Secrets In The Dark

Broken

"I'm going to kill him!" Niall shouts as he swings open the door of the hotel room.

Niall charges into the hallway, his fists clenched tightly next to his sides. He breathes in heavily as his lips stay in a tight line, tears stemming in his blue eyes. Security immediately turn their attention towards his booming voice as he quickens his pace down the narrow hallway.

"Niall!" I shout, quickly following after him.

He took it exactly as I had expected. He was quiet at first. He turned his head away from me as he swallowed the words that I had spoken. My heart sank to my stomach as tears spilled freely across my cheeks. As painful as it was, it was a relief off of my chest. A relief off of my heart. I was finally free. I told someone, someone I love.

"Niall..." Paul says as he lifts his hands as if to calm Niall.

"Don't Paul!" Niall shouts as he lifts a finger towards him.

"What's going on?" Paul asks as he grabs onto Niall's arm, spinning him around.

"He touched her!" Niall screams as tears flood his red hot cheeks, "He touched her! He hurt her and I wasn't there to stop him!"

"Okay, okay..." Paul whispers as he keeps a tight grip on Niall.

Paul looks over to me, his eyes full of confusion and sadness. He already knows. I feel more tears coming on as my throat screams in pain as I attempt to choke them back. As hard as I fight them, they still escape. I muffle a quick sob before I turn away from them.

I'm embarrassed. I feel disgusting. I feel cheap. Like I'm a used toy, or worse, garbage. The hurt and pain that I thought that I would get off of my chest with releasing the truth immediately returns deep within my soul, tearing at every one of my inner emotions. It feels as if a fire is tearing through my body as my heart is ripped from my heart and replaced with a cold stone.

"I'm going to call the police, okay?" Paul whispers as he slowly releases Niall.

Niall nods slowly as he takes the tip of his jacket to wipe away the tears sitting on his cheeks. I stay turned away from them as I lean into the wall. My face is buried in my hands as the pain grows more and more apparent. With each sob all I hope for is for some relief but it only gets worse and grows more deep.

"Kelly..." Liam whispers in front of me.

His voice startles me, causing me to whip my head up immediately. He has a basketball to his side as he stares at us with the same confusion that Paul looked at us with. I'm quiet as more tears fall. I just lean back against the wall as I place my warm cheek against the cold wall.

"What's going on?" Liam asks as he looks to Niall and Paul behind me.

"Liam..." Paul whispers, "will you please go downstairs and ask the hotel to call police please? Try not to make a big deal of it. Act calmly..."

"Yeah..." Liam nods, "of course."

"Thank you." Paul nods in response as he moves closer towards me.

He places his palm on my shoulder as he pulls me into him. We're all quiet for a moment before more sobs escape from me. Each time I'm more surprised when I continue to sob. It's as if somewhere inside, I feel like it's not possible to cry this much. It's not possible to feel this mortified, this...broken.

"Come on sweetheart..." Paul whispers as he helps me a little way down the hallway, "let's take a seat okay?"

He helps me to a chair at the end of the hallway as Niall takes a seat on the floor next to me. I lean my head back as I stare up at the bright lights above my head. Eventually, the tears stop as we wait for Liam to arrive with the police. Not one of us says another word before someone else joins us on our floor.

Members from the hotel and management immediately follow up with Paul to figure out what is going on and why he sent Liam downstairs to call the police. I sit next to Niall in complete silence as we listen to Paul try to explain the situation as quiet as he can in the corner of the hallway. After he's done explaining, the hotel staff leaves the floor as management tightens security for our privacy.

In what seems like seconds, the police arrive. They talk to Paul before talking to either Niall or I. I turn my head away from them and down towards Niall. He looks up at me, his once frosty blue eyes now overtaken my damp, reddened eyes. His face is patchy with tears as he reaches his hand up to mine. I slowly take his hand in mine as I give it a brief squeeze.

"Kelly?" he whispers as he continues staring up at me, nearly emotionless.

"Yeah?" I whisper back, returning the gaze.

"You know I love you right?" he asks as he gives my hand a squeeze.

"Yeah..." I whisper with a nod.

"You know I'll be here with you the whole time right?" he says as he adjusts his head against the wall.

"Yeah..." I whisper again.

"Good..." he whispers as he turns his eyes up towards the officers walking towards us, "we'll get the bastard for what he's done."

A/N:

Hello! It's been quite awhile hasn't it? Anyways, you may have noticed I changed something in this chapter. I changed it from "you" to "I." Simply because it was just bugging the hell out of me. I know this chapter is really short but I feel it was long long overdue. I hope you all enjoy! xx Sarah