miss mysterious - luke hemmings au

four

"I finally did it," Luke said with a smile on his face as he got into Calum's car.

"Did what?" Calum asked.

"I told Jenna about her," Luke said, "and it actually feels pretty good."

"Good for you, buddy. I'm proud of you," Calum said.

"Thanks."

"Mind if we stop somewhere for lunch?" Calum asked, "I'm getting kind of hungry."

"Sure," Luke replied.

When the time the two of them stopped there, Luke found a place to sit, waiting patiently for a waiter or waitress to serve him while Calum walked away to go to the restroom.

"May I take your order?"

"Just a water for me, please."

Luke looked around the room and saw a couple walk in. The boy had her arm around the girl but the second Luke saw her face, he had to do a double take.

He saw the girl sit down in the corner.

It couldn't have been Becca.

The girl's hair was a faded pink.

Becca's hair was blonde.

Luke tried to ignore it but as the girl walked by and turned her head for a moment, Luke knew within an instant just by looking at the girl's face that she was the girl who had been a huge part of Luke's life in so many ways, good and bad. Despite that, she was the person he never knew in the first place.

Becca looked like a completely different person than before, but she was still her. She was a stranger to anyone else in the room, but to Luke, she was no stranger, a familiar face, one that he knew all too well covered up in a disguise, as if her past, who she was and who she was with, never even happened in the first place.

The boy she was with put her arm around her and Luke felt like his heart was going to beat out of his chest just at the thought of seeing them together.

He knew he had to move on and in his mind, he thought he already had moved on.

A part of him hadn't quite let her go.