Escape To Paradise | l.h.

{Luke}

I have never thought about what it would be like to wake up in the woods but its peaceful especially waking up tangled with Wylie. She snores quietly on my chest and I pull out my phone. Numerous texts from my mom crowd my screen and many missed calls from her and my dad. I sigh loudly shaking the snoring girl in my arms. She grumbles squinting her eyes as she sits up looking at me.
"What time is it?"
"Almost nine." I tell her kissing her forehead. "Can I ask you something?" I question as we stand up dusting ourselves off from our night in the woods.
"Yes." She grins nodding a little.
"I'm gonna get in trouble for not telling my parents where I was, can I tell them you needed me to stay the night?"
"Of course." She says sweetly as we involuntarily start making our way through the trees. "Come up with a story if they ask a lot of questions."
My hand grabs her slowly and I intertwine my fingers with hers. "Thank you. For showing me this place." I tell her.
"You're welcome." She bites her lip blushing.
The rest of the walk is silent. But a comfortable silence. It was as if we could talk telepathically or through body language. I knew I'd get yelled at but I soaked this walk I as much as I could before we departed into our houses. It felt like the moment ended too quickly when we turn on our street. A car drives by us yelling incoherent things causing us both to laugh. I walk her to her doorstep and instantly wrap my arms around her neck pulling her face into my chest.
"Wish me luck."
"Good luck." She giggles. "I'll see you soon." She pulls away and kisses my lips quickly before opening the door and disappearing into the dark house.
I sigh and trudge through both of our yards. I suck in a deep breathe before I open the door. My mom stands up from the couch and wraps her arms around me with tear stained cheeks. My father crosses his arm with an angry expression carved on his wrinkled face. Jack and Ben, you could see, are sitting at the kitchen table. Ben shakes his head disapprovingly but had a bruise around his eye that eased me a little bit.
"Liz, get away from him. I told you not to do this." My dad barks. My mom releases me.
"I'm just glad he's okay, Andrew." She snaps at him and looks at me smiling. "I'm glad you're okay."
"I'm fine. I was with Wylie." I tell him truthfully.
"You spent the night at her house?" My dad looks at me as if I committed a crime or killed someone.
"She needed me dad. I wasn't gonna abandon her." I tell him loudly.
"You two." He points to Ben and Jack. "Leave." Without a word, they silently go to their rooms shutting the doors quietly behind them.
"Luke, why don't we sit down and work this out." My mom urges me away from the front door and sits next to me on the couch.
"No text, no call. Are you stupid?" My dad yells. "You could have been killed for all we knew. Your mother was worried all night."
"As you can see I'm fine." I argue. "I love this girl. I love her guys. I love her." It came out before I could stop it. When I said it they freeze staring at me.
"Oh come on." My dad throws his hands up. "You barely know her."
"No dad. I've known her for years." I stand up. "Look, I don't care if you ground me, take away my driving privileges but don't and I mean don't take that girl away from me. Even if you do I'm not staying away from her. I refuse to."
"You're eighteen years old, you don't know what love is." My dad retorts.
"You guys fell in love when you were sixteen." I point out. "Got married after mom graduated. Was that not love? Love has no guidelines dad."
"I think it's wonderful." My mom interjects. "Andrew I want to speak with you In the room. Now."
"I think it's stupid." My dad says lowering his voice. "Your punishment will be discussed."
"Stupid?" I hear my mother say as I walk up the stairs.
I lay in my bed thinking about what I had said. I said I loved her. Did I even mean it or was it just to save my ass? Thinking about it made my head ache. Soon night falls and sleep doesn't come. After my parents screams stop, I go down stairs for a glass of water. Jack stumbles in the kitchen grinning at me.
"What?" I ask sitting down at the table taking a drink of my water.
"You love her man." He sits in front of me in the wooden chair.
"Maybe, I don't know." I shake my head.
"I think it's great, you know me and Shelby met when we were fifteen and now she's pregnant." He admits.
My eyes widen from the sudden news. "Pregnant?"
"Yeah." He nods smiling. "Found out a couple days ago."
