Status: It's complicated

Chapter 25: I don't give up easy

Hello! We are back! So.. Alex took care of Anna and he was so close to confessing his heart to her. Let's continue..

3 Days later .. in Japan 

" Liam.. Are you okay?" His manager spoke to him but he didn't reply. He was in his own world, still deep in thoughts until Sean jabbed him in the ribcage and that was when he got pulled back to reality.

"I'm sorry, what did you say?" he looked up at his manager. His eyes says it all, tired. The eye bags were piling up under his eyes. 

"We will take 15 minutes break," the director of the interview decided it was time for a short break, hopefully after the break, Liam could buck up and focus for the first interview. It was just the first interview. 

" Liam.. what is wrong with you?" Sean turned to the oldest member of the band. He was never like this. Not even when Shirley dumped him. Yes he was sad, but not like this, this guy really looked troubled!

" I just have a lot on my plate right now.." he lift his right thumb and middle finger pressing on either side on the temples of his head, massaging it..

" You know that you can talk to me, right?" Sean pat the rapper on his shoulder. He released the fingers that was on his head and turned his attention on him..

" I know .. thank you.." he gave a light smile to show his appreciation.

Alex and Anna ..

" Anna.. are you okay?" Alex decided to put down his cup of ice cream on the table in front of him and waved his hand gently in front of her, to get her out of her own world.

" Uh-yeah.." When she was back in to reality, she nervously forced out a laugh and scooped a spoon of her favourite Rum n Raisin ice cream in to her mouth, allowing the ice cream to melt in her mouth. The ice cream is of no taste.. She then turned to look out of the glass window beside her. Alex was prepared to pry out what was on her mind but his phone didn't allow him to.. He felt the vibration and a text beep coming from his phone that was lying on the table. His eyes can't help but glanced at his phone that reads New Message from Ivan.

" Ivan.." was what Anna heard. She turned her head towards the leader, confused..

" What about him?" She asked.. She saw the leader was engrossed with his phone, busy typing away, as if the phone had sucked his soul in. Hearing Ivan's name, made her realise that she missed him. In fact, she missed them all.. Anna had not seen Ivan, Chandler and even Julie for 3 days. She had not came out of her house all these while and if it wasn't for Alex, she would probably still be lazing around at home.. Alex had to practically dragged her out of her apartment for some ice cream nearby.

" Work.." he mumbled under his breath as he continued tapping on his phone screen at a crazily fast speed..

Minutes passed by, and silence surrounded them.. Since Alex was busy, Anna did not want to disturb him so she looked out of the window to pass time. Subconsciously, she fiddled with the ice cream in her cup, drawing shapes, pushing the ball of ice cream around the melted cream. How is he? Is he doing well in Japan? Is he eating well? Is it tiring for him? Does he have enough sleep? All these were going through her mind.. She was so deep in her thoughts that she didn't even notice Alex staring at her..

" Are you gonna eat that? It's gonna turn to cream.." He raised his eyebrow, concerned of her playing with her ice cream instead of gobbling it down her throat like she always does.

"Uh.. No.." She placed her cup of melted ice cream down on the table, having no appetite to continue eating her share of ice cream.

" Ready to go?" Alex stood up and head over to the counter and paid for their ice cream with Anna trailing behind him. Anna unconsciously head towards the direction of her house and she stopped on her tracks when she felt a warm hand holding her back. She turned around and looked at him with confusion all over her face.