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Chapter 32 {By Me}

Luke's POV

I couldn't do it. Just leaving her. I looked back right before they closed the plane door, I saw Neptune crying. I could barely hold my tears inside. I'm not even gonna lie, I did cry. I was leaving my girlfriend, and my best friend. Leaving Neptune and Rylie was the hardest thing I have ever done.

Michael sat next to me in the plane. I started thinking of lyrics that might be able to work in a song, "Michael, dude, do you have a notebook? And a pen that I can use."

"Uh... yeah here." He reached into his backpack and pulled out a blue notebook and a black pen. I said thanks and wrote down everything that I was thinking of.

Neptune and I knew we would eventually have to call it off. We didn't say it, but it was obvious that we couldn't keep a stable relationship when she was in Australia and I would be over 9,000 miles away in the UK.

Neptune's POV

Rylie and I had no idea what to do. Well, I didn't anyway. She was just kind of sniffling and laying on the floor. I was numb. I couldn't cry. I couldn't feel anything. I just laid there, staring at the ceiling. This was actually happening. He was gone, gone. He would be back at the end of the tour, months from now. Four of my best friends were gone. And I was gonna have to figure how to cope without them. Michael, Ashton, Calum, Luke... They were gone. Say that I'm over exaggerating, but I'm not. I know they're not, like, dead, but they'll get really big. They'll become a huge band a buy a house in LA or somewhere else. Luke and Calum are gonna find girlfriends and we'll be just fans to them.

My phone buzzed. It was a text from Michael.

Mikey😜: your boyfriend is crying and pouring his heart out into a song apparently

Me: tell him to text me please)):

I got no response after that. Not from Luke, not from Michael. I sighed and looked at Rylie. She gave me a fake smile, "How ya holdin' up, babe?"

"God, you sound more like your mom every single day." I tried to lighten the mood. It made us both laugh. My mom walked into the room. She looked at us both, "You two okay?" I started crying. Why am I so pathetic? I can't do this. It's barely been an hour and I am already falling apart.

-Jesus Christ, Neptune, you're so stupid. He's never coming back.