When You Left... (Prequel)

Ch.18 - Coming Home

Coming Home

N A T E ' S P O V (Few Days Later)

So Luke and the boys announced that they were going to be doing their own kinda big tour, meaning that as soon as he comes home he'll be gone again in no time. Mum said that she will be going with them for about half of the tour then she'll be back home, I'm not sure which half yet. But that means that I'll be left alone with my dad, not that it's a bad thing but the place is going to be even more boring.

Unfortunately I can't go on tour with mom and the guys, so yeah as much as missing my brother I'll be missing my mother too. Yay. I hope she doesn't forget about me as well, it's been about what 2 months since I last had a proper conversation with Luke. That's my own brother, I'm convinced he's forgotten about me. I mean at least Jack calls me often and messages me, I don't actually know where he is or what he is doing.

Sometimes it sucks being the youngest, I sigh walking inside of my house chucking my bag on the floor. Drew wasn't in today, he didn't say why or reply to my messages. I might go over and check on him, but yeah I was left alone all day. Carter took that as a chance and let out his stress on me, I'm pretty sure he hit my head against something. I still have a slight headache.

It's really quiet, mom and dad didn't go to work today so they should be home. Clearly they aren't, did everyone plan to run away from me or something? I walk into the kitchen seeing a note on the fridge, 'had to go out be back shortly, also tidy your room – mom'

I roll my eyes chucking the note in the bin, I don't need to tidy my room. It's already clean, I walk upstairs humming to myself. I push open my door walking inside not looking where I'm going, I've lived here long enough to know where everything is. "See it's cl-" I start but stop, I blink rapidly making sure I'm seeing properly.

"w-what?" I manage to stutter out, he chuckles nodding. "No, you're on tour" I mumble shaking my head. He laughs before pulling me into a hug, I hug back slowly making sure I'm not dreaming.

I see my parents and Drew walk inside with grins on their faces, they knew about this? "You're home?" He nods,

"I'm home"

Then realisation hits me, "You're home!" I exclaim jumping slightly as I hug him tighter, I hear everyone laugh but I don't care. "You're actually home!" Happy tears form as I pull away from him, "How long for?" I ask

"I'm not sure"

I hug him again, "I've missed you so, so much."
I don't care how long he's here for, at least I got to see him again.

"I've missed you too baby bro"

...

I sit close to Luke on the couch listening to him talk about the tour with One Direction, he got me presents. A Pikachu teddy, some sweets from different countries and autographs from One Direction.

He seems really excited as he talks about the tour, it seems like he had a great time. The smile won't come of his face as he tells us everything, it makes me happy knowing that he's having a nice time. Obviously I'm not gunna tell him that I believed he forgot about me, I don't want to dampen his mood. I mean obviously he was busy having a good time so he found it hard to talk to me, I'm not going to rid him of that.

Plus he brought me presents that shows that he thought about me whilst he was out there, because he didn't have to do that. In fact I never mentioned anything about him bringing me back anything, it shows he kinda does care. Which makes me feel the slightest bit better, also the fact that he's gunna be home for a few days or more.

I feel him wrap his arm around my shoulder and I look up, I think I might have missed half of what he just said. Oh well, I don't think he noticed. "So what have you been doing? Must have gotten pretty boring without me" he jokes, we laugh but I don't think he knows how true that is.

It was insanely boring, I got left to my dangerous thoughts, and I've been bullied more. But of course I'm not gunna tell him all of that.

"Meh, I had Drew over for the most part. Then I had a science project last month so I had my partner over a lot" I say, he nods.

"Well I certainly missed home and you a lot" he says ruffling my hair, I smile resting my head on his shoulder.

"I missed you too, I'm proud of you" I reply, he grins. I hear my parents 'aw'

"Thank you baby bro" he whispers hugging me.

Just like that my mood went from low to 'maybe things might just be okay for a while'

...

I sigh as I walk into my room, I sit down on my bed plugging in my phone. I glance up hearing someone walk into the bathroom, faintly I see Luke walk in there. He and the others already made it clear that they were home and the fans know, I know that if the fans know then everyone here knows. What's that gunna mean for me when I go back to school?

"Hey" I look up seeing Luke leaning on the door ledge, I give him a small smile. "Hey" he walks in sitting beside me, "I'm sorry I didn't talk to you much when I was on tour" He says giving me a sideward hug.

"It's fine" I mumble, though it really wasn't.

"No it's not, you're my little brother I don't want you thinking I don't care about you. Look at all those celebrities that forget about what matters the most, I don't wanna be like that. It's just I get really busy being out there sometimes it's hard to find the time"

I sigh looking down at my hands, "I know, it's okay really" I say forcing a smile to make it believable. He shakes his head,

"Whatever you say, just know that I love you so much and if we can't talk much it's not because I don't care" he says before kissing my hair and standing up again. I watch him walk towards the door, with a sigh I call after him. "Luke"

He turns around, "I love you too" He smiles turning the light off for me before leaving closing the door behind him.