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Chapter 16 - fallen

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Piper woke up to three boys standing above her with huge grins on their faces. As she opened her eyes, letting them know that she was eventually awake, all of them awed at the same time. Like she was something so very adorable to look at. Rolling her eyes she let out a laugh and then she sat up in the bed, so that she could get to her feet and eventually get dressed.

Just as she stood up and pair of arms were around her hugging her tightly. "You came back!" What she recognized as Luke's voice almost shouted in her ear and she could hear the delight and happiness in his voice. Then she felt herself be lifted from the ground as he swung her around and for a moment she couldn't help but think she was in the middle of that cheesy moment in movies where couples reunite and the boy swings the girl around, except she wasn't. Luke was only her friend, and yet Calum wasn't more than that either. Piper didn't want him too be more than her "friend", yet.

When Luke finally put her back down on the ground she was laughing, giggles bubbling out of her mouth at the silly thing he had just done. "Yeah, I couldn't just steal your flannel, now could I?" She questioned as an answer to his earlier statement. He just grinned at her and that was when she noticed that he was wearing that exact flannel they were speaking about right in that moment. Piper almost frowned, why was he wearing it again, she had been sitting with it in a bathroom for half a day, and he had been laying on a bathroom floor with it. That shirt should have been washed, not worn, so why was he wearing it?

She wanted to ask, but she stopped herself. What he did wasn't really her business. If he wanted to wear a dirty flannel shirt then what right did she have to stop him? She just kept smiling at him, just trying to forget about it, it wasn't that bad considering she was wearing the same pants for the fourth day in a row or something. She should have probably bought some new ones, but she couldn't afford any and she had no way to get back home. She didn't want to either, for that matter.

"I guess you couldn't." Luke chuckled back at her, he knew that he had left that flannel with her for more reasons than just the gesture. He had also left it with her so that she would have a reason to come back to their bus and that Calum would get a chance to talk to her. His little plan had obviously worked, and that was some of the reason of why he was smiling so widely down at her. Those blue eyes sparkling like gems in the sun. The other reason was because he was genuinely happy that she was back, both for his friends happiness and maybe a bit because she was his friend now. The last reason was the unspeakable reason that he couldn't help but find her beautiful, and he didn't know why. All he knew was that he tried to push it away. He didn't want to ever look at his friend's girl that way.

Piper chuckled too at his answer and then the two realized that the two boys carrying the names Ashton and Michael were looking at them in confusion and even worry. None of them knew about Piper and Luke's meeting in the bathroom so to them this friendship was very new. Ashton was the first of them to speak up out of the two.

"Somebody care to explain?" He questioned, moving his hand from Luke to Piper as trying to show that he meant all they had just performed in front of them. The two gave each other a look as asking each other who was going to say something, and Luke gave Piper a nod. Allowing her to tell the two other boys why they were suddenly all super friendly.

"Yeah." Piper chuckled slightly realizing how confusing it must have been for them. "Well, when you guys were at the café yesterday, I was in the bathroom and Luke found me there." She paused thinking of what to say next or if there even was more to say.

"We talked a bit, you can say." Luke added in and Piper nodded, hoping that it was enough said. She always felt that she was really bad at explaining things, so she just tried her best and hoped people understood them. Mostly because when they didn't she had no idea what she was supposed to do. She always did her best to explain and if people didn't get it that didn't mean she could explain it any better.