Chances

Seven.

We've been in the air for a while and Mickey keeps looking at me with that "Just fucking do it" look. I turn to Ashton and give him the bullshit about how 'I've had feeling for him ever since we were twelve and was wondering' *bites lip* 'would you go out with me'. We're both fighting laughs and he pretends to tear up. 'I do!' He shrieks.

Once we get off the plane, we hold hands.

"What's going on here, hm?" Mickey asks and wiggles his eyebrows. I bury my head into Ash's side and laugh. I look up and my eyes lock with Luke's. For the brief moment, I saw something in his eyes. He looked... Hurt? No, he couldn't be. Why would he?

"When are we meeting Charlize?" I ask. I really want to meet her.

"She should be here soon." Cal says. As he says that, a black and pink motorcycle pulls up. What the hell?

The woman on the bike takes off her helmet and sets in on the handle bars. Holy shit.

"Cha?" I scream.

"Liv?" She yells back.

"Oh, my god! The guys showed me a picture and I thought you looked familiar! How could I have forgotten?" I run towards her and hug her.

"What's going on?" Mickey asks.

"Cha has been my internet best friend since we were eleven!" I say while still hugging her. I start sobbing.

"Awe, babe, why are you crying?" Ashton asks with a worried look on his face.

"I finally get to meet her! I've been waiting for this moment for years!" I'm screaming.

"How come you never mentioned her before?" Cal asks.

"We have a brief falling out. I didn't believe her when she said Michael Clifford was her brother. I guess I'm put in my place." She explains our major fight.

"It wasn't a falling out. We didn't speak for three years." I pout.

"I know. But now you're here! I'm here! We're here!" She says and starts running.

"She changes moods fast." Luke mumbles.

"What do you mean?" I ask, folding my arms over my chest.

"She was just all cool and now she's running around the place." He says pointing out the fact she is now on the floor laughing.

"Yeah. I think you'll get used to it." I tell him. 'But with how you've been acting you might be a punk ass hoe' my subconscious adds. I laugh.

"What's so funny?" He asks. I laugh harder and he chuckles. I fall to the floor clutching his arm to keep the balance I have left. I'm trying to catch my breath. He starts laughing harder than he was.

"What are you laughing at?" I ask him through my cackles.

"You're face is so red! And you're fucking howling!" He screams. I missed this. We used to be so close but recently he's been so distant. We've been drifting away. Tears brim my eyes as I remember 2010's Halloween.

"Liv, you ready?" Luke calls from the bottom of our staircase. The guys and I are matching for Halloween; we're all going as Scooby-Doo characters. I'm Daphne, Ash is Shaggy, Mickey is Scooby, Luke is Fred, and Calum is actually Velma. I laugh at the thought of Calum in a skirt.

"Coming!" I yell and out on the small purple heels for my outfit. I stand at the top of the stairs and look at 'The Gang'. We're going to a Halloween party, so we rented a 'Mystery Machine', literally. It has the whole damn design on it. Cost us a shitload. Luke looks adorable in his orange ascot. "Are we ready to do this or what?" I say and snake my arm through Luke's.

We only spent about ten minutes at the party, it was too boring. The only thing there that we could do was play twister with strangers in lingerie.

We end up going to a small fro-yo parlor for the rest of the night out, getting three cups each. I end up falling asleep on Mickey's arm in the car and we all crash at Luke's flat. I slept on his bed with him while the guys slept on the couch. I woke up the next day loving the feel of his arms around me.

"Liv?" Luke calls and I wipe my eyes. He gives me a concerned look. I give him a bullshit excuse like 'I laughed too hard' but I guess he knows me better than that.

"Liv, please.. Tell me what's wrong.." He says.

"Just old memories. I'm fine." I say and feel the tears brimming as I remember how Luke has been treating me. I run into the nearest bathroom and silently cry my eyes out. Someone opens the door and I rush into a stall.

"Liv? Liv, I know you're in there." She says.

"Go away Cha." I sniffle.

"What happened? Luke is worried about you." She says as I hear her go into the stall next to me and climb onto the toilet. She peers her head over the stall door and looks down at me. I stare at the stall door.

"He shouldn't be. He caused this. He doesn't even care about me, and he's proven that more than once over the past few days." I say and wipe the tears that won't stop falling. He was my best friend. I turned to him in my worst moments. Yeah, I know I keep going back and forth with calling Ash and Luke my best friends, but it's different. I told Ash all the basic things that would make him my best friends, but I told Luke shit that would crush Ash if he ever knew. Luke is my other half, no matter how much I don't want to admit it.

"Liv?" There's a knock on the woman's bathroom door. It's Luke. I look up at Cha with a 'please don't tell him I'm still in here' look.

"I couldn't find her. I even inspected the stalls, nobody is in here." She shrugs and walks towards Luke.

"I'm worried. I-I know I probably shouldn't admit this to you, considering how close you two are, but I really do care about her. More than she could ever know. I think about her when I shouldn't but now she's with Ash and it...it breaks me. I need her to be okay so I can be okay. She's the ying to my yang, she's my other half. I'm only okay when she is." He pauses.

"I love her."