1956 ⇝ Luke Hemmings ✓

1956 : epilogue part one

gonna post part 1 and 2 together, comment through both ily

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Wednesday 16th January, 1972

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Luke put the plate down on the table, slapping Julia's hand away from the chicken. "Wait, your dad isn't here yet." Luke chastised.

"But he takes forever, he's outside anyway." Julia whined.

"I don't care, we eat as a family." She sent Luke a joking glare making Luke ruffle her blond hair. "Troye if you try and touch that good I'm breaking your fingers."

"Isn't that child abuse?" Troye asked. "I should call Granddad and make him tell you off."

"Oh hush." Luke rolled his eyes at the fifteen year olds attitude. He then turned to the thirteen year old, "run and tell your dad that if he's not inside with in the next two minutes we eat without him."

Julia nodded and left the kitchen table and to the yard, going through the gates and past the chickens. "Pa!"

"Julia," Reece looked up from the bucket of carrots, the pigs in the pen. "What's wrong?"

"Dad said if you don't come in now we're eating without you." Julia said making Reece put down the bucket and follow her, putting his arm around her shoulder.

"How was school today?" Reece asked his daughter.

"Fine, I have math homework that I need help with."

"I had to help your dad too." Reece said, "he absolutely sucked at math, it's how we had our first kiss."

"Because he sucked at math?" She questioned.

"Yep. We were studying and he had an eyelash on his glasses and I pulled it away, and told him to make a wish. I made him tell me it and it was that I would kiss him so I did." Reece said making Julia look up.

"I want to be like you and dad when I have a boyfriend." She smiled.

"Yeah?"

"Yeah."

The two made their way in to the kitchen and Reece washed his hands before he pressed a kiss to Luke's cheek, sitting down opposite him and between the kids.

Everyone tucked in to the food, grabbing slices of chicken and chips and gravy. They talked about school and work and events coming soon, it was Reece's thirty-fifth birthday in a month or so and they were going to make a trip back to Sydney to see everyone and celebrate.

"Are we seeing Cal and everyone?" Troye asked, he loved hanging out with Michael and Ashton because they were his Pa's cool friends who loved good music and played football with him. Reece played it too but he wasn't as good as Ashton.

"We are." Reece smiled, "we'll see granddad and grandma too and Aunt Char."

"I love Aunt Char." Julia said, "is her girlfriend going to be there too?"

Luke nodded, "yes Tyler will be there. Everyone is."

After dinner, Reece helped Julia with her math homework while Luke sat on the patio in the background, a guitar in his lap beside Troye who held a guitar in his own lap. "So you just strum down as you press the G chord, you do it." Luke instructed, watching Troye strum the guitar, looking intently at the chords. "Don't use your nails, use the pad of your fingers."

Troye did it again, the sound being more guitar like and not scratchy. "Like that?"

"Exactly like that. Can you do all the chords I showed you?"