Relapse (Luke Hemmings)

Chapter 1. The beggining.

~~~~Nicole's POV~~~~
"Hey babe," I hear Luke yell in the my living room. "Yeah?" I questioned popping my head out of the opening that separates the living room from the kitchen. "I want to ask you something," Luke begins. "Okay, what is it?" I asked walking over to the couch where Luke was sat. "I was thinking, since we've been together for a year now that, well, we should move in together, you know, alone," Luke blurted. I tried to look for any sign he's joking before I answered. All I saw plastered on his face was surprise and fear. I guess he's not joking.
"Sounds like a plan then," I tell him a bit to peppy. All the worry I saw on his face before was gone and replaced by his famous goofy grin. Before I knew it I caught myself smiling too.
"Great! I kinda also started looking at houses before I mentioned anything and there's one just 2 neighbourhoods away from here," Luke explains to me pulling up a website. "This is what it looks like. It's not much but there's 2 bedroom, 1 and a half bathrooms a kitchen area and a living room area. The living room, kitchen and the half bathroom is down stairs- the 2 bedrooms and full bathroom is upstairs," Luke shows me pointing at his screen like he was trying to sell me a home.
"Sounds perfect for 2 people," I exclaim with a huge smile on my face. Luke's smile never went away but I could tell he was smiling as big as he could. I knew this made him happy and to be honest it made me happy too.
"Okay, so I'll set up a meeting with the apartment owner and see if he likes us enough to let us buy the new place," Luke explains to me before getting up with his phone in hand dialling the number.
Shit, I need to tell Michael about this. I thought to myself running up the stairs. I knocked on his bedroom door where I heard him say, "come in," so I opened the door to reveal a Michael on his computer.
"Hey Michael," I attempted to sound casual.
"What's up?" Michael questioned looking up from his computer.
"Well, Luke and I were talking and he brought up the idea of moving, I guessed that since he asked he has enough money to afford to move and I've been saving. What I'm saying is I'm moving in with Luke sometime soon and I needed to tell you since we share a home and all that. You don't have any problem with me moving out right? Because we haven't met the landlord yet so I can still back out if you need me here," I explain to him taking a seat on his bed half way through my speech.
"I knew that you were going to move out some day because you've lived with me ever since you were 16. I know that we'll still see each other because knowing Luke he's going to drag you to our shows and practices," Michael laughs. "Plus Ashton and Calum's been looking for a place to stay other than their parents so I won't be lonely," Michael reassures me.
"Okay. Thanks Michael. You're literally the best best friend in the world, no one can change my mind about that," I exclaim with joy hugging Michael who hugged me back.
"Yeah, yeah," Michael laughed letting go and continuing his tweeting spree.
I race down stairs to be greeted by the same goofball I saw leave the couch less than 5 minutes ago.
"I got us a meeting with the landlord in 3 hours so we have some time to do whatever. He told me that we can meet him at the apartment so we don't have to dress fancy, just decent," Luke informs me turning on the TV.
"Oh okay, sounds good," I say turning my face towards his. "I'm oddly excited about this," I tell him with a huge smile on my face.
    Luke turns his head,"I am too," he says mimicking my smile. He turns his head back towards the tv keeping his smile.
__3 hours later__
    We soon arrive at the apartment Luke was talking about. We ended up waiting 10 more minutes because the landlord decided to be fashionably late. Dickhead. I thought to myself.
   "What an impression," I muttered out crossing my arms and looking out the window. I guess Luke heard me because he turned his head in my direction.
    "We might be a little early. He'll be here, just give him a few minutes," Luke tells me taking one of my hands to hold.
    "Okay, sorry I'm just not very patient at times," I tell him looking down at our hands. I know I should be used to this but every time he holds my hands it feels like electricity going through my veins. It feels good.
      "I know you're not," Luke giggled, "but sometimes it's worth the wait," Luke tells me looking behind the car. "Speaking of which," he smiles looking over at me.
    I smile back looking out of my window to see a silver car pulling in the driveway.
