Deception (N.H)

CHAPTER 21: THE MAKING OF DUPLICITY

"What do you mean?!" Niall asks, glancing at the boys with wide eyes. I stay quiet and turn my head towards the window.

"Bells?" Harry says, trying to come closer to me. "Don't." I say and wrap my arms around my legs.

"Bells talk to us." Louis says, sitting on the bed beside Harry. I stay quiet and look out the window as tears well up in my eyes.

"Guys can you give us a moment?" Niall asks the boys. I don't hear any responses but footsteps echo through the room before the sound of the door opening and closing cuts them off, leaving me and Niall alone in the room.

After a while of silence, I wipe my eyes and turn towards Niall who has his head in his hands. "Did you enjoy it?" I whisper, pulling down the sleeves of my jumper.

"What?" Niall whispers back, pulling his hands away. "In the abandoned house. Did you enjoy doing the things you did?" I ask, my voice cracking at the end.

"Bunny-" Niall begins before I cut him off. "Answer the question." I say and Niall shakes his head, sitting down on the bed.

"Yeah." Niall says after a while of silence. I let out a breath and nod my head. "Okay." I say and get off the bed. I wipe my eyes and walk out the door, hearing Niall follow.

I go up to his room and open the door using an extra key I kept in my pocket. As I walk in, I hear Niall following in the room asking me what I'm doing.

I ignore him as I go around the room, grabbing anything that's mine. Once I've gathered all my things, I walk back to my room as Niall follows like a lost puppy.

"What are you doing?!" Niall asks for the billionth time as I continue packing my suitcase. "I'm leaving." I say and go to the toilet and grab my toiletries.

"You're what?!" Niall says, running to the toilet. "I'm leaving. As in going and never ever coming back." I say and put my toiletries in a bag.

"But you can't." Niall says pulling out my stuff from my suitcase. "I can and I will." I say, slapping his hand and putting my things back.

"But why?!" Niall says, continuing to pull things out of my bag. "BECAUSE YOU'RE MURDERERS!" I scream, causing him to freeze. 

"How do you even know what happened at the abandoned house?" Niall asks and I roll my eyes. "You can't lie properly and when you left I followed you and saw everything that happened." I say as tears begin welling up again.

"You don't know anything." Niall whispers and places a hand on my arm. "Don't touch me." I say and pull away from him.

"Bunny, please. It's not what you think." Niall says and I shake my head. "You murdered them and you enjoyed it." I said, a tear falling down my face.

"Bunny, let me explain." Niall says, coming closer to me. "You killed them and you laughed and danced and treated it like a fucking toy. THEY'RE PEOPLE NIALL. HUMAN BEINGS. THEY HAD LIVES. THEY HAD FAMILIES. YOU KILLED THEM. You- You killed them Niall and you're acting like you didn't just do that. How could you?!" I say, tears freely falling down my face.

"Bunny please, just let me explain and you'll understand." Niall whispers, slowly walking to me and this time I let him. He walks up to me and holds my arms. He gently pulls me towards the bed and I sit at the end of it.

Niall kneels down in front of me and places his hands on my knees. "I'm gonna tell you something that I shouldn't but you have to know." Niall says with a sigh.

I slowly nod and Niall lets out a breath. "You're gonna have to go somewhere with me okay?" Niall says and I nod, letting him know I'm okay with it.

Niall gets up and grabs his keys while I grab my phone. I follow him down to the lobby and around the hotel to a black car. We get in and Niall begins driving.

"We weren't always friends you know." Niall says, breaking the silence. "We used to work for the same person but we always got in each other's way. We used to fight all the time. Then one day, something happened and it changed our lives forever." Niall says as we pull up to a secluded area in a cemetery.

Niall gets out and I follow. We walk towards a cave area a few minutes away from the cemetery. Niall guides me through the path and we reach a door.

Niall pushes the door open and motions for me to walk in. As soon as I walk through the door, lights turn on. A table with a few chairs around it with a small lightbulb hanging from the ceiling greets me.

Niall walks over to a chair and sits down. He motions for me to sit down on the one across from him and I cautiously sit down.

"I never had the best life growing up. It was rough. That's a story for another time though. Anyways, one day this man offered me a job. I obviously accepted and that's when I met the other boys. We never got along at first. We worked in separate areas so it made sense that we felt like we were competing with each other. This went on for a few years until I received this really creepy letter. It instructed me to go to this warehouse. When I reached, I figured out that the boys got the same letter. Then our boss walks in. He tells us that we are gonna get a different role in the business. He explains that we're gonna form a band. That was the creation of 'Duplicity'. We all got together later that night and decided to work out our differences." Niall explains and I nod.

"So what does that have to do with what you did in the house?" I ask and Niall sighs.

"Well, what I didn't tell you was that our boss is Abbadon." Nial says and I look at him in confusion.

"The bad guy?" I ask and Niall nods. "Abbadon is uh he's a well he's not really a normal boss?" Niall says, more like a question than a statement.

"Meaning?" I motion for him to further explain. "He's well uh he's a leader" Niall stutters. "Of?" I ask and Niall sighs. "The most powerful Mafia in the world." Niall says and I freeze.