~Lauren's POV~
When we walked in we were greeted by a very nice police officer.
"How may I help you?" She asked kindly.
"Uh, we are here to report child abuse." Calum spoke.
"Ok. Name?" She asked shoving her long, curly, blonde hair behind her ear.
"Lauren." Michael frowned.
"Lauren what?" She asked looking up to us. All the boys turned to me.
"Amen" I muttered. (Ps it's pronounced A-Man. Not like amen like in church.)
"Ok." She said writing something down. "Would you mind waiting over there?" She asked pointing to the waiting area.
"No. not at all." Ashton smiled to her, but you could tell it was fake.
We walked over to the waiting area and just sat there in complete silence. No one said a word. Michael was typing away at his phone, Calum just sat there, Ashton had headphones in, and Luke. Well I kept catching him staring at me.
"Lauren Amen?" A man in a royal blue uniform, with a golden badge, came out.
"Here." Calum said standing up. He grabbed me and carried me to were the officer was.
"Could we maybe speak to Lauren alone?" The officer asked politely.
"Sure?" Ashton answered, more like a question though.
"Ok, come on back Lauren." The man said reaching his hand out. I looked back at the boys nervously as he pulled me into a room. "Why don't you sit?" He asked sitting down at a chair behind the desk.
I sat down at the chair across from him and just looked around. The room was quite dark, there was a big mirror window thing, and the door had metal bars covering it. I kept looking around and then looked back at the desk, to see the officer was looking at me the whole time.
"So. Lauren." He paused. "How long has this- thing been going on?"
"Maybe about 3? No 4ish years?" I answered.
I sat in the room for about another hour, him interacting me the entire time. Every once in a while when he was writing stuff down I would keep looking around the room.
"Ok were done here." He said smiling. "Let's go see the boys, yeah?"
I nodded and followed him out the door. We walked down the long lit up hallway to the waiting room. The first thing I saw were 3 sleeping Aussies and a colorful head playing on his phone. I just laughed to myself before I walked over there.
"How'd it go?" Michael asked looking up.
"It was ok I guess." I spilled out my phone and saw I had some twitter notifications.
@michaelclifford: hope all goes well!
I must have had a weird expression one my face because Michael spoke up.
"What up Lauren?"
"Your tweet. What does that mean?"
"I was just hoping everything goes good and yeah." He said starting to mumble at the end, but an ear to ear smile was on his face.
"We should probably wake up the boys." I stood up and started poking Calum, while Michael got the other to up.
"What the hell?" Calum asked in a sleepy voice stretching.
"They have some new for you guys and then we have to go." I frowned.
"Oh. Ok." Calum's stood up and headed to the front desk, 3 boys following behind him like a lost puppy.
~Calum's POV~
The boys and I walked up to the counter to tell us the 'news'. Something tells me it won't be something we want to hear.
"Lauren Amen?" I said looking at the lady.
She flipped through a few papers and then looked up at us.
"Ah yes." She handed me the papers as I read.
Lauren Amen has been sexually abused and can no longer stay with her mom. Her mom will be going to prison, but her not having a dad means we had to ask her family it they were interested. They all said no. That being said she will have to be adopted by someone, or just stay at the adoption center down the road. We ask that you boys be the ones to take her. -Officer Tod
I could feel some tear pricking at my eyes but I refuse to let them fall. I have to be strong for her. All of us do. I set the note back on the desk and the lady looked up at me.
"So will you boys be able to?" She asked.
"What bring her to the adoption place?" Ashton asked.
"Yeah, if not we can find someone to bring her but it would just be easier if you guys could." She smiled.
"Yeah. Of course we can take her." I replied.
We walked back into the waiting room to see Lauren typing something, right when she does Michaels phone goes off. I stop the boys.
"Why are we stopping?" Luke asked.
"Michael check your phone." I said pointing to his pocket. He pulled his phone out and his mouth dropped.
"What is it mate?" Ashton asked looking over his shoulder.
"Guys, look at her Twitter." Michael mumbles as we all pull our phones out.
Luke's eyes started watering, Mikey looked like he was about to, along with Ash. Me? Well I felt a warm drop of water sliding down my cheek.
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Twitter//mgc {Under Major Editing}
Fanfiction@michaelclifford has followed you This was the sentence that changed everything. Not at that exact moment, but little did I know what I was getting into. Is it going to lead to a friendship? A love story? Or a mix of both?
