Ready To Run | H.S.

•Nueve•

It's done. Everything's all over now. We aren't getting out of this. Harry and I are both going to jail. Hell, Sophia and Liam are probably going too!

I start to fight back. My foot kicks back into the officers knee and I feel him drop my hold. The other officer starts to run after me and so I grab ahold of Harry and run.

I don't dare look back. Because if I do, I'll for sure never get out of this. I feel Harry get ripped from my grip and turn around to see him getting tackled by one of the officers.

"Go, Winter!" He tells and I listen.

I burst through the front doors of the house and run towards the RV. When I get in, I lock the doors so the officers can't get to me as I search for the keys.

I find them on the floor and pick them up, jamming them into the ignition. When I make my way on to the highest, reality hits me.

I may never see Harry again..

It gets blurry and before I know it, there's a pain, screeching, then blackness. I go in and out of consciousness as I hear sirens from the distance.

When I come to, I realize that I'm strapped to a bed. A hospital bed. I struggle to get out of the restraints, but it's no use.

The last time I was in a hospital bed fills my mind. Harry was with me.. We escaped it.. But he's not here now. He's not here to save me anymore..

A depressed week goes by in a blur and before I know it, I'm stuck in a car with Kristy and Ethan.

"You think you can just run off with some stupid boy?" She asks, staring me down in the mirrors. "You think you can just get away that easily?"

I ignore her as she babbles on. I know I'm going to get the living shit beat out of me when I get home, so I don't even bother saying anything. The next few weeks will either be me attempting suicide multiple times or practically getting beat to where I'm pretty much dead, anyway

The car skids to a stop and I feel myself get pulled out of the car by someone. I get thrown into a backseat of a different car and then I catch a glimpse of the curly brown hair.

Excitement grows inside me as I think of who it is. Harry.

"Stay down." He instructs to me and I nod, baffled at his presence as I crouch my head below the window, watching him drive out of the place quickly. This is unbelievable. This isn't real.

"Harry, how'd you escape?" I pick the question out of dozens running around in my head.

"Well," He begins. "After you left, Liam was able to distract the cops and I escaped through one of the bedroom windows. I grabbed Liam's keys and took his car. I followed you and I was there when you got into the crash. I couldn't do anything, though. The cops were coming and I didn't have time to get you. Besides, you needed medical care and whether the cops wanted you or not, you still needed to go to the hospital.

"I followed the ambulance to the hospital and stayed in the hotel across from it as I waited for you to get better. When I heard you were getting out, I followed Kristy's car and thank God a deer ran in front of you guys. I grabbed you and here we are."

I smile at his effort as the car comes to a stop.

"I figured we'd come to my house for now. They've already searched here multiple times, my mother has said. But they didn't find anything." He says and we both step out of the car, going inside the house.

A girl runs up to Harry, engulfing him in a hug. My heart drops. Is this his girlfriend? I knew that as soon as I turned my back, he'd have someone knew. He was playing me.

"Hey, Gemma!" He greets her, glanicng over to me. "Winter, this is my sister."

A wave of stupidity knocks me in the head and I smile at the lovely girl.

"Hello." I greet her, not knowing what else to say.

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"Here's a shirt you can sleep in." Harry says, handing me a black shirt that looks way to big on me. I put it on anyway and see as it comes down to my mid thigh.

"Thanks." I mumble.

"Hey, your birthday is in a couple of days." He remembers.

I smile. "Yeah."

And that's how it went for the next couple of days. I turned 18, confessed to the cops of my hiding. After I told them the reasoning, they let me go and arrested Kristy for Kidnapping and providing false evidence to the cops.

Harry joined a band after going to the X-Factor, where he met Zayn and met up with Liam, Niall, and Louis. But I finished high school and lived with Anne until I could make it on my own.