Masterpieces {Book 2}

Heat (part 3)

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                Luke leaves his hometown for Los Angeles with lingering sadness and a great sense of loss. He gets on the plane early in the morning, a week and a half after the nightclub events. He's said goodbye to everyone, from his family to his friends Scott, Lyn and Peter. He has never liked leaving a place behind, even for holidays, because it always frightens him that he might have forgotten something there. Thus, going away from home for six long months feels a little like diving into a frozen lake. He's scared he won't find the hole in the ice to get back out of the water. Still, he's gathered his things, made sure he will have a place to sleep when he arrives in Los Angeles, and confirmed the time when his work placement starts. And just as planned, the plane lands at the airport on time, and Luke has arrived. A part of him wishes he hadn't left.

                Luke left the countryside and went back to the city two days after the last time he saw Calum. Since then, neither of them has called or contacted the other in any way. Luke misses him a lot, even if he doesn't want to admit it. But he knows it was the right thing to do, especially as they'll be living so far away from each other. Luke wonders if Calum is still drinking himself to death at the moment. He finds out that he pities him. The first days he spends in Los Angeles, Luke goes in search of a studio flat not too far from the place where he'll be working, to avoid spending too many days at the hotel. He finally finds one, in a simple building, not too dirty and not too expensive, which he decides to rent for the moment, until he finds something better.

                During all the years he spent at school, Luke didn't know what he wanted to do for a living. Nothing really appealed to him, even though he was quite a good student. He found literature interesting but didn't wish to be a journalist or a teacher; he liked science classes but was certain he wouldn't stand working with that type of knowledge all his life. He'd been told he would do great in economy, in law or all of that, but in the end, he'd been to a business school like all the others who didn't know what to do, and there he is now. Not the most fascinating stuff, but at least, he's almost certain he'll find a stable job when the time comes.

                Luke's work placement goes excellently well, and he surely would have got hired in the company if he hadn't wanted to leave Los Angeles so much. Luke loathes this city. It's so huge, so busy... And there's something else, which he cannot quite put into words, that makes him feel uneasy. Every single day he spends there, Luke wishes he were back in his hometown. However, he does meet nice people. Katelyn and William, both born in L.A, and Anna from Germany and Charlie from Ireland. Once, for one week, Scott and Ella visit him. They're on holiday and Ella has always wanted to see Los Angeles. Seeing them is like a breath of fresh wind to Luke. It makes him wish even more that he could come back earlier.

                But six months, although they may seem like they will never end, pass quickly, after all. Luke is greeted in his hometown by a cool month of May. And he settles down again, much happier than before. That's when Scott comes to see him one afternoon, but not with Ella. With Nate. It doesn't puzzle Luke or anything, but when he starts to ask how everyone has been – Ashton and Michael and Finn, Clive and Aaron and Jamie and even Jake, he doesn't dare say the last of the names. It seems to refuse to touch his lips. Nate and Scott exchange a nervous glance and Luke frowns. "Did something happen?" He knows Finn was very sick during the winter, but he got better quickly.

                "Everyone is fine," Scott says, drumming a complicated rhythm on the table with his fingers.

                "Yeah, totally," Nathan completes.