Don't Forget Where You Belong

Riley's P.O.V.

*KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK*

"I know you're in there Ry LEMME IN!" I fall off the couch that I must have fallen asleep on last night. I spring up recognizing the voice of my big sis. Shes here!

I sprint to the door and fling it open. Char is standing there with her plaid shirt, acid washed skinnies, black boots and her hair is perfectly wavy flowing down her shoulders. She's got a smile a mile wide when she takes in my pjs and messy hair and I throw myself at her.

"Hey sweet girl" She whispers when she hugs me back.

"Dont ever leave me again" I say and pull away just for her to pull me back in for one more hug.

"Well I cant promise that, BUT I can promise that I wont be leaving your side for today" She smiles at me and steps into the apartment.

"Good, thats good. You have me the whole day, but there is one thing" I tell her as I turn on the coffee pot, knowing full well if I dont give Char coffee in the morning that I might as well be starving a ravenous lion.

"If you tell me that you have to leave me for anything, not even Jesus himself will save you" She said taking a seat at the bar by the kitchen and setting her brown leather purse on the counter

"Cute purse" I smile at her

"Riley!" She said sternly, lol I love when she gets like this

"Its nothing really, I just need you and me to go see Chase and work on wedding stuff" I say quickly as I run to my room to get dressed.

"RILEY! YOU ARE MAKING ME HANG OUT WITH THAT JERK!?" She yells through the door. I grab my jeans and new sweater and quickly change. I fix my hair to fall in waves and grab my scarf. I take a look in the mirror and decide that some make up might be nice today. Char takes WAY too many picutres and will probably have her camera out most of our day out.

"Riley! You havent answerd me!" I hear outside of the door

"Its not a big deal. He just wants to go over a few things and I figured, that since you're my sister, that you would want to be a part of my wedding!" I yell back through

"Of course I do, but I have been meaning to talk to you about this supposed wedding Riley. It just doesnt seem right" She says through the door a littl more quiet.

I dont know how Im going to keep this up... maybe I should just tell her. I need someone to understand and if she knew how bad it was, maybe she wouldnt be so irrational like I feared at first

"Char. I have a weird question." I say not responding to her origional statement

"You can ask me anything" She says. I can tell she's leaning against the door listening.

I apply my eye liner, just like Char taught me in high school. Not too much, but just enough to make my eyes a little bigger. Im glad she's not looking at me. This will make the conversation easier if I chicken out

"What if I were to tell you that someone I love was in danger, and the ONLY, I mean ONLY way was to sacrifice happiness? I mean like I went over all the other options in my head, and THIS is the only option. If I told you about it, would you please be on my side and not over react?' I say applying some lip gloss.

I dont hear anything for a moment and I wonder if Char had heard me

Just then my bedroom door flys open and she storms in

"I knew it! I knew he was blackmailing you! Tell me what this asshole did Ry and I mean RIGHT NOW!" She yells walking in in all her Charlotte Rey glory

"Do you promise to keep it to yourself?" I ask

"NO, I dont! I refuse to see you marry this duche tit just because he thinks he has something on someone. Tell me. What is it? Who is in danger? Is it me, cause I dont give a fu..."

"Its Niall" I inturupt her

"Of course it is, what about Niall?" she asks taking a seat next to me at the vanity the band got me for Christmas last year.

She takes my hair and starts to brush it, trying to calm herself down. I know shes angry. Her hands were shaking as she takes the brush. This oughta be fun

I take a deep breath and tell her everything. I dont leave a single thing out. Including my fear of Chase and why I convinced him to let her come today.

Char sets down the brush and stares into the mirror at me. For the first time in my life I think she is speechless.

"Riley, I wish you would have told me" She says

"What are you gonna do?" I ask her trying not to cry

She sees the tears brimming my eyes and takes me into a bone crushing hug

"Well Im not going to be an idiot about it. Until we figure this out, I will play along and make it easy. Ill play just as stupid as he thinks I am." She says and pulls away

I nod and dry my tears

"He hasnt... you know, made you do anything with him has he?"

I shake my head "No, I convinced him to wait till the wedding night" I say sniffling

"Good, I would have had to chop off his d..."

"CHAR!" I say cutting her off

"What, I would have!" She says shrugging her shoulders

"I know, but ew" I say standing up grabbing my boots and sitting on the edge of my bed putting them on.

"Ok so, heres the plan, we go there. Do what we gotta do and then I'm calling Harry. He'll know what to do..."

"Char, no!" I inturrupt her again

"Listen, he wont say anything to anyone, but he's gotten Niall out of this stuff before, he can do it again. I wont stand by and let you marry this creep" She says and I sigh in defeat

"How is Harry?" I ask her grabbing my leather jacket and bag Im ready to walk out of the room and we start towards the door. I almost didnt notice Char look down at the ground sadly

"Harry is fine" She smiled slightly

oh no

"What happened?" I asked and she just shook her head.

