𝙼𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚕𝚞𝚘𝚞𝚜|| 𝙲𝚊𝚕𝚞𝚖 𝙷𝚘𝚘𝚍

e p i l o g u e

14th August: Los Angeles

"Why are you going to Calum's," Arthur stood in her bedroom doorway, watching as she packed a bag with a few clothes in.

"He's my boyfriend that's why," she shoved past Arthur and down the hall to the laundry basket so she could dump a load of dirty clothes in there. Arthur followed closely behind, watching her in frustration, "besides his house is closer to Luke and Becca's," Andrea walked back into her room and so did Arthur, "what's up with me going to Calum's?"

"Nothing!" he exclaimed rather loudly and unconvincingly, "look with all of the shit that's happened I cannot spend another sleepless night knowing that nobody is going to physically restrain me from looking at my phone and making everything worse."

Andrea dropped her things and walked back over to Arthur, "I'm sorry about what happened and I'm sorry I haven't been here to help. I can come back here tonight if you really want me to."

Arthur shook his head, "no you go I feel bad now, I need to sort my own problems out and maybe Everly was right, maybe I should just smash my phone and and buy a flip phone or something."

She put her arms around her band mate and pulled him in for a hug, "you can come with me to Cal's if you want? We'll probably be at Luke's all night tonight so you won't have to look at your phone once."

They pulled away from the hug and Arthur smiled, "I'm not going to Calum's because I am not a third wheel," Andrea just laughed, Arthur would rather give up his job than be a third wheel, "Everly should be back soon so I won't be alone for that long and hopefully Nia will be back from the recording studio as well, I'll be fine Andrea," she wasn't convinced this past month had been horrible and Arthur had been through hell, she needed to make sure he was ok.

"Are you sure? I can always go to Calum's when Everly or Nia get back," he was silent for a while and Andrea had prepared herself for tears, but they didn't come just a small shake of the head.

"Please stay," he whispered, "everything's fucked up."

Andrea stayed, she stayed until Everly got back from her date. She told Calum she'd be late and he completely understood. Arthur was far from fine.

When Andrea got away from her band mates, she finally made it to Calum's. With everything that went on in the past month Calum totally understand why Andrea was a bit late and he didn't really mind. He would've done the same if it was one of his band mates.

Andrea was greeted with a hug from Calum and a jealous Duke who also wanted a cuddle from her, but because he couldn't get one he decided to jump up and bark at her. Chuckling, Calum told him to sit, but he didn't and he gave Calum a 'threatening' look. Andrea smiled at them, she missed her own cat, Teddy, and because he was her mum's she felt bad taking him with her so she left him.

"Ash messaged," Calum spoke as they walked into the kitchen, Duke still following close behind, "he said Luke wants to drop as many hints as possible so we need cameras tonight."

"Funnily enough I had an idea for their wedding present which involves pictures so that won't be a problem," she sat down at the kitchen island and put her bags on the floor, "so we all need to post something tonight?"

Calum nodded and leaned across the island to pass a glass of water to Andrea, "yeah I know Arthur is staying off his phone so that's fine if he doesn't just as long as we post a bit."

"I'm pretty sure Arthur will post something," Andrea spoke taking the glass off Calum, "I'll let Everly and Nia know now so they can come up with something."

"How is he?" Calum had sat down on the chair opposite.

"I feel like he won't get over it," Andrea sighed, Arthur was still the same as he was a few weeks ago. In all her life, Andrea had never wanted to hurt someone so much as she did to that bastard who caused this trouble, "no one knew and he but all his trust in this guy and he fucking told the entire world after one argument between the two of them."