"It's Something" # 1- Something Crazy: Luke Hemmings [ completed ]

Chapter 5: Capturing the Moment

I was in the guys dressing room now while the guys were performing their hearts out to their screaming fans. I was looking at the pictures I took with the guys at Japantown and we cut it in half so I have a copy of my own. I can't help but to smile every time I look at the pictures of Luke and me. Their was one pic that I noticed that it was so last minute because we were too busy bickering which pose that I did a random asian peace pose while Luke was just smiling at me, looking at me. Not smiling like laughing, not smiling like he's with the guys, not smiling like taking a picture. This smile was something gentle, like he's dazed. It's something unexplainable. You can tell it was off guard, so it's really natural looking and not forced. I don't know if Luke likes me, I hope he does cause that would be a miracle but I am scared.

The last guy I dated which was my first relationship ever and what my uncle said, it didn't end so well. The guy broke up with me after he was gone for a five day vacation during summer, because he wasn't ready for something serious. We dated for a year and two months and it ended like that. He threw all away in one day. Then when school started, he started talking to one of my "friends". That's when people started making fun of me saying I was pathetic for crying in school, that I wasn't skinny enough for him, that I was too dark for him, that I wasn't smart enough, pretty much I was ugly and I was not good enough. That's why I don't have much "friends" and I quite Photography because my ex is the reason why I got better at it. Every time I took a picture, I can't help but to think of him. How he would tell me good job, and that he wants my works in his room someday. I stop playing guitar often because there was this horrible incident. I used to play at this cafe at downtown San Francisco, and I was performing one night till my ex came in with the new girl and bunch of her friends. Once I started performing, they started talking really loud, laughing louder, and I heard one of them say, "My ears hurt because that screeching." After that night, I stopped everything.

"Hey," someone said as they opened the door, and when I looked, it was my uncle.
"Hey you." I said when he came in, "What's up?"
"Just finding you."
"Well, you found me."
"Yeah, what chu lookin at?" He asked as he leaned in and I showed him the pika pika pics.
Uncle Ben started laughing, "God, the guys are crazy."
"Tell me about it." I laughed with him and when he looked the pics of Luke and me, he smiled, "I like this one of you two."
He showed me the one that Luke was smiling at me, "The way Luke is looking at you is priceless."
I started blushing, "Yeah, you can say." I took the pics back, "Anyways, why were you looking for me?"
"I want to give you something." He took a box that was wrapped in red wrapping paper and gold snowflakes all over it.
"What is this?" I asked him, and he shrugged, "An early Christmas present."
"Why not birthday?"
"Because," he took one of the chairs, and sat next to me, "I know you don't like your birthday."
I smiled at him, "You know me so well." Okay, yeah, I don't like my birthday! Bad things ALWAYS happen to me on my birthday. My mom had to go to the hospital on my 10th birthday, broke my surf board on 12th birthday, MAJOR traffic on my 14th birthday so I ended up spending it all day on the road, and so on. That's why, I absolutely hate my birthday, but Christmas, ahh, my uncle knows how much I love Christmas because of the gift wrappings. It's always a tradition that my mom and I would wrap presents together and I would pick out the gift wrappers every year.
"I like that you chose red." I said as I was ripping the wrapper and he nodded, "Your favorite color of all time."
"You know it." I smiled and started ripping more. When I finally revealed what the present was, my heart stopped.
"Canon t5i..?" I sighed and he nodded, "Latest model of the Canon TwhatevernumberI line."
I chuckled, and sighed louder, "This must cost a fortune."
He shrugged, "I saved up for it. I know how you stopped photography, so I want to bring it back. After years of not seeing you, I saved up money to buy the perfect camera for you. I thought you would like this because you used to have a t3i and," He coughed, "yeah, you get my point."
I opened the box and the camera was already ready to be used. I took out and turned it on.
"New memory card and full battery." I smiled, and felt the camera. It's been forever since I last touched a camera. "Thank you so much, Uncle." I hugged him, "I'll cherish this forever."
Uncle Ben hugged me back, "I hope so. That thing is crazily overpriced."
"I bet." I laughed and when I let go, I took the camera and said, "Say cheese!" My uncle smiled, "Cheeeese!"
I snapped a picture and looked at it, "Damn, this quality is the best."
I showed Uncle Ben the pic, and he groaned, "God, you can see everything."
I laughed and looked at the picture. The amazing feeling is coming back again. The feeling of capturing the moment, and seeing the memory.
"I think I'm going to walk to around and take more pictures." I said as I got up and uncle nodded, "Definitely."