Diana

Seven - Regret

I paused the story there, the looks on their faces took my breath away. "What do ya mean by 'real or no.' You mean to say you imagined all of it?" Zayn asked with a puzzled look on his face. "I was actually coming to that," I replied.

Not only was his mind messed up, the others too had doubtful expressions. Then they started asking questions, thank god not all at once.

"Why was no one there behind the bakery? By the way, I used to work in a bakery and we didn't have separate rooms to kill kids behind the place" Harry said innocently.

All of them turned their heads away after Harry's reference to the bakery he used to work in.

"Bro, you don't have to bring that up every time someone mentions 'bakery'" Zayn spoke.

"Anyway, were both of 'em the same? I mean the boy in the news and the other one who was hit" Niall asked.

"Why were they even hitting that kid?" Liam added on to the pressure.

"What happened after that?" Louis looked at me.

Ryan was silent, she was never like that before. Maybe, she's into her own deep thoughts. "After that, I went back home and did not expect that to happen...." I started again.

Continuation of the story

"Hey, I am Sam and these are my friends. You didn't assume we would come, didn't you," a guy said who was sitting comfortably in my house. It was the same guy I had talked to last night in that room. Why are these people here, I thought. "What are y'all doing here?" I raised my voice. "You interfered in our work and now we are here to destroy you," one of them said. My heart raced faster than ever, my brain would shut down any minute. I didn't know what to do, I stood silent. "You wanted the cops to arrest us huh? They won't listen to you anymore" another came forward and spoke. The man who stood masculine and tall came closer and said, "The sneaky video that you recorded was recorded in the surveillance camera, so sad...right? And now we want it back." "I ain't doing that" I finally spoke. "Oh sweety, don't say that. Don't you watch movies? The bad guy has all the powers and, if people don't listen, he'll do something really bad.." Sam tried to scare me. "Movies have a hero too, who will fight for the truth and against those same bad guys," I said confidently. "You will gradually do what we want, get ready with the video, we'll meet soon" they left.

My mom was speechless, she didn't want anything to happen to me. I had an idea, but before implementing it, I had something else to do. I had to know more about the kids and Sam, the truth must be revealed.

After days of researching, I had drawn the conclusions. Firstly, both of the kids are the same person. That group had covered up his death, they might have paid the people who had come in between to stay quiet and play dumb. That's the reason the truth is struggling to come out into focus. Secondly, I'm their next target, if I don't do what they want, anything can happen to me right from being threatened to getting killed. The only thing I couldn't manage to conclude was the reason for the kid's death, I'm sure I'll bring it to light sooner or later.

I regretted my decision. If I attempted to do something rather than going to the cops, I would have saved his life. I am a complete loser. Instead of being quiet that day, I must've stood against them.

Present

"I was so scared to tell this to anyone, people might hate me for what I've done. I let go of the opportunity of saving someone's life. Indirectly, I helped Sam. This is a big mistake that can never be undone." I spoke with a low voice. I didn't know what expressions covered their faces, 'cause I didn't dare to lift my head up. I could sense my eyes bulging with water, they flowed down my cheek. Liam stood up, walked towards me and said, "You did your best, Diana. You are continuing to fight, I will be by your side. Don't put yourself down like this, no one will hate you for trying to help someone." Liam is very supportive, everyone knows it, but now I can feel his concern and affection towards my situation. "Thank you so much, Liam. But he lost his life because of my mistake, it tears me apart into a million pieces" finally I lifted my head up. 

"Did they come back after that day?" Niall asked. I took a faint breath and spoke," After a few days, they did come back. They threatened me to the extreme heights, everything they spoke was depressing. One part of me filled with sorrow and the other with death threats. Then I implemented my plan, which turned out to be something unexpected. I went to Sam and deleted the video, he wasn't surprised, maybe he knew this was coming. My mom suffered more than me, so just to wipe it out, I confessed that I had deleted the video. This was just adding more regret and trouble to my situation because before deleting the video, I transferred it to another phone. My mind, body and spirit: in regret for not helping that kid and lying to my mom; in confusion on what should be my next step." Harry started, "So now you're tryna say that you lied to your mom and Sam to fight for justice. That's so brave, Diana." "It doesn't feel awesome or brave to me, I lied to them and pushed myself into a hollow cave " I replied to Harry. 

"So you still have the video?" Zayn asked. I nodded and took my phone out of my pocket. "The proof is alive, it is in this phone," I said with a bit of confidence. "That's great, let's proceed with it. What do you think guys?" Liam said with excitement. His excitement for solving this problem will be ruined by my next statements. "But...something else happened before I came to London," I said. Before I started, I took a glance at all their faces. Liam was tense, Harry and Niall were curious, Zayn was raging maybe because of the threatening part, Ryan was silent and concerned. Finally, Louis, it was hard for me to read his feelings, he controlled his emotions perfectly.