Mirage [n.h.]

twenty-three

We arrived to a grimy and secluded alleyway shortly. This place is out of the public's eye. Like no one knows this place, just them.

"Go out" Louis pushed me so i'll follow Zayn who's already outside holding the door open for me.

My dad and Harry have now opened a door leading to a pitch black room? What's in there?

"Faster" Zayn impatiently holds the door open for me.

Louis pushed me again -hardly this time, so that's my cue to scramble out this luxurious car which I know no one on them owns this one. This is maybe a smuggled or they just stole it? Who knows?

I got outside and I can see Ysabelle walking infront of me, like she knows where we'll be going, while these two guys guard me on that pitch black room.

"Go inside" Louis curtly instructs me and Zayn this time, pushed me completely inside.

This time, the lights are now illuminated inside this tight place.

I can see a normal apartment inside. A couch, dining room, bedroom, kitchen. But compared to any normal apartment here in New York, this one's really dirty and you know for a fact that no one really lives here.

Cobwebs are sticking out of the wall and drinking cans are scattered all over the floor. Trash can, yeah?

"Take a seat, son" my father instructs me which I didn't have a chance to do it by myself and walk to the couch behind me because Louis pushed me backwards that made me fall in the couch.

"Weakling" he mumbles.

"Will you please quit on pushing me?" I annoyingly ask them which Zayn and Louis just laughed.

"Will you please quit on pushing me?" Zayn mock me and they high-fived each other. I rolled my eyes, not in the mood on arguing to these my so called "new friends" because apparently, we're now workmates, right?

"Will you please just shut the fuck up?" Louis says. Meanwhile, Harry is looking for something on the laptop, he's really determined on it.

"Shut the hell up!" Harry announces. "I'm trying to look for another bigshot business here in New York, quit bickering all of you!" he continues and proceeds on looking at the laptop.

This time, my dad enters the living room, phone on his ear while holding bag of chips on his hand.

When he sees me, he gets his phone and put it in his pocket and continues on eating chips. He sits down beside me while Louis and Zayn are now scrambling out of the living room going to another wing of this place, maybe to the bedroom wing.

Meanwhile, Ysabelle is standing behind Harry, looking on his laptop, being a nosy ghost she is. She looks at me and gives me a thumbs up, assuring me that maybe everything's going to be alright?

"So, son" my father starts, wiping his hand on his jeans, wiping away the excess of the chips he's eating at the moment. "Welcome to the team!" he welcomes me and I just nodded because i'm one hundred percent against this whole thing. I don't even know why those words blurted out awhile ago. Just because, that's the only ticket I got so they won't kill me.

"And, welcome to one of our secret hideouts" he starts. "This'll be our escape whenever things we've planned are starting to go downhill. This is where we'll stay for somekind of time until things will be sorted up. That's Harry and Ethan's work. They're the pleasers of our team where they're the ones going out to the public, never knowing they've something evil in mind. Then, there are Zayn and Louis being the gunners and stalkers of the team. Their job is to find to whoever that person who caused the downhill of the plan then they'll kill them. Basically, they're the bodyguards of the team. Finally, there's me, the leader of the team. I'm the hidden person here, no one should know that i'm the mastermind of these things" he explains which I just again nodded, and suddenly I remember that girl who was with Ethan when it was the day that they used me as a punching bag after seeing the real Harry Styles inside Mr.Price's office.