Once In A Lifetime

The Truth

The only thing I heard on the phone was silence, and the call ended.

"He did, didn't he." I looked up at Mikey, wondering if he knew or not.

"I don't know Lily. He didn't exactly give us much information to work with." He said as he ran his hands through his hair.

I lied down on my bed, put my head on my pillow, and let it soak in all my tears.

"Lily. Its okay, okay?" Mikey told me.

"No it's not. I understand that he would do it to protect me, but he took it too far. Way too far, and I don't know what to do. I don't want to break up with him. I also haven't heard his side of the story, and I can't help but tell myself he didn't do it. There's so much evidence telling me that he did, but my gut, brain, heart, everything is telling me that he didn't." I explained.

"Well, maybe your gut is right, and Luke is lying. You know I wouldn't just say that. Luke is my brother. But right now, I think you may be right."

"Why would he tell me that if it wasn't true?"

"Because you have a tendency to not let people explain themselves. You and Harry both. Neither of you let people explain themselves when something happens. I think Luke wanted to take advantage of that. He wanted to make you break up with Harry and come crawling to him when you were at your worst. That's what I think happened, but I don't really know."

"You sure do seem to know a lot for not knowing.." I said with a laugh to let him know I was joking.

"Nice to see my own brother is turning against me too." Mikey and I both turned our heads to see Luke standing in the doorway with a look of disappointment on his face. He was gone as soon as we saw him.

Mikey sat down on the edge of my bed and put his face in his hands.

"You okay?" I asked him.

"I don't know. It looks like we both have problems now..." He said, not bothering to lift his head up.

I stretched out, and started to go to sleep, and Mikey stretched out beside me.

"Goodnight Bubba." I said sleepily.

"Goodnight sis."

With that, I was asleep.

"Lily! Wake up! We have a situation."

"What is it?" I sat up and saw Mikey standing in front of me and a note in his hand.

"Luke's gone."

"What?!? Where'd he go??" I yelled.

"I don't know. He just said he was leaving since no one around here trusted him and he was sick of it." Mikey told me, reading words from the note.

"Well we have to go find him! Let's go!" I said as I jumped up off of my bed and ran into the bathroom to check my appearance before leaving.

I ran back into my room, grabbed Mikey's arm, and started to run out of the room. Right before I left the room, my phone rang.

I walked over to it, and looked up at Mikey.

"What?" He asked me.

"Its Harry."

"You deal with him, and I'll go find Luke. Remember to give him a chance to explain himself okay?"

"Mikey, I need to help you! I'm not staying here and doing nothing!"

"No, you're going to stay here and work things out with your boyfriend! Okay? Okay. Now answer the stupid phone, and I'll see you later."

Before I could even blink, he was gone.

I looked at my phone for a second, and finally got the courage to answer.

"H-hello?" I said, my voice cracking due to my efforts not to cry again.

"Lily. We need to talk. Is now okay?"

"Yeah. Now is fine."

"Lily. I didn't threaten him okay. I honestly have no idea why he told you that I threatened him or anything like that. I love you Lily Jane Ross. There is nothing I would do to hurt you or anyone you care about."

"Harry..." I said very carefully, trying to decide what to say next. "Are you telling me the truth? I need the truth. Nothing more, nothing less. The truth." I said slowly.

"Lily, I would never lie to you. I promise you that I'm telling you the truth. Just tell me what I have to do to get you to believe me. Anything, and I'll do it."

"I believe you Harry."

In that moment, both my heart and my gut were telling me that he was telling me the truth. Or was my heart getting in the way and that wasn't what my gut was telling me? I had no idea.

"Harry. Why would he make that up though?"

"I have no idea love. I promise you, as much as I can promise you, that I didn't say or do anything to him."

"I have to go Harry." I lied. "Goodbye."

"Goodbye Lily. I love you."

I hung up the phone without responding, and that was probably the worst thing I've ever done. I felt so bad after that.

All of this drama going on was getting to me. Bad. And I didn't know what to do about it. What was there to do about it?

Between my brother, Luke, Harry, and Maddie and Ashton, it was getting hard. Life was getting hard, but luckily, I have great friends to help me through it.

I went downstairs hoping to see someone. Luke and Mikey mainly, but anyone would do. There was no one, however. For once, no one was in the house. I had no idea where anyone had gone except for Luke and Mikey. Well, I didn't even really know where Luke went.

I got a glass of water and sat down on the couch to wait, my thoughts overpowering the dead silence that filled the house. I didn't even realize it when I fell asleep.

Hey guys. Do you believe Harry or Luke more? Tell me in the comments. Love you!