Geek Squad {Muke}

17 - Cooldowns

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands. ~Christina Rossetti

Michael's POV

Through much, and I mean much, persuading. I managed to get a sad little Luke to come back to my house. Hoping to take his mind off of Dallas with video games, even though he seemed to not like them too much. I had decided I would take it easy on him, and have him play Sims.

I also had to invite Ashton and Sonya with us. After all, Sonya had been ditched and Luke wanted to go with Ashton. So here we all were.

"Let's make a family with all of us." I said while Luke and I sat on the couch. The game was starting up and I handed Luke the paddle. "You can make yourself first."

"No, we should make one another!" Sonya called out. I turned to Luke who nodded.

"Alright, then Luke I'll make you and you can make me." I said. "Sonya and Ashton can make each other." They nodded as Luke handed me the paddle.

"I don't know if they'll have your hair, I hope so." I said. Luke shrugged and I began to click away as I started making the family.

I made Luke - oddly similar - Ashton and Sonya made one another before I allowed Luke to make me. He still had an extremely distressed look on his face, almost as if he would burst into tears at any moment. His hands shook on the paddle and he sniffled constantly. He was trying so hard not to cry.

I was not the only one who noticed. Sonya held a saddened look while looking at Luke, and Ashton seemed as if his heart was breaking. I gestured for both of them to go to the other room while Luke was preoccupied. They picked it up right away and left the room.

"D-Do we get a-a cat or-or a d-dog.." Luke mumbled as he as he had just finished creating my Sim.

"What do you want?" I asked gently as I fiddled around with the hair on the back of Luke's neck. There was a small tuft of it. (A/N: Ari spelled it as 'tuff' I had no idea that it was actually tuft until auto correct. I then Googled it and was told that it was a like a 'tuft of hair'. I did not know that was how you spelled it. Did any of you know that or was it obvious?)

"I-I don't know.." Luke mumbled. "I like both.."

"Then you can make on of each." I said while continuing to play with Luke's hair. He nodded but did not do anything else. "Luke?"

"Um..Yeah?"

"Talk to me." I said as I scooted closer to Luke, I took the paddle out of his shaking hands and put it on the coffee table. He did not say a word, did not even look at me. Just kept looking at the screen in front of us. But I could see the tears pooling inside of his eyes.

"C'mon." I said as I put my arm around his shoulder. "Tell me what's going on in that mind of yours." I reached out and poked his temple.

"Why does no one like me.." He mumbled.

"What?" I responded. "Lots of people like you, I mean you're one of the most popular kids in the school."

"There's a difference between being popular and being liked." Luke said quietly. "When people like you, it means that you want to spend time with them, you like hanging out. When you're popular, people are too scared to talk to you. They admire you. I don't want to be admired, I want to be liked." I took a deep breath, not really sure what to say. "Why doesn't Dallas like me?"

Then I knew what this was all about. Luke had done nothing wrong and he could not figure out why Dallas did not like him. That was why he was upset. It was abnormal for someone to simply hate him.

"Dallas is.." I began. "How do I put this.. He's very, exclusive when it comes to his friends. He feels like since you're popular you can just become friends with whomever you like, he doesn't want you to come here, be friendly and ditch us. So he's trying to get you to leave so we don't have to deal with that." I pulled Luke's body closer to my own - which was not much since we were practically on top of one another - and laid my head in the crook of his neck. "I don't want you to leave though, I like having you around even though I am kind of a jerk sometimes. I like you Luke, so don't worry about other people liking you."

I lifted my head up, only so I could see Luke's face, I noticed his eyes were screwed shut, his teeth clenched, and his cheeks red as tears strolled down them. There were muffled cries coming from out of his mouth, and his whole body seemed to be shaking.

"You can cry, it's okay." I said as I allowed Luke to curl up next to me and lay his head on my shoulder. I rubbed his arm with one hand and his leg with the other as he released out the stress of the day.

"Luke," I said gently and he lifted his head. Wiping under his eyes and nose. "I can see what I can do about Dallas. I don't want you being upset over this. It's one person. It's not the end of the world."

"You don't understand.." Luke mumbled. "One person turns into two, a-and from there it goes downhill. Y-You can be the m-most loved person in the world and-and have everyone just rip you apart!"

I went wide eyed at Luke. I was not expecting and aspect. But the next words out of my mouth were calm and collected. "You mentioned something about moving," I began. "Tell me why."

AUTHOR'S NOTIFICATION; Ariana

Helloooo everyone! I just have a little bit of an announcement! Very exciting. So I wanted to start another book, it would indeed be a Lashton because I have a million Muke's. The concept behind it is to have Lucy be involved with more of the writing process because a book is like a baby. You take care of it and hold it like a first child. So I'm not very..Open to her writing parts on the book - although I do take ideas and suggestions.

This is where you all come in.. In the next chapter of every book will be several different prefaces for you all to read. I am asking that those of you whom read and vote and comment to just leave a little note on your favorite one. The one that I see has the most replies on, will be the next book. Not saying the other one's won't be included later on, but this will determine the next one.

That's all I have to say! The next section of this book will do this ( I have not finished all of the concepts that I have for these ) Also they will be on each of my books that are updated recently. So, this one (Geek Squad), Pill By Pill, Acrobatics, and Forced. You are allowed to vote once on each book, so four times.

Okay..NOW That's all I have to say! Thank you all for you time! I will probably have the prefaces up by Friday? Maybe? Probably? Also Lucy are writing some of them, so if you can correctly guess who wrote which one, I will count your vote as two as a special little boost ;3

Frick I'm going on again..NOW I'M DONE.

Hugs, Kisses, Cuddles and Serenades xX