Mistakes. [l.h & a.i au]

One.

I have to keep this a fucking secret?! From my friends? Yeah, I can tell you right now that I am not going to keep what just happened between me and Luke a secret. I am at least going to tell Andrea about this. Might as well tell Leah about it too or she will go ballistic if I don't. I'm sure as hell not going to keep this a secret between my two best friends.

Luke really made an impression on me today. I thought he was all sugar, spice, and everything nice, but it turns out that all he cares about is his reputation in high school. But even as a conceited jerk, he still has an appeal about him that strikes my fancy. It's going to take a lot more than a small impression to get me unglued from Luke Hemmings. He is all that and a bag of chips, and I'd eat all of the chips inside if I could; let me tell you. Plus he likes me, and he's already kissed me. A secret hidden from the rest of the high school, excluding Andrea and Leah, I can manage.

I watch as Luke struts back down to the bus-stop with a pep in each step he takes. It is sort of a bounce, of happiness I hope. And now he is reunited with the three of his best friends, Calum, Ashton, and Michael, leaving me all alone as I was before. He starts making conversation with them, and it is obviously not hard for him to act like nothing happened; which, to be honest, kind of offended me. Am I really that bad? That bad to an extent that you don't even want to be seen with me?

"Nicola!" My friend Andrea zaps me out of my depressing thoughts by throwing her arms around my shoulders from behind. I almost tumble to the floor, but I end up holding myself upright, strangling myself free of her extremely tight grasp. Since when is she so strong?

"Damn Andrea. Are you trying to kill me?" I question in an aggravated tone as she beams at me with a huge smile and bright eyes.

She shook her head, "I've been looking everywhere for you! Where have you been?" Her eyes are wide as she uses hand gestures to emphasize her sentences. I must've been too busy smooching Luke to realize that I was supposed to meet Andrea here because... Well... She's my ride home.

I'm lucky that she didn't leave me here instead of searching for me. I would've had to walk about five miles to get home. "Boy, do I got a story to tell you." I smirk, slightly shaking my head like a weirdo.

Andrea gasps, "Oh my God! What happened?!" She starts jumping all over me like I wasn't going to tell her, and I try to calm her down because people are starting to stare. People as in Luke, Ashton, Michael, and Calum.

"Shh, calm down. We can't talk here." I say in a hushed tone of voice as she nods her head and grabs me by the forearm. Andrea pulls me along harshly, hastily, and I start thinking that her grip on my arm couldn't get any tighter. I ignore it and continue to walk with her toward her car. This girl really needs to take a chill pill for her fucking hyperactivity.

Once we reach her car she immediately gets to the chase, "C'mon! Tell me already! I'm not getting any younger!"

I laugh and plant myself in the passenger's seat, "Hold on will you?" Now I'm just having fun with her anticipation. I'm such a nice friend, aren't I?

She sighs with frustration as I shut the car door and strap myself into the seat. Andrea is going to shit a brick when she hears this. "So, you know how I like Luke and all, right?"

She nods her head in agreement, "You mean I know how you are obsessed with Luke. Yes."

I roll my eyes at her, "Whatever. You'd never believe what he did to me today anyway." I act casual and readjust myself in the seat, making her go wild.

"No, no! Tell me! I wanna know!" Andrea pleads like a small, whiny child of about age three or four, maybe even five, making me chuckle. This is very amusing. If only I had stories like this everyday to tell her.

"Luke took me into the janitor's closet to tell me that he liked me." I pause for her gasping to fade. Her forest-green eyes were wide.

She slaps me on the arm, "Shut up! You're kidding!"

"That's not all." I add as she remains quiet, ready to hear the rest of the story as if she were a kindergartener obsessed with reading. "Then he kissed me, and we made out. The janitor even walked in on us."

Andrea gasps once again as she starts shitting bricks. "Oh my God, Nicola! Are you going to date him?!" She exclaims.

I shrug nonchalantly, "I don't know. But really, I'm not supposed to be telling you this." I admit the truth. Because... Well... It is the truth, and she is one of my best friends.

"What? Why?" She immediately asks; which I knew she was going to. Andrea's the kind of person who always asks questions.

I sigh, "Luke told me that this has to remain a secret. I don't know why it has to remain a secret, but I'm pretty sure it has to do with his reputation. He thinks he's better than me, that's all." I look away from her, toward the grey dashboard. This sounded a lot less crazy and rubbish inside my head.

"That's all?! Luke's a total douche bag if he doesn't want to date you because he's scared it might ruin his precious reputation with the high school." Andrea scoffs, and she isn't wrong. It is a huge dick move toward me, but I could relate. Actually scratch that. I probably could never relate to Luke Hemmings.

"Oh well. At least I know he likes me." I beam, totally bragging. She sighs in response and plunges the keys into the ignition to start the car.

"I wish Calum would like me. He's so hot. I could literally fry an egg on his chest." She exaggerates and widens her forest-green eyes on the word "so" as I laugh. He is pretty hot though, but he is the school's "fuckboy" as I've heard.

So anyway, finally, she starts down the road in the direction to my house. No words could explain how happy I am, yet I'm a bit disappointed, but you know how that goes.

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lukes so mean in this. im sorry. and theres more douche moves headed your way, and i dont want to spoil too much for you, but luke really does like nicola. i guess you could say he doesnt know how to be a gentleman.

i hope you enjoyed this chapter. please vote/comment for more. :)

ilysm. thank you. x

ps. the chapters will get longer, better, and more interesting as the story unfolds. and this is sort of a filler chapter.