LACEY.

The banging in my head and dizziness is enough to make me want to pass out again. I am struggling to move but then again it feels like my legs and arms are tied. Well shit. They are actually tied. I'm tied to a chair with a blindfold sitting in front of my eyes.

What happened?

"Hello! Is somebody there?" I shout weakly still battling the urge to pass out again.

"Please let me go!" The echo that comes back tells me that I'm in a big empty space. It's still quiet around me.

I try to shift on the chair with efforts to free myself bearing no fruit. When I try to kick my legs hard enough to release the knot, I end up tipping over and falling hard on my back.

"Hey what's going on here?" An angry voice suddenly calls out.

"Please let me go. What do you want from me?" I cry when he puts his rough hands on me while helping me and the chair up.

He roughly grabs my face and comes closer to my ear, "If you are trying to escape, I'm gonna cut out your pretty face with my knife and-"

"Stop it!" Another voice speaks. An awfully familiar voice. A voice that I can't seem to put a face to.

Judging from how he lets me go quickly tells me that the second voice is who's in charge.

"Please, please let me go. Take anything but please just let me go. If-if -if it's money I can- I can get that for you. Just let me call my friends and family-" The one in charge interrupts me.

"Now why would I let you call them darling? Actually you know what, that's a very brilliant idea. Except, I've already called them." His voice is coming from all around me. He must be walking around me.

"Are- are they bringing the money? Will you let me go? Who are you?" I desperately ask knowing that he will choose to not answer.

"Plot twist sweetheart, I don't want money," He whispers really close to me. "But you know what, I will let you see me. Give you a little sneak peek." He continues as he slowly pulls down the blindfold.

My sight is blurry at first but when he comes into view, I scream angrily.

"Fùck you!" I scream and cry as they all laugh at me. They are all hiding behind hockey masks. All three of them.

The one who seems like their leader receives a call. His mood changes from his body language.

"What!?" He yells at his phone.

"How could you do that? That wasn't part of the plan you imbecile!" He shouts while walking out.

One of the other guys comes towards me and puts back the blindfold on my eyes.

"No don't leave me here you bunch of buffoons! Cowards! Losers!" I can't seem to stop myself from hurling insults.

"Shut up you stupid bitch." Those words followed by a heavy hit on my head are the last thing I remember.

***
5 days later.

ALLIE.

Someone once said to me that everything I touch dies. Quite literally in several cases. My family to begin with, broken since the start, maybe because I'm in it. My father died and as far as I can remember it has always been my fault. Mother makes sure that I never have to forget that painful fact. I didn't believe it. Until now. Until the worst thing happened. She's gone.

Lilly...

In a cruel and undeserving way, she was ripped away from her family. I came into her life and now she has lost it because of me. Because of my stupid decisions.

Lacey..

Louis..

Harry...

I couldn't even bring myself to look at them in the eye.

Lacey was dumped outside the club the morning after we found Lilly. She was completely out of it and couldn't even describe anything that had happened to her. The worst part was when Harry walked into the house with her. She ran straight to Louis' arms and he embraced her like it was his last time. She turned to look at me and came over to me. Held me so tightly while I stood there not knowing what to do. When she looked around severally, like there is someone or something specific she was looking for, that's when it hit me. Harry didn't tell her.

Harry had his head down that whole time. He didn't maintain eye contact with anyone. Louis cried when we all heard the question. The question that we had been dreading.

"Where is Nana?" She asked. I bit the inside of my cheeks, trying to prevent myself from crying but it was all in vain.

"Lacey-" Louis attempted but couldn't go through with what he was about to say.

When Harry started with 'I'm so sorry', she wailed and fell to the floor. I think she kinda already had a feeling, only that she needed someone to confirm her worst nightmare. I can still hear her painful sobs in my head.

We had a funeral three days later. Just us, the inner circle and a minister. I thought she would be buried in Germany but I guess it was easier doing it here. Harry said he couldn't afford any questions about her death. He cried so hard when the body was being taken down the grave. I've never seen him that way before. Vulnerable, hurt, defeated and broken.

Lacey has been a 'zombie' ever since she learnt of her grandmother's demise. She didn't eat unless Louis begged her. When she did, it would be a spoonful. She barely said a word to any of us. Her puffy and dark eyes couldn't hide the amount of sadness she harbored. She was broken. And that broke me too.

Which is why I've made the decision to go to Harry with the truth. About Nate. About that night and about every other thing that he has done. Harry has been distant since Lilly's death. We stopped sharing a bed and I barely saw him. We never had time alone. Even though I know this is going to tear us apart, I would rather live knowing that I told him the truth about everything.

My search for him in his study and his room has been unsuccessful. But I know he is somewhere in the house. As I descend the stairs, I hear his voice coming from the living room and walk straight there.

"Harry I need-" I stop midway my statement when I notice other sets of eyes looking at me. Lacey, Louis, Niall, Zayn and Liam. My stomach makes a million flips before I could utter the next few words. I mutter a quick hi that is returned lowly.

"Ca- can I speak to you?" I request Harry. "In private." I quickly add.

Harry looks around before taking a few steps towards me.

"Now is not really a good time. In fact you need to be part of this. It's crucial because we might have a development about N-" He stops and looks at Lacey.

"My Nana's death." Lacey concludes the sentence with a cold look in her eyes. "You can say it Harry. Trust me, more than any of you, I want to know who did this to her."

Her words send a cold chill down my spine. She seems...different. I walk over to the couch opposite where Louis, Lacey and Liam are seated. I take the space next to Zayn who gives me a small smile.

"Louis has been working tirelessly with another tech guru to try and recover some footage from our CCTV cameras. The intruder jammed everything, from cameras to the vocal recognition security equipment at the gate. But there is always a mistake with these people. And we are going to find it." Harry's voice is full of anger. He stands at a central place where each one of us can see him.

In his hand is an iPad and I'm guessing he's about to use it for this meeting.

"On here, I have the information send to me by the tech guy who was helping Louis. I haven't been able to open the file because I wanted to open it with everyone present. This involves all of us."

With that, Harry unlocks the iPad and touches the screen severally trying to find the file.

"There is an audio taken off the vocal recognition machine and a video recovered from one of the cameras. I'll start with the video." Harry informs us as he continues on the iPad.

Zayn and I get up and stand behind the couch where Louis, Liam and Lacey are. I'm very nervous but curious to see who it was that did that heinous act.

The video starts off slow but after ten seconds, we see the figure of a man walking towards the front door. He is dressed fully in black. He takes sometime looking like he's picking the lock.

Everyone is dead silent as we watch this monster break his way in. The door finally opens and he pushes it open. Before he enters, he turns to look behind. I gasp, thinking that I'm the only person who can see who this person is. The video stops there, with him looking straight at the camera.

Harry drops the iPad but Louis catches it midair. He turns to my direction with a death stare.

"You!" He growls and literally jumps over the couch.

"No Harry wait-" I try to stop him but I can't.

He has already tackled Zayn and dropped him on the floor. The sound of his knuckles connecting to Zayn's face is painfully loud.

Liam tries to drag him off of Zayn but gets punched too.

Zayn looks confused. He isn't even fighting back. He just lies there and let's Harry rain blows to his face.

Everyone else is dumbfounded. Louis doesn't move. Lacey has a blank expression on her face. I try to speak but I can't. I am as confused as everyone in this room is.

No no no. This can't be happening!

It can't possibly be Zayn.

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