Stay Away

I stepped in front of Niall trying to look serious even though I knew that when it came to Jeremy, there was no way I was going to be able to stop him. "Jere..." I trailed off. What the hell could I say to make this sound okay?

"What are you doing with him?!?!" he asked yelling.

"Look something happened at the house last night and you were at a friend's house. She needed some muscle," Niall explained.

"What the fuck happened at the house?" he asked looking over at me. "And what made you call him and not me?" he asked. I had hurt him, I knew that, but how could I explain that I had already been talking to Niall when it happened?

"Look, it's not that I don't love having this little chat, but could we do it somewhere else? People are starting to gather like it's free entertainment," Niall said. He looked extremely tense all of a sudden, like he had seen something, and that something hadn't made him particularly happy.

"Alright fine, Emma go get in the car, Niall you can meet us there, clearly you already know the way," he said sarcastically. He suddenly had this authority in his voice that I had never known existed.

***

When we got to the house, I was totally terrified. The front door looked like it had been ripped off its hinges. The windows were shattered and there was trash all over the lawn. There was graffiti and a bunch of different symbols all over the brick on the outside. I was speechless. However, it had the opposite affect on Jeremy.

"What the hell?!?!" he yelled as he put the car in park.

I ran up to the front door and felt the tears stinging in my eyes. I turned expecting to find Jeremy, but instead I found Niall, and dear God I just needed some arms, any arms, to wrap around me and tell me that everything was gonna be okay, and that's exactly what he did.

Just as I was calming down, Jeremy came up and ripped me away from Niall and placed a punch square in his jaw.

"Why the hell did you do this?" he yelled in his face.

"Jere! He didn't do this! I was with him all night last night and this morning, it couldn't have been him." I said, I was mainly trying to calm him down so I could go inspect Niall's wounds.

"Besides, I wouldn't want to. Emma has done nothing to me, I wouldn't even if she had. However, I know who did," and with that, Niall turned to me with urgency in his voice, "Emma, they know where you're living, I won't let you stay here, it's not safe."

"Then what do we do? Its not like we have a back up house," Jeremy replied from the background.

"You can stay with me until you find a new flat across town," he replied while walking over the thresh-hold.

"Okay....." I would have said more but just then i walked in and saw the waste land that used to be my home. I walked to my room only to find that there were several sheets of paper on my walls and all of them said the same thing, You were lucky, this time...

"Oh my God Emma! Who the hell did you piss off so badly?!?" I hear Jeremy yell from behind me.

"This is all my fault!" I hear Niall yell. I turned around just in time to see him slam his fist into the wall. "I should have known this would happen," he says. I watch a tear fall from his eye as he falls slowly to the floor.

I walked over to him and sat there with him. "It's not your fault," I said trying to reassure him.

"I knew this would happen if I got too close, but I did it anyway," he says.

"Niall, I wouldn't have let you stay away, even though I know that's what you would have wanted," I said looking him dead in the eye.

"That's another thing," he said. "Why didn't you just forget about me? Why didn't you stay away?"

I looked at him and opened my mouth to answer him but Jeremy spoke before I got the chance to. "Alright look, I hate to ruin your very interesting, and probably personal conversation, but we have a problem, none of our stuff was left un-touched. Look Emma, even our clothes got shredded." he said pointing to the shredded material all over the floor.

"Come on, I have an idea," and with that he walked out the door.

"Can we trust him?" Jeremy asked looking after Niall.

"He saved my life, protected me from Jason, and came straight over here when someone showed up at the house last night. I think its safe to say we can trust him," I replied looking him dead in the eyes. "Not to mention what he did for you" I said pointing at his chest, and with that I walked out the door after Niall.

Notes

I'm so sorry you loves its been a while, but like I said, mum got me my own laptop so I'll be updating more often!!!

Xx~Rae