Being a Brooks *editing*

Chapter 24 ☺

{BEAU’S POV.}

We finally got home from the park. “Luke, where home!” I called through the house, but heard no response. “Hey Beau, we’re gonna go to skips, wanna come?” Jai asked. “No, I’m gonna stay here” I replied, curious as to where Luke was. “Okay well if you find Luke tell him” I nodded and Bella and Jai left. “Luke?” I called again and still no response. I walked through the house and looked, but couldn’t find him. I walked past Bella’s room and heard quiet sobs, “Luke?” I said as I walked through the door. I saw him sitting on the floor with a piece of paper in his hand. “What’s that?” I asked with worry. “It’s Bella’s suicide note” he replied. I sat next to him and read over the note, bringing tears to my eyes. “This is my fault. I should have seen what was going on! Bella could have died and it would have been my fault!” he yelled with anger. “Luke! this is not your fault! There’s nothing you could have done to talk her out of it! None of us had any idea that she would do this” I slightly yelled back, “That’s the thing Beau, I should have at least tried to talk her out of it! I should have been there for her more! I shouldn’t have gone to America. I should have told Veronica off as soon as this started. I should have been a big brother to her, but instead I was busy with the Janoskians!” he got up and walked to his room, slamming the door behind him. He was furious with himself. What do I do? I grabbed my phone and called Bella

{CONVO}

Bella: Hello?

Beau: You need to come home! Now! Luke is blaming everything on himself

Bella: I’ll be there soon, don’t let him do anything stupid

*hangs up*

{ISABELLA’S POV.}

I got of the phone with Beau and starting walking to the door of Skip’s house.

“Where you going Bella?” Skip asked.

“I’m going home, Luke is upset and I need to go talk to him before he does ANYTHING stupid” I explained. Skip nodded.

“Want me to drop you off?” he asked. I shook my head, “Na, I’ll be right, thanks though” I smiled and walked out the door. I threw my penny board on the ground and jumped on. I rode all the way home.

I walked straight inside and Beau came running downstairs. “Where is he?” I asked, walking past Beau. “He’s upstairs, in his room. He hasn’t come out since I got home”.

I ran up into his room and saw him looking at the anklet I had left for him. “That’s mine you know” I joked, standing in the doorway. He looked up. “You found my letter didn’t you?” I asked, walking over to him. He nodded. I climbed up to the top bunk where Luke was sat.

“Luke, none of this is your fault” I said quietly, breaking the silence.

“Yeah, for sure” he mumbled, “Bella, if it wasn’t for me, Veronica would have backed off a bit, but since I have such a short temper and loud mouth, I had to make things worse! I made things worse for you and I didn’t to my job as a big brother. I left you when you needed me most and I didn’t even realise it!” He yelled, furious with himself.

“Luke, there’s nothing you could have done to stop all this from happening. There’s nothing you could have done to stop me from trying to commit suicide. Yes, I needed you, but you didn’t know what I was thinking so how could you help me? You’re lucky I’m still here. In all honesty you saved my life. I mean you came straight home when I stormed out the school gates. If you didn’t do that, I would be gone” I admitted. He looked down at the anklet that he held in his hands.

“Luke, you can’t punish yourself for my mistakes” I told him.

“Bella, what if I hadn’t of come home? What if I had never seen any of the stuff on twitter? What if I didn’t follow you home? You would be gone and it would be my fault because I’m that much of an idiot to not see what’s going on” he said in a calmer voice than before.

“The thing is Luke, you are pointing out all the things that would have happened if you didn’t do the stuff you did, but thats not important. What’s important is that you did do that stuff. You did come home, you did see that stuff on twitter, you did follow me home. You wanna know why? Because you cared enough and you were smart enough” I said, with hope he would realise how much he has done for me.

I saw a small smile form on his face. I shuffled over to Luke and gave him a hug, “Thank you” I whispered in his ear.

We broke from the hug and climbed down from the top bunk. “You gonna come to skips with me?” I asked. “Sure, lets go”.

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A/N : This was a slightly shorter chapter. There won't be many chapters left of this book :( But I will start a new fanfic as soon as this one is done :)