•Demons - Imagine Dragons•

•H a r r y•
Gently, I push the door open. The familiar smell of strawberry-and-cream filled my nose as I entered the dark room, the lights off and the silence dead. The cold air hit my exposed skin, giving me chill bumps as I softly push the door to, trying not to make much noise.
Chassidy always loved to have her room cold – she couldn’t sleep with it hot, it had to be freezing before she even lied down. I never preferred it as cold as she did, but I done whatever I needed to do to keep a smile on that beautiful face.
I step closer to the door, gently running my hand along the wall – know exactly where the light switch is. I flick it on once my hand touches over it and I look over to the full size bed in the corner most far away from the door. My mind intends to see Chassidy’s sleeping body lying under the plush covers, but as my eyes roam that way I see nothing, no one.
My eyebrows gently furrow as I step closer to the bed, trying to make sure I was really seeing what I was seeing, and that was nothing at all. But as I continue to stare, my heart beat slowly begins to settle down, only a little through – I see a folded up piece of paper.
Instinctively I pick it up and open it, my eyes gazing upon the beautiful handwriting I’ve missed so much. All those times she’d take a pen and sign her name on my arm and draw all over my hand. Damn, its been so long since I got to look down and see the letter C drawn on the top of my hand surrounded my hearts. Its been entirely too long.

Gone swimming with Liam! Be back soon xo – Chassidy ♥

“I didn’t know she left.’’ I heard Adam’s voice behind me followed by the sound of clicking heels – Rebecca was also there.
‘’Let me see, love.’’ She says as she kindly takes the paper from me.
I don’t say anything to her as I sit down on the edge of the bed, the same mattress that’s always been here. Mr. and Mrs. James stood in the door way talking amongst themselves about Chassidy and how they where glad she went out for once, apparently she didn’t do that much anymore – probably because every time before she’s had me there, and she loved having me there – in fact, she would never go anywhere without me. That’s how close we were.
As I think about the memories I’ve had with her, a reoccurring thought begins to drive me crazy – but just when I thought it was annoying, I realized it was a serious thing.
‘’Wait.’’ I say as I stand up from the bed, my eyes meeting Adam’s newly formed stare.
‘’What is it?’’ Rebecca asks me, clutching the note tight in her hand.
I gulp gently, knowing how hard this is for me to say, hell it’s even hard to even think about. My eyes burn into Adam’s, I know he will catch on that something was wrong, and he did. I knew that because he furrowed an eyebrow, a sign that told me to tell him – I’ve known this man entirely too long not to know his signals.
So I don’t hesitate anymore.
‘’For as long as I’ve known this girl.. Chassidy is scared of the water. She can’t swim, she doesn’t even like to look at a pool or a lake. She’s terrified of it.’’ I state, still staring into the man’s eyes.
‘’But… she would always go swimming with you.’’ Rebecca says, a confused look on her face.
‘’Exactly.’’ Adam mumbles to himself as he steps a little closer, studying my eyes – he knew what I was thinking about.
‘’What… Adam, what’s going on?’’ She asks, her hands beginning to shake as she puts them on her chest, trying to calm and steady herself.
‘’Chassidy would never go near water with anyone on this planet.. no one.. but Harry.’’ Adam says with a cold hard stare into my eyes.
‘’And I had to force her to then..’’ I add in a sigh.
‘’But she, she.. She wrote a note.’’ Rebecca retorts, I knew by know she understood our point – Chassidy would never do anything without me and going near water was on top of that long list.
“I’ll call Liam.’’ Adam says as he steps over to the window and takes out his cell phone.
I go over to Rebecca and extend my hand, wanting the note. She glances down at it before giving me a light nod and placing it into my palm. I look down at it and carefully roam my eyes over every single word.
I notice more than one thing within seconds, and I knew good and well something serious was going on. And with my knowledge, I can already guess of what is happening, or maybe what will happen.
‘’Mrs. James… she was forced to write this, I can tell.” I say as I step closer to her again.
‘’How?’’
‘’Because, when she’s nervous her the dot on her eyes is more like a dash than her normal perfect dot. And then the exclamation point.. the point is a dot, it’s usually a unfilled heart. And her C is too sloppy, she wrote fast… she only writes fast when she’s nervous and scared.’’ I explain.
She stares at the note for a few seconds, trying to understand and see what I was telling her. As I watched her facial expression as she studied the piece of paper and the writing, her lip began to quiver, her eyebrows furrowing.
I’ve known this woman for a very long time, long enough to know that that face was the face she made before she was about to cry – the same face Chassidy made.
‘’He didn’t pick up.’’ Adam says as he enters the room.
Liam always had his phone with him, he always had it charged – there was no excuse, no more left at all. That’s what scared me the most, knowing these things about Chassidy that helped me have somewhat of a clue of where she went to, or in this case, where she was taken to. There’s honestly no telling where she is, but I’m pretty sure of who she’s with.
“We.. we got to check every pool in Orlando! No, in Florida!’’ Rebecca says as she begins to panic.
‘’No, no, no, honey, calm down-‘’ Adam’s attempts of trying where cut off when Rebecca fell to her knees in the middle of the room, breaking out in tears and sobs.
‘’I want my baby back, Adam!’’ She sobs into her hands as he gets down beside her, trying to soothe her some.
I gulp gently as I witness her falling apart at the disappearance of her only child. It hurt me just as much, but I had to keep myself strong, at least on the outside – for Rebecca and Adam’s sake. Just when I was about to speak aloud, my phone buzzed in my back pocket. I sigh lightly as I reach for it and unlock it, seeing a new message.
But there was one thing about this message that scared me a little, it was from Chassidy’s number. Don’t get me wrong now, when I left I didn’t ever change my number, and I surely never deleted hers – but the point isn’t the number, but the message itself..