    I see a tall, thin, old man emerge from the car. Wow he looks old. I think to myself laughing a bit.
    "Come on," Luke instructs me getting out of the car. I follow his league. The man shakes both of our hands greeting himself.
    "Hello, my name's Fred," he casually says.
    "Hey, I'm Luke and this is my girlfriend Nicole," Luke introduces us. I smile in response.
    "Not much of a talker ay? Well that's okay, I can do the talking," Fred laughs. I smile in response.
    Gees I'm 18 and I still can't talk to anyone for shit.
    "Follow me," he instructs, taking out a pare of keys and flipping through them as we approached the door that had the number 3 on it. "Ah, here we are," he says unlocking the door and opening it.
    "Woah, this place is nicer in real life than in pictures," I say astounded looking left to right.
     "Right!" Fred exclaims with a lot of joy in his voice. "As you can see right when you first walk in you see stairs and the living area, sorry but you gotta furnish it yourself," he tells us. That shouldn't be a problem.
     "And as you go straight you will see the dining area equipped with the basic materials, you know the stove, cabinets, sink, dishwasher, and most importantly the fridge," Fred informs us. "Now if you will follow me up stairs. Oh! Before I forget here is the half bathroom and in front of that door is the water heater."
     After Fred shows us where the bathroom was he led us upstairs.
     "There are two bedrooms. Ones beside the bathroom and the other is at the end of this mini hallway. The full bathroom is right in front of you after you go up the stairs. You can't miss it!" Fred explains to us.
    "Now is there any questions you have for me?" He asks us.
     "No not really. Only the usual question: when are we able to move in?" Luke tells the man.
     "Oh maybe within 3 days at the most, I just need your number to give you a call when it's all ready for you all," Fred tells us pulling out the clipboard from under his arm.
    Before Luke could grab the papers I asked quickly, "how much would this place cost?" Fred looked at me and smiled.
     "The cost would be around $1300 but you can give me half of that when the apartment is ready for you and then pay off the rest within a reasonable time," Fred tells us.
I looked at Luke who gave me a reassuring look. He then gets the clipboard and signs his phone number.
"Thank you Mr. Hemmings, be expecting a call soon," the soon to be landlord tells us.
Once Luke and I were back in his car I decided to discus this with him. "So, do you think that price is reasonable or to much?" I asked awkwardly putting my seatbelt in place.
"He is letting us pay half the total the first day and then letting us save up and pay the rest, not a lot of people let you do that," Luke explains to me.
"Oh okay then, well I'll help pay because I've been kinda saving up anyways," I tell him shrugging.
"How about this," Luke starts turning around to look out the back window of his car backing out. "I'll let you buy the furniture and I'll pay the total off, I did actually look into the price- I've been saving too, I have nearly enough to cover it," Luke offers me finally pulling out of the driveway and onto the neighborhood road.
"Okay, but if you need extra money you can ask me, I won't tell anyone," I laughed.
"Okay, but trust me, I wouldn't do anything so stupid to not be able to get something. That's just embarrassing to have to leave it," Luke tells me shaking his head.
"I get it, so three days at the least huh?" I said attempting to change the subject a bit.
"Yeah, I guess they gotta turn on the power and stuff like that," Luke says. "But at least I'll be living with the girl of my dreams," Luke says smirking knowing that what he said made me blush.
"Luke," I smile rolling my eyes.
"What? I can't complement you? Well I would've thought that since I've just been talking statistics and shit that it would be nice to make you blush," Luke blurts still smirking at his win.
I sighed rolling my eyes and kissing him on the cheek. This time I saw a light tint of red spread across his cheeks. This time I can wear the smirk.
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Sorry this wasn't the best chapter but don't you worry the good parts will come I just gotta set the scene lol.
Anyways thanks for reading my book.
Again if you didn't see in the book description that this is book 2 then book 1 is my eating disorder (Luke Hemmings)
You should read that one first because you'll possibly get confused with me not introducing characters that I've introduced in the other book.
Anyways I hope you like this book so far I'll update soon hopefully.