British Invader

Chap19-A long-time-coming Last Day

The covers fell off of the bed, leaving me cold. A shiver ran through my body as I woke up. My head was on Luke’s bare chest and for a minute I couldn’t remember why. Then I realized the severity of what we’d done. Luke and I had shown each other how much we loved each other. I jumped out of bed, shocked. Locating my clothes, I redressed and grabbed my phone. My movement caused Luke to turn over, but he didn’t wake.

‘Shae! I’ve done something terrible!’ I quickly texted my best friend hoping she knew how to fix this. I wasn’t ready for the responsibility that came with sex like pregnancies or diseases. Or what if I fell too in love. A soft knock answered my thoughts and I was kind of scared to answer it.

As I opened the door, my fingers were crossed that it wasn’t my parents.

“What’s wrong wit…” I threw my hand over Shae’s mouth so she didn’t wake Luke. I pulled her in my room so she could see, but pushed her out the door so we could go somewhere else and talk.

“Did you guys just, you know?!” I scolded my friend for talking loud then told her everything in a whisper. “My parents can not find out! I’m supposed to wait til marriage! I’ve never screwed up this badly! They can’t find out. And what does this mean for me and Luke.”

“Your parents went to work after lunch if that makes you feel better. Why did you do it if you didn’t think you were ready?”

“I didn’t think about being ready! My body has wanted to jump that boy since I looked in those green eyes. I’m just freaking out because it was perfect, but what if we aren’t ready? Isn’t this too much pressure? And we won’t have time to talk it out, he’s leaving!”

My bedroom door cracked open and Luke walked out in his shorts and no shirt. My yelling had probably woken him.

“What time is it? If I miss that flight my Aunt will be pissed!” He was all smiles and grins until he saw my face. Being on the verge of tears I knew I wasn’t looking my best. “What’s wrong? Was it me? Did I push us too far?” He rushed to me and pulled me in a hug, my tears finally falling. I was a little embarrassed to be crying all over him, my tears streaking down his chest, but I could only hope he understood.

“I don’t think you realize how much I love you. Talk to me because this is freaking me out. I’m not sure if I did something wrong because this is my first time being with someone in an intimate setting.” Luke squeezed me tight and I thought he’d never let go, but eventually he did to look at my face.

“Sorry to interrupt, but it’s almost three o’clock. What time is your flight?” Shae looked sad as if she understood.

“I leave at five, but my flight leaves around six. That means I only have two hours to fix whatever’s wrong with you, sweetheart.”

I still wasn’t able to speak, but I pushed Luke back into my room, on my bed so that I could sit in his lap.

“Shae can you please bring me some water?” Once my friend was gone I looked into Luke’s eyes feeling his concern for me.

“I don’t want to lose you because of what we just did.” I looked down at my hands, slightly ashamed.

“What we just did was love each other! You’re not going to lose me because you love me. I’m not the type of guy to get frightened by that word. Especially since I love you back! Stephanie, you don’t realize how much you’ve changed me. I feel complete. Never has a woman done that for me. Never has a woman loved me back and not broken my heart. That’s what makes me think that two continents and an ocean will not be enough to keep us apart. But this will only work if both of us are committed and I know I am. If you’re going to break my heart, do it now. Don’t wait until I’m depending on you to communicate and you give up on me. If you’re going to do it, do it now because it’ll hurt a lot less than when I’m in England trying to call you or video chat you and all I get is static. Love me with your whole heart because that’s how I’m loving you.”

It was quiet until Shae came in the room with my water. I gulped it all down before talking. “Alright Luke, I do love you. I just hope it’s not too much. I hope my love doesn’t scare you away or into the arms of some British lad. I want you to be mine even across the ocean and two continents. Do you promise to be faithful and honest to me? One day we might meet people who we fall in love with, but we have to be honest with one another. I promise to do that for you, can you do the same for me?” Luke shook his head then kissed me. He kissed me with all of him as I felt feelings brewing deep in my stomach.

Shae coughed. It was crazy how we’d so quickly forgotten about her. “Sorry Shae! Thank you for being there for me and letting me freak out.”

“Anytime! What are friends for? Now I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but you have one hour for your goodbyes. Who knows when you’ll see each other again.”

“I’m going to freshen up and get dressed. I’ll meet you down stairs.” Luke took the rest of his clothes with him to my bathroom as Shae and I headed downstairs.

“Are you good?” She bear hugged me at the bottom of the stairs.

“Yes, I just needed to know he loved me. I needed to know I meant to him what he means to me. I’m satisfied know I do.” We sat in the living room. Shae finished watching her TV show as I waited for Luke, my love. 

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A/N: Oh My Gosh! I feel soo bad for not uploading for a semester! I can blame it on college, I can blame it on all my creative juices being used in Creative Writing English 2060, or I can blame it on me joining a soroity! but I won't! I'm just going to apologize to you guys and actually keep my promise at finishing this story! I have a fun, but clear summer ahead of me and I will fill it with writing :)

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I really do appreciate you guys for motivating me to finish this story. At times I fall out of love with these characters or this story. Sometimes it's hard to write goodbyes (especially since I'm saying goodbye to half my graduating friends and with college there's no telling where they'll end up and if I'll see them again) but when it get's hard I think about you guys and I can write more. So Thank you soo much for reading and encouraging.