The new start
Chapter fifty-five, "The vulnerable spot"
I got up on my feet and brushed away some invisible dirt from my skirt. Then I picked up my phone to start typing a text to Summer. I chose the words carefully and after minutes of deleting and writing I was done. I looked at the message one last time, it didn´t look suspicious at all, I thought and pressed send before I had deleted it all over again.
Amy: Okay, Summer you win. Just tell me where you are and I promise you that if you leave Niall alone I will be your friend and only your friend.
I leaned against the wall and tried to think of other things than the situation. Tried to think of how it would be if I succeeded. But it was impossible, I seemed to always get stuck on that if. There was a fifty percents chance that I would fail. That she would hurt Niall and that I would get stuck with her forever. And that is pretty much the worst thing that could happen. I sighed and started to think that this might not be such a good idea. Why didn´t I just give myself up for him? I thought and the sweat started pouring. Suddenly I felt how the sweat stains were growing under my arms and how I started to shake more and more. Why can´t I be as cool as Summer? Then I heard the buzzing I had waited for, it was Summer´s text. With shaking hands I unlocked my phone and read it.
Summer: Good choice, we are down in the cellar.
I tried to find something weird about the text but as far as I could see it was fine, she didn´t suspect anything. I took a few steps towards the cellar and tried to think of a plan. I wasn´t very good at those. I had always gotten help with those things. Summer was the smart one and I was the idiot, that´s just how it is. All I could come up with was that I had to try to reach out to Summer, to find her vulnerable spot. I didn´t know what exactly I was going to say but I was hoping that would work out when I got there. The stairs felt very short and in no time I was down in the cellar. A disgusting smell made my flinch and pinch hold of my nose. I had always hated the cellar smell, it kind of smelled like rotten rats. But instead of turning around I continued walking forward, very slowly though. I stopped when I came to a door and I just knew that they were in there. It was as I almost could feel their present, like I could hear their hearts beating. It was a weird feeling but I kind of liked it. I liked being in control. Even if I was in everything but in control now. I took a deep breath and straightened my hair before I opened the door to find Harry and Louis in the middle of a making out session. It was not what I had expected and by the look of their faces not what they expected either. After a while Louis shined up in a smile but Harry kept staring at me like I was an alien.
“I am so sorry… I didn´t mean to interrupt, I just… I was looking for Niall and…” I stammered, even if I totally was over Harry. Maybe I had never even been in love with him I just didn´t like the sight of the kissing. It felt like I was less worth then them because of what they did to me. And it became so much clearer when I saw them like this.
“It´s okay. I think Niall is in that room beside this. But I have to warn you… he is with Summer.” Louis said and reacted uncomfortable. Maybe it was hard for him to see me get sad again. But I just shrugged like I didn´t care. But just hearing their names in the same sentence made me sad.
“Yeah I know.” I said and looked at Harry. He kept staring at me with his green eyes but now they were more sad than surprised. I didn´t know if he missed me but I knew that I didn´t miss him. He had taken my virginity, broken my heart and cheated on my in just a few days. Nothing we had was real except his beautiful raspy voice and the great look. But I missed what me and Louis had even if he also had lied to me, I knew that most of what we had was real. Maybe we would never become such good friends as before but we would at least talk to each other. But when it comes to Harry I wasn´t so sure.
“Amber Charlotte Brown, can I talk to you…alone?” Harry asked and he finally had his normal face. But now it was my turn to open my mouth and look at him like he was from the outer space. How did he know my real name? Not even Summer knows it and I hate to be called it. It´s so ugly.
“Are your name Amber?” Louis asked and started laughing. But I couldn´t answer, I was too shocked.
“I met her mum and she told me.” Harry said which made me understand a little more. Of course mum told him, she couldn´t resist his charm. Just like she couldn´t resist dad´s charm. That´s something all assholes has in common and I have gotten it from mum.
“I am so sorry Harry but I am kind of in a rush.” I said and tried to not sound angry.
“It will just take a minute, okay?” He said and gave me his puppy eyes. I just couldn´t resist those puppy eyes. Not even Niall could make such a great puppy eyes. Harry leaned his head just in the right way and the green eyes shined when he blinked. I shuddered, why am I always falling for that?
“One minute.” I said and Harry kissed Louis goodbye before he grabbed my arm and dragged my outside.
“So what is it?” I asked when he had closed the door and turned around.
