No one seemed to notice I was missing, but Alesha notices me walking down the stairs with Luke's hand in mine, she winks and I smile lightly at her. If she thinks I had sex with Luke, then whatever.
"Drink?" Luke asks, holding a bottle of alcohol, even though I literally just passed out, I decide to take it. It helps me forget that I'm sad about my parents death, I guess.
For the next hour or so I continue socialising and dancing, somehow I end up outside and alone. I think Luke went to go and get a drink but that was a while ago. I look around my garden and notice small groups of people talking and laughing. I'm on my own. Suddenly feeling dizzy, I walk towards the bench on the other side of the garden.
"Hey." Someone says, I turn half-heartedly and spot Ashton walking towards me.
"Ashton!" I exclaim, waving him over.
"So you invited me here for Calum and Michael?" He asks. I nod, smiling sheepishly.
"Thanks, I really wanted to speak to those guys, and yeah, now I can." He smiled genuinely, his dimples popping out. I attempt to poke one of them but accidentally poke him the the mouth.
"Oops, sorry." I giggle.
"It's okay." He giggles as well, and the sound surprises me.
"Faith?" I voice I know immediately as Luke's calls. I turn and see him standing at the back door, holding a drink in each hand.
"Over here." I reply, he turns and sees me and Ashton, then walks over.
"I forgot what drink you wanted, so I got you a beer." He shrugs. I did actually ask for water as I don't want to wake up with too big a hangover, but I don't want to make him get up again.
"It's fine." I assure, dragging out the 'e'.
Luke, Ashton and I continue talking about everything really. I don't tell them about my encounter with Imogen, even my drunken mind can keep that at bay.
After a while I notice people start leaving, which is fine by me considering I am really tired.
"Should we go back inside?" Luke asks.
"Yeah." I reply, sounding slightly muffled as I'm hugged into his chest.
I start to stand up but almost collapse with exhaustion and intoxication. Luke notices and carries me bridal style, it surprises me that he is so confident in his actions when I know he had more to drink than me.
He carries me through the downstairs, which is practically empty, give or take a few people leaving or passed out. When he trudges past the living room door, Calum and Michael sleeping on the same sofa. I try and remind myself to ask about that in the morning, but know I'll probably forget.
"First door on the right." I mumble to Luke when he reaches the top of the stairs.
"I know." He tells me. Somehow he juggles me in his arms and unlocks the door using the key that was in my shoe.
He lays me down on the bed, tucking me in and then steps back, and looks as though he's about to leave.
"Don't go." I mumble, pulling up the duvet to cover my mouth. I look up at him, giving him the best puppy eyes I can do.
"Okay." He says softly. He gets in the bed on the opposite side to which I am laying, so I turn to face him. I wrap my arms around him and he does the same. I feel our legs entangle and can hear Luke's heartbeat.
"We never did do your dare." Luke whispers.
"Alesha thinks we did, we went down the stairs together and she winked at me." I tell him.
"We didn't actually do it though." He mumbles, as if shy to say it.
"It's not gonna be either of our first times, but it's gonna be our first time together so I want to remember it and not do it because of some dare." I say, he nods immediately in agreement.
"You're right." He says. We're then encompassed by a comfortable silence. My arm which is holding onto Luke starts to go dead, so I turn around and change our position so that we are spooning. He gasps slightly at the sudden contact of me against his crotch, but I don't really notice and grab his arms so that they're wrapped around me protectively. He gets the idea and pulls me closer to him, if that is even possible.
"I love you." I say before I fall asleep, as now it seems the perfect time to say it.
"I love you too, more than you know." He tells me, quoting me from when I slept round his house and he asked me to be his girlfriend.
I fall asleep feeling loved.
***
Fluffy chapter, I love it
I've finally finished all my exams so I'm definitely going to update more often, and I might start publishing a calum or an Ashton story idk
I should really carry on writing the sequel to submissive but I have writers block in that story, soz
Thank you all for reading, ily
-Rebecca x
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Self-Destruction • Luke Hemmings
FanfictionFaith Smith is the girl you wouldn't want to bump into in the hallways. She's angry, loud, cocky, overconfident and is plain rude. She pushes everyone away, even her parents. When an unfortunate accident occurs, she is abruptly removed from her Engl...