Received: I see you found the letter. I’m not making this easy Styles, not just yet. I’ll enjoy myself before I finish the deed.

Without saying a word, I walk over to the window and pull one of the curtains back, I stare through the glass trying to find some kind of clue. There was no evidence of forced entry, nor was there a ladder anywhere in sight.
“She could be anywhere, Adam!’’ Rebecca screams out as I constantly hear Adam trying to talk her down some, but nothing was working.
The way Mrs. James was feeling right now was how I was feeling in the inside.
I bit the inside of my cheek – my heart began to race at the thought of her being handled by him. There’s a hell load of things he could do to her, and every single one of them scared me. Instead of dreaming of finding her inside my head, I reply to the message.

Sent: Zayn I’m not fucking playing anymore, just tell me where she’s at. If it’s money that you want then I’ll give it to you. Just please, don’t hurt her.

I held my breath as I hit send. Chassidy hasn’t seen me in four years, I haven’t held her in so fucking long. The thought of losing her before she found me again only made me more determined to rip Zayn’s head off his shoulders – made me want to kill him even more. My demons were arising inside, and nothing could stop them, nothing except for Chassidy – and I needed to find her to be sane again. My protective side and my posessive side hide my demons, if anything truly horrible every happened to her..there's no telling what in hell I'd do.
A message popped up on my screen, I was nervous to read it but I didn’t dare hesitate.

Received: Money, oh that’s nothing to me, I have my own, Styles. But don’t get your panties in a knot love, she’s near you.. you just have to think. Oh, I forgot you were stupid. Good luck. I’ll be off to Miami soon.. but I’ll be back for her. Not for you.

“Adam.’’ I say as I turn to see Mrs. James still on her knees, her face covered.
He stands up quickly and comes over to me, his eyebrows raised as he reaches me. I was trying my best to think of places, but I just couldn’t get it together.
‘’Here.’’ I say as I hand him my phone so he could read the messages.
Adam is a smart man, he’ll be able to figure a plan out way before I could even stop my heart from beating so fast. I was only worried about her, hoping and praying she’s okay – wherever she might be at.
‘’Your house.’’ Adam states suddenly.
‘’My house?’’ I ask, furrowing my eyebrows.
It took me a second to process what exactly he meant by that. My house isn’t here it’s in – my house, my father’s house! Oh my god, that’s where she’s at. There’s a huge in ground pool at my father’s house!

I meet Adam’s eyes and my lips lightly part in shock, ‘’My house.’’

Notes

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