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Chapter 14

Claudia's Pov-

"I can't believe they fell for that!" I laughed and looked at my bandaged hand.

"Well. That's all well and good now, but we need to and see what the other guys are up to..." Michaels voice trailed off. "I'll go in the house first though, don't want anything else to happen." He patted my knee and unbuckled his seatbelt, getting out of the car.

I saw him mess around with his keys until the door finally unlocked. Michael had been in there for about five minutes before finally returning and saying it was okay for me to go inside.

"Luke!" I ran towards him and hugged onto him tightly. I felt like something was off... He was different.

I pulled back and looked at his tired face. He had stiffened up when I hugged him. But now when I'm looking at him, I could see wounds and bruises; each of these were brought by the recent experience we just had.

"He's going to be acting a little weird for a bit Claudia, that incident really messed him up.." Ashton's voice was soft and quiet.

"Luke?" I raised my hand to touch his face with my fingertips. He flinched away as if he were expecting me to do something to him. "No I won't hurt you..." I felt my heart shatter inside of my chest. "I'm here to help you." I gently grabbed his hand as I sat on the floor next to him.

"Is he even talking, guys?" I looked at Ashton and Calum for an answer but received nothing but awkward glances. I could tell they're hurt by this too. This whole thing messed everyone up, whether it was physically or mentally.

I faced towards Luke again who had just been staring off into the distance at a random wall. I could tell that he wasn't staring at anything particular. At this time, he reminded me of a scared cornered animal.

"Luke, do you remember anything?" I turned my head towards him , waiting for an answer. Instead, I just received the cold shoulder. I bit my lip and tried again. "Luke, babe," I placed my hand under his chin and turned his head to face mine. "Do you remember what happened?" He shook his head no.

"Okay well at least he's answering." Calum added in.

I felt Luke grab my bandaged hand. He inspected the white wrapping until he started messing around with it and trying to unwrap it.

"Maybe you should come over here for a second, Claudia. I don't know how he'll act around the wound since it's still fresh." Michael started walking towards me and I started to get up until Luke tugged me down.

"Luke!" Ashton scolded him.

Luke pulled me onto his lap and had a death grip around my waist. His breath hit the back of my neck and sent shivers down my spine. Soon enough he was back to picking at the bandage.

"Luke don't do that..." I mumbled softly, pushing his hands away. He grunted a bit and wrapped himself around me so his chin and the rest of his head were slightly resting on my shoulder.

When he got the bandage off, I heard everyone In the room gasp besides Michael and I since we already knew the damage. He lifted my hand to inspect it, still not speaking a word... Well that is, until he saw the bad teeth marks.

"Me?" He asked sadly. Everyone cocked their heads towards him, they obviously didn't expect him to talk I'm guessing.

"Uh, no- I mean- wait..." I didn't want him to feel sad, I just wanted to help him through the current problem and face the other ones later.

"I hurt you...." His lips quivered and turned into a frown. I saw small tears forming in his eyes... His sad, hurt eyes.

"No, Luke... Baby don't cry." I turned around and wiped the tears from his eyes, pinching his cheeks afterwards, making him smile in return. "Don't cry, it wasn't your fault, I'll explain it later, okay?" He nodded his head.

I wrapped my hand up once again and took Luke's hand in my other. We walked to his bedroom and sat down across from each other on the bed. Luke had been tapping his fingers nervously on the sheets, trying to avoid eye contact to the best of his ability.

"Luke, I'm so glad you're okay." I held out my arms, not wanting to rush towards him, instead, letting him come to me. He slowly I inched towards me and clung to me, burying his face into my neck.

"I have a question, babe." I looked right into his beautiful eyes.

"Yeah?"

"Can vampires sleep? Like, even though they don't need to, can they?" I asked.

"Yeah. We can." His voice was dull and low and his sentences were fragmented, but at least he was finally talking. It's better than him not talking at all, it could've been way worse.

"Do you want to take a nap with me? I'm pretty tired..." Luke wrapped his arms around me once more and pulled me back onto his chest as he pulled the blankets over us.

Within three minutes I heard light snores coming from Luke. He finally looked at peace. Nobody was nothing him, he had no cares in the world, and he got the rest that we all know he needed. He probably hasn't slept in so long.

He would also talk in his sleep, but his sentences were at the point of being barely understandable. His hair was matted down to his head and he lay comfortably on the pillow beside me. His calm breathing made me feel at ease and I was slowly falling asleep.

My eyelids were slowly getting heavier. Even if there were outside noises that could've easily kept me awake, all I focused on was Luke. I only wanted to focus on him and how he was doing, I could live with a messed up hand if it meant that he was okay. I ran my hands softly through his now tangled hair and booped his nose.

"Claudia?" He mumbled out.

"Did I wake you up?" I said.

"No. I needed to say something." His eyes were still closed but you could tell that he was listening just by the way his face was.

"Well what is it?"

"I love you."

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