The Commitment

I got outside my room and made my way to the kitchen. Our day had went by with us having our photoshoots and interviews and now we were exhausted and got back to Lucas house. Our dinner was ready on the table and the lads were already devouring it, making small conversations. I sat down between Liam and Lucas and greeted everyone. They greeted back and continued talking. Suddenly all the events from yesterday came back to me and my mood turned a bit sore. I looked to my right to see Lucas fiddling with the pieces of fruit that were served to him and then saw Bella absentmindedly doing the same as Lucas.

"What happened?" I asked him which brought everybody's attention towards him and stopped them from continuing their chit-chat. Lucas looked at me and shook his head, getting rid of the daze he was in and replied with a shrug. Bella who was sitting across him took hold of his hand and urged him by her eyes to say something. He sighed.

"It's just...I'm...forget it." He said but Bella tightened her hold on his hand while Niall and Louis urged him again.

"I'm worried about her. That its. Nothing more." He said and took his fork in his hand and acted to be engrossed in eating. But the act didn't even last for three seconds when Bella spoke

"Is this about Emily..." She trailed. It wasn't a question. It was statement to which he nodded. I felt myself get tense when she said that. The lads saw that too but they didn't react. Lucas was oblivious to that gesture and continued

"She looked different yesterday on the TV and not in a good way. I was not able to contact her that night when she left three years ago because I was with you. And after that her number was non existent. Like that was not even a number. And that night too she looked depressed. I so desperately wanted to talk to her. But never got the chance." He sighed heavily this time and let his head fall down on his hand entwined with that of Bella's. Silence took over all of us for a long time.

This was the first time Lucas had initiated talking about Emily. He always tried to distract himself whenever anybody talked about her but this was surely first.

Niall was the one to break the silence

"What makes you think like that?"

"What?" Lucas glanced in his direction.

"I mean what makes you think something is wrong with her?" Niall said softly. We all looked at Lucas. I was intrigued by the way he was talking suddenly about her and looked really upset.

"She is not with Michael. Not with her father..."he trailed as if he didn't want to talk about him.

When he said Michael, all the lads glanced in my direction for a split second and then looked back at him. But nobody said anything about him.

"Her father??!!!" Louis asked, shock evident on his face. Lucas nodded.

"Yeah her father. She never told you about him right? She is like that." He continued.

"Her father... Mr. Brewer who is one of the established businessmen in the world. He is her father. Not exactly her father-" he got cut off by Liam

"What do you mean by 'not exactly her father'?" He asked.

"She was adopted." He said while looking at Bella. She sighed. I guess Lucas finally told her about his history with Emily. He carried on

"She was eight years old when she was adopted by Mr. Brewer and he allowed her everything she wanted to do and gave her all the things he could. She was different from the start. That's what he told me. I met him when I beacme her manager. He is very kind. He told me that she had problems while growing up. He tried to solve them and ask her to open up to him or anybody she wants." He stopped to take a deep breath.