“I guess I wanted to say I am so sorry for everything and that I hope we could be friends.” Harry said but I snorted. What an idiot, thinking I would give in that easily.
“Harry look, I am happy for you and Louis, I really am. But I just don´t like you, we never knew each other.” I said and was just about to turn around when he grabbed my arm.
“Amber, seriously. I want to be your friend I want to make up for everything and just because we never knew each other doesn´t mean we can´t get to know each other. What do you say about lunch tomorrow?” He asked and I felt how far away tomorrow felt. It was so much that was going to happen until then. All this past couple of days had just been exhausting. I was exhausted, it was impossible to plan something because it always came up something else, something more important. And now I have to save Niall and I had to try to save myself from the craziest freak of them all. I sighed, my life had just gotten more complicated since I got here.
“Look Harry I don´t know. I think your gonna have to try a little harder if we are going to be friends. You can´t just get everything served on a silver plate. I am human too and I have needs. Right now my need is Niall so if you could help me get him back and stop calling me Amber I might consider giving you another chance.” I said and he nodded.
“Okay then Amb...Amy. Just tell him you love him and that´s done.” He said and laughed like it was the simplest thing in the whole world.
“It´s a little more complicated than that. All I want you to do is to call the cops in about half an hour and I will try to handle the rest.” I said and Harry stared at me weirdly.
“The cops? Are you serious?” He asked and I nodded.
“And Harry? Don´t tell anyone, this is between us, okay?” I said and didn´t know why I didn´t want anyone to know. I just knew that I didn´t. Harry nodded before I pushed him back to Louis. It was time now, time to save my love and save my ass and mostly time to take down the crazy freak. I opened the other door and this time found just what I expected. Or maybe not what I expected but I found Summer and Niall, I also found them kissing which just made me want to throw up.
“You came.” Summer said and stopped kissing Niall. She looked a little worn but still hot as hell. She wore the pink shirt I had given to her once and she had applied some pink lipstick to her lips but that wasn´t the think that made her look worn. It wasn´t her hair or her skin either, it was her eyes. The normally beautiful blue eyes used to shine of happiness and joy. But now they looked sad, almost grey and without that shining spark she wasn´t as beautiful. It looked like a star that had extinguished and it made me feel more powerful. Whatever that had made her like that it just showed that she was human and if she was human she had emotions and if she had emotions it was possible to hurt her. I had learned from all the movies that the whole thing when you take someone down is to find their vulnerable spot. It could be a person, it could be a thing, a memory, it could be anything really. But when you have found that you have everything. The only problem was that Summer already had found mine. And like that wasn´t enough she had caught mine too. So I was disadvantage, but my whole life I had felt like I had been in disadvantage so it was just a normal thing in my life, nothing to be worried about.
“I did.” I said and tried to press out a smile. But it didn´t work, I hated her so much that I couldn´t even pretend to like her and that was much hate.
“Amy why are you here really?” Niall asked and stared at me with his blue eyes. I had been wrong before when I thought that Harry was better at doing puppy eyes than Niall because Niall was the king of the kings.
“Well, Summer invited me.” I said and tried to not start crying or to not shake too much, or to not run to him and hug him hard for that matter. I ignored his puppy eyes and focused on Summer´s dead ones. If you compared hers with Niall´s at this moment it was like night and day.
“I did.” Summer said but she didn´t look at Niall, she stared into my eyes instead and even if I didn´t want to be the one to look away I had to. It was creepy having her eyes digging into me like that.
“So Summer are you ready for the deal?” I asked but Summer just smiled.
“I was, but you screwed it up. You didn´t think I would find out that you called the cops would you? Well you were wrong and it will bite you in the back.” She said and grabbed Niall´s arm. I didn´t know how Niall couldn´t come out of her grip but somehow he didn´t Summer was stronger than Niall and if she was stronger than Niall she was for sure stronger than me. Summer picked up a rope and tied his arms so that he was stuck on a chair, just like in movies. Except this was reality and much worse.
"What the?" Niall screamed but Summer gave him a look that made him shut up.
“Well, just to make this a little harder for you I want you to cut him. Just a little you know not to hard. We want him to suffer don´t we?” She asked and I shook my head.
“No Summer. We don´t you are fucking crazy. I will never cut him, I love him.” I screamed and I saw a sting of pain that went through Summer´s eyes.
“You love me?” Niall asked and I looked at him. Even in this crazy situation I could feel the butterflies when I looked at him.
