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Chapter 25
Danny's POV
Fletch's exclaimation that we had found our way out of the forest was the last thing that had been said then. The rest of the drive was spend in total silence, occassionally broken by a frustrated and confused sigh from Fletch, or a worried and nervous shuffling by either me, Tom or Harry. We were all in a bad state now, Tom and Harry shot each other angry looks a few times, but didn´t say anything. This was bad. We needed to stick together through this. But I knew my two older bandmates very well, and I knew this could end up in a massive argument. And us fighting wasn´t going to help Dougie at all. It was obvious that Tom wanted to tell Fletch what was going on, and Harry didn´t want him to know. Out of us four, it was always Tom and Harry that have the worst arguments, despite Tom´s shy and unsure personality, he could get so upset at Harry he would start to scream and that would make Harry lose his temper. I really hoped that wasn´t going to happen now, while Dougie was still kidnapped and we needed to be a team to get him out sooner.
I wasn´t even sure what I thought was best to do now. Fletch truly was to be trusted. He was a very loyal and helpful friend, who had always helped us out of our troubles. But what if he would contact the police? What could Fletch really do in this situation? He had never been in this kind of situation before either.
I just really didn't know what to do. I decided I wasn't going to take a side. I was going to try to keep my two bandmember calm and focus on Dougie's sake only.
It was when we drove up into Tom's street, when finally somebody broke the painful silence.
'Fletch... I think we need to tell y-...' Tom started but Harry turned around in his shotgun seat and aimed to smack him in the face. He fortunately missed though.
'Don't you dare, Fletcher!' He barked and Tom flinched slightly but shot an angry look at Harry.
'Harry, we really have to tell him!' He defended himself.
'No we don't!' If looks could kill, both Harry and Tom would drop dead at that moment.
'Harry! Why do you act like you're the leader and we can't have a say in anything?' Tom's voice rose. 'Im older than you for god's sake!' Harry frowned offended.
'What has that got to do with all this, Tom? I only want to protect Dougie!' Harry hissed back. This actually frightened me a bit. What if they really got into a fight? I noticed Fletch sitting half turned around, frowning. Smart guy. He was obviously listening if they would blurt something out in their anger, which Harry had already sort of done.
'Guys.' I tried to sooth them but they ignored me.
'We won't be able to get three fucking million dollars that fast. We probably won't ever get it by ourselves!' Tom cried out frustrated and everyone in the car gasped, me and Harry at Tom blurting out about the money, Fletch in confusion and probably slight understanding what may be going on. He remained silent though.
'Tom, you fucking IDIOT! Do you realise what you just said?' Harry cried out now as well, nervously looking between Tom and Fletch. Fletch slowed down car, seeing we could see Tom's house already and he obviously wanted to hear more. I decided this was going too far. If Fletch was to find out, he should find our properly or not at all. Not like this.
'YES!' Tom screamed and both Harry and he jumped up from their seats as far as they could, ready to smach each others faces in.
'SHUT UP YOU BOTH!' I screamed at the top of my lungs, so loud everybody in the car flinched and looked at me shocked, also Fletch, who lost control over the car for a short second.
'For god sake, listen to you guys! How the fuck are we going to safe him if you're fighting like this? We need to stick together in this and Fletch, thanks to your fighting, now already kind of knows what is going on! You two either shut up right now or just tell the man properly! I'm not gonna take sides here, but you two need to keep it together!' I ranted in a high pitched and loud voice, desperation taking over. When I was done I noticed everyone in the car was silenced. Tom looked at me with a desperate look, unshed tears shining in his chocolate brown eyes. Harry looked at me shocked, realising Fletch had now heard too much already. Fletch just looked between us through the front mirror.
For a second no-one knew what to say and a really awkward silence washed over the car once again. But it didn't last long. Fletch pulled the car up in front of Tom's house, then turned around and looked at us with an extremely worried expression.
'What the hell is going on?'
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