Do You Love Me (Liam Payne Arranged Marriage)

Chapter Forty-One (Edited)

***Abby's POV***

Two days later after the incident in Houston I am back home resting in the living room. When my mom found out that I was pregnant; lets just say she wasn't too happy with me, but she was relieved that I was alright. The tour came to an early close for the band, but One Direction went on and Liam actually went with them.
I'm still a little shocked that Liam and Carly are getting married next month, but happy at the same time. Christy and Nicole have been coming everyday to check on me. I try to keep a happy face, but deep down I'm sad hat I lost the baby. I was getting more excited that Lucas and I were going to start a family. Speaking of Lucas; he would come over everyday and stay with me most of the day, but he would barely look at me. It's like he only liked me because I was carrying his child. I'm hoping that's not it.
Lucas is sitting in front of me just staring at the ground. I just want him to say something, anything. I clear my throat and that's the first time he looks at me. I see the sadness in his eyes. "Lucas what's wrong?"
He just stares at me. He opens his mouth, but no words come out. I look away from him feeling ashamed of everything. Then I notice the ring on my finger. Right away the tears roll down my cheeks. I look back up at him and he's staring right at me. He takes my hand in his, but I pull away. "Ab-"
"Don't!" I look away from him. I try to get up out of the chair, but it hurts.
"Abby stay."
Lucas stands in front of me trying to keep me there, but that's when the doorbell rings. "Just take this and go."
I give him the ring and get up. I heart the  bell ring again before I get to the door. Once I open the door Carly embraces me with a hug. She pulls away and she gives me a small smile. "Hey Abs."
"Hey Carls." I squeak out. Lucas appears and before he leaves he nods towards Carly and walks out the door with the screen door slamming behind him. She raises her eyebrows at me. "Don't ask."
I wave her to follow me into the living room where I was before. I sit back down in the chair and Carly sits where Lucas was sitting. I look up at her and she is staring at my left hand. I know she notices I don't have the ring anymore. I try to hide my hand, but Carly grabs it.
"What are you doing?" I question her.
"So who called it off?" She looks back up at me and let's go of my hand.
"I did."
"Why?"
"Because I'm sick and tired of him barely looking at me. He barely says two words to me." Tears appear in my eyes.
"He's being his normal self."
"Is he really? Lucas would have never distanced himself from me."
"He did when you told him you were pregnant."
"He said he was scared."
"Maybe he's scared now too. Abs I know Lucas loves you. Don't push him away."
I was going to say something, but Carly's phone beeps. She gives me a smile and pulls out her phone. Her smile grew wider knowing it was Liam that texted her. I used to get that excited when Lucas texted or called me now we dread to be in the same room with each other. I sigh and then notice that she is looking at me. "Liam says hi."
"How is the tour going?"
"I guess good. We don't really talk about it. He just notified me that we're getting married in three weeks."
Carly gives me a huge grin. I can tell she's really excited to marry Liam. "That's coming up."
"I know. I have to go back to London tomorrow."
"Oh..."
"I was wondering if you want to come with me?" She gives me a small smile.
"I don't know Carls."
"It will get your mind off Lucas. And we can go dress shopping too." We both start screeching. She had me at dress shopping. London here we come.

***Carly's POV***

When I left Abby's house I knew where I was going next. I have to talk to Lucas before I go back to London tomorrow. It took me ten minutes to walk to Joan's Pizza. I knew Lucas was going to be here. When I walk through the door I find him sitting at a booth with Ryder. They haven't noticed me yet, so I just walk right up to the table and slide in next to Ryder. "Hey guys."
Ryder and Lucas just look at me. They just finished their pizza and by the looks of it they were about to take off; so I just came just in time. I turn to Ryder and give him a big smile. "Babe can I talk to Lucas alone?"
Ryder just nods before leaving the table and walking out the door. I turn towards Lucas and he is staring at his hands. I can tell he is holding the ring in his hand. "Lucas please look at me."
Lucas looks up at me right away and I could see his pain through his eyes. I can tell he's trying to hold it together for Ryder, but with me sitting in front of him he looks like he could break down any moment. "Carly what do you want?"
"I just wanted to see how you were doing."
"Does it look like I'm doing fine?"
"No. You look like shit." He chuckles at my comment. "Lucas I don't want you to treat Abby any different than you were treating her when she was pregnant."
"It's hard to do. Every time I look at her I picture a baby bump, but there isn't one."
"Do you still love her?"
"Yes."
"Do you still want to marry her?"
"Yes."
"Then go back to her and tell her that. Because you distancing yourself from her isn't going to help."
"How can I do that? She gave me back the ring." He rolls the ring in his hand and I can tell he's trying to hold it together.
"Win her back." I place my hand over his that has the ring in and squeezes it. He looks up at me and gives me a small smile.
"Okay." His smile grows.
"I'm taking Abby with me to London tomorrow."
"Oh..."
"But you should come too and win her back."
"Are you sure about this?"
"Believe me Lucas...I'm damn sure about this"
We both laugh. Lucas gets up to leave and I do the same, but he spins around and gives me a hug. "Thanks Carls..for everything."
I watch Lucas walk out the door to catch up with Ryder. I smile to myself and leave before I get pulled in to by my favorite pizza.