"If a man cries in front of you, it means that he trusts you enough to let his guard down."

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Breathe Me - Sia

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I open my eyes slowly, the room is dark but a light is above me. Tom is a few meters ahead of me, his eyes are red and he has cuts on his face. My hands are tied to the armrests of the chair where I am sitting, I have a kind of bandana attached to the back of my head to avoid talking. A man is standing right in front of Tom, I can hear him talking. Tom looks at him, you can see anger on his face. Suddenly his gaze changes to come and settle on me, anger turns to sadness. He whispers to me a "Sorry " before the man in front of him punches him in the jaw. Tears run down my cheeks and smudge on the cloth tightening around my face. I'm starting to get agitated which gets the guy's attention. Shawn, I should have known. He smiles at me before he could say anything, the door of the room opens. Candice is at the door frame and looks at me with surprise.

-I told you not to touch her!

So she knows about it.

-She put two of my guys down and shot one of them.

Candice looks at me with a surprised look on her face. The tears have disappeared from my eyes, I just want to smack them. How people that I' ve known for more than five years betray me, especially my best friend. Tom doesn't move and just looks at the scene in front of him. He is tied to the wrists and ankles. Shawn puts two fingers between my skin and the tissue to remove it from my mouth.

-Bitch.

The palm of his right hand meets my cheek in a split second.

-I told you I didn't like Tom. If you had listened to me, we wouldn't be here.

-You are disgusting. How could you do this to me?! You apologized this morning!

-It must be the drama classes in High School.

As she finishes these words, she comes out of the room. Shawn moves to stand in front of me, blocking my view of Tom.

-I would have apologized if I cared about it, but I don't.

He bends over to put the fabric back in my mouth but with one of my feet I hit him in between of his legs. By pain, his body touches the ground.

-Bitch.

With rage, I kick him in the head, to knock him out. At the same time, men enter the room heavily armed. They measure me by removing the ropes around my wrists so they can transport me somewhere else. I shout Tom's name as they take me out of the room. The last thing I see is Tom's eyes, full of tears.

I've been in this room for maybe two days now. It is not very bright and they opened the door once to bring me a bottle of water and bread. I see shadows passing by my door sometimes and I hear footsteps but no one enters. This room must be a kind of cellar, there is a mattress and toilets but no windows, only the light under the door tells me if it is daylight or not. I'm more and more worried about Tom. Sitting against the wall in front of the door, I try to fall asleep when shots are heard behind my door. The door opens suddenly, revealing a masked man. He sighs in relief before whispering.

-Thank god you're here.

He slowly approaches me, reaching a few centimetres he takes off his hood to leave his blond hair in disorder on his head.

-Harrison.

-Hey, I'm here. Everything will be all right.

-And Tom?

-He's already been in London for more than four days, we've been looking for you for six days, Armony.

My head starts to spin after this information. He passes his hands behind my knees and back to carry me to the exit. When I get on the plane, he gives me a bottle of water that I finish in two seconds. The hostess brings me a bag with new clothes.

-There's a bathroom right there.

Haz points a door at me. I get up directly and rush into the bathroom. When I see my reflection, I stay silent. I have black under my eyes and an injury on my right cheek. After I finished taking my shower and getting dressed, I finally got out of the room.

-We'll be landing in two minutes.

Two minutes later, we were driven to a van that took us to the tower. The van door opens to let me out. I then turn to Harrison who smiles at me.

-Go surprise him, he's in his office.

I take him in my arms.

-Thank you again.

He smiles at me and nods at me to tell me to go. Chloe looks at me strangely when she sees me running towards the elevator.

I can't wait to see him again, to hug him.