Tattooed Hearts (Lashton)

Chapter 28

"Hey Luke!" Someone yelled from the hallway I just exited. I turned around and saw Hunter running up to me. A grin appeared on my face and when he was standing in front of me he shoved a piece of paper in my face.

"Do you want to compare schedules?" Hunter asked, a little too excited for a Monday morning. I grabbed the paper from his hand and saw he had several classes with me. Most of them being the ones I didn't share with Michael and usually sat alone.

"You have 4 classes with me, but Michael is in Math too, so we can't sit together then, but the others we can" I said.

"If you want to I mean" I quickly added sheepishly. Hunter now had a grin too and put his arm through mine. He started walking to our class, French.

"Hey fag! Got a new boyfriend?" A guy yelled from behind us and unfortunately I know that voice all too well. Jake.

"Hey homophoob! He does not, he just got a new best friend unlike you" Hunter yelled, not looking back and waving him off. I didn't get to see Jakes face, but I'm sure I was going to pay for this. Strangely it didn't bother me a lot, I mean the pain was unfortunate but only a few months left before graduation.

Hunter and I walked in the classroom and greeted our teacher. I sat down in my seat and Hunter sat down on my right. I looked out the window and saw Michael. I waved at him but he didn't see me. He stood up shortly after and walked up to someone. That someone being Calum. They sat down in the grass on the sportsfield. Class started and I turned towards the teacher.

After 25 minutes of explaining our new assignment we were put to work. Hunter turned towards me and asked if he could fly by my place to start. We had to get to know each other and then present them to the class in French.

"Yeah sure" was my answer. We didn't do much after as we decided to start after school so we just talked.

"Hey isn't that Michael?" Hunter asked pointing out the window. I followed his finger and saw Michael leave with Cal and... Ash?

"Yeah..." I mumbled, a confused look on my face

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"Luke, you ready to go?" Calum asked, opening the door to mine and Ash's bedroom and sticking his head through the opening he made. I nodded and stood up. I walked down to the lobby with Ashton and Calum. We got inside Ashton's car and we drove off to the Church. I haven't said anything since I got up this morning and I don't know how I'm going to during the funereal. Me, Michael, Ashton and Calum were going to sing Jeydon's favourite song. We played it for him a lot when the three of us shared a room in the hospital.

We arrived at the church and walked inside. The church wasn't very big and existed out of a few rooms. The main room, the on you walk in to first and the biggest. A room for the priest and a little room where you can pray in private. The funeral was held in the main room.

The main room wasn't very big either. It had an altar, and 12 rows of chairs. The chairs were old fashioned ones, where you can sit on your knees and pray. They were made out of wood and not at all comfortable. The room had a shape of a cross, the road in the lower part, in the left part of the church was a statue of Maria, surrounded by candles and also two separate chairs you can sit on. There was also a place where you can confess your sins to the priest. The right part had 6 extra rows of chairs. The top part of the room was formed in half a circle. There was a wooden plank where the back row of the choir could stand on and the front stood on the ground, on a little stage like place.

The altar was placed in the middle. It had several sizes of candles on it and all the other stuff the priest uses. Jeydon was placed in front of the altar, surrounded by candles. The cuffin was open so people can say their goodbyes at the end, right before his family is going to bury him.