Chapter 17

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Zach's POV

"My friend can't be out this late, so she couldn't come, but I asked her list of questions." Emma said, I nodded and smiled, suddenly her face turned scared and I started to hear shouting over the music, including a very small voice screaming "No! Stop!" Emma looked at me again "Go get Grace!" She said, I ran over to the crowd, Jonah had already gotten over and was trying to stop it, "EVERYBODY STOP!" I screamed, and silence.I ran in and found Grace curled up in the middle, shaking. I picked her up and walked out, I could feel her crying. I felt someone run up behind me and then four more. "We have security on it." Jonah said patting my back, the others started throwing questions at me. "I'm sorry, I should have kept a better eye on her!" Chris said, "No baby, I distracted you!" Corbyn said, "What happened?" Jack and Daniel kept asking, "Nails." Someone whispered, I looked down to see that Grace had stopped crying, "Long nails, lots of questions, loud people, all I can say to strangers is 'Yes, No, Sorry ma'am or sir.' They picked me up and threw me around, dropped me on the floor..." she whispered trailing off, I hugged her tighter. "Any names?" Bam Bam asked, coming out of nowhere. She shook her head, I nodded, "Let's get you back to your bunk." Jonah said taking her from me. "What are we gonna do?" Daniel asked, I shrugged and sat down, putting my head in my hands. "It's ok Zach, it wasn't your fault." Corbyn said sitting next to me, I nodded but I could still feel my eyes watering. "It wasn't, but I let fans go before her. I promised her we'd protect her forever and I failed!" I choked out, he put his arm around me, "It is still not your fault, and when you realized something was wrong, you did protect her." He said, I nodded and let the tears fall, I felt like throwing up. "What do I do about it! I thought limelights were better than that!" I said, "Talk to them, make a video now and say it's not ok." Corbyn said, "I've been recording. Seriously, if you were part of tonight's mess, stop it. Grace means a lot to us, and while we understand she's someone you want to meet, she's only 8, she's still a little girl." He said, "Thanks to any limelights trying to help tonight." Daniel said as Jonah flipped the camera, "Shout out to Emma and her friend Madeline!" I called, Jonah smiled and ended the video, "I'll post it, everyone get to bed, Tyler and David will kill us if we're falling asleep at interviews tomorrow."

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