-Calum’s P.O.V-
We’d been looking fro Luke for a few hours now and there was still no sign of him. He’d gone after Adi when she ran away from us. I don’t blame her. She just got beaten up by Luke’s girlfriend and then he came round the corner afterwards and started fighting with Michael because he was sticking up for her.
We don’t know exactly what happened between Luke and Adi. The guys and I had asked Luke about it so many times but he always got angry, or started yelling about how he didn’t like her. Something was really off about that. And we all knew it wasn’t true because he just ran down the streets of Los Angeles looking for her.
Eventually we gave up wandering the streets for him. Luke was a big boy, he could handle himself it’s not like he depended on us to get by. We walked back to the hotel.
When we got to the floor that the girls were staying on, Michael pointed down the hall,
“They found her! Wait… What are they doing?” he frowned, I looked over to see the four girls cramming themselves into a broom cupboard.
Ashton frowned and walked toward it with the rest of us. We heard some muttering from inside and leaned against the door so that we could hear more clearly,
“I'm in love with Luke”
Adi?
“and I think he likes me too but he says he can’t be with me because Emily is black-mailing him and I don’t want to lose him but I don’t want to do this anymore, more to the point I can’t do this anymore”
Our eyes widened and I looked at Michael who was stood there in complete shock.
Emily was black-mailing Luke? WHAT?!
“Wait a second” I heard Sam, “Emily’s black-mailing him?!”
“With what?!” exclaimed Violet.
“She threatened to hurt me. He didn’t want anything to happen to me so he stayed away.” Adi explained.
“But can’t he just stay with you? Protect you? She’s a feeble little mouse, she wouldn’t dare do anything to you.” Lori said
“Even if he did try to protect me, she still has other stuff…” Adi trailed off
“Like what?” Sam questioned
“She has ‘evidence’ that Luke is in possession of drugs. She’s got pictures of it in his house, and it’s very clearly his house because he’s walking around in the background. If she released those pictures, not only Luke’s, but the whole band’s career would go down the drain. He could get sentenced to a few years in prison, nobody would have the money to bail him out, and the band would be without a lead singer for so long, meaning they couldn’t play, they would stop earning money, and that would be it for 5SOS. Not to mention, the guys would hate him.”
We all froze again and stared into blank space. He was doing this to protect us. To protect all of us and we were treating him like shit.
THAT was why he didn’t want to talk about Adi.
And THAT was why he’s been in such a bad mood for weeks, and why he hasn’t been sleeping, and why he always tenses up when he sees Emily’s caller I.D on his phone, because he’s afraid he’s done something wrong.
He’s afraid something’s going to happen to Adi. And he’s afraid she’ll leak the pictures.
There was silence from inside the cupboard, the girls must’ve been as shocked as we were.
“Jake kissed me” we heard Adi whisper.
And that was when Michael lost his shit.
“Wait. He did what?!” yelled Violet.
Michael pushed Ash and I away from the door and yanked it open to see the four girls staring back at us.
Adi was in tears, her face still blood stained. Violet looked angrier than I’ve ever seen her before, Lori looked afraid and Sam was just confused as to what was going on.
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