Chapter 13 - Is she dead?

Chapter 13 - Is she dead?

TW - non graphic mention of physical and sexual abuse

Jade pov

We're in front of the hotel, it's 7 am, we're early but we can't wait any longer, we go inside and go straight to the bar, take the lift and go up to the fifth floor. We hide in the same storage as yesterday and wait for Alex to leave.

At 7:15 Alex comes out of his room obviously agitated, he looks around and quickens his step. We watch him disappear into the lift and wait for Zayn's message.

He has stayed downstairs to check on the situation and after a few minutes informs me that Alex has got into a taxi and the coast is clear.

We walk towards Perrie's room when we hear someone call Little Mix, we turn around and see a girl from the hotel staff staring at us like we have a pumpkin on our heads.

She asks us for a selfie which we reluctantly grant but it's better than standing here arguing with her. Once done, we say goodbye to her and go to Perrie's room.

We knock but no response.

We try again but still nothing.

I start to feel panic in my bones.

I knock again hoping Perrie is just in the bathroom and hasn't heard us.

Nothing.

We try again.

Nothing

We see the same girl from before walk past us and I get an idea.

"Amber, right?"

The girl turns around amazed that I remembered her name. She nods frantically.

"Amber, I need you to open this door now"

"I'm sorry, I absolutely can't do that, it's against the rules"

"I know, Amber, I know. Perrie Edwards is here and I really need you to open the door, please"

"I'm sor-"

"VIP passes to every concert in every city and VIP entry to every event we will do until the end of our careers. Please, Amber, we won't tell anyone it was you. Open the door" I say desperately trying to get her to open the fucking door.

Amber thinks about it and finally pulls out her passkey and opens the door.

The room is dark and I call out to Perrie as I look for the light switch, no answer from Pez, but at least I manage to turn on the light.

I look around and have a very bad feeling. I call Pez again but no answer.

I cross the short corridor and arrive in front of the bed, I see a flash of blonde hair under the duvet on the opposite side from where I am, I walk around the bed and approach Perrie, I catch a glimpse of her face but her golden hair covers it.

I try to call out to her but she doesn't answer, I can hear Jesy behind me with her breath catching in her throat, Leigh is watching us from the other side of the bed.

I brush Perrie's hair away from her face and immediately notice a lot more bruises than yesterday. I call Perrie again and try to shake her but she doesn't move. Panic wells up inside me when I notice her almost blue lips.

"W-why isn't she moving?" Leigh stammers.

"Perrie, love, please wake up" I whisper.

Jesy lowers the duvet and gasps. I look at Pez's neck, completely purple, the new bruises overlaying the old ones and I realise it happened just lately, I look down at her hands and see red marks on her wrists, I look up at the head of the bed and I see handcuffs still there.

He's tied her up

"Leigh, call an ambulance now!" Jesy screams and I'm not understanding what's going on. Leigh doesn't move.

"Leigh! Ambulance! Now!" Jesy repeats desperately.

"'H-her back" Leigh stutters.

I run to the other side of the bed beside Leigh and look at Perrie's back, a mass of cuts cover her skin, dried blood all over the wounds. It's now that I realise the pool of blood she lies in.

"The ambulance is on its way!" Amber informs us sharply.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be nosy but I heard you guys screaming and I got scared, who did this to her?" I see Amber look at Perrie's body with obvious shock and realise my baby is naked. I grab a blanket and cover her up, I know it's useless but I don't want anyone to see her in this state.

Shortly afterwards the medical staff arrives, they pull us away and we watch as they work on her.

"Her pulse is weak, we need to take her away now!" a girl with brown and pink hair shouts.

They load her onto the stretcher and leave the room, we follow them as if our lives depend on it, and as far as I'm concerned they do. If something happens to her I don't know what I'll do with my life.

On the lobby I meet Zayn but I don't have time to explain to him what's going on, I jump in the ambulance and ask what hospital they're taking her to, I give Jesy and Leigh the name and off we go.

I hold Perrie's hand the whole way and keep whispering apologies to her for not arriving sooner.

"Will she survive?" I ask the paramedics.

They look at me with worried faces "The condition is critical, we don't know if she's going to make it, I'm sorry miss" I burst into tears as soon as I hear those words and I pray to whatever god exists not to take my Perrie away from us.

Please my love, come back to me

Leigh-Anne pov

We've been in the waiting room for five hours now. We explained everything to Zayn and Jade called Norma and Debbie and said they had to get here right away because Perrie wasn't doing well. Jade didn't say what happened, I think she's looking for the best way to tell them once they'll get here, if there is one.

Norma and Deb enter the waiting room and immediately come to hug us. Norma looks at her daughter who hasn't stopped crying and shaking since we arrived.

"Hey, Poopey, what's going on?" Norma asks looking at Jade.

