Holding Hands;lrh

Twelve*

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Today is the day that my dad's picking me up from school, and I couldn't be happier. I was finally going to see him after the longest time. I know I sound like a little kid, but my dad and I used to be really close before he ended up leaving.

"Hey if you want a ride home today My dads coming after school and picking me up so if you want a ride your welcome to come with us," I said to anyone listening at the table as we all ate our food at lunch.

"Alright well then I might tag along because I don't want to walk today," Mike said.

"Oh shit," Luke said and frantically opened his backpack. He continued to search through it while Mike and I watched him. He then gave up and covered his face with his hands. "I'm going to have to ask for a ride because I forgot my bus money at home."

"Yea it won't be a problem Luke no worries," I said.

Me: hey you don't mind giving a couple friends a ride home today would you?

Dad: no and who are they?

Me: Luke the person I said you might be able to meet, and Michael my step-brother.

Dad: yea I don't have a problem with it...

Me: cool then I'll see you at 3:00 then

Dad: alright see you then love you xo

Me: love you too

It was then when the bell rang for the last period of the day, and I got up and walked to my history class with Michael. It was weird having a class with my brother, but I'm just glad that we're friends now.

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It was now the end of the day, and I was at my locker. I was waiting on Mike and Luke, and Luke was finally here.

"Hey," Luke sighed.

"Hey what's wrong?"

"I'm just tired and today is just not my day," he said.

"I'm sorry," I said and gave him a hug.

"It's okay," he said hugging me back. "I just really want to go home and sleep."

"I know how that feels," I said remembering all the times I would come home from school and cry myself to sleep.

"Hey you ready?" Michael asked coming by us.

"Yea lets get out of here," I said over the loud noise of the kids in our high school's hallway.

I lead the way out of the school and walked a little further away and that's when I spotted my dad by the gates. A smile found it's way onto my face as I walked towards him. I sighed in relief as he didn't flake this time around. I hugged him once I got close enough, and the all too familiar scent of his cologne filled my nose. It was something I always loved about my dad when I was a kid.

"It's really good to see you dad," I said.

"It's really really good to see you to," he said smiling.

It was then when I noticed how much older he looked. He had more wrinkles, he was still wearing that eyeliner, his hair was still black, but he just looked older. I guess that just comes, and you can't really stop it from happening, especially when you abuse drugs like he did.

"Look how much you've grown," he said looking at me.

"Eh I haven't changed that much," I said shrugging my shoulders.

"Yea?" he asked. "Last time I saw you you were just getting into high school."

"That's right," I said. "Sorry."

Looking back I saw Michael and Luke standing in utter shock a few feet away. I got confused and they came up to me.

"Elle do you know who this is?" Michael whispered to me looking at him.

"Yea he's my dad," I said.

"Elle this is Billie Joe Armstrong this is not your dad," he said.

"Yea that's my dad," I said confused. "It's in the last name."

"So I'm guessing both of you like my band?" My dad said.

"Uh like more like worship," Michael said.

"Oh," I said finally realising what was going on. Michael and Luke were fans of my dad's band. I should have known.

"Sorry," Luke said. "It's rude of me my names Luke Hemmings and this is Michael Clifford."

"Well it's nice to meet you both how about we start getting you two home," my dad said.

"Sure sounds good,"

"Okay,"

We all headed towards my dad's car, and got in the black SUV. As the car started the radio started blaring music.

Every memory of looking out the back door

I had the photo album spread out on my bed room floor

It's hard to say it, time to say it.

Goodbye goodbye

It was Nickleback, and not going to lie by the smirk on Luke's face and the way he was mouthing words he liked this music.

I just hope he doesn't like me just for my dad now.

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Bet you none of you saw that coming... Sorry if this is bad I'm trying to make them longer, but if I tried to go any longer it would get boring.

Sorry it's such a late update vice been really busy this last week and school has to come before my writing so I'm sorry... I wrote like half of this during my Health class though...

Also this week is homecoming on Saturday so I'll try updating on early Saturday and late Sunday, so look out for those...

Anyway the question today is what's your favourite Nickleback song?

Mines photograph if you couldn't tell, but yea...

I love you all for getting this to 300 reads it means a lot like seriously... I love you all so much!
-dauntlessluke <3 :-) xx