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Chapter 6

Ashton tumbles backwards at Luke's strength. Luke immediate starts punching his face creating a bloody mess on the floor. Ashton tries to fight back but he has no chance against Luke.

"Luke! Stop your going to kill him!" I scream as I run towards them trying to pull Luke off of Ashton.

As Luke keeps throwing punches, Ashton gets weaker and weaker by the second. I again try to pull Luke off of him and finally Luke turns to me grabs me. He embraces me wrapping his arms around me and kissing the top of my head. I wrap my arms around his waist feeling the warmth his body let off.

As I keep crying, Luke keeps reassuring me "Shhhh, It's okay... He'll never touch you again."

"Where did you go" I managed between sobs "Why did you leave me alone."

Luke let go of me and looked at me right in the eyes. His hands were on my shoulders, before he removed one to move the hair away from my face.

"I went out back to call Tyler and see where he was. I thought he'd be here by now, and I was wondering where he was, I'm sorry I shouldn't have left you alone." Luke said stroking my hair as my crying was eased.

"It's okay, I'm fine now." I replied looking from my feet up to some beautiful blue eyes.

"It's 5:00 and I'm starving.... Do you want to get a bite of something to eat?" Luke suggested looking over at the door.

I nodded silently and followed him over to the door. When the door was shut behind me, Luke immediately grabbed my hand and led me to the car. Once we reached the car, I got out my phone to see multiple missed calls from my mom. I kind of felt bad about the whole situation and decided to call back.

"Lucy Marie! Where did you go!" My mother screamed into the phone, I heard faint sobs on the other end.

"I went for a walk and my friend, Luke, picked me up to get something to eat." I calmly said looking over at Luke. He silently mouth 'Who is that'. I covered the speaker on the phone and said "My mother."

"You need to come back right now! I never told you that you could go on some date with god knows who!" My mom yelled from the other line.

"Mother, just 45 minutes ago you told me that you never gave a damn about me and not you want to give me a lecture about who I can and cannot hang out with. Why such a change in heart?" I say back trying to get in fight right in front of Luke.

"You and I both know I was drunk and didn't know what I was talking about. You need to come home right now." She said not yelling anymore, her tone was more commanding than anything.

I really didn't want to go home, but I would if I could bring Luke. I felt so protected when I was with him. I don't know what it was, but he had this thing about him that I couldn't get out of my head.

"I'll come home on one condition, Luke can come with me." I firmly state hoping that she will accept without a fight.

"Good, I wanna meet this boy you've been hanging out with. I wonder what really goes through his mind when he's with you." She tells me through the phone. I could hear the coldness even as far as I was from her. I hung up without another word and all I could get out was a sigh.

"What was that about? Am I going home with you?" Luke asked, looking at me with curiosity. "Because I've never gone home with a girl before a first date." He added with a wink.

"Luke, no. I want you to come because I don't want to face her alone. She told me my dad left and she goes a little psycho when they fight."

"Well, I've never went home with a girl for that, but of course I'll go because I know how you feel, you know I really do care about you."

"Thank you, I really do need someone to care for me right now."

I look over at him and he places his hand on mine. Whenever he touches me, I feel fire rush through my body. The electricity between us is uncontrollable and to be honest, I don't mind it.

As we arrive home I feel my stomach turning and I begin to rethink Luke

coming in with me. I mean after all I just met him last night and my mom is at home drinking every sip of alcohol she can. And I am actually beginning to like Luke, I don't want her to ruin anything.

"Lucy, you've gone pale... are you okay?" Luke asks me with a little concern in his tone.

"Yeah I am. I'm just a little nervous about you meeting my mom. I just want to warn you that she can be a little crazy and scary and can make you

uncomfortable and.."

"Hey, hey, hey, you and I will be fine. If I can handle my mom and all my cousins friends... I can handle a drunk lady." Luke comforts me, turning my face towards his.

I sigh and say "I really hope so."

As we both get out of the car I feel the nerves strengthen. I walk behind Luke using him to shield the wrath I was about to face. I think he knew I was worried, so he grabbed my hand and pulled me closer. I open the front door slowly and see my mother has changed into her newest black cocktail dress. Her makeup was fixed and her hair was in neat curls.

"Hi mom... this is.. uhh.. Luke." I stutter and struggle to get it out.

"Well, hello Luke... I am Lucy's mom.. but you can call me Victoria." My mom says as she slowly walks over to Luke, putting her hands on his chest.

He immediately removed her hands and stepped away. Oh my goodness... this is not going to go well.

"Yeah mom, okay. Let's go into the living room or something... please." I say pushing my mom along, making her keep her distance from Luke.

"Of course! Luke would you like something to drink," My mother says walking to the refrigerator.

"Oh no, I'm good." Luke replies.

Without another word my mother opens the fridge and brings out a bottle of red wine. She brings it to the counter and opens it with a bottle opener and pours it into a glass. Then she walks over to the couch.

"Hey, I really, really have to pee. I don't want to leave you alone with her but the bathroom is right down the hall." I whisper to Luke, loosing eye contact with my mother.

"Come on, I will be fine.. It doesn't take that long to go pee." He reassures me.

I then get up and walk down the hall.

LUKES POV

As Lucy walks down the hall I feel a hand start to rub my arm,

"I didn't realize Lucy could reel in such handsome boys.. I mean men." Victoria whispers into my ear.

I move down the couch and remove her hand.

"Where you goin? You don't like an older woman..... ?"

"Stop! I like Lucy, I say pushing her off of me. "Your such a slut of a mother"

I get up and walk straight out of the house. I really hope Lucy didn't hear, it would just make things worse between the two. But I can't be seduced or it'll end the way the last girlfriend did. Gosh, why do I attracted the girls with whore moms?

I' don't want Lucy to think that I just left her so I decide to text her and wait for her.

I text her 'Hey, I am out in my car, please come with me'

It wasn't long before I received a phone call. I didn't recognize the number but decided to answer out of curiosity.

"Hello?" I say into my phone hearing loud music and yelling from what seems to be a crowd of people.

"I know what you did to my little sister,

and you will pay" Says an unknown person over the phone. I didn't really know what it was about... but I had a pretty good idea. And I don't want to pay for anything.