my baby - luke hemmings

Chapter 1 - Home sweet home

Home sweet home

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As Luke steps out of the Uber, the familiar warm air hits him in the face. The smell of the trees and the grass overwhelm him. Its enough to make him cry before he's even seen his mum yet.

He walks up to the door dragging his suitcases behind him and sees it swing open right before he goes to knock. Lukes mum Liz just looks at him and she knows how bad it is.
There's only been a couple of times Lukes come home a mess like this but Liz can see that this is different. Her son looks like death. He's wearing a ripped dirty black t-shirt. grey sweatpants, his hair is a mess like he just woke up and his eyes are red and blood shot like they're about to fall out of his head.

She pulls him inside the door and wraps her arms around him. He has to lean down to reach her because of how tall he is compared to his mum, but he practically falls into her arms. They stand there for a bit. Liz can feel Lukes chest collapsing and every now and again letting out little sobs. She just holds on tighter.

"I never thought this would happen Mum. I didn't think i would ever feel like this but, it hurts so bad. it hurt so bad i can feel it, i can feel it in my whole body" Luke whispers through sobs. "I know baby, I know" Liz says "You're home now it's okay". They stay there for a bit until Liz pulls away and looks at him.

"Go upstairs and shower. I'll Make you something to eat, okay?" She says. Luke just nods and looks away. Luke hates crying in front of people. He thinks it makes him look weak.

He makes his way up the stairs to his old room. His mum keeps it clean and ready incase he ever wants to come back. The blonde throws his suitcases down and rifles through them to find clean clothes and goes into the bathroom.

The sight of himself in the mirror is unbearable. He looks like crap. And he feels even worse than he looks. He hasn't showered or eaten in days.  You could tell by how pale his skin was and how dark around his eyes were. He strips off his clothes and turns on the water and tries to wash away the pain and betrayal that felt like it had seeped into his skin.

Once he was clean and dressed he went back downstairs. Feeling better, physically because he was clean, but worse than ever mentally.
He sees the sun is about to set outside the window. It's golden hour and the rays are streaming in through the blinds. He looks at the bench and sees a sandwich his mum made him and a coffee. Luke sits down and eats his food and drinks his coffee. Surprisingly he does feel slightly better with food in his stomach but he still can't escape his thoughts.

He walks into the lounge room to see his mum sitting there watching The Chase. "Hey honey, feel better?" she says smiling. "Uh yeah actually, i do" he says weakly "Listen i'm gonna go for a walk to clear my head okay? i'll be back in a bit" he states clearly "Okay be safe" she says as Luke is already walking towards the front door.

Luke steps outside and it's much darker than before. Still not completely night time but the sun was almost down. He skips around the side of his house in long strides to the path that leads to the park behind his house.

When Luke was little he used to run to park behind his house and sit in this one tree for hours. Just people watching. He figures he used to do his best thinking there when he was younger so, he will go back and see if it helps him work through things in his head.

The park is empty. Only a man leaving with his dog as Luke walks in. He nods to the man signalling that it's okay and he means no harm, and makes his way over to his tree. As he gets closer he sees a figure of a small person sitting underneath it. He can't tell if it's a teenage girl or a little boy. He walks a few more metres and stops to look. It's a girl. Her dark, shoulder length hair covering her face as she looks down at what appears to be something she is writing.

Luke contemplated turning around and leaving, but just as he goes to a voice yells out "Can i help you?"
The girl turns her head to look at him revealing her green eyes that seem to be judging Luke immensely for standing there staring at her like a stalker.

"i said" She stands up from her spot on the ground. "Can i help you?" she states clearly with hands on her hips. He thinks this is her way of trying to look intimidating but she's 5'4 at best and small in stature so she looks like a little girl standing up to her parents. 

"Umm no, Sorry. My bad"

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