Sweet Escape- Luke Hemmings Fanfiction

Chapter 1

‘Bye Becca see you next year!’ The voices of my best friends echoed through my mind as I walked through the hot Toronto air and back to my hotel. I had just met up with them for the last time before they all started school again, meaning I only had 2 days left in Canada before flying back to the UK. Leaving every summer was always emotional, but I must say I’m pretty happy with how my life turned out since moving to England. A new school, new friends and a new house had seemed quite daunting at the time, but I think I fit in a bit better over there anyways. I guess there would always be a part of me waiting on both sides of the world, and I kind of liked that security.

We'd been having an amazing dinner at a Japanese restaurant downtown that I remembered going to as a child. My parents would always watch as I smiled at the incredible arrays of food that they cooked. It always felt weird going back after such long periods, as though my past memories had been in a different life. A different time. A different me. It almost seemed sometimes like they'd never even existed at all. Even the people I had grown up with had changed. Sure, they were bound too after all this time, but it felt like I had frozen their memories in time, and when I finally came into contact with them in real life, it almost felt as though nothing would ever match how I'd left them. It was like I had filtered every moment to perfectly sum up the person, omitting all of the negatives, and possibly enhancing the positives. 

My heels were starting to dig into my feet as I reached the last road before the hotel. It always sounded weird talking about hotels when I was only 4 blocks away from my old house, but I’d started to get used to it after 4 years. I pushed my long, brown curly hair out of my eyes as I continued walking. I'd chosen a short, floral summer dress for the dinner and nude heels; nothing casual but nothing fancy.  I guess it kind of summed up what I stood for in a weird way. I was never going to be one of those girls that everyone fell in love with immediatly, and I had accepted it. I was just me. As I turned the corner I began to glimpse the city lights turning on, as the streets came alive in the hot night air. People were bustling about everywhere, and I couldnt help but feel the haunting lonliness that came from wandering familiar streets alone. Everywhere they were all happily partenered off in couples, enjoying the atmosphere together, and indulging in the company of others. I remembered with a pang how I'd felt the same way only months before. As though my whole world had been standing in front of me each night, until it all crashed down in a matter of seconds. But then thats what life was all about. Everything came down to a matter of seconds when you think about it. Every few seconds another 1000 lives are started, and another hundred end. And every few seconds we all grow closer to our dreams, but at the same time a few seconds further towards their end. A loud scream echoed past me as I snapped out of my thoughts. A group of girls slightly younger than me had crowded around the door of the hotel, screaming desperately.

‘Excuse me, sorry’, I repeated as I tried to push my way past the girls.

‘Do you know them?’ ‘Can you sneak me in?’ ‘Have you seen them yet?’ one of them screamed at me as I walked inside to the safety of the lobby. I was never very good in crowds, I wouldn’t go as far as saying I was claustrophobic, but I was too tired for any of their questions. This kind of thing tended to happen a lot in this area of Toronto, and I was sure they were just after another autograph from another celebrity who couldnt even walk 10 feet alone. All the rockstars and actors were all so hung up nowadays, I didnt even bother with the magazines. I didnt understand how anyone could ever live like that, or ever want to be around one of them. I looked back at the girls and felt suddenly sorry for them. They were all just dedicating their day to someone who probably couldnt even string a sentence together. I turned around and continued on. I hadn’t seen their precious celebrity anyway.

I walked slowly towards the lifts making sure to grab myself a bottle of water first after my walk. The hotel air conditioning cooled me down instantly and I quickly fixed my hair in the lobby mirror. About 13 people seemed to be crowding around the lifts and they all seemed to be talking rapidly in Australian accents. Tourists I guessed. The next lift arrived with a ping and the whole group pushed their way in, somehow managing to all squeeze until the attendant pulled out the closest one to the door for exceeding the weight limit.

‘Luke, you weighed more than 1.3 tonnes,’ one of the guys yelled out. ‘ Yeah maybe you need some more trips to the gym’ echoed another.

‘Ha-ha very funny guys’ the boy next to me replied, who I assumed was Luke. ‘I’ll meet you up there’. He suddenly spun around and I could see the piercing blue eyes that contrasted with his blonde hair. ‘Sorry about them they’re all kinda pushy’ he remarked while laughing to himself.

The next lift dinged its welcome arrival. ‘After you ma lady’ the boy gestured, as I entered.

‘Haha thanks’ I smiled back as he looked almost too pleased with himself. 

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