A Penny For Your Tears [Z.M]

Fifty

Please read the author's note at the end guys! Final chapters, so excited!!!

Numb, that was all I could feel, a numbness that I was afraid would never go away. She was everywhere, haunting me and every single time I closed my eyes, all I could see were her lifeless eyes staring back at me, her hand stretched out as if she had been reaching out to me for help. Help that I failed to give her. It was only a week ago we had been celebrating my birthday, only a few days since the time I had been sitting on her bed, the both of us laughing endlessly as we talked about boys and music and now, now she was just gone. This sweet, sweet sixteen year old, who undoubtedly had a bright future ahead of her, gone, life stolen from her as if it meant nothing.

My heart broke at thought of Zayn finding her, he already was a broken man, a broken man who had only recently began slowly picking the pieces of himself up again, the love I had for him and the love that he and Aaliyah shared acting like glue, holding him together. But this, this would shatter him, breaking him into tiny little pieces impossible to be put together again. This would put him on a dark path that I was afraid no one could bring him back from, a path that would get him killed and I'm sure this was exactly what Luca had wanted.

I had been in this room for days, no food or water but I didn't care, time stood still and nothing mattered anymore because she was gone and it was my fault. I stared at the door, getting up from my position on the floor and reached  for the handle like I had been doing since I had been placed in here, knowing it was locked but still foolishly praying it wasn't anyway. I laid my head against it, shoulders racking up and down as I cried just wanting to get over all of this as soon as possible. My eyes flew open when I heard a gunshot, then another and another and I stumbled away from the door, my back hitting a wall as my heart rate increased. There was shouting to be heard and I felt my heart flutter with glimmer of hope as well as fear since I wasn't exactly sure of what was happening. The door burst open and I let out a yelp, cowering away before looking up to see Louis, gun raised as he panted heavily, blood staining his clothes and forehead.

"Louis!" I cried and his eyes landed on me, a sigh of relief escaping his lips as I ran towards him, his arms wrapping me up in a hug.

"It's ok, it's all going to be ok, we're here now, we're here now." He soothed, rubbing my hair gently as I cried into his shirt, tell me a couple of months ago that I'd be in this position with Louis, of all people, I would have called you crazy but now, standing here with him, I was more than grateful to see him.  "Olivia, we need to go. Zayn and the others, they're holding them off but there's too many of them, we can't hold them for long. We have to go, do you understand?" He held my face in his hands , looking down at me desperately and I nodded my head. He gave me a small smile, one that told me everything would be alright.  "Now, where's Aaliyah? Do you have any idea where she might be?" He asked and my heart stopped, mouth dry as I opened and closed it unsure of what to say. The gunshots were getting louder and closer to where we were, Louis looked around frantically before saying, "There's no time, come we'll find her, we just need to get out of here!" He grabbed my arm and pulled me out the room, we ran through the corridors, Louis shooting at every man he saw while I tried desperately to get his attention.

"Louis, Louis, Louis!" I yelled and he finally stopped, looking at me with wild eyes as he kept his gun up, ready to shoot.

"What!" He exclaimed, just as a man came up from behind him but Louis caught sight of him just in time, grabbing onto his arm and flipping him over so he fell to the floor with a thud. Louis then pointed his gun down at him, pulling the trigger, blood splattering against his before looked at me again. "What, Olivia? We haven't got time for this!"

"Aaliyah." I stuttered, removing my gaze from the dead man on the floor to look at Louis. "We aren't going to find her, she's, she's dead." I choked out and Louis' face went pale, eyes becoming moist with tears.