What A Feeling // 1D AU ✓

Chapter 24

~What a feeling to be right here beside you now,

Holding you in my arms~

Louis was very casual, driving down the road. Niall was trying to contain his excitement. Perrie just wanted to take a nap. "Can I get a venti iced coffee and a medium grasshopper mocha?"

The barista announced their price, and Louis got out Simon's credit card. "Just like old times, eh?"

"We'll be millionaires soon, so it won't matter if we spend ten bucks of Simon's money on coffee." Louis smirked.

"You've got to explain everything. Because she's supposed to be in jail too." Niall said, glaring at the blonde in the backseat.

"We broke her out two weeks ago, roughly." Louis said. "Because we needed her to break you out, and she wasn't going to cooperate unless we broke out Luke and Palmer."

"Trash." Niall said, taking a giant sip of his drink as it was handed to him. "Oh my god." He pretended to have a seizure. Louis drove off. "But why break me out?"

"Simon will explain that once we get back. Pretty sure Winston will cook up something bomb for your first meal back too." Niall got deeply into his drink. Louis cut through the parking lot to get to the light quicker, but it was as he did that that Liam came in through the walkie-talkie.

"Louis, we're not going to make it." He sounded panicked. Louis immediately slammed on the breaks.

"What do you mean?" He asked, hearing rapid gunfire in the back.

"Cops are on us. Harry can't ditch them and we can't use the decoys since they are so close!" Liam paused his message and then came back. "Hailee's running out of bullets. Zayn's calling Simon, but Harry's freaking out!"

"Calling Harry. Answer his phone for him." Louis turned off the car, speed-dialing his boyfriend.

"Louis." Came the stressed answer.

"Harry, what's the situation? Just drive faster."

"I'm pushing the throttle! And I think I'm having an out of body experience, a panic attack, a stroke, a flare, everything at once! We're going to die!"

"Harry, deep breaths, okay?" Now Louis was starting to freak out. "I'll come and save you!"

"No!" Liam yelled, since the phone was on speakerphone. "Do not risk Niall's safety!"

"We have to save them!" Niall cried. Louis couldn't bring himself to turn the car on. "Louis, drive!"

"Harry, deep breaths." Louis said, turning his phone on speakerphone.

"I'm trying."

"He's calming down, Louis."

They were in the middle of the Bed, Bath, and Beyond parking lot. Niall turned the hazards on. "I'm good. I'm good, Louis. But we're not going to make it." Perrie let out a string of curses. They had worked so hard to get here. "I love you, you know that, right?"

"I love you." Louis choked out. "To the moon and back."

"Niall's good, right?"

"I'm good, Harry. Drive like hell, okay?"

"I'm trying." Harry said. "Love you too, buddy."

"HARRY!" Liam screamed high-pitched. Then there were screams and crunches of metal.

And silence.

Louis sobbed.