She tries to speak but all that comes out are meaningless syllables.

"Let's take a seat" Jesy says calmly. She is as shocked as the rest of us but her motherly instincts are active and she's holding it together for us.

"Okay girls, take a deep breath and tell me what's happening to my daughter" Debbie asks worriedly.

Jade takes several breaths until she regularizes her respiration, recomposes herself and begins to speak.

"Alright, so... Perrie didn't cheat on me and leave because she was in love with Alex" Jade begins and Debbie and Norma look at her with chaos on their faces but motion her to continue.

"We bumped into Perrie and Alex yesterday at a restaurant, Pez looked different but we didn't mind since we hadn't seen her in a year. Alex left his phone at the restaurant and we took it to give it back to him" Jade pauses and takes another deep breath.

"I-I don't know if I should tell the whole story, Deb"

"My daughter is in the hospital and I have a feeling this isn't an accident or an illness so you better tell me what's going on. I want the whole truth" Debbie replies firmly. Jade looks at her and nods, then resumes her explanation.

"Once in my flat we were able to unlock Alex's phone, we wanted to find Perrie's number and call her to warn her, but no trace of the number, instead we found a group chat of Alex with many other people on it" Jade pauses again before continuing.

"Within the chat there were several pictures of Perrie, s-she was tied up, bruised and you could tell she didn't like what was going on. It wasn't a game and Perrie wasn't consensual"

Debbie and Norma have tears in their eyes but Deb waves Jade on.

"There were a lot of messages and the way they talked about Perrie was- it was... they would write down what they wanted to do to her. I don't know if anything happened but-"

Jesy interrupts Jade and begins to speak, "When I was left alone with the phone I checked the gallery... there were lots of pictures of Perrie with different men and they... well it was obvious they were having some... interactions, I'm sorry Jade, I should have told you but things went so fast I couldn't find the right time"

"M-maybe it was c-consensual" Debbie stutters.

"I'm sorry, Deb, but judging by Perrie's expressions I doubt it" Jesy speaks with determination but I can see that she is trying not to cry.

"My child" Debbie starts sobbing and Norma hugs her as she cries along with her.

Debbie wipes away her tears and pulls herself together, "Please, g-go on"

"Jesy also found the video of Perrie and Alex, the one that caused our breakup, but there was another one next to it and we opened it. Like... like I said before, Perrie hadn't cheated on me that day but- but Alex r-" Jade stops, wipes away her tears and takes two deep breaths.

"Alex r-raped her and forced her to say she liked it, then edited the video to make it look like Perrie was okay with it, we still don't know how Alex convinced her to have a relationship with him and move to Liverpool" Jade's voice trembles with every word and I know she's using all her strength to hold herself together.

"We found the hotel where they were staying and managed to talk to Perrie, she has completely changed. Alex has been brainwashing and abusing her for months. Perrie is completely subjugated by Alex and she is terrified, doesn't want to be touched by anyone and thinks anyone will hurt her. In the end, we managed to arrange with Perrie to pick her up today and spend the day together, we hoped that if we had more time to talk to her, we would have convinced her to see a doctor and eventually report him"

"So that's why we're here? You convinced her to see a doctor and now she's being examined?" Debbie asks apprehensively, tears again on her face. Jade lowers her gaze and doesn't answer.

"We went to the hotel this morning, Perrie wasn't answering and luckily we managed to get a staff girl to open the door for us. Perrie was in bed, not... not w-waking up and then we noticed that she had a lot more b-bruises than yesterday and there was a lot... a lot of blood. We called the ambulance and they brought her straight here, she's in surgery now" I reply as I see Jade still deep in thought.

"There's something I haven't told you" Jade whispers, we motion her to continue. Jade bites her lip and swallows.

"Perrie went into cardiac arrest twice on the way, they had to do CPR on her but the second time her brain had been without oxygen for four minutes" Jade closes her eyes and we all come to terms with the new information.

"Perrie Edwards' family!" we hear someone call out, I turn to the voice and see a doctor waiting in the waiting room. Immediately we all get up and join him.

"Family of Perrie Edwards?"

"Yes, I'm the mother and this is the rest of her family" Debbie replies with nervousness.

"Good morning, ma'am. I am Dr. Monroe. Please, let's talk somewhere more private" The doctor leads us into an office, before opening the door he turns and looks first at Debbie and then at the rest of us.

"Like I said, this is the rest of her family, the girls found Perrie" Debbie looks at him wearily. The doctor nods and lets us all go into the study.

We take a seat and wait for Monroe to say something. The silence is deafening and I know that if no one says anything I will start tearing my hair out.

The man looks at us with sadness and compassion and I can't help but feel a horrible sensation freezing the blood in my veins.

"Is-is she dead?"

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