Teenagers • Punk Luke Hemmings

Chapter 7

RECAP

"Aria..." He said once he saw that I had mascara running down my face. I scoffed at him and walked away.

Then he grabbed my arm to have me facing him. It really hurt because it was the arm I had my fresh cuts on.

"Ah fuck!" I screamed in pain. Luke must have realized why their were so many bracelets on my wrist because when he let go of my arm his face fell.

"Aria, you promised." He said with hurt in his voice.

"Well you know what Luke? Promises are made to be broken." I said as I took off the bracelet he gave me and threw it at him.

Then I walked away. Leaving him. Again.

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I guess it is partly my fault. I mean I was acting like a bitch to him for not saying hi to me. Wow I'm a total idiot.

I'm sitting in my room on my bed looking at pictures of Luke and I as kids, just letting all the tears run down my face.

I wish I never left because then Luke wouldn't have told me he loved me and we wouldn't be in this situation right now.

As I was thinking I came across the last picture of Luke and I. It was us on my 16th birthday (last year). Luke had rubbed some cake frosting on my nose and my face was scrunched up while he was laughing his ass off. I really wish I could go back to that day.

"Aria?" My brother said knocking on the door.

"Uh yeah, come in." I said as I wiped the tears off my face.

"What's wrong, Ar?" He said as worry took over his face, and he sat down next to me.

"I just, I just wish I could go back. Like start over and make things right. Y'know?" I said.

"Does this have anything to do with Luke?" My brother asked even though I'm pretty sure he already knew the answer.

I nodded my head looking down. "Well then try to make things right with him." My brother said.

"It's not that simple, I don't think he wants things to be right again."

"How will you know if you don't try?" My brother said as he stood back up and walked towards the door. "By the way, that's always been my favorite picture of you two."

I looked down at the photo one more time before I closed the album and turned off the light to go to sleep.

•

After what my brother said last night I decided I didn't want Luke and I to keep acting like this towards each other. So I chose to make things right with him.

I was walking down the hallways looking for Luke since we had about 15 minutes before first period started. I spotted him going through his locker grabbing what looked like his math book.

"Hey Luke." I said as I walked up to his locker. He looked shocked at first but then relaxed after he realized my tone of voice wasn't angry.

"Hey." He said looking at my wrists which were covered by the sleeves of my Nirvana jumper. It made me uncomfortable so I tugged at the sleeves to let him know I saw him looking at my wrists.

"Um I just wanted to tell you something." I said to him.

"Okay go ahead." He told me. I could tell he was nervous about what I was going to say to him because he kept biting his lip. Dammit Luke.