Those Lies Found Love

Chapter 3: The Phone Call

Harry's POV

I heard the door slam shut. I slowly opened my eyes and realized I had fallen asleep on the couch. "You're up already?" asked Louis. "I was just about to go to sleep." 

I rubbed my eyes trying to stay awake when I felt something fluffy on my face. I looked at my hands and saw whipped cream all over my fingers. "Louis!" I screamed.

"Yes?" he asked with a sleepy voice and an innocent smile. 

"What did you do while I was sleeping?" I questioned him.

"Oh just eat and talk with Carie." he smiled.

"Annnnnd?" I asked extending the n. 

"What?" he asked, letting out a yawn.

"What's with my face?" I asked.

"I don't know, you tell me." he smiled.

"You know what I mean." I said as I chucked a cushion at him. 

"Thanks for the cushion. Goodnight." and he fell asleep within seconds.

I slowly walked to the toilet to clean myself up. I stepped in the shower, the hot water hit my skin. As I scrubbed my arms I realized black ink was dripping down my body. I looked at my arms and saw "Carie is fab" written on it. I couldn't help but smile. I inspected the rest of my body. "I was here" was written in Carie's handwriting on my other arm and "Louis is a sexy beast" on my stomach. I tried to scrub it all off but I couldn't. At least it was barely visible.

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I stepped out the rooms (which I slept in whenever I would visit Louis' mum's house) wearing a white v-neck, a grey beanie, white converse, and dark wash jeans.

I walked into the sitting room and found Louis still sleeping. A spark emerged in my head and a smirk on my face. I grabbed a sharpie that was on the coffee table and began my revenge on Lou. "Carie's next. I'll deal with her later." I murmured to myself.

Stephanie's POV

I heard a distant ringing on my left side and a door creaking open. There was a slight touch on my shoulder, shaking me awake. "Wake up, Stephanie. Somebody's on the phone for you." Niall said in a sweet, morning voice. I opened my eyes halfway. The bed squeaked as I arose from it, I grabbed the phone from Niall's extended hand.

"Thank you." I said and smiled. Before I can even say hello, I hear the screams of my mum on the other end of the phone.

"WHERE ARE YOU AT?"

"Far away from him." I stated coldly.

"Please come back. I need you." she screamed in an orderly manner.

"Not with that attitude." I sassed back. 

"I'm sorry... Please come back, I miss you." I hear her voice break.

"I'll go back if you get rid of him. Don't you understand that I hate him?"

"We need him, he's the only thing we have to survive."

"No mum, YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE WHO NEEDS HIM." I hear my voice rise.

"He really misses you." she whispered. That's when I lost it. I remembered all those times he tried to rape me but failed. All those times he touched me behind my mom's back. Hot tears began to fill in my eyes and run down my cheeks. I felt Niall's hand in my shoulder while he whispered in my ear that it would be alright. I was about to hand up the phone without saying another word but Niall took it away from my hands and began to talk.

Niall's POV 

It broke my heart to see Stephanie break down. As I comforted her, I took the phone, strongly, out of her hands. "Hello?"

"Yes, who are you? Bring me Stephanie right now!" Stephanie's mum yelled at me. 

"That's not important. What's important is her safeness."

"So bring her back to me." she demanded.

"She's not safe at home." I told her.

"How do you know what goes on in our home? she's perfectly safe here." she stated.

"I know because...." I hesitated and stopped before i said anything else. "Well boy are you going to answer me?" she asked.

Should I tell her? I mean if I told someone my life story I wouldn't want them to tell anyone. But would this do good to her or hurt her? "Are you still there?" Stephanie's mother asked.

"Oh yeah, sorry."

"Well boy are you going to tell me?" she questioned.

"I found her walking across the street, almost ran her over actually. Anyways, I got out of my car to check if she was alright. Well I asked her she was going and she didn't know so I told her to get in my car and drover her to flat." I explained, telling her the truth... technically.

"So you just took her to your flat simply because she didn't know where she was going? You can't do that! Where do you live?" Stephanie's mum questioned me.

"If I was someone else, she wouldn't have climbed into my car and I live in London." I exclaimed.

"Please bring her back." she pleaded.

"I'm sorry but I can't do that."

"And why not?" she sadly asked.

"Because... she doesn't want to go home." I replied.

"Can I come visit at least?" she asked.

"I don't know about that... but Stephanie might call you later after she calms down." I told her.

"Tell her that I love and miss her so much." she said sobbing.

"Will do." I said and hung up. I turned Stephanie's phone off. I continued to comfort Stephanie while she cried.

Felicite's POV

 I fell to the ground, crying. I couldn't loose Stephanie. Not after what I had done to Carie. I had promised my sister to take care and love them as if they were my own and I had broken that promise long ago. Two months after I made it, actually. But this was different. I had actually raised Stephanie as my daughter and didn't want to loose her. Giving Carie away is one of my biggest regrets in life but I at least know that she's safe and that she's had a great life. 

I hadn't seen her since that day, but I have spoken to Allie and Xavier a couple times in all these years. I've seen a picture of her and she is quite gorgeous, just like her mother. Of course she looks like Steph too. They  both have tan skin, grayish green eyes, and wavy hair. Stephanie's hair is much darker than Carie's. Carie has dyed her bangs purple and white. I believe Carie is a bit shorter than Stephanie.

I have to get her back. Even if it's the last thing I do.