Fresh Start

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KATES POV:

The time must be somewhere around midnight. The guys were for sure either landing soon or on the plane home.

"Kate are you okay?" Emma whisper. I groaned I could barely talk. I had a busted lip two black eyes and I could barely breathe. My guess was a broken rib.

Crystal would come into the basement like room cell we were in every ten minutes and beat me up. Then my aunt and uncle would come in beat me up more and slap emm and aspen from screaming at them.

I screamed as loud as I could every time hoping someone would hear my crying. And it's so weird to call them my aunt and uncle and not Mom and Dad. I didn't want to be related to any of them. But the horrible reality of it caused all of this.

"Guys.... I.... can barely move" i mustered. It took many breaths to say a single sentence.

Emma and aspen were both bawling their eyes out. I wanted to comfort them. I too wanted to cry, but I couldn't, physically or mentally. Every bone hurt and every emotion was hatred and agony. I wanted to get out of here.

"We will get out of here... I promise" aspen hiccuped.

I heard whispering from Emma. I could barely make out what she was saying but I heard. "Come on guys where are you?"

Hearing that made my heart hurt. Daniel kept coming back up in my mind. I needed to thank him for protecting me I needed to hug him and kiss him and jump in arms.

But I felt like I was going to die. I felt lifeless and like I was going to pass out. One more hit from anyone would do that.

DANIELS POV:

Skip the flight—

The flight there couldn't have been longer. We shoved past elderly people basically knocking them over. I was always in the lead of the guys running to baggage claim to get our bag.

"I REALLY HOPE THEY DIDNT FORGET ONE OF OUR BAGS!" Zach yelled as we ran across the gate entrance.

"I SWEAR IF THEY DID...!!" Jonah yelled back.

We found all of our stuff after many prayers and scrambling. I called an Uber and they said they'd be here any second. In the meantime we kept calling the girls. Each time it went to voice mail. We kept getting frustrated. We checked social media to see if they were active recently but nothing all day.

"Maybe their sleeping." Jack suggesting.

"All day?" I asked giving him a weird look.

"Well I don't know I'm just saying. It's a possibility." He drugged

"It is one in the morning and most people are sleeping around that time." I said

"Ok come on let's go home and see our girls." I added

"ONWARD MARCH!" Zach said and took off outside of the airport and found out Uber.

We piled in and gave him directions to the compound. You could basically taste the tension in the car as the anticipation and eagerness of getting hike faster rose.

They pulled into the driveway soon enough. Good old LA home. Tour was so much fun but man does it feel good to be home. Relief was slowly wearing off as we unliked our stuff from the car.

But then the thought of Kate still being mad at me and the thought of her being locked in a room and the thought of her with Jonah and the thought of her just not being mine, rolled in again and my heart beat sped up again.

Keep it cool Daniel. Everything is going to be fine. Let's just find her first.

"Thank you sir." Corbyn Said to the Uber driver as he closed the door. We all rolled out suitcases into the compound. The front door was locked.