Never Be || Luke Hemmings

thirty four

author's note again bc i can

the video doesn't really have to do much with the chapter but ok

its just a fun song ok sue me for liking coldplay smh

thirty four; avecryan

Officer Jeg knocked loudly on the door, and I winced.

3 AM isn't exactly the time I'd want to wake someone up and show up at their house, especially when things are so awkward.

Luke opened the door a few minutes later in pajamas.

He looked at the police then back at me, his eyes widened. "A-Avery?"

Instead of giving in to the voice in the back of my head squealing about how his husky, just-woken voice was soooooooo hot

(and yes, I have a secret side like this to me, okay? Don't judge me; y'all don't know what sexy is if it smacked you with a frying pan),

I began stammering incoherently.

Officer Jeg chuckled. "Oh, Avery."

He explained everything that happened and Luke blinked every once in a while, probably to keep himself awake.

"She can stay here with her buddy Luke, right?" Officer Jeg chuckled again.

Luke looked at me and yawned. "'Kay."

Officer Jeg left immediately, leaving me alone with Luke.

Sweet niblets.

"Why were you out at night on a fucking motorcycle with a random stranger on Halloween?" Luke asked immediately after he closed the door.

I scoffed. "Please, Luke, I do what I want, I'm punk rock."

"I'm not kidding, Avery."

"Obviously not. You're Luke." I blurted out.

The Pun Queen has no limits, sorry.

"Look, you say he asked if you wanted to be an entertainer? Do you even know what that means? Avery, you can't just run off with a guy just because he has a British accent."

"Hey! It was a cute British accent, FYI. And he has dimples."

Luke looked annoyed.

"Your taste in men isn't so good, FYI." He retorted in a mocking tone.

"That's actually funny because-" I stopped, realizing what I was about to say. Because I have feelings for you.

"So is it just you here?" I asked him, changing the subject.

"My sister's upstairs."

"Ohhhh."

"Why are you asking?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I dunno. What have you been doing?"

"Oh, just..." He got the remote and took out whatever he had paused, changing it to Tom and Jerry. "Cartoonin'."

"Luke, did you just - You were watching something else-"

"No, I wasn't, I was-"

"Were you watching an adult video? Luke, I swear-"

"I wasn't watching porn!"

"Then?"

"Well, I didn't want you to want to watch it."

"Watch what?"

"A horror movie. 'Cause... then you'd have nightmares." He spoke quietly, almost as if he were shy to say that.