Beside You

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TATUM IS @/STYLINSAUSE

Tatum POV

"Tatum, look at him, isn't he absolutely gorgeous?"

"Oh my God yes."

It was Christmas dinner and my entire family was over. My cousin, Heather, was showing me cute guys on her instagram. What do you expect? We're teenage girls.

Heather continued scrolling until I grabbed her phone out of her hand..

"Heather who the hell is this?"

"Thats Luke Hemmings, why?"

"LUKE HEMMINGS?! You mean the boy who used to stick gum in girls hair when we were younger?!"

"Yes.. why?" She looked at me like I was crazy.

"He's perfect, holy crap hes perfect."

"Calm your hormones Tatum, just follow him."

She acted as though I could just follow him, as though it was that simple. What if he thought I was a creep?!

"No I can't Heather, he'll think I'm a total creep."

"No he won't." and with that reply, Heather grabbed my phone out of my hand and followed him. "There, happy?"

"Oh my gosh Heather he's going to wonder who the freak following him is.."

"No he won't."

"Ladies I think it's time to put the phones away." my dad told us... hes always annoyed with us constantly texting, little does he know we're just on twitter 24/7.

"Okay Uncle John, Tatum give me your phone, I'll put it in your room." Heather took my phone and went upstairs. It actually took a few minutes for her to return. Weird.

*4 hours later*

"Goodnight everyone!" I hugged each and every family member as they left. It was so much fun but finally I could have some peace and quiet. I headed to my room and rushed to my phone to get back on twitter.

*1 new message from unknown number*

What? Someone actually texted me? What the heck.

I opened the message and I think my heart skipped a beat..

"Hey its Luke from instagram :) I saw you left your number on my photo so i thought I'd text you."

Holy crap.. How did he get my number?! $5 it was Heather. Remind me to kill her next time I see her.

BUT HOLY SHIT WHAT DO I REPLY?!

Luke's POV:

Christmas was a little lame this year. My brother couldn't make it because he had to spend Christmas with his in laws, and my dad was away for business so it was only me and my mom.

"Luke, sweetie come here, I have a surprise for you."

I walked into the living room to see two boxes. One big and one small.

"Mom you shouldn't have.. I told you not to!"

Money's been tight around here. I wish I could help out but I'm still in school. Sometimes I go and play small gigs with my band but we're pretty small so we don't get much money in return.

"Luke, you've been such an amazing boy this year, I had to. Just appreciate it, and make sure to call your dad and brother to say thank you."

"Okay I will I swear!"

"Now open the dang presents!"

She had the video camera facing me while I opened the first box.. holy shit

"Mom a new GUITAR?! you seriously shouldn't have, mom this is way too much."

"Luke shut up and open the next one"

I nodded my head and moved onto the next box, it was small and as I opened the wrapping paper I swear I screamed like a little girl..

"What's wrong do you not like it?!"

"No mom its perfect! I swear! Its just so wonderful.. thank you so much" It was a new iphone. I had been using an old first generation ipod touch for the past year since I broke my old phone by dropping it in the toilet. "Mom thank you soo much"

"You're welcome sweetie" she leaned in and gave me a huge hug and kissed my cheek, "you're an amazing kid and you're going to go so far in life. Now go set up your phone!"

*2 hours later*

2 hours had past and I had been exploring everything on my new phone. As I was playing an intense game of angry birds I got an instagram notification.

I opened up instagram and saw a comment from Tatum on my photo of my new phone

"Hey Luke! It's Tatum Evans, Heather's cousin, you should definitely text me some time! 818-520-1027"

Holy shit. I had heard about Tatum, see Heather was in my group of friends at school and all the guys in my group always talked about some cute cousin Heather had.

I clicked on her profile and there she was. She was adorable. I quickly exited out of instagram and opened up imessage.

Okay Luke try and act cool.. Don't blow this..

Don't get me wrong, girls give me their number all the time, its just im never interested. But suddenly, this girl.. I don't know what it is about her, maybe its her smile or her eyes.. something about her just makes me feel so nervous and so excited.

"Hey its Luke from instagram :) I saw you left your number on my photo so i thought I'd text you."

I saw the delivered sign pop up.

Now I just have to wait...

Authors note:

I KNOW IT WAS A CRAPPY FIRST CHAPTER BUT I JUST HAD TO GET THINGS GOING SO ITS A FIRST CHAPTER/FILLER CHAPTER! NEXT CHAPTER SHOULD BE INTERESTING! IL POST IT ONCE THIS HITS 20 VOTES :) I HOPE YOU ENJOYED IT!

ALSO A MASSIVE SHOUT OUT TO @/IRISHSNOWCRAIC & @/HEMMOHALO FOR HELPING ME OUT WITH EVERYTHING! @/SUGARPOPNIALL FOR MAKING THE AMAZING COVER!

MASSIVE SHOUT OUT TO ALL WHO SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS FF! I HOPE YOU GUYS KEEP READING!!!