The good couple

LOVE 24

I've been away for 3 months now , I haven't communicated with anyone. I told people that won't be using my phone for right now. My cousin has a house phone in the apartment.

It feels somewhat nice being away from home for a bit. My cousin has been taking me out to dinner for the weekends, she's so nice.

Luke enters his tattoo shop, he hasn't been getting a lot of sleep in a couple days. He hasn't spoken to me in 3 months.

As he walks in he goes straight to his station, he had a client today. He finishes with them , he does two more for the day. Once he's done , he walks right out the building , Carly was about to say something but he left.

He walks to his car, driving to his house. Luke hasn't really be up beat while practicing with his band for the past months. He laugh sometimes but it's more like he's sad now. It's like he's not himself , everyone senses that.

He lays back in his bed , looking to the window seeing his backyard. He goes to the back door opening it, he goes to his shed pulling out some spray paint. For the past months, Luke's been working on a mural on the back of his house, he's almost done with it.

He shakes the Can putting on a gas mask, he uses a ladder to finish the top part. He climbs down, after a few hours he finishes the mural on backside of the house.

The mural is a bunch of cartoon characters, with a drum set in the middle , a flower behind all the characters. He puts his supplies back into the shed, he lays couch on the patio. He takes a nap there for an hour.

He wakes up to missed calls, he calls the person back.

"Ayyyyooo Luke" he hears Fatima say.

"What are you doing?" She asks him.

"I was napping"

"You want to talk to Imani?" She asks

"Yes" Luke says laying on his back still.

"We are going to her moms house I'll tell you the rest once we get there" she says ending the call.

Luke stands up, going through the house locking the back door. He opens the front door, and walks to his car driving to my mom's house. When he gets there Fatima is already there.

"Damn you look beat" she says as Luke walks up to her.

"I haven't had sleep in a few days" he says to her.

"You need to go to sleep" she says walking him to the front door of this fat house.

"I took an hour nap before this" he says holding his eyes.

"You need to sleep before you collapse" she says knocking on the door.

"I cant" he says to her. The door opens revealing my mother. Fatima talks to her in Urdu , she smiles looking at my friend and boyfriend.

She lets them in tilting her head confused too.

"Sorry to bother you can we use your house phone" she says

"Why" my mom laughs.

"We need to talk to Imani, she's not using her personal phone so I'm pretty sure there's a house phone where she is" Fatima says to my mom.

"Imani called me earlier" her mom says

"Yea you're her mom so she's going to call you and answer you calls but she's not even calling her own boyfriend" she says to my mom.