"Have you told mom or dad?" I ask knowing that dad would flip as mom would bawl her eyes out for a week straight from being so happy.
"Not yet." He says. "We plan to do it when we take them out to eat on Friday."
"Good idea. Dad hates scenes so he won't cause one." I tell him.
"Right?" He chuckles a little and stands up. "Good luck with the whole Wylie thing."
"Thanks man."
Minutes later police sirens wail loud enough that it was almost painful to listen to. I run to the door thinking something had happened to Wylie. Three police cars come to quick stops in front of her house. An ambulance pulls in as well and fear traces through my body like no other. My mom and dad tiredly walk out f there room followed by ben and jack racing out of theirs.
"What's going on?" My mom yawns.
"I-I-I..." I stutter but couldn't get anything else out.
Without much though, I run as I fast as I can out of the door. I look back to see my parents and brothers out on the porch just as confused as I am. A policeman stops me.
"Sir, you can go in there." He says loudly over the sirens.
"Please, my girlfriend lives here. Is she..." He cuts me off.
"She fine. She's over there." He points to a police car and I run over to it out of breathe.
"Luke!" Se cries violently ignoring a policewomens grabbing hands.
She jumps on me wrapping her body around me. "What happened?"
"Luke." Se cries over and over again as if it were a dream I was here.
"It's okay baby. It's okay."
Soon two peri medics exits the house with a gerny and a body bag on top of it. While holding her, I turn her to facing my house so she wouldn't have to see as she sobs loudly into my neck. The policewomen walk up to is with a sad expression on her face.
"Ma'am." She says loud enough over the sirens and Wylie's sobs.
"Do you have any other family members?"
"No." I answer for her.
"Any where to go? Friends?"
"Me." I shockingly reply as the whole scene begins to set in for me.
"And you are?"
"Her boyfriend." Wylie clutches onto me tighter then before almost choking me.
"Alright." She nods writing stuff down in a notepad and walks away from us.
I stand like this until the police and ambulance pull away slowly. Weakly, I walk towards my house feeling completely helpless. My parents and brothers stay quiet as they follow us into the quiet house. I make my way up the stairs ignoring the questioning eyes the others give me. I kick the door open and close it kicking it back. I turn on the lamp on my desk. I sit her on the side of the bed. Her cries are softer now as her hands grip hard on the side of the bed. I pace unconsciously in front of her back and forth not have an idea what to say to her.
"Sit beside me please." Her voice is weak and hoarse and hurts to listen to.
I sit next to her and pull her into my side. "You don't have to talk about it." I kiss her temple hard.
"He hung himself." She sniffs rubbing her nose with the back of her hand. "I went in to tell him goodnight and I found him just hanging." Tears roll down her red cheeks from her puffy eyes.
"He said he was going to get help. He told me that. That's what he said to me." She cries hard grabbing at my shirt and digging her face into my chest. "I hated him so fucking much Luke. I hated him. But you know what's worse?" She looks at me. "I'm happy he's gone. Why would someone be happy about that? What the hell is wrong with me?"
She wraps her whole body around me again and I lay us on the cool bed. I hold her tight against my body not finding the words to say anything to her. If I were her and in her shoes id be happy too. The rest of the night we talk. We talk about the first time he ever hit her. How amazing her mother was. Every feeling she's ever felt towards her dad. Everything she allowed me to hear and know. We lay silent now, tangled in one another both of us still awake.
"Wylie?" I whisper softly.
"Hmm?"
"I lo..." She cuts me off.
"Shh." She slightly shakes her head. "Please don't say that. I believe you won't leave but even though I believe that it could happen and I can't lose you either."
"I love unicycles." I kiss her cheek.
"I love unicycles too." She giggles.

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Oh boy oh boy oh boy, so this was kinda hard to right due to the fact of having to kill of someone even tho he was a dickhead.
Third update but oh well🙆 ideas are running crazy through my head so like I can't stop writing😂
Anyway you're all beautiful😘
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