In the Clouds

Ch. 14

I'm really sorry for not updating in like 3 months it's insane. I just really want to finish this fanfiction really badly so I will continue. Thanks for being so awesome!

That second night with Luke was pure magic. No other words can explain it well enough. His arms are my new safe place. I never felt safer anywhere in the whole wide world. I was meant for him and he was meant for me. Flashbacks of us together- our first kiss, our last kiss, and all the ones that are yet to come- swam in my mind as day after day passed. As I came closer and closer to the day that him and I were scheduled to go to Sydney together, I wanted to go more and more. My mind was a book and I just knew that this trip would be an important chapter, so I had to go. At first I thought I would try my best but now it's different. Now my feelings have somehow gotten stronger. I'm desperate now. I would do anything it takes to go to Sydney because I feel like I need this. I need this kind of love. It's the kind I have never experienced. This something new. Something special. Something beautiful.

The next morning my dad was reading the paper before heading out to go to work and I knew I had to ask him about me going to Sydney. My mom wasn't the kind to make things easier and ask him for me. She wanted me to ask him myself and earn the courage that it takes to ask him something like that. I hoped and hoped that he would let me go.

"Hey Dad I wanted to ask you about something," I coughed while my hands shook in nervousness at my sides.

"Sure Princess ask on," he replied, his eyes staying glued to the newspaper.

"You remember Luke?" I mumbled, his eyes suddenly leaving the newspaper at the mention of Luke's name. He put down the paper and looked at me from over his glasses.

"Yes I remember," he grumbled. I could tell his mind was taken up by the only time he ever saw Luke which was back when him and mom walked in on us in the living room.

"Well he wants me to umm," I quavered. "He wants me to go to Sydney with him for a short trip." I spat. My dad replied with a sigh, which was a signal of thinking.

"Look, honey," my eyes grew wide as I stared into my fathers, begging God for this chance. "I know you are a good kid but I just don't know Luke."

"Trust me he is a great guy he just is so ama-" my dad cut me off.

"No, stop." my dad demanded as he took a pause to think some more. "This is crazy," he laughed. He stared at the floor for a bit and then sighed. "Okay I've decided. I'll let you go if I get to meet him first." Happiness took every inch of my body over. I was so joyful and in such disbelief that I almost wanted to ask him 'really? You're letting me go?' I couldn't believe what was happening to me.

"Thank you Dad, really. You will not regret this, I promise. I'll be smart." I assured as I somewhat lied knowing there's nothing I can be other then the real me when I'm with Luke. The head-in-the-clouds me. The best me there is. The me that only Luke can bring to life.

"Just know the only reason I'm letting you go is because I know you're a hard worker at school and a good person. I want you to explore the world and learn to be a little independent. I trust you and know that you are growing up and when I was your age I did all the same things..." he went on with a whole long speech about being responsible for myself. He ended with the announcement that he was late for work and went on his way. He left me standing there in an ocean of pure glee swimming around with no destination to go to, no directions to follow. Just a head full of running squirrels.

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Dad met Luke the next day over dinner. Both of my parents really liked him, and everything fell into place. A few awkward laughs was basically it. He left at 8 and my dad gave me the final okay to go to Sydney. The next day was the day before I was going to Sydney. I was with Jade all day. I decided to spend the whole day with her because I was going away the day after that. I tried to not talk about Sydney, which was a lot harder than it sounds, because I knew Jade would do anything to be in my place. She loves 5SOS, she always has loved 5SOS.