She Looks So Perfect (Luke Hemmings)+ extras

Chapter 13- Another Song

After Nicole left I just headed back to the venue, the boys are most likely still there. As I approach the back lot I see the boys exiting and they were being their usual selves. Happy, chirpy, overly excited but it all changed when they saw me walking back alone with my head hanged low and my hands stuffed in my pocket.

“Luke? Are you ok?” Ashton asked, I forced a smile and headed into the band car. All of them said nothing to me as we headed out of the venue and to Michael’s house. On the way, we had to pass the fans and they tried to catch up with us, tapping their hands on our car and they even took pictures. Since I was sitting at the side, where it’s closest to the fans, I wasn’t bothered to smile and put on an act for the fans. I stayed silent and looking depressed.

We eventually get out of the place and from there the ride was smooth but silent. I was too busy thinking about her and what she said. What stood out the most was: ‘We’ll be together someday. Nothing lasts forever. Nothing stays the same.’ Almost sounds like a song to me. I feel like I’m pulling a Taylor Swift if I wrote another song about her. But the first song I wrote about her is all so happy and perfect and then this one, the one I’m thinking about now, is depressing. Sad. Not positive at all.

A simple guitar tune was stuck in my head and I really couldn’t get it out of my head. In fact, as soon as we arrived at Michael’s house I raced downstairs to his basement (aka our band dungeon) and grabbed an acoustic guitar and a notepad. With the tune still stuck in my head, I wrote down all the notes.

“Looks like he’s into something.” I hear Ash say, I knew that all three of them were watching me in the little frenzy but I couldn’t stop. The entire tune to the song was flowing out of my head and onto the paper. After I wrote everything down I tried it out on the guitar.

“Did he just write a tune in five minutes?” I tried to block the boys out of me and just focus on the song. While strumming it on the guitar, I found myself humming it too.

“That sounds really good.” One of the boys said once I finished. I looked up at them and found them standing in front of me.

“Thanks.”

“What’s it about?” Cal asks as he sits down next to me and observes the notepad. “No lyrics?”

“Not yet. I only have three lines and that’s the only lyrics I have.” It’s only three lines, but those three lines could reveal a lot, especially since I have been slightly depressed since my walk and the boys being the boys will most likely catch on what the lyrics mean.

“Give it a shot. If the tune itself sounds perfect, I’d like to hear what these lines sound like with it.” Everyone sat around and got comfortable. I prepared myself and cleared my throat. Maybe I should just wait till the song is finished. “Ready? Lucas?”

“What? Right, right. Sorry.” I snap out of my little daze and begin with the guitar tune just before the lines. Just before singing, I took a deep breath in and out, here goes nothing. “You can say we’ll be together someday. But nothing lasts forever. Nothing stays the same.” I sang. I looked over at the boys and their expression said it all.

“Don’t tell us she broke up with you.” Michael finally speaks up. I set the guitar aside and pick up the notebook.

“She did.” I simply answered. Getting up and going upstairs to get myself a drink. Michael’s mum came by and I smiled for her. Thankfully she can’t read me like the boys can so she wasn’t able to notice the fact that I am broken deeply.

We’re staying over at Michael’s place so I made my way up to Michael’s room and just sat on the floor with my drink. Nicole dumped me. Nicole dumped me. Those three words repeated over and over in my head. And finally as if hearing them was the trigger, I broke down. Hard. I wanted to scream but the pain in my throat wouldn’t let me. All the tears that were kept silent broke free and now here I sit, on the floor of Michael’s bedroom with a can of Coca-Cola, crying a Niagara Falls.