Escape To Paradise | l.h.

{Wylie}

Note: above picture is me✌

"Do you have signal dear?" Liz asks raising her phone in the air pacing around the malls parking lot.
"No." I shake my head looking at my phone in my hands squinting my eyes.
The day goes by slowly and I learned that I hated being away from Luke. Liz and I have only been gone for a few hours and I found myself missing him incredibly. My mind goes off to think about those two years. Those two years I'll have to spend away from Luke. Since our dinner date he's been distance. I've haven't heard those three words that I desperately needed but I took as he was stressed. Of course he was stress and who wouldn't be. Physically, I could tell he was tired. The bad had been practicing and rehearsing for hours and hours at a time multiple times a day. They want to be great like Green Day or All Time Low. To me, they were amazing. They were everything and more you'd expect from a punk rock band.
I try hard to shift my mood. Liz was catching on to my sad pathetic state sending me saddened ad worry eyes every so often. I knew she felt like I did. She hasn't let Luke out f her sight for eighteen years and now she has to let him go for two years. Any mother would be heart broken. She pulls me into a unexpected hug bring me out of my thoughts.
"I know things will be be rough. I know you'll miss him. We all will." She sighs tightening her grip around me. "As long as I have you I'll continue to be sane."
"I love you mom." I breathe deeply keeping back the threw bring tears from falling. "It'll all work out."
Liz opted for me to drive home considering se was tired and didn't think she could stay awake driving two hours back home. Today wasn't all bad. I had gotten two pairs of vans and shirts. Also a few band shits for the boys and many pairs of pants for Luke because Liz had said he always manages to rip the crotch out. And I had gotten him something else. Something that caught my eye when I seen it. It was a necklace with a long chain and a dear antler charm hung from it. It was simple but to me it immediately had an unspoken meaning. Silver was pure like how I saw Luke. When deers mature their antlers fall off and they grow knew ones. The antler stood for growing for our relationship. Even though I had the feeling we were slowly distancing ourselves fro each other I knew I loved him. More then I had loved anyone in my life.
"I wonder why Andrews outside." Liz chuckles seeing Andrew siting on the front porch with a somber look on his face. "He never seems to come out of the room much anymore."
"He doesn't look too happy." I observe.
"Andrews never too happy." Liz rolls her eyes smiling.
Then it hit me. That's what love is. Andrew wasn't a very happy person on the outside. He was hard on all of us. Because he cared. And Liz was a bright ray of sunshine whose only goal in life was to make everyone around her happy. They were complete opposites but I could feel their bond. It was like what Luke and I had. Liz still loved Andrew even though he wasn't always the nicest person to be around.
"Drew?" Liz questions walking up to him. He stands up with soaked cheeks and puffy red eyes reaching for Liz pulling her close to him.
"He's gone. I followed him to the airport. I did all I could to make them wait. I even tried to stall." He sniffs. Then my tears begin to fall from my eyes. "He said he loved you Liz and he'd call when he landed." He pulls away from Liz trudging towards me pulling me into his arms. "I need to sit down and talk to you." He mutters almost incoherently.
"Okay." I nod struggling to get the words free from my throat.
Sitting in the house now was different. This house was usually filled with laughter and smiles and happy vibes. Now, with all three of a sitting here, it felt sad and anything but cheerful in here. The curtains were pulled leaving the room dark but light enough to see each other. It reminded me of my house with my father. A place I never wanted to be in again. Andrew straightens the grey frames I his nose as folds his hands in front of him. Liz looks at both of us just as confused as I am furrowing her blonde eyebrows causing a little crease in the middle of her forehead.
"Spit it out Andrew." Liz urges getting impatient.
"Wylie, I want you to understand Luke loves you. He loves you so much and I've never seen him like this with any girl." He swallows hard. "He asked me to talk to you and this wasn't something easy for him. I haven't seen that boy cry since he was little." Andrew shakes his head looking down at his calloused hands. "Luke said to go on without him. He said that it wasn't fair to you to be half way across the world and not be there for you. That you'd be happier this way. He said he also left a note upstairs for you."
My body seems to lunge towards the stairs while tears fitfully trace down my steaming face. I lock myself in his room sliding down the door in a fit of muffled quiet sobs. How could I not see this coming? Of course this was never going to work. I was crazy to think it would. How stupid of me to believe we could make something like this work. Soon, I find myself drenched in tears and I've lost track of time. All I know it's dark now. I rip my vans off throwing them across the room not caring about the loud thump they cause. I stand up pulling off my shirt and pants roughly leaving some parts of my skin red from the struggle. I raid his dresser discovering he had taken some of my favorite shirts he had but one that was my absolute favorite, he left. A black nirvana shirt with yellow writing. It was the shirt I put on after we made love for the first time. Hence this shirt being my favorite. I shrug it on with little energy and turn on his desk lamp. A folding up crinkly piece of note book paper lays in the center of the desk. I gulp discovering my throat was sore from crying. I sit at the desk pulling the desk chair all the way up. My fingers rhythmically tap on the desk due to the anxiety and fear boiling through every vein I had inside of my body. With shaking hands, I pick up the note between two fingers and examine like a scientist would do. My mind told me no, you're obviously not mentally stable enough to read it. But my heart told me I needed it. I needed closure even though that's something I'll never really get. Listening to my better judgement I put the note down pushing myself away from the desk and flicking off the lamp. I needed sleep but knew that, that's what I wasn't going to get.

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Hello cutie pies😋
So since my last update I had a softball game and won so that's goood. Like always I hope you are enjoying this lil story. The last couple chapters were hard to write and I wrote this chapter in like ten minutes so sorry if there are any typos. After I finish this story I plan on editing everything.
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