Chapter Two
Louis POV
"What the fuck are you doing Louis? Let me go." Harry shouted as I closed the door. I knew he was mad but he looked ready to kill.
"What the fuck is wrong with you man? You're making your own mother cry. You need to bloody chill." I shouted back at him, I wasn't one to start fights. I was the joker, they guy who made everyone laugh. I was a party starter not a shit starter but he was seriously starting to piss me off. I knew there was a reason for why he was like this but until I knew it I wouldn't excuse the fact that he was being a class A dick. "Why don't you sit down and explain what's going on?" He looked at me angrily before admitting defeat and sitting down on my temporary bed and putting his head in hands before running them through his curls and placing this forehead in them.
"It's Vanessa." He said shortly with a sigh, and another hands-running-through-hair moment. I'd heard about her, she was Harry's sister. I had never met her but from what I'd heard, they were really close before he had auditioned for X Factor and since she was only a year younger (Harry's 19 in this fic and so are all the other boys!) they got on well. He also knew that she had been the 'wild' child. She wasn't like one of those girls you saw on TV who did hard drugs and slept around every night, she just liked to have fun. And it didn't help that Harry was always the favoured child as Vanessa's father was a different one than Harry's. Even though Anne's husband right now was not either of their fathers, and as much as we both loved them, he had said it was plain to see that he was the favourite amongst the two.
"Okay, why don't you tell me everything?" I said before I saw the door behind us open and the three other boys piled in. "Why don't you tell us everything?" I saw him hesitate as he looked at the other three boys but he told us anyway.
"Well, y'know how I was really looking forward to seeing her again because I haven't been back home in awhile and she had been avoiding my calls so I thought that being back here might soften her up. I know she's mad at me for leaving but I just thought that it was a phase. Anyway, I came up and dumped my stuff in my room and I went to go look in her room and see if she was there but when I got there her bed had been stripped and the clothes from her closet were gone and it looked like no one had been there for ages. So I was confused you know." He looked up at us, his eyes pleading for us to understand. "I went downstairs to ask mum about it but she just avoided the question kind of. Like she wouldn't acknowledge that V had actually lived here. And I grew madder by the second, I mean, I'd always known that they had liked me best and so had she but it was maddening to know that she didn't even care about her daughter. So I kept bugging here and eventually she told me that Vanessa had left home." He sighed as he came to the end of his speech and look back down again as his eyes well up.
"How long?" Niall said, and when we didn't understand he elaborated, "How long has she been gone?" I was expecting an answer like a couple of weeks or something, running away as a teenager wasn't uncommon so I understood why Harry was worried but I was sure she would come back. His answer proved me wrong.
"8 months. Eight months and I didn't even know my sister wasn't at home, that she had run away." This time a tear did leak down his cheek. I realized something then as well, he wasn't mad at his mum like he had told us, he was mad at himself. Her being gone for 8 months meant that they hadn't spoken for that amount of time, and that was a long time. He blamed himself for pushing her to run away; with him gone it felt like she had to. None of us knew what to say, we had never dealt with this before so I just went over to him and pulled him into a hug and the others soon follow.
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