Luke's P.O.V
I didn't go to Ashton's to play FIFA I went to a party. He convinced me too because its been awhile. I just did it to shut him up. "Last night was great." Ashton says walking into the kitchen. He finally got laid last night at a party. I get up from the couch and grab a glass of water. I spent the night at his house because I didn't want to deal with Paul. "Yeah." I shrug. "What's up with you?" He asks grabbing a glass from the cabinet. "What do you mean?" I take a gulp of my ice cold water. "You've changed. You never ask me if there is a party going on and even if there is you never want to go. When you went to the one last night you didn't seem to enjoy it.... Wait I know what it is." He says filling his glass up with milk. "Its that Crystal girl. She is changing you." He puts away the milk and sits down. "Whatever. I still like to party. Its just the ones now are lame and Crystal isn't changing me." I state putting my glass in the sink. "Keep telling yourself that. I'm tired of you blowing us off just to go to your "tutoring session" with her. Its her or us."
"You're going to make me choose?!" I was pretty upset he would do that. "Yes. Choose right now. Us or her." He says looking at me. I sigh "You guys." He smiles "Good. Stop talking to her."
"Excuse me?"
"Stop talking to her. In fact stop being nice to her."
"She's my tutor Ashton."
"Get a new one. You chose us Luke. If you want to keep me as a friend then do it."
I didn't like what he was doing. We've been best friends forever I can't choose a girl over him. "Fine."
"Good choice mate. Now let's get ready for school.
I sigh and put on my shoes. Ashton was waiting for me while I fix my hair and brush my teeth. "You ready?" I nod and push past him. I was pissed at him for making me choose.
We walk through the doors and I see Crystal at her locker. She looks at me and waves. I was going to wave back but Ashton nudged me not to. I just look away and head towards class.
Once I walk out out of class I see Crystal walking towards me. Shit shit shit. "What was that all about?" She asks as soon as she reaches me. "What was what?" I say harshly. "You completely ignoring me this morning."
"It was nothing. I have to go bye." I say and push past her. I see Ashton and he smiles and gives me a thumbs up. I just roll my eyes and go to my next class.
Soon enough it was maths. The class with Crystal. Greaaatt. I walk in and see her at her seat. She doesn't even look up when I sit down. I see a piece of paper slide onto my desk and I opened it and read it.
What's up with you? You've been kind of a dick today.
I rip it up and toss it on the ground. She looks down on the ground and stands up. I thought she was going to say something but instead she moved seats to the back of the class.
The bell rang and I quickly walked out of class. I meet up with Ashton and we head to class.
Crystal's P.O.V
I see Luke walk away with Ashton laughing. I was confused on why Luke was being an asshole.
I didn't want to deal with Jessica or Luke today so instead of going to class I walk out of the school doors. I walk up to a cave deep In the forest. I go here a lot to clear my mind. I sit on the rock and put in my ear buds that were blasting Green Day. After a couple of hours I decide to head home. It was only 8 and it was getting dark. After a couple of blocks I felt someone following me. It takes me an hour to get to my house from here. I turn around and see someone a little ways away from me. Quit being paranoid they're probably walking home or something. I hear their footsteps getting faster. I walk quicker then soon I hear them running. I start to run faster and faster my heart feeling as if it was going to burst from my chest. I felt a pair of hands grab my arm and push me against a fence. "Why you running?" I hear a husky voice say in my ear. It was dark so I couldn't see his face. "Leave me alone." My voice was shaking I was terrified. "Why would I do that?" He pulls up my shirt and takes out a knife from his pocket and holds it to my stomach. I hold my breath and close my eyes. He slides the blade up to my neck then back down to my stomach. I feel the cold metal press against my skin as he slides it across my side. I yell in pain as tears fell down my face. I see someone walk out of their house and the guy starts running. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding. I lift up my shirt and see a cut about 3 inches long. I pull out my phone and call Luke. "Come on Luke pick up, pick up." I say to myself. After two rings it went to voicemail. He ignored me. I call again and he keeps ignoring it. I decide to leave a voicemail. I end the call and try to sit down. It hurt to much so I just leaned up against the fence.
Luke's P.O.V
Crystal kept on calling and calling. I wanted to answer but I couldn't cause of Ashton. Finally the calls stopped and I got a voicemail. I reached for my phone and I was going to listen to it. No if Ashton finds out he will be pissed. But it could be an emergency... fuck it. I type in my password and put the phone up to my ear.
"Um Luke? I know you may be mad at me or something but I really need your help. I-I was walking home and this guy comes out of nowhere and he pulls out a knife. He uh- he cut my side and it hurts really bad and I can't walk. If you get this can you please come get me I'm on Oak street. Please Luke." She sounded terrified. No matter what Ashton says I'm going to get her. I put on my shoes and run downstairs. "I need to pick up a friend!" I yell while taking the keys and quickly running outside. I hop in the car and head straight for Oak Street. I finally get there I look around trying to look for her. I see a figure leaning against the fence. I pull up and see Crystal. "Oh thank god I thought you wouldn't come." She says climbing in the car and winces in pain. "Did you see his face?" I ask turning the car around. "No." She says staring out the window. We pull up to her house and it was already 10. "Let me see it." I say turning towards her. She hesitates then lifts up her shirt. The cut looked bad and deep. Who could do this? "I'm sorry." I felt horrible. "Its okay. I just need to go get it cleaned up." She shrugs. She starts to open the door "Crystal." I wanted to tell her why I was such a dick. But I can't turn on Ashton like this. "Yeah?" She looks at me. "Uh night."
