Guitar Boy~ L.h

ten

Weeks went by and things went back to normal with Luke and I, slowly we forgot all about the kiss.

I was putting the dishes from dinner away when I heard the doorbell go off, I glanced at the clock and frowned seeing it was 11:00pm, who could be knocking on my door so late? My mom's voice sounded from upstairs telling me to get it and she sounded as confused as I was.

I opened the door and gasped at the sight. Luke was standing there with his hair all messed up, a busted lip and a black eye. He had one arm on the door frame for balance and his head hung low, like he was ashamed for some reason.

"Luke, what happened to you?" I yelled, already panicking.

"Dad came home from work drunk..." he muttered "guess he had a bad day" he shrugged like it was nothing "can I come in?" His eyes were like a puppy in a shelter trying to get adopted, It broke my heart to see him like this

"Yeah, yeah of couse" i stepped asise and let him in, he walked slowly and flinched once in a while, I guessed something hurt while he walked. We made it to the living room and I sat him down on the couch while I got the first aid kit, when I was returning to the living room I heard steps comming down the stairs, I looked up to find my mom in her robe lazily rubbing her eyes.

"Honey who was at the d-" her eyes widened and she gasped once she saw Luke "Hailey who is that?"

"Uh...that's Luke, he's a friend from school"

"Honey what happened to you?" She asked Luke with a soft voice, he slowly looked up from his lap.

"I uh..." he shifted in his seat and I could tell he was uncomfortable with my mom's question, I considered lying for him but before I could say anything he spoke up in a weak voice "it was...it was my dad..." his voice was barely audible.

"Oh honey..." my mom gasped and you could hear the pitty in her voice.

"Mom can he stay here tonight?"

"Of course! I'll just go get the air mattress, I'll put it in your room is that okay?"

"Yeah it's fine, thanks mom" I crouched down in front of Luke and lifted his chin up so he was looking at me, i started dabbing the cotton ball on his wound and he flinched "I'm sorry" I whispered "we don't have a guest room so you'll have to sleep on the air mattress, I hope that's okay"

"Yeah it's fine"

I kept cleaning his wounds, then I bandaged them and put ice on his black eye.

"Did he hit you anywhere else?" He nodded looking at the ground "where?" He pointed to his torso "take your shirt off" he shook his head "Luke please" I sighed, he gave in and took his shirt off revealing a big bruise on his stomach and other fading ones on different parts of his torso. I put cream on every single one of them and then told Luke he could put his shirt back on, he did so and then just stood in front of me not saying a thing.

"Luke you have to get out of there"

"I can't...not yet at least, once I graduate I'll move out"

"But this can't keep happening"

"Hailey it's only a few more months, I can handle it"

"But-"

"Can we go to sleep?" He cut me off "please, I'm dead tired"

" sure" I sighed

We went upstairs and I lead him to my room, when we got there my mom had already put the air mattress next to my bed along with a few blankets and pillows, a small smile made it's way on to Luke's face at the sight.

"I think I might have some sweats that might sort of fit you" I looked through my drawers and pulled out the pair of giant sweats making Luke chuckle.

"Why do you own a pair of sweats that are like twice your size?"

"Because they were on sale and they didn't have my size" I shrugged "plus they're really comfy to wear in the winter"

He nodded and took them entering the bathroom and closing the door behind him. Once he got out he was carrying his skinny jeans on one arm wearing my sweats and his shirt, the pants were pretty short for him and he looked like he was about to cross a river but it was better than skinny jeans.

Then I went into the bathroom to do my complete night routine, when I got out he was already tucked into bed and was staring blankly at the ceiling, the hurt expression still clouding his eyes.

"Goodnight Luke" I said as I turned off the lights.

"Night"

After a few minutes of silence his deep, tired voice spoke up again startling me a little.

"Hailey?"

"Yeah?"

"Thank you" he said softly "Thank you so much"

A/N

this took me forever to write but here it is. I hope you enjoy it and not cry like I did oops