Chapter Forty-Six

[Selena's POV]

After my tears have finally stopped and dried up, I decide to make my way back upstairs. I wasn't going back to Justin's room. He's the last person I want to be around right now. Instead, I pass right by his bedroom door and continue down the hallway until I come to the spare bedroom door where Alfredo has been sleeping these last couple of days.

I knock softly on the door just as Justin's bedroom door opens. He walks out of the room and our eyes meet. I keep eye contact with him for a split second before I look away.

"Alfredo, can I come in?" I call out, knocking on the door again.

"Selena," I turn my head and see that Justin is standing next to me now. "Can we talk?"

"There's nothing to talk about, Jason." I snap.

Justin's eyes almost pop out their sockets when I call him by his real name. I watch as his hands tighten into fists at his sides. He takes a step closer to me where he is now towering over me. I slowly meet his eyes and they're a darker shade then their usual hazel color. They're almost black from the anger that has suddenly risen inside of him.

"Don't call me that again." Justin growls.

"Then don't give me a reason to." I reply.

Justin looks away from me as his jaw clenches. He slowly makes eye contact with me again and it's like I'm looking at a totally different person.

"If everything I've said are just dark lies," he says, taking another step closer to me and places his hand on the small of my back.  "Then just know that when I've said I love you,"There's no space in between us and his face is so close to mine that I can smell his minty breath. "It wasn't a lie. I meant it, every time."

"Did you really? Or are you just saying this because you're afraid I'll leave your murderess ass then turn you into the police." I say, pushing Justin away from me.

"Then go ahead. Leave me and turn me in." Justin replies. "I'd rather spend the rest of my life in jail then have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for not being able to give you what you deserve. Sorry that I'm not good enough, Selena."

Justin's words hit me like a ton of bricks. I feel my heart shatter inside and I immediately regret everything that I had said. But before I'm able to apologize, the spare bedroom door opens and Alfredo stands in the door frame.

"What's with all the arguing?" Alfredo asks.

"It doesn't matter because we're done." Justin says.

My eyes widen. "What?"

"Let me know when you figure out a plan to kill Liam's ass." Justin ignores me, breaking eye contact with me and looks at Alfredo. "The sooner we kill him the sooner I can get Selena somewhere safe and I won't have to worry about her anymore."

"Justin, wait." I say.

But he ignores me again. I watch as he turns on his heels and walks away.

"Did I miss something?" Alfredo asks, clearly confused as to what is going on.

"I think I just lost Justin." I reply, tears building up in the corner of my eyes.

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I pick up one of the random and many opened notebooks that lie on the desk. I scan over the page that the notebook is opened to. All of the writing on it as been scribbled out.

"Those were some of the ideas that I had come up with." Alfredo says.

"Why did you scribble them out for?" I ask, trying to read what has been scribbled out.

"After I wrote them down I realized that they weren't good enough ideas. Liam would be smart enough to figure out what we'd be up to." he explains.

"They can't all be bad ideas." I say, forcing a smile to spread across my face.

"Trust me, they are." Alfredo gives a half smile then looks away from me as a soft chuckle escapes his lips.

"Where the hell were you!" Justin's voice suddenly carries out throughout the entire house.

Alfredo and I both exchange a look to each other before I run out of the room. I race down the staircase with Alfredo right behind me. I make my to the front of the house and I gasp when I see Justin have Louis pinned up against the front door. Justin's forearm is pressed against Louis' throat making him gasp for air. Then my eyes take notice to the knife in Justin's hand.

"Justin, put the knife down and let him go." Alfredo says.

"Answer me!" Justin screams in Louis' face.

"I-I went to the w-warehouse." Louis squeaks out.

I see Justin's grip on the knife tighten. I watch in horror as he quickly raises it up and goes to stab Louis straight through the heart. Not being able to just stand by and watch Justin kill somebody in front of me, I make a quick dash towards them. Right as Justin goes to put the knife in Louis' chest I grab his wrist and stop him. His head snaps towards me and there's fire burning in his eyes.

"Drop the knife," I say.

"Did you not just hear him, Selena?" Justin says, pushing me back off of him. "He went to Liam's warehouse. He's working with Liam behind our backs!"

"I'm not!" Louis cries.

"Shut up!" Justin shouts, his forearm pressing harder against Louis' throat which makes him start to choke.

"Let him go, Justin!" I shout.

Justin ignores me and Louis' face starts to turn blue from the lack of oxygen he's getting. I hesitantly grab a hold of Justin's hand and brush my thumb back and forth across his skin. He looks down at our hands before his eyes travel up to meet with mine. I take my other hand and grab a hold of the knife in his hands. I nod my head slightly, gesturing to him to let go of the knife. As I start to pull the knife, Justin finally lets go of it and lets go of Louis.

Louis falls to the floor and gasps for air. He rubs his neck and looks up at Justin, glaring at him.

