The Story Of Another Us | cth

19. It's all my fault

Calum's POV

Today was such a long day and I was beyond relieved to finally be laying down comfortably in my hotel bed.

The four of us were doing random things in our hotel room and it was just as messy as you would imagine a hotel room full of teenage boys would be.

I was sharing a bed with Luke while Michael and Ashton shared the other one.

Michael was currently taking a shower, while Luke and Ashton were trying to find something to watch on the TV that the hotel provided.

I was mindlessly scrolling through Instagram when a picture of Lucy at the beach came up on my timeline.

I checked the date and to my surprise she posted it last week.

I was confused as to why this was just appearing on my timeline but then again I haven't been on social media as often since tour started.

I decided to click on her account just in case she posted anything else that I might've missed.

My eyes went wide when I saw that her page was entirely different. It was filled with pictures of her and her new friends all over Los Angeles and on set.

She must have posted over ten new pictures in the last week.

This was so unlike her. Lucy was the type of person to be extremely picky about what she posted and she always gave deep thought to each one.

Now her page looked like it was run by someone else.

I could hear the door to the bathroom open and Michael emerged out with a towel wrapped around his waist.

"You guys find anything good?" He asked Ashton and Luke who were still scrolling through the channels.

"Nope. This TV sucks." Ashton pouted.

Michael put on some comfortable clothes and sat down next to me on the bed.

"Whatcha lookin at Cal?" He asked taking notice of my deep focus towards my phone.

"Lucy's Instagram," I turned my phone so he could get a better look. "It looks completely different."

"Don't give too much thought to it." He said shrugging his shoulders and pulling his laptop out.

As soon as his laptop turned on he received a FaceTime call from Victoria.

The noise from the laptop caused Ashton, Luke, and I to turn our heads.

"Who's calling?" Ashton asked walking towards the bed.

"Victoria." He said scooting over for Ashton to come sit down.

"Move over!" Luke said rushing over.

The four of us sat closely together on the bed and moved the laptop forward so that she would be able to see all of us.

Michael clicked answer and the screen was now being taken over by a worried looking Victoria.

"Hey! What's wrong?" Michael asked noticing Victoria's expression.

"Something's wrong with Lucy!"

"What do you mean?" I asked sitting up even more. Now I was getting worried.

"I was just on the phone with her and she was acting entirely different. I don't know I'm just worried about her."

"Could you be more specific?" Ashton asked furrowing his eyebrows.

"She didn't even notice that we haven't spoken since last Monday."

"But that was the day Lucy and Calum started their break?" Michael said then he realized, "Oh my God wait. The two of you have never gone a single day without talking to each other." He said starting to freak out.