What If: Love in a College Town.

Youre my Rock (5)

** August 27th 2014 **

It's been 3 days, I still hadn't heard from her. I was a mess I was trying to deal with the boys, we were at mommas. They asked me not to leave them again or I would've been with Kelly. I got back on the road in two days so I needed to figure something out. It was 1030 that night. My phone rang. It was her.

"Hi" she said like nothing was wrong . But she sounded terrible.

"Hi! Kelly you ghosted me for 3 days all I get is a hi. Are you okay? What's going on?" I said to her.

"Listen I know I'm sorry... I'm okay." She said.

"What happened? I was worried sick." I said.

"It's something I'm not ready to talk about yet..." she told me.

"Listen I respected your privacy for 3 days, you need to tell me Kells." I said to her. She sighed.

"Luke... I can't talk about it yet..." she said. I was furious.

"You can tell me anything I won't judge Kelly... did you cheat? Are you regretting us? What happened?" I was begging her to tell me.

"None of that Luke... it's something that happened years ago... it's just... listen I wanted to let you know I'm okay. Matthew told me I needed to call and here I am calling..." She said.

"Kelly talk to me..." I said.

"Luke.... Please don't..." she asked.

"If this is going to work you need to talk to me through it all Kelly.."

"Fine can you FaceTime?" She asked .

"Of course!"

She called me. I was in my old room at my moms. It was more of a guest room now though. The boys were in what use to be my sister Kellys room, ma and pa turned it to a nursery when Kelly first had kids now it has bunk beds in there. Chris room was never touched after he died. I answered.

"Hi..." she said. She was a mess. But she was still so beautiful.

"Hi beautiful." I said. She had a drink in her hand.

"What's in the cup?" I asked.

"Whiskey..." she said.

"Straight?!" I asked worried.

"Yeah..." she said putting her head down.

"Talk to me baby girl." I said.

"3 years ago I was a senior in highschool, just started school on the 21st of august 2011. Friday august 24th we had our last first home opener football game. As you know I was cheer captain... well our team sucked previous years, but we knew that year was going to be our best... my best friend Niko, he was quarterback and captain of the football team. We got our first win that night in 2 years! So after that game, I wanted to go out with my boyfriend he was a few years older than me, and he wanted to go out with his girlfriend who was a few years younger. Our parents loved the fact of us being together. Mine told me I couldn't date Nick and his told him he couldn't date Kaylee. So that night we told them we were going out together, but he snuck off with her and I snuck off with him. I was asleep at my boyfriends apartment it was probably 1 in the morning, my phone rang it was my dad losing his mind... said Niko and Kaylee were in a bad car accident and the crew was out looking for me because I said I was going with him... I made it to the hospital to late, he was gone... Niko died, months later they took Kaylee off life support. A drunk driver hit them, went into a telephone pole and then it landed on Nikos car... the drunk driver lived, but that fucking asshole took away my best friend... I don't know how I managed to get recruited to Penn State my game was shit, my life was shit, my grades became shit, I drank every weekend... I was a mess... we were suppose to go to Penn State together him Matthew and I.. This year was worse, I just didn't take the time I needed. I didn't think I needed it... he would've loved you so much he would've approved... he is the last guy I ever told I loved them... then I told you, and it was just a culture shock, I never thought I would. Fall in love again. Luke you have helped me so much and don't even know it.. I was broken...... I just miss him so much." She said crying. I just wanted to hold her.