MUKE one shots ♡

• it's hard to see your tears in the pouring rain •

for folieacalum

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"Michael! Michael!" Luke was running in the pouring rain down the street.

It was cold and Michael stormed out of Luke's house without his jacket. Seconds later the first raindrops started to fall and Michael's car was in still in front of Hemmings house.

"Mikey! Where are you?"

Luke finally noticed the fire-red hair and saw Michael on the porch of the abandoned house at the end of his street.

He ran and tripped on the slippery grass. It hurt but Luke quickly picked himself up and ran over the lawn to where Michael was shivering. "Michael!" He shouted once more and only now the older boy heard him and turned back.

"Mikey! You're shivering, you're going to catch a cold."

Luke placed the jacket over Michael's shoulders and his heart clenched when Michael took a step away from him.

"Mikey." The blue-eyed boy was on the verge of tears when he saw the hurt expression on his best friends face. "What's wrong?"

Michael finally looked up, his eyes red. Luke wasn't sure if he was crying because there were also droplets of water dripping from his hair. "What's wrong? You're seriously going to ask me that?"

Luke let out a whine, he hurt Michael and he didn't know how.

"You fucking courted me for months when you knew I wasn't ready. You made me feel so bad because you knew my heart was still broken and you wrote fucking love songs for me and wouldn't let my heart to heal. And then when it did I fell for you like an idiot. You made me feel all those things he didn't and for the past six months, you've made me feel nothing but loved and important. Like you promised. To keep me safe and away from the heartache he made me feel. But then you stab me right in the heart and call me a friend in front of your parents who apparently wanted to meet me so badly. I don't know Luke, I'd get it if you'd be scared but why would you invite me over in the first place?"

Michael looked up expectantly and saw Luke wiping away his tears. There was relief in the blue orbs and it confused him.

"Michael they know we're together. I told them four years ago that I'm in love with you but then you got together with him and didn't even give me a chance to fight. They knew since before you told me that you love me back. They know you're the centre of my universe. That's why they couldn't wait to meet you and we never made it official. I know you knew I was yours but I didn't want to push you into anything you weren't ready for. Yes, I was aggressive because I wanted you to forget him, only because he isn't even worth being in your memories. Because I wanted you to know that what he did to you doesn't define you. You, Michael Clifford, have been the best thing in my life since you gave me your special plaster when I feel from the slide when we were seven. I love you."

A laugh escaped Michael's lips and Luke looked at him with a frown on his face. Did he say anything funny?

"I was in love with you then as well. I only got with him because I didn't want to be that stupid person who falls in love with his best friend."

"It makes two of us," Luke said with a smirk on his face and stepped forward. "I guess we're both stupid."

"Sorry," Michael whispered when Luke's face was only centimetres away from his when he could feel Luke's breath on his skin. "For doubting you."

"Don't be. At least you gave me the perfect excuse to ask you to be my boyfriend."

"Yes." The older boy nodded enthusiastically.

"Good. Now let's go back to my house so my parents can meet my boyfriend."

"Let's kiss first."

They both had stupid grins on their faces just before they pressed their lips together.

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Lucija and angst? That doesn't sound right.. (:

Thoughts?

Luke waiting for Michael?

Michael trusting Luke?

blink182 was AMAZING! thanks to the lovely Italians who helped when I passed out from the heat when we were waiting to get in. (:

Love, Lucija ♡