Vindictive

23.

Ally was frozen in place as she stared at her best friend. Tears were beginning to form in the smaller girls eyes. "Wh- what are you doing here? How'd you get here? We took you to the airport." Ally was silent as she stared at Zayn, and then to a confused Lauren. "Wait a minute, are you and Zayn hooking up?!"

"Heavens no Lauren!" Ally gasped.

"Then what is going on?! Tell me, now." Lauren demanded.

"Give me a few minutes, okay? I promise I'll tell you, I just need to get myself together." and with that Ally walked into the dark, and flicked on a light to the kitchen.

"Zayn, this isn't funny. Tell me what the hell is going on. What is Ally doing here? Is she apart of this sick little game?" Zayn gently placed his hand on Lauren's arm, and led her to the staircase. "This isn't a game Lauren." Zayn said.

When they reached the last floor. Zayn pushed open a door where dim light was seeping through. Harry and Niall were sitting on a raggedy sofa, the same cheddar orange as the one downstairs. Camila was tied to a chair, and she was crying.

"Lauren, I'm afraid I have to tie you up," Zayn frowned. "Only because I don't know what you'll do." Harry and Niall helped Zayn get Lauren into the chair beside Camila, and all tied up.

"Ally's here.." Camila said through tears. "She's apart of this."

"Lauren, I just need to know you won't run away or call the police, and you'll be untied." Zayn said.

"Same thing goes for you Camila." Harry said.

"Fuck you." She spat. Harry sighed, and sat back down.

"If you love me, then you should be able to trust me." Lauren said, hoping to reverse things on him.

"I do trust you, but I don't know if I can trust you with the information you know."

The door opened, and all eyes were now on Ally who walked up with water bottles in her arms. "Want something to drink?" she asked the girls.

"Yes because it's possible to drink something with my arms tied up, I forgot." Lauren sneered. "What are you doing here?! After what Niall did to you, you're under the same roof as him?"

"I never bought a plane ticket back to Florida.. I was going to, I really was gonna go back. But something happened, and I needed to get away, but I couldn't just go home, I needed to make sure I'd be safe, and I know that these three will keep me and my name safe because they're all going through it too."

"I'm confused, what did you do?" Camila asked.

"So, you know how I was staying at the cabin after everything happened with Niall and I?" The girls nodded, not sure what they were about to hear. "I was still so full of rage over what happened, and then I heard someone downstairs. I don't know, I thought it was Niall trying to apologize or something, so I went down just to see Perrie standing there, searching through the couch cushions. I said how dare you step foot in here after what you did, and she told me to shut the hell up, and that she was looking for her phone... I lied to her, and I told her that it was I threw it in the woods, and so she ran out back, and that's when I grabbed Zayn's metal baseball bat..."

"Oh God...." Lauren muttered recalling the bloody baseball bat.

"I knocked her in the knees, and I don't know, the devil must've took over because once I saw her fall down I couldn't stop swinging at her, but she kept moving. She kept trying to crawl away, and then I heard Zayn call my name, and he, I guess heard Perrie yelping in pain, and he ran toward the woods and found me, and he didn't try to stop me, he just took the bat and finished the job."

Lauren looked at her boyfriend and best friend as if they were growing another head right in front of her. Camila turned her head, and vomited on the floor.

"He called Harry after that and told him what had happened, and Harry told Niall. That night Zayn told me there was a place I could go and hide out, which is here, so when you guys took me to the airport Harry did his best to bury Perrie, and when you guys left, Niall came and picked me up and we ended up here. He was willing to help me out if I forgave him, and I need him.."

"Ally are you fucking crazy?!" Lauren shouted. "You killed someone..."

"Please don't think any less of me, the devil was inside of me Lauren. You guys gotta understand, I don't have a violent bone in my body." she cried.

"Well, looks can be decieving." Camila said tears were still streaming down her face. "I hope you all go to hell." she said. "Every single one of you."

"Camila, you don't mean that." Ally said, taking a step closer.

"To hell if I don't! You murdered someone! You actually beat someone until they weren't breathing anymore. You're disgusting."

"Mila, please stop." Ally cried.

"How about you just stop talking to me?" Camila suggested, hanging her head low.

"I just want to wake up from this fucked up dream," Lauren said, her tears making everything blurry. "I want to get out of here, that's all I want."

"I'll give you guys some time.." Harry said leaving the attic, the other three following.

Camila wiped her tears on her shoulder, and the two girls listened to the sound of several locks being shut on the door. Camila turned to face Lauren. "I can't believe Ally would do something like that.." Lauren said breathlessly, still staring st the spot the short girl was standing in as she confessed to her crime. Camila frowned, "We're never getting out of here.."