“Of course I do. I just didn´t have the guts to tell you before. I love your smell, I love your eyes, I love your kisses, I love the whole you. I especially love that you had such a patient with me.” I said and Niall smiled.
“I love you too. Everything about you.” He said and I smiled. The butterflies multiplied and I wished so much that I could go over to him and kiss him but I couldn´t. Maybe this was our last day on this earth, you never know with this crazy as bitch. But at least I had told him and it felt great.
“Are you done?” Summer asked and rolled her eyes. When I looked up she had picked up a knife and pointed it against Niall.
“Summer calm down.” I said but Summer was shaking, tears were falling down her cheeks and even if she was crazy I felt bad for her. I felt bad because she didn´t have anyone like Niall in her life. I felt bad because she was all alone. But mostly I felt bad because of who she had become.
“Cut him Amy or I will kill him right away.” She said and Niall just kept smiling.
“Do it Amy. I would rather be cut by you than by her.” I looked at both of them but I couldn´t cut him, I just couldn´t.
“I can´t.” I said and sobbed. I hadn´t even realized that I was crying.
“Well what do you say about this then? I will ask you questions and if you are answering wrong Amy will have to cut you. Let´s see how well you two really know each other.” She said and tied the rope around his feet too. Before we even had answered Summer started.
“What is Amy´s favorite color?” Summer asked. Niall sighed, he didn´t know anything about me.
“Pink?” He answered and now it was my turn to sigh.
“Wrong blue, Amy cut him or I will kill him right away.” Summer said and I knew she would by the way she looked at me. So with shaking hands I grabbed the knife and cut through Niall´s skin. It hurt in my whole body when I saw how the blood ran down his arms but Niall just looked at me like everything would be fine.
“Next question, what is Amy´s favorite book?” Summer asked and I looked at her weirdly not even Summer knew that. I always read them by myself, it was a secret that I even read.
“I don´t know.” Niall said and now Summer smirked.
“Gossip girl.” I looked up at her, so surprised that I was about to pass out. How did she know? No one knows. But that wasn´t the worst I had to cut him again, the sting of powerlessness went through my body when I cut through his skin again and felt the warm blood on my hands. The I understood, I understood everything. The thing that Summer cares about, it´s me. It´s me and she will do anything to get me by herself.
Amy: Okay, Summer you win. Just tell me where you are and I promise you that if you leave Niall alone I will be your friend and only your friend.
I leaned against the wall and tried to think of other things than the situation. Tried to think of how it would be if I succeeded. But it was impossible, I seemed to always get stuck on that if. There was a fifty percents chance that I would fail. That she would hurt Niall and that I would get stuck with her forever. And that is pretty much the worst thing that could happen. I sighed and started to think that this might not be such a good idea. Why didn´t I just give myself up for him? I thought and the sweat started pouring. Suddenly I felt how the sweat stains were growing under my arms and how I started to shake more and more. Why can´t I be as cool as Summer? Then I heard the buzzing I had waited for, it was Summer´s text. With shaking hands I unlocked my phone and read it.
Summer: Good choice, we are down in the cellar.
I tried to find something weird about the text but as far as I could see it was fine, she didn´t suspect anything. I took a few steps towards the cellar and tried to think of a plan. I wasn´t very good at those. I had always gotten help with those things. Summer was the smart one and I was the idiot, that´s just how it is. All I could come up with was that I had to try to reach out to Summer, to find her vulnerable spot. I didn´t know what exactly I was going to say but I was hoping that would work out when I got there. The stairs felt very short and in no time I was down in the cellar. A disgusting smell made my flinch and pinch hold of my nose. I had always hated the cellar smell, it kind of smelled like rotten rats. But instead of turning around I continued walking forward, very slowly though. I stopped when I came to a door and I just knew that they were in there. It was as I almost could feel their present, like I could hear their hearts beating. It was a weird feeling but I kind of liked it. I liked being in control. Even if I was in everything but in control now. I took a deep breath and straightened my hair before I opened the door to find Harry and Louis in the middle of a making out session. It was not what I had expected and by the look of their faces not what they expected either. After a while Louis shined up in a smile but Harry kept staring at me like I was an alien.
“I am so sorry… I didn´t mean to interrupt, I just… I was looking for Niall and…” I stammered, even if I totally was over Harry. Maybe I had never even been in love with him I just didn´t like the sight of the kissing. It felt like I was less worth then them because of what they did to me. And it became so much clearer when I saw them like this.
