The One To Save You || Luke Hemmings

Chapter 23:

Rose's P.O.V. -

By now, everyone in the restaurant was helping me hold her down. I grabbed the gun from her hand and pushed it far away from her.

Then, I remembered the gunshot.

I turned around to see Luke layng on the floor, eyes barely open, holding his shoulder wincing.

"LUKE." I cried out. Of course I was crying by now. Luke could be dying and my mom really wasn't joking.

I bent down to sit next to him and see what he was holding.

It shot him.

That's where the bullet landed.

Right in this beautiful boy's shoulder.

"Oh my gosh, Luke... I'm so sorry." I said sobbing into my hands.

"Shhhh its okay, Rose. Its not your fault." He said weakly.

Someone in the parlor had already called the police, and I heard the sirens getting closer.

Luke was losing so much blood..

"Luke, listen to me. Open your eyes. The ambulance will be here any minute to help you. You're gonna be okay. Just don't fall asleep."

"I'm okay, Ro. I love you so much. I'm not going anywhere." He said even weaker than before. His eyes weren't even open and his chest was barely moving.

"No no no, Luke. Open your eyes. Stay with me Luke. Keep your eyes open. I love you Luke." I was sobbing all over Luke's chest.

"I'm not leaving. I promise..." He managed out. His eyes didn't open back up.

"Luke...?" I barely whispered.

His chest wasn't moving.

Just then, the police rushed in and grabbed my mom by the arms and hand cuffed her.

The paramedics were carrying Luke out to the truck on a gourney.

"He's not breathing." One of them said steadily.

"His hands are ice cold." Said another one, applying pressure to parts of his body.

They brought him into the back of the truck and started to close the doors. I hopped in behind them before they pushed me out.

"What relation are you to him?" A paramedic asked me.

"I'm his g-g-girlfriend." I muttered out. I couldn't even believe what was going on. I hoped I was dreaming.

But the thing is, I know I'm not.

They allowed me to ride with them to the Emergency Room.

They were using the defibrillator on him on the way there.

"Its working." A lifesaving paramedic said. "He's breathing but he's lost a lot of blood. Too weak to open his eyes."

I hugged her tight.

I didn't know how she was going to react to it, but I didn't care. That was the best news I've ever heard.

Luke's alive.

Luke is breathing.

Luke is too weak to even open his eyes, but he's still on this Earth and he's still my boyfriend.

I love him so much.

"Thank you..." I managed to whisper out to her.

"You're welcome, baby. But there's still gonna be lots of surgery to perform, and there may be serious side-effects of everything that's happened to him." She said back.

I don't care. Luke is strong. And I'm here to help him. As long as he's breathing, everything is okay.

When we got to the hospital, they rushed Luke into the operating room which I wasn't allowed in.

I had to fill out papers of what happened and I had to call Luke's family.

They arrived within what felt like a minute of me calling, Liz sobbing, and Andy and the boys close to tears. They must've called Michael, Ashton, and Calum, because they showed up not too long after.

Everyone was asking me what happened, and it made me feel even more nervous than I already was.

My heart was beating a mile a minute and my hands were shaking.

Luckily, the nice paramedic from the truck came and told them to give me space to calm down.

They all understood and sat in their seats. I finally calmed down a bit and explained the story.

I thought Luke's family would hate me for dragging him into this, but they said they understood and said that it wasn't my fault.

But it was my fault. If I'd never walked into their lives, he wouldn't be fighting for his life on the operating table right now. He wouldn't have to be stressed about leaving me for tour. He'd be living his dream.

Just then, the nurse walked out, looking down at her hands in grief....

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sorry its not a long chapter, but I thought it was TOO SUSPENSEFUL AND HIT MY NERVES TOO MUCH OMFG yeah.

i hope Luke is okay bc holy shit he has to be...

anyway, I didn't get the amount of reads I was going for on my last chapter but oh well. you guys are amazing and I thought I should publish this chapter. 30 reads to find out what happens to Lukey!

xoxo,

Kaitlyn <3