Obsessive Secrets

Chapter 20

Calum’s POV

Once we got to the police office we were separated into different rooms. I thought we were all going to be questioned together, after all we haven’t done anything. I know Ashton is pissed about it too. He got pretty loud with the officers. Michael, Luke and I all had to calm him down as they took Daniella into an enclosed room. It was actually much nicer than any of the ones we got, then again, she is the ‘main’ victim in all this. I’m sitting in this 6 by7 metre white room with a glass of water and 3 nice windows in three of the walls and a brown door in the other. I’ve been waiting for about 20 minutes and have been playing games on my phone since I don’t have any service. Finally a guy comes in the room in a white shirt and loosely done tie with black suit pants.

“Hello Mr. Hood, thank you for waiting. I apologize for the inconvenience earlier, we didn’t mean to alarm you with the separate interrogations.” He sits down across from me with a file and a coffee. I swear to God Americans cannot live without their coffee.

“That’s fine. I just want to get this over with and get that guy for everything he’s done.” The man nods and takes a sip of his mug.

“Good, lets start easy then. What’s your relationship to Mrs. Conners?”

“We’re friends. She’s my best friend’s girlfriend so you could say I’ve gotten pretty close over time, especially during tour.” He nods and looks through his file

. “And what is your relation to Mr. Peter Smith?” Right, that asshole.

“I’ve never met him.” The man looks up at me.

“Really?”

“Yes. I didn’t even know Daniella had an ex boyfriend until about 3 weeks ago when she called Ashton about what happened. None of us knew, not even him.” The man seems to think about something momentarily.

“Would you say that Ashton hates Peter Smith?’ Ha. Like that’s even a question.

“I don’t know about hate but I know that if Peter and Ashton ever met, lets just say Peter wouldn’t get out of that meeting without a couple of bruises.” I laugh a little, not thinking he would take it too seriously.

“Interesting.” Ok, that’s a little suspicious. “Well, thank you for your time. That’s all we need from you. Ms. Conners is in the other room if you would like to join her.” He gets up from his chair and grabs his mug.

“Wait, what about Ashton? And Luke and Michael?” I ask him before he leaves the room.

“Mr. Hemmings and Clifford are also with her, but Mr. Irwin is still being questioned. We’re not done with him.” He says and opens the door for me to leave. Oh shit. Does that mean anything? I nod to the man and walk through the door to see Dani with Luke and Michael in the next room which happens to have glass walls on the  inside of the building. Dani’s resting her head on Luke’s shoulder while he’s got his arm wrapped around her back and is clearly enjoying it. God. He needs to learn to be less obvious.

 Luke’s POV

I’m going to admit, I’m loving this. Of course I don’t want Dani to be upset but this is the first time in months I’ve been able to be this close to her. She’s so broken right now. It pisses me off that he had this affect on her. That asshole did this to her. I just wish I could have done something earlier. She doesn’t deserve this. Michael’s sitting in the corner on a couch texting, I assume Lara. Calum comes through the doors and Dani and I look up.

“Hey, you done?” I ask him. He nods and gives me a strange look. I rub Dani’s shoulder to comfort her and Calum just stares at us. “What?” I ask. He just shakes his head.