“It´s okay. I think Niall is in that room beside this. But I have to warn you… he is with Summer.” Louis said and reacted uncomfortable. Maybe it was hard for him to see me get sad again. But I just shrugged like I didn´t care. But just hearing their names in the same sentence made me sad.
“Yeah I know.” I said and looked at Harry. He kept staring at me with his green eyes but now they were more sad than surprised. I didn´t know if he missed me but I knew that I didn´t miss him. He had taken my virginity, broken my heart and cheated on my in just a few days. Nothing we had was real except his beautiful raspy voice and the great look. But I missed what me and Louis had even if he also had lied to me, I knew that most of what we had was real. Maybe we would never become such good friends as before but we would at least talk to each other. But when it comes to Harry I wasn´t so sure.
“Amber Charlotte Brown, can I talk to you…alone?” Harry asked and he finally had his normal face. But now it was my turn to open my mouth and look at him like he was from the outer space. How did he know my real name? Not even Summer knows it and I hate to be called it. It´s so ugly.
“Are your name Amber?” Louis asked and started laughing. But I couldn´t answer, I was too shocked.
“I met her mum and she told me.” Harry said which made me understand a little more. Of course mum told him, she couldn´t resist his charm. Just like she couldn´t resist dad´s charm. That´s something all assholes has in common and I have gotten it from mum.
“I am so sorry Harry but I am kind of in a rush.” I said and tried to not sound angry.
“It will just take a minute, okay?” He said and gave me his puppy eyes. I just couldn´t resist those puppy eyes. Not even Niall could make such a great puppy eyes. Harry leaned his head just in the right way and the green eyes shined when he blinked. I shuddered, why am I always falling for that?
“One minute.” I said and Harry kissed Louis goodbye before he grabbed my arm and dragged my outside.
“So what is it?” I asked when he had closed the door and turned around.
“I guess I wanted to say I am so sorry for everything and that I hope we could be friends.” Harry said but I snorted. What an idiot, thinking I would give in that easily.
“Harry look, I am happy for you and Louis, I really am. But I just don´t like you, we never knew each other.” I said and was just about to turn around when he grabbed my arm.
“Amber, seriously. I want to be your friend I want to make up for everything and just because we never knew each other doesn´t mean we can´t get to know each other. What do you say about lunch tomorrow?” He asked and I felt how far away tomorrow felt. It was so much that was going to happen until then. All this past couple of days had just been exhausting. I was exhausted, it was impossible to plan something because it always came up something else, something more important. And now I have to save Niall and I had to try to save myself from the craziest freak of them all. I sighed, my life had just gotten more complicated since I got here.
“Look Harry I don´t know. I think your gonna have to try a little harder if we are going to be friends. You can´t just get everything served on a silver plate. I am human too and I have needs. Right now my need is Niall so if you could help me get him back and stop calling me Amber I might consider giving you another chance.” I said and he nodded.
“Okay then Amb...Amy. Just tell him you love him and that´s done.” He said and laughed like it was the simplest thing in the whole world.
“It´s a little more complicated than that. All I want you to do is to call the cops in about half an hour and I will try to handle the rest.” I said and Harry stared at me weirdly.
“The cops? Are you serious?” He asked and I nodded.
“And Harry? Don´t tell anyone, this is between us, okay?” I said and didn´t know why I didn´t want anyone to know. I just knew that I didn´t. Harry nodded before I pushed him back to Louis. It was time now, time to save my love and save my ass and mostly time to take down the crazy freak. I opened the other door and this time found just what I expected. Or maybe not what I expected but I found Summer and Niall, I also found them kissing which just made me want to throw up.
“You came.” Summer said and stopped kissing Niall. She looked a little worn but still hot as hell. She wore the pink shirt I had given to her once and she had applied some pink lipstick to her lips but that wasn´t the think that made her look worn. It wasn´t her hair or her skin either, it was her eyes. The normally beautiful blue eyes used to shine of happiness and joy. But now they looked sad, almost grey and without that shining spark she wasn´t as beautiful. It looked like a star that had extinguished and it made me feel more powerful. Whatever that had made her like that it just showed that she was human and if she was human she had emotions and if she had emotions it was possible to hurt her. I had learned from all the movies that the whole thing when you take someone down is to find their vulnerable spot. It could be a person, it could be a thing, a memory, it could be anything really. But when you have found that you have everything. The only problem was that Summer already had found mine. And like that wasn´t enough she had caught mine too. So I was disadvantage, but my whole life I had felt like I had been in disadvantage so it was just a normal thing in my life, nothing to be worried about.
