friends [muke af]

friends deleted scene number two - NY

friends deleted scene number two — NY

Ben and Jack, Luke’s two brothers, moved up the last few boxes into his loft. They placed them by the stairs, admiring the view of the city skyline. “This is gorgeous, Lukey, you’re going to love it,” Ben said, stretching out his—now—sore back. 

Luke couldn’t help but feel the apartment felt lonely and foreign. He hasn’t lived on his own in over a year, and never in a real apartment like this one.

His job started in two days, and that only made his stomach turn. “Thanks for helping me out, I have no idea where we’ll sleep until the moving truck gets here tomorrow.”

“Remember when we first moved to Tallahassee, and the truck wasn’t there yet, so we slept on the floor of Mom and Dad’s bedroom? We could just do that again, some brotherly bonding,” Jack joked, already digging through boxes to find sheets for the three grown men. 

Luke laughed. He already made Ben go through every space in the house making sure there was no murderer to sneak in and kill him in his sleep (there were none). The lock master worker was coming tomorrow to change the locks in case the last owner was a drug dealer who gave his suspicious friends keys (in reality, it was an old lady who passed away). Maybe he was paranoid, maybe just careful. 

Hours later, two snoring boys on the ground, Luke sat at the kitchen breakfast table, only the overhead light dimly shining. 

Dear Michael,

New York feels empty without you…