Learning to Live

Chapter 5

"I'm going to be the talk of the school tomorrow, thanks for that Andre" "Well I thought you should make a statement" Luca just rolled his eyes, after a couple of minutes of silence "Is there a reason you picked me up from school?" "Yes, are you taking me up on my offer?" Andre was 99% sure he was but there was still that 1% and he had learnt quickly that Luca was unpredictable. "I will accept your offer but if at any point I don't feel comfortable I will leave" "Ok got it, so shall we stop and pick up your stuff now?" "Sure" Luca said staring out the window wondering if he has made the right choice.

He climbed out the car and told Andre to stay in the car, he walked over to his tent collected all his things that fitted into 3 plastic bags and folded his tent down, he went up to Harry, "Hi Harry, just to let you know, I have found somewhere to stay for a little while but I wanted to say thank you for looking out for me "No problem kid" Luca handed him the cookie he had saved from school earlier today. He walked back to the car, he felt a bit sad 3 bags his life fitted into 3 bags.
"You ok kid, you have been staring out the window?" Luca sighed "yeah I guess, it's just a bit sad my life fits into 3 plastic bags" "Well your living with me now, so let's make a detour" Luca turned to look at him a bit confused Andre just smirking then said to the driver "please take us to the shopping centre in the next town" Luca basically shouted out "Andre you don't need to do that, I can't afford anything anyways" "your not paying, I am, we can just get you a few bits, a couple of outfits, some shoes and maybe a few bits for your room" Luca glared at him whilst Andre just smiled sweetly, in the end Andre won "fine you win"
They came back a couple of hours later with 8 or 9 bags filled with clothes and stuff for Luca's room, he was very grateful but didn't know how he was going to pay Andre back for any of it. They had dinner out at the mall, which was a new experience for Luca, there were to many people and by the time they left he had a headache and needed some alone time, as they made their way inside the house "thank you Andre for the clothes and dinner you really didn't need to" "that's ok Luca, I wanted to" Luca smiled at him "well if you don't mind I'm going for a shower then straight to bed I'm knackered" "good night Luca". Andre went to his office intending to do some work but got caught up in a day dream about Luca which made his jeans tight, he needed to remind himself that Luca wasn't 18 yet and he probably didn't want to date a gang leader he was too good, too pure for this life as Grace said previously Luca doesn't belong in this life.
Whilst Andre was having problems, sleep did not come easily to Luca and when it did, all he thought about was Andre and what he looked like with no clothes on, he woke up panting and a bad case of morning wood that needed taking care of. Luca needed to remind himself that he was only 17 and no one wants to date a child, he just needs to wait once he is 18 everything is game on, tho legal age was 16 he felt Andre wouldn't be comfortable until he was 18.
Walking into school on Tuesday all eyes were on him, watching him like he was a movie star, god he hated it. He quickly walked through the halls heading to his class room and breathing a sigh of relief when he sat at his desk, with his head back eyes closed, he snapped his eyes open when someone whispered in his ear "working for the local gangs, think your better than us, because your here for free, well your not, your nothing, your a rat". Luca tilted his head to get a better look at the boy, it was hazel eyes from yesterday "are you scared of me sugar, you shouldn't be I'm an Angel" then Luca winked making the other boy huff and his friend laugh who Luca hadn't noticed before "come on Jess, your not gonna win, he just doesn't care" the friend said pulling Jess away "your right, I have no interest in you....Jess". But he did, well a little bit he kinda enjoyed the banter.  The rest of the day was spent with Jess burning holes into Luca and Luca just smiling and winking at him making Jess's friends laugh.
He was in History and staring out the window at the trees when there was a knock at the door and a lady walked in with a bag and went straight to the teacher who then stopped and started talking to each other, the teacher looked over and pointed to Luca who raised his eyes in surprise the lady walked to him and handed him the backpack " a Mr Andre left this at the front desk, said you would need it later and to meet at the cafe" with that she left the bag on the desk and turned and walked out the room, everyone was looking at the bag as Luca slowly picked up the bag and opened it, pulling out a brand new IPhone a black hoodie, black trousers and a note, even the teacher was looking over interested, everyone knew who Andre was and because of the stunt he pulled everyone knew who Luca was, he slowly opened the note.
Hi Luca,
I bet the whole room is silent and watching you.
Luca looked up through his lashes, yes they were
I just thought I would make your life a bit more interesting, anyways I realised you don't have a phone so I brought you one, you can throw the clothes away, just wanted to make it look shady.
Andre

Luca laughed out loud, shaking his head "That guy is so gonna get it" Luca thought to himself people started to whisper, oops he must have said that out loud, he put the phone in his pocket then put the bag under the table, the teacher went back to teaching, Luca turned to see a very pale Jess making Luca laugh some more.
History was the last lesson of the day and as Luca was leaving he noticed that the hallways were so quiet with people watching him and he collected his things out his locker making sure he had Andre's bag and that's when it clicked everyone wanted to know what he was up to because of the bag. He closed his locker as the new phone started to go off, he looked at it and answered
"Hi Reggie,how's it going?"
"Yeah good, did you enjoy your gift?" Reggie laughed and Luca rolled his eyes
"Yeah thanks for that, you can imagine what they think" Reggie sniggered
"Anyways just to let you know, that Giant will be picking you up" Luca sighed
"Why Giant, I don't think he likes me"
"He doesn't like anyone, sorry he was the only one free"
Luca started to walk out as everyone was watching him
"You know I can walk I'm not incapable"
"Yeah yeah, I know, bosses orders, gotta keep his baby boy safe"
"WHAT!" All Luca heard was laughing then Reggie hung up
"They are gonna be the death of me" Luca thought to himself as he walked to wards the black car with Giant leaning on it
"Wow you just get bigger every time I see you, soon you will hit 7 foot" giant rolled his eyes and opened the car door for Luca to get in
"Ahh come on one, smile, just a small one, I won't tell anyone" Giant didn't smile.