“I did.” I said and tried to press out a smile. But it didn´t work, I hated her so much that I couldn´t even pretend to like her and that was much hate.
“Amy why are you here really?” Niall asked and stared at me with his blue eyes. I had been wrong before when I thought that Harry was better at doing puppy eyes than Niall because Niall was the king of the kings.
“Well, Summer invited me.” I said and tried to not start crying or to not shake too much, or to not run to him and hug him hard for that matter. I ignored his puppy eyes and focused on Summer´s dead ones. If you compared hers with Niall´s at this moment it was like night and day.
“I did.” Summer said but she didn´t look at Niall, she stared into my eyes instead and even if I didn´t want to be the one to look away I had to. It was creepy having her eyes digging into me like that.
“So Summer are you ready for the deal?” I asked but Summer just smiled.
“I was, but you screwed it up. You didn´t think I would find out that you called the cops would you? Well you were wrong and it will bite you in the back.” She said and grabbed Niall´s arm. I didn´t know how Niall couldn´t come out of her grip but somehow he didn´t Summer was stronger than Niall and if she was stronger than Niall she was for sure stronger than me. Summer picked up a rope and tied his arms so that he was stuck on a chair, just like in movies. Except this was reality and much worse.
"What the?" Niall screamed but Summer gave him a look that made him shut up.
“Well, just to make this a little harder for you I want you to cut him. Just a little you know not to hard. We want him to suffer don´t we?” She asked and I shook my head.
“No Summer. We don´t you are fucking crazy. I will never cut him, I love him.” I screamed and I saw a sting of pain that went through Summer´s eyes.
“You love me?” Niall asked and I looked at him. Even in this crazy situation I could feel the butterflies when I looked at him.
“Of course I do. I just didn´t have the guts to tell you before. I love your smell, I love your eyes, I love your kisses, I love the whole you. I especially love that you had such a patient with me.” I said and Niall smiled.
“I love you too. Everything about you.” He said and I smiled. The butterflies multiplied and I wished so much that I could go over to him and kiss him but I couldn´t. Maybe this was our last day on this earth, you never know with this crazy as bitch. But at least I had told him and it felt great.
“Are you done?” Summer asked and rolled her eyes. When I looked up she had picked up a knife and pointed it against Niall.
“Summer calm down.” I said but Summer was shaking, tears were falling down her cheeks and even if she was crazy I felt bad for her. I felt bad because she didn´t have anyone like Niall in her life. I felt bad because she was all alone. But mostly I felt bad because of who she had become.
“Cut him Amy or I will kill him right away.” She said and Niall just kept smiling.
“Do it Amy. I would rather be cut by you than by her.” I looked at both of them but I couldn´t cut him, I just couldn´t.
“I can´t.” I said and sobbed. I hadn´t even realized that I was crying.
“Well what do you say about this then? I will ask you questions and if you are answering wrong Amy will have to cut you. Let´s see how well you two really know each other.” She said and tied the rope around his feet too. Before we even had answered Summer started.
“What is Amy´s favorite color?” Summer asked. Niall sighed, he didn´t know anything about me.
“Pink?” He answered and now it was my turn to sigh.
“Wrong blue, Amy cut him or I will kill him right away.” Summer said and I knew she would by the way she looked at me. So with shaking hands I grabbed the knife and cut through Niall´s skin. It hurt in my whole body when I saw how the blood ran down his arms but Niall just looked at me like everything would be fine.
“Next question, what is Amy´s favorite book?” Summer asked and I looked at her weirdly not even Summer knew that. I always read them by myself, it was a secret that I even read.
“I don´t know.” Niall said and now Summer smirked.
“Gossip girl.” I looked up at her, so surprised that I was about to pass out. How did she know? No one knows. But that wasn´t the worst I had to cut him again, the sting of powerlessness went through my body when I cut through his skin again and felt the warm blood on my hands. The I understood, I understood everything. The thing that Summer cares about, it´s me. It´s me and she will do anything to get me by herself.
Notes
Hello everyone! Shit it´s getting really intense here! I won´t update more today so enjoy! Hope you liked it/ kisses E<3How far do you think Summer will go?
Do you think Amy will do anything about it? In that case, what?
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4/27/14