3 Strikes~Calum Hood A.U.

Chapter 18

|Julie|

And we sat there and talked about our ship name for a while. Just the two of us, the way it should be, that was until my Mom called me down for dinner, and I brought a plate up for Luke and I. We passed out about an hour after we ate. 

It was now 8:00 on Saturday morning. I was awake, but Luke was still fast asleep on the bed next to me. We had fallen asleep while watching TV, or at least I had. I know Luke was still awake when I fell asleep, so I have no clue when he actually did go to bed.

The only issue was that every Saturday all the boys and I would go down to the field to play ball.   And I wasn't letting that happen today. I was not going down to the field to see the boy who tried to ruin my best friend, the boy who gave Luke all the bruises I see right now. First of all because I couldn't bear to look at him. And second, if I did see him, he'd probably be dead.

Benny better have a really fucking good excuse for acting this way, because this is lower than low. He has no right to be doing this to people. 

He's just so selfish. Benny doest care about anyone other than himself and baseball. I could probably be going through the biggest crisis in my life right now, and all Benny would say to me is ‘hey , are you coming down to play ball today.’. He was so oblivious, and so careless.

I could feel Luke stirring on the bed east to me, so I rolled over to see his deep blue eyes staring back at me. 

“Morning Julie.” I heard him say in his deep morning voice before sitting up fully and ruffling his hair. I could feel goosebumps covering my arm, making me realize how cold I was. Since the two of us had just fallen asleep out of no where, we had no blankets covering us. Making it an extremely cold night.

“Luke, you look absolutely awful.” I said, taking another good look at him. His had one black eye, that was absolutely terrible. It looked like it was almost swollen shut. And then his lip was scabbed over, and I didn't even wanna know what his stomach looked like. The bruising was probably horendous.

“Wow, thats a nice thing to hear.” He chuckled while slowly trying to get up form the bed, but failing miserably, probably because of how badly his entire abdomen hurt.

“You need some help there.” I said, standing up and walking over to where he layed in the most awkward position I had ever seen.

“Maybe just a little” he replied, but then wincing as I grabbed his arm and quickly pulling him uo with no warning. Ive learned that its better to just get it over with than to have him expect the pain. So, even though it hurt, it could've been a lot worse.

“Well, thanks for the warning J, that felt absolutely great.” Luke said sarcastically.

“Oh, suck it up you big wuss. Theres some of your clothes in my bottom drawer of the dresser, you can change and then meet me downstairs for breakfast.” I told him, slowly backing my way out of the room. “Oh, and no ones home, so don’t worry about them seeing your face.”

I went down to the kitchen, grabbing my cell phone off the counter and turning it on. And it went off and off and off. It was ringing non-stop, with texts and missed calls. All from the same person, Benny.

I almost didn't want to look at the screen to see what he had texted me. I just wanted him out of my life. I knew hed tell me some sob story about how luke had wanted to go an confront those guys and he had tried t stop him. When in reality this was all his fault. And he should pay for it. 

“Julie, do you have another ice pack?” Luke asked while walking down the stairs. His shirt was slightly lifted, showing off a big bruise covering half his stomach. Oh god, I can't believe it was that bad.

“Yea, Luke. Theres a bunch in the freezer, second drawer down.” I yelled from my position in the pantry, grabbing two boxes of cereal, Cheerios for Luke, and Coco Puffs for me. “Can you grab the milk from the fridge too?”

“Yea I got it.” Luke said putting the milk onto the counter. “God Jules, you've got a shit ton of texts from Benny on here. You gunna text him back?” Luke asked, raising his eyebrows.

“No friggen way Luke. He's a total douche. I don wanna see him again. Were staying far far away from him, for a very long time. Im telling all the guys to skip practice today, we have to fill them in on what happened. I think well probably go to Squints house, watch some TV, hang out and talk. That good with you?” I asked.

“Yea, that sounds good I guess. J, I don't want to tear you away from your friendship with Benny, I dont want you to be doing this just because of me. Hes your best friend. I cant let you just drop him. You'll totally regret it.” Luke said, looking down at his cut up hands.

“Luke, your my best friend. No one can replace you, not Benny, not the other guys, no one.” I said, walking over to him and grabbing Luke by the shoulders. “I want to stay with you, and only you. Id drop all of the guys just to be friends with you. Your my main man, my number one. Id trust you with my life. You are my best friend.” 

“Ok, ok. I get it Julie. Just text the guys about what were doing today. I don't want them heading down to the field to be with him.” He said, while I turned around to grab my phone. “Oh, and Julie?” he asked.

“Yea Luke?”  I said back to him while unlocking my phone.

“You absolutely the best.”  He said looking into my eyes. 

“And so are you, my lanky noodle.” I exclaimed while giving him a hug. And then picked up my phone and sent a text to the group chat, without Benny.

Julie: Hey guys! Theres some stuff that needs to be talked about today. Squints, you think that we can head over to your house at like 10:00?

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Hi Guys! This updates kinda late becasue I updated my other story "My Psychiatrist" today! So, itd be great if you could go check it out!

This chapters dedicated to @lingerlucas ! Thank you for reading!