Paper Roses

Chap. 38; Hide and Relocate

Harry's Point-of-View

We sat quietly inside of Simon's office. It was weirdly early for us to be in here. Normally he'd call for a meeting every afternoon. I guess this was pretty urgent.

Liam and Zayn sat at the individual chairs while Niall, Louis and I occupied the couch. All of us were holding our breaths, just watching Simon read his usual newspaper and a coffee nearby.

"What do you think is the reason he called us for?" Louis whispered to no one in particular.

"I don't know, mate. But I think it's not good news." Liam whispered back.

We all jumped when Simon suddenly acknowledged our existence when he slammed the newspaper on his table and carelessly spilling his coffee.

"What the fuck is this all about?!" Simon screamed showing us the headline of the paper before throw it in the air. Papers flew everwhere and we just sat thre dumbfounded.

Obviously Simon was fumed. I can almost make out the smoke coming out from his nose and his ears.

Liam, being the real adult here, stood and picked up the page of the newspaper where the headline is written.

"Explain." Simon calmly sat down on his chair before looking at his computer.

"Lads. You have got to see this." All of us stood; running to go behind Liam to see what it was.

'One Direction: BOYBAND or MURDERERS'

Then below those words were a picture of us in the middle of the road, the man who tried to rape Anna was dead on the sidewalk while we stood by the burning car.

I was the first to speak up, "Simon, we can explain."

"Enlighten me, then." He said, still not looking away from his computer screen.

"This... This man right here-" I took the paper from Liam and pointed to the dead man in the picture. "- he was hired to kill Anna."

"Two nights ago, Anna came home bruised and wounded with tazer shots all over his body because of that man." Liam explained.

And there, Simon froze and finally looked at us. "You have got to be kidding me."

"We wouldn't put the whole Clayworths Tower on lockdown if we were just 'kidding'." Liam spoke, putting air quotes to put emphasis on 'kidding'.

"And how do you explain the burning car and two dead men in it?" Simon wasn't furious anymore but was terribly frightened.

"Shot the driver, the other just died." Zayn smirked.

"My... word..." Simon was taken aback. "Mr. Malik you-"

"For fuck's sake! I'm a man! A man owns a fucking gun!" The four of us had to contain our laughter with Zayn's sudden outburst.

Simon sighed, "The public cannot know about this. About everything." He was rubbing his temples. "All of you are not safe here."

"Where do you reckon we should go?" Niall asked.

"The place where no one will suspect you to go." Simon then started typibg away in his computer.

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"RIO?!" Anna was off from her seat. "You can't really expect me to believe what all of you are saying!"

We explained everything to her. From their plan to assassinate her to taking her to Rio.

She was walking back and forth while the five of us sat on her couch just watching her. And as for everyone else that's close to us... they will be staying somewhere in Hawaii. Simon arranged everything from the rides to the private islands... EVERYTHING.