Paige Noel Styles

Chapter 3

ELLA'S P.O.V

"Goodnight!" I say as I hop down the sidewalk.

The boys dropped me off at my house, as much as I didn't want them to see the trashy, run down building, I didn't want to walk a mile in the dark, so I agreed.

We had exchanged our goodbyes and everything, before I had gotten out of the car. They each hugged me, and kissed my cheek.

I reached the door and of course I could hear my mother, father, and all of their friends. I squeaked the door open anyway and sneaked around the corner to my room. Well I call it a room, but it's basically a storage closet with a mattress on the floor. I can hear the loud and drunken laughs of my parents and their company. I force myself asleep anyway.

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I wake abruptly from the cold. I have no heat where I sleep so in the winter I get extremely cold. I stand from the floor and walk into the kitchen. To my surprise, my mother is awake. She sure isn't pretty looking, but awake.

"Here I made you a cup of coffee." she goes to the cabinet and picks it up.

It's cold, but I drink it anyway, only because I know if I don't she will get angry.

"Thanks." I say rising it up to my lips.

As soon as the drink hits my mouth I know what she has done. It's to late to spit it out, the drink was poisoned. I immediately begin to cough. My throats starts to feel tight.

"Why did you do that!" I scream.

"You snuck out of my house yesterday. You think you can fool me. You should know your a dumb idiot. I'm way smarter than you." She snarls.

I run out of the house. I need to get to the library and get help or I will die.

I run as fast as I can. Until my head starts spinning. I can't breath and I'm coughing uncontrollably now. I drop to my knees and begin to dry heave. I crawl along. I need to get to the library. I slightly see a black car coming this way, but I think it's just my imagination as I hit the ground, my mind going completely black.

HARRY'S P.O.V

"Is this the library?" I ask as we drive through the depressing neighborhood.

"Yeah. Park and let's go in." Niall says.

Niall and I snuck out of the hotel this morning, we told the boys we were grabbing breakfast. I felt bad for lying to them, but I don't want them having to get involved yet.

We walk into the library and find a women setting in the front desk.

"Uh excuse me, are you the librarian here?" Niall ask.

"Yes I am, how may I help you?" She stands and walks over to us.

"We were just wandering if you know a girl named Paige." I say.

"Yes I do." She straightens her back.

"Okay, uh can we ask you some questions about her." Niall says.

"Well, how about you ask me questions and we will see about those answers." She smiles, leading us to a table to set down.

"Okay, I'm just going to be blunt. Is she abused?" Niall says.

She clears her throat and crosses her legs. "why do you ask?"

"When we spent the day with her yesterday, we were fascinated by her. She was amazing, and she opened our eyes up to other things, but we also picked up on something. I think that she is abused, and quite frankly if it's true I want to help, we both want to help, but we just don't know how." Niall says.

"Paige is an abuse victim, but let me tell you, that girl never gives up, and she is to proud to admit that it hurts her, but I know it does." She sighs.

"Can you please tell us everything about it. We want to help so badly." I say.

"Well, Paige had been coming into this library since she was two years old. I have only seen her mother a few times, her father only once. She used to wander up and down the streets alone, so I would pull her in here and feed her. She always had bruises and marks. I have been fighting to get her away from them for years now, and I haven't been successful. I don't have the power to get her out of that situation. She has a good head on her shoulders, though, and I know that good things will come for her." she says, disappointed.

"Do you think she will ever be able to get away?" I ask.

"I think that since she is an older child, well just turned fourteen, that they don't see her as a priority, therefor she most likely won't be able to get out until she turns eighteen." She sighs.

"If she did get out, where would she go?" Niall ask.

"Ultimately foster care. She could move from house to house until she is eighteen, and they won't care. She probably won't get adopted because most people want babies, not teenagers. A family member could take her, but she doesn't have any family."

"That stinks." Niall sighs.

"We have to go, but thank you so much for your information. We still want to try and help her, so let me give you my number and if you find any way we can help call me, okay." I say, scratching down my number in a sheet of paper.

"Thank you boys. I will call you if I find a way." She says.

We shake her hand before heading out.

"That sucks man." Niall slumps.

"I know. I just wish we could get her out of it. I mean just from the little time we spent with her yesterday, you can tell she has a bright future ahead of her, if she only had a way to show it." I say.

We hop into the car and I put it in drive.

"How do I get out of her?" I ask.

"Uh, I don't know, go straight." Niall points.

I drive straight ahead and into the neighborhood that we dropped Paige off in last night.

"Harry stop!" Niall shouts.

"What?!" I yell.

"Look that's Paige!" he yells and jumps out of the car.

I throw it into park and jump out, running over to her. Niall is on his knees, shaking her. She is not responding, she is out cold.

"Niall what's wrong with her?" I ask.

"I don't know. Let's just get her to a hospital." He says.

I pick her up into my arms and we run to the car. Niall drives as I sit in the back seat, holding her. Niall swings through the streets and around corners, finally we make it to the hospital and I run in with Paige still in my arms.

"Please help us, she is out cold and we don't know what happened. We just found her in the sidewalk." I stutter out.

"Okay, do you know her name?" She ask.

"Yes its Paige." I say.

"We have a code blue, I repeat code blue." She says into her radio.

Many nurses come rushing towards us. They take Paige from me and put her on a stretcher.

Her body starts twitching and she begins to cough.

"Poison" she coughs out, in the answer of the questions being thrown at her.

I follow them down the hall.

"We have a response!" One nurse calls out.

"She says poison! Let's flush her!" Another one says.

They rush her through a door and they stop me, not allowing me to continue. I stand in the middle of the hall staring through the window at the empty hall they rushed Paige down. Niall appears beside me and places a hand in my shoulder.

"I called the boys, they are on their way. Is everything alright." He ask.

I just shake my head, not able to respond.