Adopted By One Direction

Chapter 20 You Have A Deal

[AN: Why couldn’t Jordan have let her awful dad die? Bad Jordan. Oh well. I guess it gives me something to work with. Hopefully you like it!]

[ANNABELLE’S POV]

“Liam?” I asked as I lay back on my bed. “What’s wrong?” He ignored me focusing on his phone. He had been frantically texting someone for the last hour. “Liam look at me!”

“What Anna Banana?” he asked finally looking up with a nervous grin. “Want me to fluff your pillow?”

“No, I want you to tell me what is wrong!” I practically shouted. “You are hiding something. I know it.”

“No I’m not.”

“Liam James Payne! If one of my friends is in trouble, and I find out you are hiding it from me I will break up with you.”

“No you wouldn’t.”

“Then I will create a character for my book who gets brutally killed and when I sell the movie rights I’ll have some double of you stand in for the character and film him being brutally killed. And when the press asks me I will tell them that yes that character is for you because you were a jackass who hid things from me during our relationship!” He stared at me in shock for several minutes.

“Wow. That was really specific.”

“Tell me what is wrong Liam.”

“Angelica disappeared. She ran away,” he sighed. He might have said more, but I was already trying to sit up and swing my legs over the side of the bed. “Anna what are you doing?”

“I’m going after her,” I said plainly trying to plant my feet on the ground. “I can find her.”

“You are not going anywhere. You are a patient in the hospital!” He tried to push me back, but years of fighting my father’s girlfriends and wives had made me strong in the face of injury. I pulled my arm back and punched him straight in the nose. He moaned and clutched his face as he sank back into the chair. “I dink you broke by dose.” I tried my hardest not to giggle at his forlorn voice.

“She’s not safe out there,” I rushed out grabbing a jacket from the chair he was curled up on. “She can barely find her way home. I will find her and bring her back to the house. I think I know where she went.”

“You aren’t going anywhere,” Louis said blocking my way out of my room. “You punch me, and I will block it. You know it too.”

“I can find her Lou,” I plead. “I really can. I will protect her.”

“Niall has already gone after her,” Louis replied with a sigh. “He already texted that he found her. I suspect you were too busy punching Liam for him to read that text.” I looked back at my scowling boyfriend who was still holding his nose and winced. Maybe I had been a little too quick to get out of here. “Besides I need your help when it comes to Angelica’s dad.”

“You’re Angelica’s dad,” I said simply and Louis blinked at me in shock.

[LOUIS’ POV]

“You’re Angelica’s dad,” Anna said so matter of factly that it left me momentarily stunned. “Louis? Are you okay?”

“Do you really see me as Angie’s dad?” I asked needing to hear it again.

“Of course I do. And so does she,” Anna responded. “She probably ran thinking she was protecting you.” I nodded not sure if I believed her. Could Angie really finally see me as family? As her father?