"You look adorable by the way." She says taking in my outfit http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/set?id=141576920

"Dont change the subject" I tell her "But thanks"

"Harry is ok, but I have some life stuff to figure out, and its nothing to worry about" She smiled at me

"I dont buy it. Come on Char, you're always there for me, let me be there for you" I tell her

"The press. The press is getting to me and managament on the One Direction side of things are being jerks. Its stressed me out so much that Mal almost caught me... um" She struggled and I almost burst into tears right there

"You almost started cutting again??" I whisper

"Yes, but I didnt and I dont want to. I just need to stop listening to what others are saying. It may be hurtful, but I know whats true" She says almost trying to give herself a pep talk

"Its been a little crazy since you and Harry started dating hu?" I asked her concerned

"Yeah, but right now, thats not important. Whats important is you and your happiness little sister." She smiles and puts her arm around me as we walk out my apartment doors towards Waldorf Plaza.

*FLASH FLASH*

"OVER HERE CHARLOTTE!"
"CHARLOTTE ARE YOU AND HARRY STILL TOGETHER?!"
"RILEY IS IT TRUE THAT YOU CHEATED ON CHASE WALDORF WITH NIALL HORAN?"
"CHARLOTTE WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR SISTERS ACTIONS?"
"DO YOU THINK SHES A SLUT?"

That was the wrong thing to say Charlotte turned around grabbed the camera from the pap that said that about me and smashed it on the ground

"WOAH SHES GOT A TEMPER!" On screamed

"Hell yes I do, you wanna be next buddy?!" She screamed at the guy

Knowing what I know about the industry, this will not look good for her so I grab her arm and start to drag her away but she was upset. They just pushed her too far this time and with everything going on, she snapped

"You know what you little leech! YOU are the reason I have a temper! We were all happy, and could all be happy if it wasnt for you! DOES IT FEEL GOOD TO MESS WITH PEOPLES LIVES?! WERE ALL THE SAME AS YOU! WHY DO YOU FEEL THE NEED TO RUIN CAREERS AND RELATIONSHIPS BY TAKING PICTURES AND MAKING WILD ACCUSATIONS!?" She is in full beast mode now and I dont know what to do.

"CHARLOTTE!" I scream at her and she snaps out of it. She looks at me her puples dialated and her cheeks flushed red.

"Im sorry" she said to the man whos camera she broke, grabbed my hand and we ran away. I hailed the closest cab and took us to where we needed to be. Not to Chases

"Boradway please? The first theater you can find with a mattine show" I say

Charlotte looks over at me and smiles.

"What about Chase?" She asks worried

"He will be there when the show is over. I'll just offer for us to stay longer than planned and he'll be over it." I hope

"I hate that you have to deal with him" She said

BUZZ

She looked down at her phone and sighed

"Harry is calling, I should take this" She said putting her phone to her ear

"Hey"

"Hello love" I can hear him through her loud monstrosity of a phone. She has the Note 3 and its bigger than my tablet it seems like. But she loves it.

"You saw?" she asked

"Yes I did. Are you ok?" He asked worry laced in his voice

"I cant belive you saw that so quickly, I bet your management is having a field day now" She says sadly

"Let me worry about them, what else is going on?" He asked knowing that she is bothed by something more.

She looks at me and I just nod. If anyone is going to help us, it'll be Harry.

"I have to tell you something, and you're not gonna like it." She said and proceeded to tell her all that I revealed earlier that day.

"You have got to be kidding? I knew something was up with that. Niall will be so relieved"

"You cant tell him Harry. Not until we know there is a solid plan. You know that he wont let Ry go through with this. He wouldnt even let her in the same room with him if he knew." Charlotte reasoned with Harry.

Im so glad I told her. She understands

"Well I have a plan" I hear Harry say and for the first time I see the sun coming out from behind the clouds. Metephorically and Literally. I look out the window of the cab and we turn down Broadway. The sun shines down on the city streets, making them glimmer from the rain that fell earlier this morning. It looks beautiful in contrast with the sky scrapers as I look up at the signs. I see a billboard for the musical The Book of Morman and I point at it excitedly. Char sees me and looks and nods enthudiastically.

"Ok Harry I gotta go. We are gonna go see the Book of Morman" She tells him with no affection in her voice. She's distancing herself from Harry, no doubt from all of this paparazzi and media stuff going on.

"Alright, have fun. I love you Angel" he said

"Love ya, bye" She said and hung up.

I just look at her. She sees me staring

"What?" She asks, almost daring me to say something

"Youre rediculous" is all I say and she punches me

"Lets go laugh and sing our asses off" She says changing the subject

"Im down" I say as Chase texts me back.

"Look! Dad even gave me permission" I say smiling

"we are sick and twisted people, making jokes about serious things" She says shaking her head as she pays and steps out of the cab.

"I only am this way because of you" I say

"Well hey, what is life if you can laugh through the good AND bad times?" Char throws her arm around my shoulders and we leave to excape to another world for a while

"Im so glad your here."

"me too sista. me too"

Niall's P.O.V.

I wake up from my nap nearly screaming. Damn that dream was dreadful. Its the same one. Im running as fast as I can from fans. I cant take it. I know I love them, but Im scared and I look a head and see nothing but darkness. The last time I had this dream, running into darkness, was before I met Riley. Now their back.

"I have to tell Niall" I hear harry say from the bunk below me."

"Why cant I tell him?" I hear him say again.

Tell me what?

There is a long silence and then I hear Harry sigh

"Ok"

I realize he's on the phone with Charlotte and I automatically know its about Riley. I hop out of my bunk and open his curtains to his. He just hung up with Char and looks at me surprised.

"tell me EVERYTHING" I scream at him.

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