Forgetting You. [Luke Hemmings]

Chapter 24

Luke's POV

"Wow. This looks amazing guys!" Heather yells as our group steps into the gym.

"You're welcome." I say as she hits me playfully on the arm.

It's homecoming night. Our group comes in a little later. Unfortunately for me, Brooke was being escorted by Ashton and the rest of his hockey teammates.

"So when is Brooke coming?" Tilly says rudely

I roll my eyes. "She said she left her her house 10 minutes ago. So soon."

"Hmmm...it must suck. Seeing Brooke with Ashton. She's really lucky, I heard he's a great kisser." She says

I glare at her. "Oooo maybe they'll sneak off and-"

"Stop." I warn

She smirks and crosses her arms. "Jealous, are we?"

"Cant you find some desperate guy that is willing to actually talk to you?" I ask

She's about to say something until her eyes travel to the entrance. She suddenly glares. I turn around and see Brooke. "Whoa."

She's wearing a tight, black dress. Her hair is perfectly straight and she's wearing the perfect amount of makeup.

Next to her is Ashton. Ugh. "Well doesn't he look hot?" Tilly says and walks away

I walk up to Brooke and smile. "You look beautiful."

She smiles. "Thanks you look-"

"Do you want to dance?" Ashton asks

"Um yeah." She says and gives me an apologetic smile.

"It's okay." I say and step out of their way.

They dance for awhile. I sit at the table and watch the two. She looks so happy. They both laugh and I find myself getting more and more annoyed.

I look away and try to listen to Justin and Owen talk about some girls they met. "Hey man you okay?" Calum asks

"Yeah. How was Sarah?" I ask

"Great. I think I really like her." He smiles

"She's cute." I say

"Yeah so is her friend Charlotte. You know-"

I sigh. "I like Brooke."

"Yeah I know but she's with Ashton." Calum says

"I don't care. I already let her go once, not letting it happen again." I say

He surrenders and leaves without another word. I see that Ashton and Brooke had left the dance floor.

Brooke is approaching me. "Hey Penguin." She pokes my suit.

I smile. "Hi."

"Why aren't you dancing?" She asks taking a seat next to me.

"I don't have anyone to dance with." I admit

She laughs. "There are literally 20 girls drooling over you." She turns her head to the side.

I chuckle lightly. "I haven't notice."

She looks at me and gets up. "What are you doing?" I ask

"Waiting for you to ask me to dance." She smiles

"But Ash-"

"He's taking a break." She says

I smile and get up from my seat. "Will you dance with me?"

She pretends to freak out. "Oh. My. Gosh. Luke Hemmings just asked me to dance. I think I'm dreaming."

I roll my eyes and look at her. "Yes. I'd live to dance." She says in her normal voice

I grab her hand and lead her to the center of the dance floor. I place my hands on her waist as she wraps her arms around my neck. We started rocking back and forth.

"Luke Hemmings do my eyes deceive me, or are you actually dancing?" She asks jokingly

"Oh come on. I wasn't that bad." I say

"Yeah you were." She says

We both laugh and continue to dance.
"So you and Ashton are getting pretty serious."

She smiles small. "Yeah I guess."

"What's wrong?" I ask

"Nothing." She says quickly

"No don't give me that." I say

"It's just that, I like him. I know I do, but I feel like he doesn't know me as well as I want him to." She says

I know you.

She continues, "He's a great boyfriend. But, I think I also need a great best friend. I want him to be both but he's not." She looks away

I can be both.

"Brooke?" My voice cracks

I want to kiss her so bad. I want to be with her.

"Hmm?"

"I-"

"Hey babe. Um did you want to go?" Ashton interrupts us

"Go?" I ask

"We're going back to his house. Hang out for a bit." She says

"You want to come?" Ashton asks

Is he serious? He knows I like his girlfriend and he's still inviting me?

"Uh-"

Brooke's smiles widely. "You should come."

"Can I bring Calum?" I ask

Ashton shrugs. "Yeah he's cool."

"Okay we'll meet you guys there." I say

"Okay." Ashton says taking Brooke's hand and walking out with some of his buddies.

"Cal!" I yell

"Wha- what Luke?" He ask

"Do you want to come with me to a party?" I ask

"Yeah sure. Whose?"

"Ashton's..." I say

"No. Luke bad. Don't you dare go to-"

"It's just a little...hang out. Come on? Please?" I beg

He sighs. "Fine."

We drive to his house and see only a couple cars in the driveway. "Okay. What a large 'party'" Cal says sarcastically

"Okay I might have lied about that." I say an get out of the car

We enter the house and only a few people are there. "Hey." Ashton yells

"Uh sup?" I say

"We're all down stairs." He says. The two guys behind him are following.

We then shrug and follow also. There are many instruments down stairs. A couple guitars, a drumset, and a bass. I keep my eyes on Brooke as she sits on the couch talking to Grace.

"Nice bass." Calum says eyeing the thing

"Thanks. You play?" Ashton asks

"Yeah." He says sitting down

"What about you pretty boy?" Asks Micheal

"Me?" I ask

"Yeah. You play anything?"

"He plays guitar." Brooke answers for me

I smile. "Yeah."

"Dude, Ashton plays drums. Why don't you guys play something?" Brooke asks

"Um no." We all say

"Come on? Please?" She begs Ashton and I

"Fine. I will if they will." Ashton says

"Okay." I say

Us four go grab out instruments. "Um what song?"

"What do you know how to play?" I ask Ashton

"Anything you can sing." Ashton says confidentially

"Okay. Does anyone know how to sing?" I ask

"You do Luke." Brooke says

"Uh-"

"Come on, you can do it." She encourages

"Well Cal what can you play?" I ask

"I can play Year 3000 pretty well." He admits

"Do you guys know that song?"

They all nod and I nod as well. "Okay. So um-"

"1, 2, 1, 2, 3!!" Ashton shouts

Suddenly all of us play. It's surprisingly really good.

"One day when I came home at lunchtime,
I heard a funny noise.
Went out to the back yard to find out if it was,
One of those rowdy boys.
Stood there with my neighbor called Peter,
And a Flux Capacitor." I sang

"He told me he built a time machine.
Like one in a film I've seen,
Yeah... he said..." I continue and Michael harmonized

"I've been to the year 3000
Not much has changed but they lived under water.
And your great great great grand daughter,
Is doing fine (doing fine)." Soon everyone joined even Calum.

I smile and look at the boys who looked hair as amazed as I was. They all smiled and went along with it. I then turned my attention to Brooke who was nodding and singing along. We continue and then end the song with Ashton drumming.

"Wow. That was awesome!" Brooke shouts

"Dude, Cal I had know idea you could sing." I say

"Yeah, well I guess I just never told anyone." He smiles

"Micheal, your harmonize were spot on man." Ashton says

"I try." He says causing us all to laugh

"Well that was fantastic. You guys should become a band." Some girl says

We all turned to each other. "Well-"

"Why not? I mean we don't sound bad." Michael says

"Well I mean...if they want to I'd join." Cal says

But that's be weird. I'd be in love with my band mate'a girlfriend. "We sound sick man." Ashton says

"Okay. Yeah."

Everyone cheered and I can't help but laugh at Brooke's excitement. This will be a good thing, right?