lukey

Chapter 4

Luke POV

Waking up with a sleeping stranger cuddled into my chest hasn't happened in a long time. So now, seeing a rather hot naked woman next to me came a bit of a surprise. Groaning, I look at my watch to see the time: 2 AM. I contemplate if whether it would be immoral to just leave her, and I conclude that it would be. But, carefully, I move her arm which was around my chest, got up, and blindly try to find my clothes that were thrown onto the floor a couple of hours ago. Eventually, I get into all my clothes and write this girl a note on a tissue she had on her desk, as well as having a pen too that I used to write it. I walk out of the flat, and find out that fortunately I wasn't too far from home. So I begin the walk.

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As quiet as I could, I let myself in. From outside, it didn't seem as if they were waiting up for me- thankfully. I feel like I would be doing the walk of shame. Though, in all fairness, I haven't done the 'walk of shame' for nearly three years now, and I am proud that the streak was broken tonight.

"Hi, Luke." she greets, as I walk through the door. I curse, because out of them all I did not want her to be the one to meet me. She must have been worried, or concerned, and I didnt want her to be.

"Oh, hey Jess," I awkwardly say, dropping my coat onto the nearby chair. Her eyes follow me neutrally, as I go to sit next to her.

"You stink," she whispers, sitting further away from me. She makes me feel like I've done something wrong but I haven't. Like every normal man, I went out, got drunk and messed around with a girl- it was a usual thing for guys. Yet she makes me feel bad about it, and gosh even though she's only 17 she is really mature and somehow controlling.

"Look Jess," I start, awkwardly scratching at my neck, "I'm sorry for being a dick when I was 20. I was young, and I didn't understand the importance of children. It was the biggest mistake of my life."

I expect Jessie to reply, but her eyes are focusing on my neck, and I can see tears brimming her eyes.

"I-I need to go," she stammers, and runs up the stairs.

"Jess!" I shout from the bottom of the stairs, but she ignores me. Wondering what was wrong, I go over to the mirror and look at the area her eyes were glued on. Fuck. On my neck was a purple bruise- obviously being a lovebite from that girl. I sigh, and run my hands through my hair. What do I do now?

Jess POV

I'm so weak I think to myself, as I grab a handful of sweet 'n' salty popcorn and shove it in my mouth. When I saw the hicky on his neck and ran upstairs and cried. Which leads me to now, at 3 in the morning, I'm watching Netflix and eating myself into a food coma. That was okay though in my eyes.

The girl who got to do that is the luckiest woman on the earth right now. Did they...oh dear. They must have 'done the dance with no pants.' Sulkily I huff and lean back for my head to hit the pillow. My life is going to be always controlled by the thought of him, I realise, whether I want it to or not. It could have been just a casual hook up, because he is guy who has needs.

Man, it's like some messed up love triangle.

If it wasn't for my anger, he wouldn't have wanted to get out of the car and do that with some random (probably ugly) girl. Yeah, that's why. My fault, then.

"You think I'm pretty?" Cher smiles, and Josh mumbles incoherant words. I sigh, and grab another handful of popcorn. God, I have to lay off the unhealthy fatty foods. I look back up at my TV, and see Josh presses his lips to hers. I can't help but try to fanthom that being me and Luke. It never will, we might be compatible but I was born in the wrong era, and born into the wrong family. If things were different, we would be together happily. That won't happen, so I should just get over it.