“Louis, Liam, are you guys in?” Niall, Brooke, and I told the boys the entire story.
They sat there in awe, taking it all in.
“It’s a lot, I know. Don’t feel obligated to help though, we can do it on our own too!” I said, trying to reassure them that it really was okay if they didn’t want to involve themselves.
“No, mates, we’re in!” We began brainstorming what to do. We were getting her out no matter what.

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Liam put on a white t-shirt, black leather jacket, jeans, and boots. He hadn’t shaven in a couple of days. We piled into my car and drove out to the house. The sun was setting and it was getting late. We hopped out of the car and Liam drove it up to the house. Louis and I sat by the door I had found earlier in the week. Brooke hid in the back of the car with Niall. We were kicking off the plan.
I had never done anything like this in my life. I was a trouble maker back in school, but not in this way. More so by disrupting class by making a joke, or singing too loudly in the hallways.
My heart was pounding out of my chest, my palms began to sweat; I had never been so nervous in all my life.

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Liams POV
“Hello, I’m Liam. I’m here to uh… ya know?” I said trying to act like I knew what I was talking about. This whole thing terrified me, but I knew I had to do it. I could see the spark in Harry’s eyes when he talked about this girl. I could see how much she meant to Brooke, who we had all grown so close to recently.
“Liam, huh?” The lady spoke to me as she looked me up and down. She smirked at me and grabbed my hand.
“Follow me Liam. You can call me Lisa, by the way.” She winked, still gripping my arm. “Sit, sit” she said patting the dining room table. She brought over a book and opened the pages. Pictures of young girls flashed across each page. Their name was in bold at the top with a short description of them under the photo. I pretended to go through all of the pages, although I already knew who I would be “choosing”. God, these poor young girls were just trapped here for who even knows how long. We had to get Everly out and we had to help all of these girls escape this prison. These people should be locked away.
“So, Liam? Who’ve you got your eye on?” she spoke bringing her lips close to my neck. I turned to her, locking my gaze with hers. I smirked at her and bit my lip, “I’m going to go with Everly, what a beauty!” I spoke winking at her. She grinned and pulled me up again.
“Follow me.” We walked to the end of the house, near a bookshelf. She pulled a statue down and the door opened into a long, narrow hallway. The hallway was lined with steel doors with small windows at the top. We walked past a couple and you could see the girls in each of them, staring at me, wanting help. I couldn’t look; I looked down at the my hands and continued down the hallway.

“Here we are. You can close the window if you’d like!” She said. Punching in a code on the keypad: 144356. The door buzzed and opened up. I bit down my lip and gave thumbs up to Lisa. The door closed.

I could see the fear in Everly’s eyes. She didn’t look like the girl I saw on TV. Her hair was shorter and darker, her skin was pale and her lips were cracked. I turned around and shut the window and turned back to face her. She backed away and stood in the corner.
“Everly! We gotta get you out of here?”
A confused look washed across her face. “Excuse me?” She spoke in a stiff tone.
“Everly, I am one of Brooke’s friends. She is dating my best mate. Harry, he uh, he figured out where you were and followed you here. They are all waiting outside, we’ve gotta go soon okay?” I grabbed her arms as she stood there staring at me.
"Harry? Niall? Louis? Who are these people? Who are you?!" She said backing away.
"I told you. Niall is dating Brooke and Harry, he has a thing for you. Said he sees you around all the time. He, uh, he saw you with that lady the other day, but didnt recognize you."
"Harry…?" she said, just standing there.
“We cant, they have cameras, they’ll see us.” She shook her head.
“We have to hurry. There’s a secret door by the staircase at the end of the hall. It leads outside. Harry and Louis are waiting there to get you. Niall and Brooke are out front with the car. Do you want me to carry you?” She just stood there staring at me.
“I’ve only got an hour Everly.”

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