Chapter 11

Lauren POV


I place my hand on Amelia's arm and shake her. I look over at Dinah and give her the death stare. "We all need to talk," Dinah says and opens the car door. Everyone gets out except me and Amelia. I look at her and continue to shake her. The door opens and one of our bodyguards picks Amelia up. I get out following him and Amelia into the venue.


Inside the venue Gus puts Amelia down on the couch. "Thanks Gus," I say. He nods and walks out of the room. I sigh and walk out of the room shutting the door, when I run into Camila.


"Hey Laur," Camila says, avoiding eye contact. I bite my lip.


"Hey Camz," I whisper. "Um, where's the others?"


"This way. They sent me to come get you," Camila whispers and turns around starting to walk again. We walk down to another dressing room and walk inside finding Normani, Ally, and Dinah. "I found her." Camila walks over and sits down on the couch. She hasn't been herself lately. I don't know what's going on with her.


"We need to talk about Amelia,"Dinah says. I roll my eyes and cross my arms. "Don't do that Lauren. You know dang well she's a problem."


"Yeah no dip sherlock. It's probably because we kidnapped her," I state the obvious. Everyone, except Camila rolls their eyes.


"But she shouldn't be acting up this badly, Lauren," Ally says, quickly. I shake my head and look to the left.


"Shouldn't be acting up this badly? Are you freaking joking me?" I pause, then continue. "She's a kid guys! She's going to act up! Especially when 5 people she doesn't really know kidnapped her. Family or not, she's scared! I can't control what she's doing or what she's saying. She needs time!"


"But Lauren you're not getting it," Dinah starts.


"Getting what? Because i'm pretty sure you all aren't getting it. She's scared!"


"That's not all Lauren!" Dinah shouts, raising her voice. I bite my lip and go to speak again when Camila speaks up.


"Stop! All of you just stop!' Camila shouts. We all look at her. Tears in her eyes and rolling down her cheeks. "Are you all this stupid!?"


"What are you talking about?" I question. Camila sighs and face palms herself.


"Have none of you noticed the scar on the back of her neck? Or the brusies on her hands? Or the marks on her arms? She's cut herself! That's why she's wearing long sleeves! But you all are too concentrated on her being a problem and not focusing on her as she's hurting! She's scared, Lauren you're right. But it's because she was hurt in the past! Now shut the crap up!" Camila storms out of the room and slams the door shut leaving the four of us speechless. The four of us stand there staring in all directions, processing everything Camila had just said. She's absolutely right.


"She's right," Normani whispers. We all nod and sadness crosses over me, possibly all of us. "We were too busy trying to make sure she didn't get away without realizing she was scared and hurting." We all nodded once again.


"So, what do we do?" Ally asks.


'"The only thing we can do, well Lauren or Camila can do," Dinah responds. All eyes in the room were on me. "Talk with Amelia. See what's going on." I nod and bite my lip.


"But I'd say talk to Camila first," Ally quickly adds.


"Yeah, Camila seemed really ticked," Normani adds on. I nod and walks out the door. First Camila, then Amelia. We'll see how this goes.



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