Jetlagged - afi

"Im using Luke to get to him"

//6// I'm using Luke to get to him

I rolled up onto my back and sat up on the bed, glancing around the room. Empty, and I saw a note on the door. My hair flowed down, stretching down my back as I stood up.

We went out to get some stuff. Don't worry, we'll be back soon. -Ash and Luke.

I giggled to myself, seeing an 'x' on the end of the letter but it was scribbled on. I could still see it. Walking up to the fridge, I felt a cold gush of wind sweep past my knees. Looking down, I was nothing but an oversized blue t-shirt placed onto my body.

I fell asleep with my clothes on the night before, right? What happened?

I winced at the thought of what could've happened. Did they do that?

Opening up the fridge door, I was greeted with a lemon falling down onto my leg, faster than I could catch it. I just sighed and rolled my eyes, helping myself to a bar of chocolate sitting on the bean bag opposite the tv.

There was a bag of cough sweets placed onto a bean bag so i opened them. i popped no one into my mouth before getting to my closet.

I threw on a black halter top with some denim jeans and tied up my hair. Opening up my door, I began jogging out through the entrance of the hotel and stopped when I saw a pharmacy on a street.

Wait a second, this smell. This sound. They're all familiar...

Maybe because the beach is literally right in front of me.

It was beautiful. I could hear that beach noise where little children were screaming and paddling. And the seagulls were loud too. There were several people with umbrellas and pool noodles in their hands walking towards the noise.

But i'm sick so i can't go.

i stepped into the pharmacy, the stench of medicine flowed into my nose. I looked around, seeing lots of medicine for different things. I didn't know what I had to buy. I'm not an expert with medicine. i'm not a mum.

I ended up having to stay in line for a couple of minutes, before the red haired girl in front of me turned around and began talking to me. She had freckles surrounding her nose, and beautiful blue eyes. Her nose was beautiful too. It's like those type of noses that are really perfect.

"What?" I asked her, coughing once more.

"You're the girl from Ashton's instagram!" she spoke, and I shook my head in confusion.

"What do you mean?"

She took out her phone and shoved it in my face. It was a picture of me sleeping with my hands holding tightly onto the duvet and my left leg underneath the covers whilst my right one was on top of the covers. The caption said 'she sleeps like a baby. it's so cute!'

I felt my cheeks turning red as the girl examined my face.

"Yep it's you."

"But who are you? And how do you know Ashton?"

"We used to go to primary school together. I got expelled when I began ranting and swearing at a teacher, and then we had our last year of high school together, and me and Ashton began going out."

I nodded with embarrassment. Why was I feeling like this?

"But now I'm dating his friend Luke, and don't tell Ashton but i'm using Luke to get to him."

"But why? Didn't he break up with you?"

"Yeah. but i want him back!"

I sighed. Why are girls so weird? It's like they can't think out anything.

"Next please." I heard the woman behind the counter call out.

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When I made it home, I saw a worried Ashton and a worried Luke sitting down onto the bed. Their eyes widened with gladness to see that I was home.

"What? My god, everyone's confusing me today." I moaned and practically threw myself onto the bed.

"We thought you were kidnapped!" said Luke, walking over to me.

"Why would I be kidnapped? I just went out to get some medicine and stuff. Hey there's a beach down the road. Where the hotdog shop is. Wanna go?"

They both sighed in unison and strolled past me to the beanbags. They sat down and slouched, making themselves comfortable. Ashton picked up the tv remote and turned on 'How I Met Your Mother'. I nodded along to the theme song before being snapped out of my daydream.

"We can't go."

"Please, Ashton? It looks so fun!"

"No, you're sick, Autumn."

"Pretty please? With sugar on top?"

"Come on, give the girl a break." spoke Luke from behind Ashton.

"Fine."

"Yes!" I whisper-yelled, pumping my fist into the air.

They both chuckled at my childishness and went back to watching tv.

"And I promise my cough is fading away.

OKAY OKAY OKAY. BIG THING TO CLEAR UP. SO FOR SOME REASONNNN I HAVE MOTIVATION TO WRITE THIS AND IVE COME TO A CONCLUSION TO WRITE ONCE EVERY WEEK OR TRY TO WRITE TWICE EVERY WEEK IF THATS POSSILBE SINCE I HAVE ANOTHER FANFIC RUNNING. Anyway i don't even know why that's in caps, sorry if i wrote some bits in lowercase, i have another book that's all lowercase intended and i'm not bothered to change my keyboards settings. But howdya like that chapter, eh? ew that's cringey. okay, if in the future this gets like 73728297 reads then follow jellyplush for helping me so much with this story and being a dedicated fan<3 -julia