"Night." She climbs out and walks into her house. I pull out and pull into my drive way. I go through the back and avoid Paul. I lay on my bed with my ear buds in. All I could think about was Crystal and what happened tonight. Soon enough I drifted into a deep sleep.
The weekend went by pretty fast. We had our very first band rehearsal. Now I'm getting ready for another day of school. I don't get why we have to go to school and have to get a job or a house. We are all going to die anyway. Its like were all little puppets not really people... just little wooden dolls being controlled by someone who seems pretty fucked up. My mom walks in my room pulling me out of my thoughts. "You ready?" She asks. She was going to take me to school for the first time in years. I nod and head downstairs.
Crystals P.O.V
I was still shaken up about last night. I didn't want to go to school today the thought of it made me sick to my stomach. I head downstairs and see my mom in the kitchen. I have only talked to her once since our little argument a few days ago. "Why aren't you ready?" She asks looking at me. "I don't feel good." I say holding my stomach. I didn't tell her about what happened because she would just stress over it. "Okay but you have to go tomorrow." She says sitting down. I nod and grab some toast. I hear my mom talking to someone of the phone. I knew who it was by the way her face lit up. She hangs up and puts her cup in the sink. "So hows your new boyfriend?" I roll my eyes. She sighs "He's good. Maybe if you met him you'd like him."
"No I'm not meeting him and I dont want too."
"You're going to have to accept it sooner or later."
"How could you move on so quickly?!" I raise my voice.
She just looks at the sink ignoring me.
"Dad hasn't even been gone for two months and you're already in bed with some other dude."
My dad passed away a little bit ago in a car accident coming home from work.
She didn't say anything so I just ran upstairs and slammed my door.
My brother opens the door he was only 14 but he acted more grown up then me. "You okay?" He asks sitting next to me. We are really close I can tell him anything. "Yeah just mom and her boyfriend." I roll my eyes. "Yeah. I don't agree with that either but its mom we have to let her do whatever she wants. How's your cut?" Last night when I came home he noticed I was crying and every lie I told he didn't believe me so I sat down and told him everything. He promised not to tell mom after 10 minutes of begging him. I lift up my shirt and he examines it. "I can't believe somebody would do that."
"Right." I scoff. My door opened and I quickly pulled down my shirt. "What was that?" My mom asks walking up to me. Henry looked at me with a panicked look. "What?" I ask playing dumb. I needed to think of an excuse quick. My mom pulled up my shirt to reveal my cut. "That."
Fuck. Think think think!
"We were horsing around last night while you were out with your boyfriend and the shelf cut her." Henry said sounding convincing. "You know what I said about horse playing in the house." She said letting my shirt down. "We know. Sorry." He said looking at the ground. "Its okay. Hurry up Henry you're going to be late." My mom says walking out of my room. I pull Henry into a hug "Thank you soooo much." He laughs "I can't believe she bought it."
"I know right!" I agree. "Now get to school." I say pointing towards the door. He nods and walks out of my room as I close my door.
Luke's P.O.V
I didn't see Crystal today she's probably still shaken up about last night. Well now it will be easier to avoid her. I see Jessica at her locker laughing with her puppets. I walk up to her and slam her locker shut. "Oh hey Luke." She said smirking. "Why would you tell Crystal that?!" I practically yell. "Oh did she finally read the note?"
"No I did before she did and ripped it up. She doesn't need to know that Jessica."
"Why not? It's about time she finds out how much of a cheating bastard her dad is. He wasn't coming home from work before he got in the accident. He was coming from our house after he banged my mom." She laughs.
"Accident?" I asked confused.
"Yeah accident. Too bad he didn't survive." She shrugs and walks off laughing.
Crystals dad is dead?
I walk away and bump into Ashton. "Hey mate!" He says grabbing my shoulder. "Hi." I say walking beside him. "What's wrong?"
"Just shit with Jessica and Crystal." I shrug.
"Crystal? You better not be talking to her."
"Who cares?"
"I do you won't believe what she did to me last night!" He raises his voice. I stop in my tracks. "What.." I look at Ashton. Everyone was in class by now. "Yeah last night she saw me walking and started yelling at me about how I've changed you. She wouldn't stop pushing me. I tried to walk away but she wouldn't stop. I turn around to tell her to stop and that's when she punched me in the face. At first I didn't do anything I just started to walk away and she hit me again and again. So I snapped." He says. I didnt know if he was lying or not. "So you cut her side with a knife!?"
"What do you mean cut her?" He seemed confused. "She has a cut on her stomach." I grit my teeth.
"I didn't have anything to do with that. I swear." I thought about it for awhile. "Are you telling the truth?"
"Yes. 100 percent true all I did was walk away."
"I can't believe she'd lie to me."
I say feeling hurt.
"Sorry mate." Ashton says patting my back before walking off. I decided to ditch school and go to Crystal's. I walk up to her doorstep and knock on the door. After a few minutes the door opens and I see Crystal standing there. "Luke?"
"Is your mom home?"
"No shes at work."
"Good. We need to talk. Now."
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HAI MY LOVES! HOPED YOU LIKED IT!! Ashton!? Did he do it?
You don't know...
Well shit me either..
The boy in the picture is Henry BTW! ANNNYYYWAYYYY PLEASE VOTE AND COMMEMT THATD BE NICE! LURV YOU! BYE!!!
