innocent {luke hemmings a.u.}

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12:23pm is what my phone reads as I pick it up to check the time.

 I sit down at the end of a lunch table, eating alone yet again.

I look at my sandwich and realize how not hungry I am, so I put my sandwich back into my bag and stand up. I start to walk to the trash to throw it away as Luke comes up to me.

"Lunch just started 3 minutes ago, how did you eat so fast?"

"I was hungry," I say and throw my lunch in the trash, taking a drink of my water bottle in my hand, "How did you eat so fast?"

"I was hungry," he says as he throws his bag in the trash. I roll my eyes as I turn around, him following and walking beside me, "Where are you going?"

"I don't know, anywhere but here."

"Want to go sit with me and the boys?"

"I promise that you and your friends would enjoy your lunch period much more if I were in the library."

"I promise you they'll enjoy your company," Luke tries to convince me.

"Luke-"

"Come on," Luke drags me across the lunchroom to his lunch table and I sit down in a seat beside Luke.

"Hey, you're that girl from our english class-"

"Michael, the girl has a name."

"What's her name?"

"Ask her," Luke looks to me.

"What's your name?"

"Jaycee," I laugh.

"Hey Jaycee, I'm Calum."

"You cut me off in the middle of my introduction," Michael frowns, stabbing Calum in the ribs with his elbow, "Hey Jaycee, my name is Michael."

"I know. I-I mean that was weird you don't even know me. I-"

"It's totally fine," Calum laughs, "It's nice to see Luke has other friends that aren't assholes."

"The asshole friends aren't my friends anymore," Luke smiles as the bell rings that ends lunch.

We all stand up and walk to the trash can to throw away the rest of their lunches that aren't already eaten.

"See you in english, Jaycee," Michael says as we all walk down the hallway together.

I smile and walk up to my locker to switch out my books.

"Hey Jaycee," Calum says to me and I smile.

"Hey Calum."

"Sorry about Michael. He's kind of a dumbass sometimes-"

"Correction, all the time," Luke says as he walks up behind me, shutting my locker for me. Calum and I smile as we three walk down the hallway together.

"I honestly can't believe you both want to be seen even breathing around me," I confess to Luke and Calum that are walking on both sides of me.

"What do you mean?" Luke laughs.

"You guys are like.. popular and I'm like not," I say and Calum immediately laughs.