Rag doll

Chapter 10

No one had seen Michael, Ashton, Luke, or Poppy since yesterday night. I went to bed about eleven and finally got to sleep around two am. I was trying to make sense of anything that had happened yesterday but couldn't.

I was terrified for Poppy after what she told me, then what I said to Ashton about the phone. I had been reassured by Lucy it will all be okay. I wished she was right but I had a feeling she wasn't going to be.

After I woke up, I went to the bathroom and washed, did my makeup and hair. I went to the dressing room Beth and Lucy had decided on a todays dresses.

I never participated in choosing what to wear, I hated all the dresses equally. It felt pointless to choose what to wear, it wasn't really our choice. They had picked out the clothes for us, we just got to believe we had some say in things by picking one each day. It was disgusting.

As usual I got changed and we all went down to make breakfast. We were making chocolate chip pancakes when Calum walked in, I had hoped he would bring news with him about Poppy.

"Oh, Calum is something wrong ? Are we late ?" Lucy asked surprised looking at the clock.

"No no. I woke up early and thought I could come help" he said eating some chocolate chips.

"It's fine dont worry, we are basically done anyway" Beth spoke while pouring the finale pancake into the hot pan. She stayed silent for a moment but it was clear she had more to say "Have you heard from Ash or Michael yet ?"

"I don't really have any answers, I know as much as you guys. They will be back eventually and explain I guess" Calum mumbled looking at his feet. No one really knew what to say. "I'm going to get dressed"

"I will come hel-"

"I can do it, you girls eat up, I'm not hungry" Calum cut her off heading out the door.

I couldn't understand why Calum had been left out. Normally the boys where a united front, it was strange to see them leaving someone out.

"Oh okay" Lucy smiled but I could see that she was also now more worried after the way Calum was acting.

"It will be fine, don't worry" Beth said rubbing Lucys shoulder, Beth appeared calm which oddly brought me no comfort.

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We hadn't got much to do as the boys hadn't slept in their beds or messed the house up at all. So all we needed to do was clean up after ourselves.

I was trying to tidy my own closet up a little, when I heard the main door slam and shouting fill the house. I dropped everything I was holding and ran to the front door. I stopped as I got to the top of the main stairs, I immediately noticed Poppy wasn't with them.

"She could have told anyone Luke" Michael screamed, throwing something across the hallway, I took a step back to not be in his eye line. He was still in last nights clothes and he had a bust lip and what looked like blood on his top.

"Do you not understand what we have done" Luke argued back, his eyes were puffy and red "She didn't deserve this"

"This wasn't the plan" Ashton pleased, he had his back turned to me as he locked the door behind him "That wasn't what we wanted to happen"

"Bullshit" Luke cried his voice shaking

Calum pushed by me and stopped when he got half way down the stairs and saw the situation in front of him eyes.

"Oh my god" Beth whispered behind me, grabbing my arm tightly. I hadn't even noticed her presents till this moment.

"You went to far Luke, we had to fix it" Michael spat, walking closer to Luke "You caused all of this"

"This hasn't fixed anything" Luke took a step back, it was clear he was more upset than angry in that moment.

"It wasn't meant to happen like this" Ashton Pleaded. I gasped as I saw the gun in his hand, immediately I could feel my heart drop. I turned my back and lay flat against the wall trying to not bring any attention to myself.

"What did you two do?" Calum choked out clearly also as shocked as we were at the scene. The boys all the arguing stopped and the boy turned and saw us. "You said everything was fine"

"Things changed" Michael plainly spoke, he didn't seam as effected by what had happened as the others.

"Why do you have a fucking gun" Calum asked seriously, he waited a while for Ashton to answer but he just looked down at the gun in his hand silently as if he himself didn't know how it had gotten there.

After a moment Calum turned around took hold of Lucy's hand. "You idiots can sort your own mess out, I had no part in any of this" With that he walked off, Lucy following after him.

"What happened to Poppy ?" Beth asked what I couldn't. I stared at Ashton, who couldn't look me in the eye, he opened his mouth to speak but couldn't.

Micheal then said what Ashton couldn't.

"Poppy's dead"

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I went there. I'm sorry.

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