodding towards a cop, "You lads get quite a show daily, huh? Got any popcorn over there mate? Or is it just drugs, cause I mean that's good too-"
"-Louis shut up!" Abigail spat angrily as she glared at the blue eyed boy.

"Oh look, little mouse can speak! Now there's a crowd she's got to put on a show hm?" Louis smirked, "Louis if you don't-"
"-if I don't what, Niall?"

"Both of you had better shut up right now! This is exactly what they want us to do! You're giving them what they want like the little condom wrappers you are." Liam mumbled, clearly annoyed at the continuous babbling between the two. "That's right boys, turn against each other. Of course we'll have plenty of time for that during interrogation." Eyebrows smiled as I sighed. Staring at the five men before me who had turned on each other in a matter of seconds, was it a spur of the moment thing or was it a long brewing pot of revenge they had all been waiting to dish out to each other. Everything was silent for what seemed like hours, but had only been mere seconds. I feared for the secrets which were about to erupt in those rooms, more afraid, however, about Harry. He was the leader of this imbecile pack, and he would take the heat for nearly everything that had happened.

"You people need to get moving, time is money." An officer mumbled as he walked closer to the group, "Dan, move these two to interrogation, keep the others in separate holding cells. Keep watch, we don't need any escape tricks." he muttered as the officer I now knew as Dan, nodded, taking Louis' arm and dragged me along, placing us into two separate rooms. "Have a seat little lady." Dan smiled as I sat down quietly, too afraid to make any comment which may be useful to them in their case. "So, you've been gone for quite some time, huh?"

"Yeah, what's your point?"

"My point? Oh, no sweetheart, I'm just making polite conversation... You were gone for a long time, that much is true, but was it willingly that you'd left? I mean, no one just disappears like that, especially not someone with such a good family, good school... It just didn't add up, why you would leave with them."
"Everything in life doesn't have to add up, Dan."
He chuckled, "True, true. But if we have the answers in front of us, it doesn't hurt to ask now does it?"

I sighed, "I left, so what's your point."
"Listen... Monique, is it? Your family have been through hell and back, I think the least you can do is provide us with answers. Besides, right now, you're not under oath, in the courtroom you will be. It's just you and I right now, you can speak to me, while no one knows, you can be open. It's all going to come out anyway, so you either say it now in privacy, or you say it in front of everyone, your parents, the boys... You say it face-to-face."