Try// l.h

1.5

"Can you believe winter break is already over? You've stayed at my house for like 3 weeks now." I said smiling at Luke as we laid on my bed looking at the ceiling.

"And, your birthday is in 5 days." Luke said smiling back at me before he started to frown.

"What's got you down now?" I asked sitting up and looking down at him.

"My dad is gonna kill me when I get home. I've been gone for 2 weeks. God, I'm so stupid. Why did I come here? This was the worst idea ever." He replied shaking his head and sitting up.

"Hey. You can still stay with me until we figure something out ok? It's all gonna be ok." I said grabbing his hands and forcing him to look me in the eyes.

"Don't you have maybe a sister or your mum you could stay with? Your dad has a good paying job right? That's why you live in such a nice home. I bet he's nicer during the day. Maybe we can work something out." I said squeezing tighter on Luke's hands.

"I have brothers but they live in Australia with my mom. I'm not allowed to stay there. My dad is the only one I can live with." Luke said pulling away from me and walked down the hall closing the bathroom door.

I sighed getting up and walking into the kitchen where my mum was doing the dishes.

"Hey mum?" I asked quietly standing next to her.

"What do you want this time?" She asked smiling slightly at me. Chris hasn't been over in almost 2 weeks and my mum has been a lot happier around Jack.

"I know I asked if Luke could stay here for just winter break but can we please stay longer?" I said as she stared at me wide eyed and crossed her arms.

"No mum just. It would be a really nice favor and he needs it. Just for a few more days." I asked whining slightly.

"Parker, Nick is gonna be staying in the basement for awhile so Luke can't stay down there. I'm sorry Parker but no." She said shaking her head and going back to the dishes.

"He can sleep in my room." I replied getting the idea.

"You aren't sleeping in the same bed together" My mum replied quickly shaking her head and giving me another no.

"We don't like each other like that!  Nothing would happen I swear. Just please. Just a few more days." I pleaded and she rolled her eyes.

"If you stop asking for stuff then fine. But I swear if I see any condoms or condom wrappers or if I hear anything related to sex, he's out." She said giving me a stern look.

"Yeah I don't think Michael would be too pleased about that. Thanks mum!" I said before running down the hall and knocking on the bathroom door.

"Luke open up" I said waiting for him to the open the door but all I could hear on the inside was crying.

I tried opening the door only to find it was locked. God damn it Luke. I raced to go get a bobby pin and heard the lock click. I opened the door and walked in to see Luke crying and holding his arm against his chest.

"Go away." He cried as I closed the door. I quickly walked over to see blood was staining his shirt.

"Oh my god. No no no. Luke no." I said pulling his arm away as blood was dripping from his arm.

"Mum! Mum!! Call an ambulance!" I screamed as Luke cried harder and I covered my hands on his arm.

"It's gonna be ok, Alright just breathe. It's gonna be ok." I cried with Luke as my mum raced into the bathroom with the phone.

"I called, they're on their way." She shouted as she looked at the two of us on the floor.

shortly after the ambulance was pulled into our drive way and Luke was being rushed into the back of it. I followed him into the ambulance and sat next to him holding his hand.

"It's gonna be ok." I cried kissing his hand.

"Ma'am you need to stay back we need to rush him in." One of the doctors said quickly pulling Luke out of the ambulance and rushing him inside as I waited by the ambulance not letting myself go inside too afraid.

"Parker. Oh my god what happened?" My mum asked running up to me after she got out of her car.

"I. I don't know. I went into the bathroom and he was bleeding. Why would he do something like that to himself?" I asked sobbing as my mum pulled me into her shoulder.

"Come on Park. Let's go wait inside." She said walking us into the hospital as I cried into her shoulder.

After a good hour or two a nurse came out with a clipboard.

"Is anyone here for." She paused looking at the clipboard then back up. "Luke Hemmings?" She asked looking around as I quickly stood up and ran over to her.

"Yeah. Yeah I'm here for him. Is he ok?" I rushed trying to wipe away tears that were still falling.

"Yes he's doing better now. Visiting hours are still open so I'll let you go see him. You will want to go easy on him since we just got done with his stitches and we gave him antibiotics. Are you related to him or are his parents here?" She asked looking past me.

"Uh no. He's staying at my house his family lives in Australia. Can I go see him now?" I asked biting on my nails.

"Yes, please follow me this way." she said turning on her heel and down the hall as I quickly followed behind her.

"Are you his girlfriend?" She asked trying to make conversation.

"What? Uh no. No just a friend." I said snapping out of my thoughts as we arrived to his door.

"You can head on in." She said giving me a small smile before walking back down the hall the other way. I took in a deep breathe before slowly twisting the knob and allowing myself in.

"Hey." I said as he smiled at me slightly as I closed the door.

"You look tired." I said softly and sat down beside him. He looked at me before speaking.

"Why did you help me?" He asked looking down at his arm that was wrapped up.

"Luke I care about you-"

"No you don't Parker. Ever since you found out about my dad you've acted nice to me. When school starts you're just gonna leave me in the dust again and act like a bitch because of your reputation but I'm done with it. I'm gonna talk to Calum and see if I can stay there until someone can come with me to talk to my dad. When I get released I'm gonna get my stuff and leave. Don't pretend you care about me. Just please for the love of god leave me alone. You have a boyfriend. You should be caring about him." Luke spoke before looking out the window.

"Luke I'm not gonna just forget about you when school starts back up. But if you want me to leave then fine. I will. You should at least be thankful I got you here when I could and didn't just leave you on the bathroom floor." I spat walking out the door, past my mum and down the street.