seashells - l.h

nine

It had gotten pretty late and I automatically thought that it was pretty nice out to go to the beach. I touched my closed window to feel the weather and I noticed the window had been pretty cold for a summer night. So I threw on a pair of skinny jeans and a regular black hoodie and ran out of the house. The minute I walked out of the house I realize that the automatic cold smacked my face. The streetlights illuminated the path, and the moon glistened along the water giving the ocean a white streak. I went to the same bench I sit on every night and noticed Luke had beat me there. Instead he had been sitting on the sand with his back against the bench leaving the whole bench to be vacant.

I smiled softly. "Hey."

He looked up at me from staring out into nowhere and gave me a faint smile back. "Hey, Lily." I took a seat next to him on the sand and stared out into the open with him. "I wonder what Obama's doing." He said causing a chuckle out of the both of us. "Probably sitting on his ass doing nothing." I said. He nodded and laughed, "Most Likely." We just sat there and soaked in the bitter cold. "Oh, Somewhere in Neverland must be fantastic." He said looking up at the moon. "I assume you're talking about the star." I said chuckling. "Follow the second star to the right, and straight on 'till morning." He quoted. "You're quite into Disney, huh?" I smiled because Peter Pan is one of my favorite Disney movies. "I am." He said quietly. I threw on my hoodie and played with the strings. "Favorite?" I asked.

"The little mermaid." He answered. "Luke, are you okay?" He was never this quiet in all the times we've spoken. "I'm good, just really tired." He said running a hand through his hair and fixing his small quiff..more like a mini swirl though. "Why'd you come then?" I asked twirling the string. He then pulled a purple seashell out of his pocket and grabbed my hand. I gave him a confused look and he just chuckled at my expression and put the shell in my hand and closed my fingers over it. "I wanted to give you that shell." He said turning back to the view. Still a bit confused but a tiny bit of me knew he did this a lot. I just accepted it and put in my pocket and held onto it. "Thank you." I smiled softly. "I should be going." He said getting up and putting his hands in his pockets. I got up with him and stood in front of him. "Where you off to?" I asked. "Home to sleep." He said looking at me. "Okay." I said. "Want me to walk with you?" I asked. "Yeah go home, I don't think you should be out here by yourself." He said. He even looked tired..the bags under his eyes were so dark. "Okay, let's go." I said as we took the path up to my house.

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"Do you want my number?" He asked as he dropped me off at the front step of my house. "Yeah, sure." I said taking out my phone and giving it to him. He rapidly tapped my iPhone screen and handed me back my phone. "Name me whatever you want." He laughed. I just put in 'Luke'. He gave me his phone and I typed my number in and let him name me also. "I'm just putting your name, is that okay?" He laughed. "It's fine." I smiled. "Text ya later." He said smiling big as he walked off my property. He was a fun kid to be around.

I walked into my house and rested my back against the door and exhaled. "Is this a nightly thing?" My mom asked, eyes lazy. She probably just woke up. "Yeah I do this every night. But you're too blinded to realize that." I smirked. "Go to bed, you have school in the morning." I started heading for the stairs. "I'm not going." I sneered. "You're going." She said lazily going back to her bed. I'm not going.

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I couldn't sleep that night...I might've caught a bug at the beach because I've been vomiting all night. I kept tossing and turning, rocking back and forth and non stop running to the bathroom. Thought I wasn't going to school. Now I know, I'm not.

I decided to text Luke..even though it is about 4 in the morning.

Lily: hey. sorry this is late, i got sick and im bored

sent 4:32am

Figured he won't answer considering he looked really tired at the beach..so I didn't mind.

Luke: dont be sorry, i got sick too lol. I wanted to text you, just thought you were sleeping, so .

Lily: damn that beach

Luke: ive been throwing up all night lol

Lily: so have i ;/

Luke: i dont think im going to school tomorrow, lily lol

Lily: then we'll spend the day at the beach bc im not going either lol

Luke: DEAL

Sent 4:45am

Seen 4:46am

I wouldn't have left him on seen if I didn't run to the bathroom to throw up..

..shit happens!

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a/n

'DEAL!'

-anna