My Sister's Boyfriend ➳ lrh

"Better For Everyone"

31 | Better For Everyone

Luke's POV

I ran after Sophie for as long as I could see her, but soon enough she managed to escape my sight range.

My head is all over the place. One minute I'm getting her some pills and the next she's sobbing, running out the building - what exactly happened in the five minutes that passed?

Sophie's Mom walks into the foyer and taps my shoulder consolingly.

"She will be okay, she's strong - she just needs a little time. That's all." She says encouragingly but sparingly.

She needs time?

What's that meant to mean?

I just sigh shakily and return to our room, ignoring Michael and Calum's calls as I do so.

I scan my room key on the little machine besides the room door and wait for it to beep before I push down the handle and let the A/C air hit my flushed, puffy face.

I hear multiple knocks on my door and the voice of Ashton shouting through my door, which I ignore - I was too caught up in my thoughts to care.

I begin to whimper softly, scared that something may have happened to Sophie. I'm in love with her and if anything happens to her, I'll never forgive myself.

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Sophie's POV

My legs couldn't stop. They were buckling beneath me as I ran, but they wouldn't quit make me take strides - each one faster than the last. My lungs were closing in and my head was spinning, I began blinking ferociously trying to make my vision less blurry from the tears welling up in then and rolling down my cheeks but it didn't work, I think I was crying to much to focus on anything other than the news I'd just received.

My phone vibrates violently in my clammy hand, and suddenly everything around me stops, as if the world just pauses. I stare at the screen, my stomach doing nervous flips.

My entire body shakes as if I'm cold, even though beads of sweat trickle down my forehead and my vision becomes blurry once again just at the sight of his name.

Luke.

I quickly declined the call and whimpered as my fingers hit the cold screen, feeling guilty as I swerved his attempt to make sure I was okay. I kept telling myself I was okay, but I knew deep down I was a mess.

My phone vibrated in my hand again, and as I'm about to hit decline, I realised it was Alison calling, and suddenly everything around me seems to stop, like those movies wear time just stops - cars are still, people are mid action and you feel surrounded by nothingness.

I put the phone up to my ear and let out a shake breath as I hear my sister sigh in relief.

"Sophie, please come back. You might hurt the baby," that made a pang of guilt shoot through me but I tried to disguise it.

So I retorted back harshly, "maybe that would be better for everyone."

"No, it would not! Come back and we can all just talk-"

"Please," she pleaded.

I hang up the call and my head tells me to carry on walking further away, but my heart tells me to go back, I decided to face my demons and start my journey back to the one place I was fearing to see people. I was suddenly petrified of them, not to any fault of their own. This was all my fault and I knew it.

I begin to make my way back to the arena and feel a pain in the pit of my stomach, like a twinge.

  Nerves.

I burst through the door to be met by a worried looking Luke, his arms quickly engulfed me and I've never felt so claustrophobic in my life, I felt like I was struggling to catch my breath.

"I'm so glad you're safe," he whispers breathlessly into my ear - but it's a little muffled due to his head being hurried in my neck.

I just stand there frozen, not really knowing what to say, but not breaking the tension that is in the air- suffocating me. As I finally gain the courage to speak, he manages to talk, cutting me off immediately.

"Why did you run off like that, Soph?"

"We need to talk," I reply bluntly.

"That's pretty obvious," I watch carefully as he scratches his neck awkwardly and see him gulp in anxiety.

"Can we go back to the hotel?"

"We've kinda got a show to do tonight..."

"Shit. Uhm, we will have to talk later then."

"Is it life threatening?"

"I sure hope not," I add before walking off - feeling ashamed, may I add.

I'm going to have a baby,

     And I'd be lying if I said I wasn't shitting bricks.

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A/N

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