'Shift' // L.H.

•TWELVE•

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I also apologise in advance for this chapter. It might hurt you physically and emotionally.

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~MICHAEL~

She said yes. We are together, which brings her closer to me and further away from Luke.

Of course stretching the truth a little bit to make Alana mine is a little bit extreme. However, what she doesn't know will not hurt her.

So what if lied to Alana about Luke saying that he was only using her to tell her deepest secrets to the whole school? It was only a little bit far from the truth.

The truth is, after Alana told me everything that night in her room I knew she was falling for Luke. I couldn't let that happen because I had fallen for Alana and I needed her away from Luke.

She needed to be beside me.

"Good morning beautiful" I smiled to Alana as she rolled over to face me.

She weakly smiled back at me before getting up and throwing her clothes on.

"Where do you think you are going?" I say.

Alana began grabbing her things so I get up to keep her from leaving.

"Mikey put some clothes on please." She laughs trying to get away from my naked body.

I groan in aggravation."maybe I don't wanna."

Alana rolled her eyes at me and threw me a pair of boxers from my drawer.

"Okay fine I will put some clothes on for you." I smile wrapping my arms around her and attempting to kiss her but she turns her cheek quickly so I miss her lips.

"I uhm. Need to go." She says taking her things and walking out of my room.

"Let me drive you babe!" I yell stopping her before she walks out of the door.

"You don't want to do that." She states.

I grab Alana's shoulder and turn her around to face me. "Why not?"

"Because I'm going to Luke's" she says barely above a whisper.

I clench my fist. LUKE.

"We need to work on our project, it's not a big deal. Besides I need to talk to him about what he said to Ashton." She rushes.

Shit. If she talks to him, she's gonna know that I lied. Damn it.

"At least let me drive you." I say shocking myself and Alana.

"Alright then."

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"Luke I'm here!" Alana shouts out into the seemingly empty home.

"Coming!" He shouts somewhere from upstairs. He rushes down to meet my girlfriend and his grin fades as he makes eye contact with me and with my arm that is wrapped around Alana's waist.

"Hey Michael, didn't know you were here." Luke says attempting to shake my hand. I declined and before I know it we are all walking upstairs to his room.

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"Ugh I have writers block!" Alana shouts making me look up from my phone to see Luke sitting next to her on his bed. A little too close for comfort.

"I'm gonna get a drink." I say to particularly no one.

~LUKE~

"Luke I need to talk to you about something Michael told me." She says to me.

Alana seemed distraught. Nothing good can ever come from Michael. He slept with my girl.

"Yeah what is it?" I shift my body to sit closer to Alana and I wrap an arm around her waist.

What Michael doesn't know won't hurt him. Besides he's down stairs he will never know that I touched his girlfriend.

Which is a bit weird since when did Alana like Michael?

"So...Did you do it?"

"I'm sorry what?" I say embarrassed.

"Did you know I was flyaway the whole time? Did you tell Ashton that you were only using me to know all of my secrets? Michael told me that you said that to Ashton."

"No I didn't do any of that. Of course Michael would tell you that to keep you away from me." Obviously annoyed I was too dumb to realise Michael was in the room watching us. "But I wouldn't blame you if you believe your boyfriend over me."

"No, I don't even like Michael like that, we are best friends. The truth is I slept with him twice and agreed to date him so you would maybe notice me. And...maybe like me."

Is that true? Well it worked I definitely noticed. And I definitely like her.

What am I saying!

Michael clears his throat making Alana jump off the bed and to his side.

She gripped onto his shirt in tears. "Mikey I didn't, I - I'm sorry! I didn't want to break your heart and say no."

Michael rolls his eyes and shoves her off of him making her fall to the floor. "Well too late, my heart is already broken."

"Hey! You can't push her!" I yell making Michael laugh.

"She fucking used me to get to you mate! Why don't you get that she is just a whore who always gets what she wants."

In complete anger I punch Michael's jaw making him stumble back. This turned into a full fledged fist fight.

"No stop!" Alana shouts trying to pull me off of Michael.

"I loved her! She was my best friend! And you ruined it!" Michael screams in my ear.

"You ruined it for yourself the second you lied to her and tried to pull me out of her life." Another punch to his face. "Just face it! You knew she liked me as more than a friend and you couldn't stand the fact of being friend zoned!"

Michael knees me in the stomach and rolls on top of me giving me punch after punch. "She deserves someone better than you!"

"Well I like her too Michael. So you know what? I'm not gonna make the same mistake that you did. I'm gonna install my trust in her and she will trust me too!"

"Stop it you two!" Alana cries out.

I punch Michael in the face making him lay down in pure pain unable to move. "Oh another thing is, you will have to live with the fact that you let an incredibly wonderful girl walk out of your life. It is no ones fault but yours." I pick him in the stomach and he groans in pain. "Now get out of my house."

Michael stumbles to his feet. And spits at me. "If it wasn't obvious we are through. Don't talk to me again." He stares directly at Alana making her shake with more tears.

"Come here." I say opening my arms to her. She happily accepts my hug. And I pull her off of her feet and place her on my bed.

"I'm gonna get washed up you rest." I say. She nods to me and I get up and head to the shower.

I wasn't even ten minutes into my shower when I hear the door being opened and closed and a bit of shuffling.

Before I know it Alana is standing in the shower with me.

"Hi." She smiles

I smirk back at her. "Hi"

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So now that that is over.

I'm terribly sorry that I've made Alana out to be a bit of a hoe bag who you probably hate.

It will get better trust me!

-shelbae