I'm Broken but I'm fine

Part 3

"So Liam told me a little bit about Louis, but I would like to know more" Andy starts.

All eyes turn towards me expectantly.

"Well, Louis mum and my mum got married nine years ago, Louis and I were always so close and he would tell me everything. I was very protective of him and we had a really tight bond. When he was around 12/13 I started..... I don't know......finding him attractive, adorable I......developed feelings for him and I did the only thing I could think of to get rid of them. I stopped talking to him, I distanced myself from him and when I left for uni, I didn't talk to him again. I haven't seen or spoken to Louis in five years. Then I get this frantic call from mum and Jay a few days ago, asking me if I could take Louis in for a while, that they are at a loss with what to do. They said Louis has been skipping school, failing his exams, he has died his hair and gotten an eyebrow ring which is so out of character. Mum said he's been distant and won't talk to them and he hasn't been eating. When I say not eating, I actually mean not eating. He hasn't eaten one single morsel of food today and he is so thin, his clothes don't fit, he's gaunt looking and looks ill. Still gorgeous but.......anyway......mum and Jay also found weed and cigarettes in his bedroom draw" I finish.

I raise my head from looking at the floor and look at Andy, the other boys are tense as well, as we all look towards Andy waiting for the verdict. Like he will give us the answers to everything.

"Okay, well let me just take all that in first" Andy says as he runs his hands over his face.

"What was your first impression of him H? When you saw him for the first time, what did you think?" Andy asks me.

I furrow my eyebrows and think back to this afternoon when he got off the train.

"Well.....my feelings are still there, that's for sure....there is no escaping that, but I thought he looked sad, really, really sad and his eyes were kind of empty. He was too thin but he looked scared like he was troubled with something." I say sadly.

Andy nods his head at me.

"What about you boys?" He asks the other three.

"Sick, I thought he looked sick like he has a bad case of the flu" Niall says instantly.

"Yeah, I thought he was thin yes, but definitely timid and scared" Zayn says.

"I agree with all of that, that's what I thought too" Liam says.

"Okay....and drugs do you think he is on drugs?"

"No!" We all say at the same time.

"Definitely not, I think he may have experimented once or twice with weed like all of us have, but he is definitely not on drugs" I say and the other boys nod there heads in agreement.

"Tonight.....how did he react at the table, when you were all sitting down to eat?" Andy asks another question.

"Well, he didn't want to come down to eat with us, said he wasn't hungry. Was actually worried that the boys wouldn't like him and before that, every time I went to touch him he flinched" I explain.

"When you asked him to eat, is that when he had the panic attack?" Andy asks.

"No, he played with his food for awhile but when I asked him to eat it, he started to eat it" Niall says.

"Okay....so how much did he eat?" Andy questions Niall further.

"Maybe two mouthfuls" Zayn pipes in.

"But he didn't seem to have a problem eating it" Liam says,

"Then we mentioned you and that you were a doctor and that he might like to talk to you and that's when he had the panic attack" Zayn says.