"You better start explaining why you went to Liam's warehouse or I won't hesitate to snatch the knife back from out of Selena's hands and put it right through your chest." Justin threatens as he pulls his hand away from mine.

"Can you at least give me a minute to catch my breath?" Louis says, slowly standing to his feet.

"Start talking." Alfredo now joins in.

Louis sighs. "I went to Liam's warehouse because I wanted to see if he was gone."

"Or you went over there because you have teamed back up with Liam on a plan to get Selena killed." Justin says, closing the gap between Louis and him. "Unless you just never stopped working with him in the first place and you've just been fooling us this whole time."

"Fuck you," Louis growls, giving a hard shove to Justin's chest making him stumble backwards where my arms are quick to catch him from falling. "I wanted to see if he was gone or not because we could benefit from this."

I furrow my eyebrows together. "How do we benefit from Liam being gone or not?"

"His warehouse is filled with weapons. Since he's gone we can go into the warehouse and grab all of the weapons that we can find. He has bombs, guns, and anything else that you can think of hidden somewhere inside."

"And your point is...?" Alfredo says, raising an eyebrow.

"Think about it," Louis says. "If we have all of his weapons that means he won't have any except for a gun and maybe a knife on him. We can track him down and we can easily kill him. It's us four against Liam and Ryan, and if we all have better weapons than them...who do you think is going to win this fight?"

Justin glares at Louis. "I think you're lying."

"Justin," Alfredo says, taking a step next to Justin's side. "I think we should do it."

"What?! Are you crazy?" Justin says.

"You want Liam dead, right? Isn't that what you've been wanting since Selena has came into your life?" Louis points out. "We have the opportunity to kill him, and you're just going to let it slip away right through your fingers?"

"How can we trust you?" I ask.

"Aren't you the one who said that Justin and everybody else needed to trust me? And didn't you say you trusted me? What happened to that?" he says.

"Alright," Justin says. "Let's do this."

All of our heads turn to look at Justin as if he has suddenly gone crazy.

"Justin, how can you trust him when not even five minutes ago you had him pinned up against the door and threatening to kill him?" I say.

Justin looks at me. "Do you want Liam dead or not?"

"I do, but not if it means you end up getting hurt." I reply.

Justin doesn't say anything. He looks away from me and stares down at his shoes.

I don't get him. First I tell him that we should put a little trust into Louis after he had saved Justin's life, and Justin yells at me for wanting to trust him. Then I turn around and Justin suddenly wants to trust him.

"I think we can trust him, Selena." Alfredo chimes in.

"What if Justin is right?" I say. "What if Louis is secretly working with Liam behind our backs? This could all just be a trap to get all of us kil-"

"The only person who is going to get killed is Liam." Louis says. "Now you're either with us, or without."

I cross my arms over my chest and glare at Louis. At first, I thought maybe we could trust him. But now I'm not sure. I have this weird feeling in my stomach that something is going to happen if we do put our trust in Louis.

"Well, I'm going with Louis to the warehouse either you're in or not." Justin says, walking over and grabbing his jacket before he stands next to Louis. "I want Liam dead more than anything, and I'd be stupid to pass up an opportunity like this. This might be our only shot at killing him, so I'm taking it. Even if that means I die in the process."

"I'm not going to let him kill you." I say, taking a step forward. "So it looks like I'm in."

"Good," Louis says. "But I'm going to have to need you to stay here."

"Why does she have to stay here?" Alfredo asks.

"The best thing is for her to stay here, and you should stay here as well. If she goes with Justin and I she could end up getting hurt or even killed if Liam decides to come back while we're inside the warehouse." Louis explains.

"Nice try, but I'm going with you guys." I say.

I walk over and grab my jacket. I slip it on and head to the front door. Twisting the doorknob, I go to open the door and walk outside when I feel somebody grab my arm. I look up and see Justin staring at me.

"You're staying here." Justin lowers his voice.

I bite my lip. Jerking my arm out of Justin's grip, I lean up on my tip toes and smash my lips against his. Justin's hands move down to the sides of my hips which pulls my body against his. I keep my lips pressed against his for a moment before I finally pull away. When I pull away, Justin looks into my eyes as I look into his.

"We're in this together." I whisper to him.

Justin doesn't say anything. He only stands there and stares into my eyes. After a few seconds, he glances away from my eyes to look over at Louis and Alfredo before his eyes meet with mine again. Then he slowly nods his head.

"Together." Justin says, taking my hand into his.

"Alright then," Louis says. "Alfredo, grab some guns and meet us outside in the van in five minutes." Louis looks at Justin and I as a smirk spreads across his face. "Let's go get some revenge."

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~ Author's Notes ~

I'm getting so excited! There's only four chapters left guys! The end is coming sooner then you think.

What do you guys think is going to happen? Louis convinced Justin to go to Liam's warehouse, and you know who's just waiting there to put a bullet through Justin's heart.

A LOT of shit is about to go down....

(P.S. - please make sure you vote and leave your thoughts/comments/opinions for me! i love you guys soooo much xo)