17 and Lost {Luke Hemmings}

Chapter 20

I woke up the next day in the arms of my amazing boyfriend. The sun was shining bright and I looked over at the clock to see that it was 10:30.

Yeah none of that happened.

It went more like.

‘SUPERMANNNNNNNN.’ The voice rang through the house as I felt bodies being flung onto mine. I winced at the sudden impact and squinted my eyes towards the angry red numbers glaring at me. 6:30 in the morning. To early to be getting up. I turned my head to find the cause of my pain. Right there lying across the top of me was Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Harry Styles. As mad as I was that someone woke me up, I had missed these idiots like crazy. ‘What are you guys doing here.’ I squealed wrapping them all in hugs completely forgetting that it was 6 in the morning. ‘Well Simon called us and explained everything and we didn’t want you guys to have to go through all this without us. So we got on the first flight that we could.’ Louis smiled once I let them go of my bear hug. ‘I missed you guys a lot.’ I smiled, tears filling up my eyes.

‘Tori.’ Liam and Zayn smiled once I emerged from the room. ‘HI guys.’ I smiled wrapping them in hugs. ‘Where are El and Perrie?’ I asked furrowing my eyebrows at everyone.

‘Oh my goodness he is the cutest thing ever!!’ Was screamed throughout the entire hotel apartment. ‘Don’t worry.’ I chuckled, shaking my head a little. I walked through the hotel room to find Perrie and El cooing over the cot which held Fletcher. A tired Jess was sitting in the corner looking pissed off. ‘How is he still asleep?’ I asked no one in particular. El squealed when she saw me and wrapped me in a huge hug. ‘I missed you.’ She smiled pulling away. It was weird not seeing her for 2 months. ‘I missed you too honey.’ I whispered in her ear.

‘Are you sure you don’t want us to bash this guy up?’ Louis asked his face filling with seriousness. Jess managed to stifle a chuckle, even in the horrible state she was in. ‘Trust me Tori already did that.’ She half-smiled at me. Everyone looked towards me, eyebrows raised while Luke was chuckling from beside me. ‘I slapped him and punched him in the gut. I wouldn’t necessarily call it bashing him up.’ I smirked leaning back down on the couch. ‘It was still hot.’ Luke mumbled so only I can hear him. I shot him a playful glare while he sent me a grin.

‘I can’t believe that tomorrow is the court date.’ Ash mumbled rubbing his temples. Everyone fell silent as Jess’ breath hitched in her throat. Tears welled up in her eyes but she remained as strong as she possibly could and let out a small smile. ‘we will win this.’ She whispered just loud enough for us all to hear her. I wish we would, for her sake. Fletcher was not even 6 months old and Jess loved him more than she did her own parents. Fletcher had been her life ever since she left the day after the Teen Choice Awards. He was the best thing that had ever happened to her.

Jess didn’t care that she was becoming a mum at 18. She didn’t care that she couldn’t go out clubbing like a normal 19 year old would. All she wanted was to provide for her son. For him to be loved. For him to have his mum and dad.

What Matt was doing was killing her. She didn’t deserve it. Jess was the perfect mum for Fletcher, anyone could see this.

And then there’s Ashton.

Ashton has only known he has had a son for a little over a month now. He wasn’t expecting it. But he took it in and was the best father that anyone could be to that boy. They couldn’t take him away. Not now. Not ever.

I sighed as I looked around the room once more not wishing I could make everything better. I just want for us to win this case. Fletcher shouldn’t be separated from the rest of his family.

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‘Come on babe let’s go to bed.’ Luke smiled, later that night as he held out his hand to me. I weakly nodded, as I stood up slowly saying good night to everyone. The rest of the day had been uneventful despite the fact that the One Direction boys and girlfriends were trying everything they could to cheer us up.

‘I can’t believe it’s tomorrow.’ Luke sighed as we sat down on our bed. I cuddled in closer to his warmth laying my head against his chest, breathing in his smell. ‘Neither.’ I whispered. ‘There’s so much going on right now.’ He sighed. ‘Simon was thinking that their going to out the tour on hold for a year.’ I said, remembering the conversation that I had with my manager.

‘I know. I just feel bad we’re going to be disappointing so many people.’ Luke sighed again, rubbing his temples. ‘At least we get to tell them on our own terms.’ I smiled, trying to put a positive spin on the issue. ‘Well we have to do it soon, in the next few days.’ Luke said wrapping me closer to him. A thought popped into my mind as a huge grin crossed my face.

‘Get the boys. I have an idea.’

I grabbed my phone out as Calum set up the laptop so it would be ready for the Twitcam we were about to do. As I signed into my Twitter I got bombarded with mentions asking how I was and if I would follow them. I clicked follow on the first few accounts I saw and was swarmed by thank you messages. I sighed as I composed a new tweet.

@ToriCarter- Hey guys doing a important Twitcam with the boys of @5SOS in 5

‘I feel horrible being the one to tell them that the tour is going to be delayed a year.’ Michael sighed as he walked in with 5 cokes. ‘So are we going to introduce Fletch?’ I asked as I sipped on the coke. ‘Yeah. I talked to Jess and she wants everyone to know about Fletcher. There’s already rumors anyway.’ Ash said, sounding happier than earlier. ‘Ok guys its now or never.’ Luke smiled as Calum started the Twitcam.

‘Ok so guys we have some good and bad news.’ Michael started, after we said our hellos. ‘So just over 6 months ago, a new edition was added to our family and we want you guys to meet him.’ Ashton smiled. Jess walked into view of the camera, carrying Fletcher in her arms. ‘Everyone meet my beautiful son, Fletcher Tory Rivers.’ He smiled as Jess placed his child in his arms. Jess sat down next to him ready to tell everything. ‘I found out that I was pregnant the night of the Teen Choice awards last year. I didn’t want to ruin mine nor Ashton’s career, so I ran. But when everyone came to Australia, Ash and I ran into each other. By then he knew what had happened and somehow Cupid worked his magic again.’ She smiled looking up at Ashton, who immediately placed his lips on hers.

Comments were flooding in saying how happy they were that Jess was back and how adorable Fletcher is. Everyone looked over at me to explain the next bit. ‘But when Jess first came to Australia, she met a guy named Matt. He was the person you saw in the photos of her. When Fletcher was born he was written down as the legal guardian. And now that Jess wants to come back to England with us, he is taking it to court for the legal rights.’ I sighed.

‘And because of everything that has been going on lately, we haven’t had time to organise our tour. We have decided altogether, along with our management and our familys, that we are going to postpone the tour for a year.’ Calum said. ‘We know that it is not ideal, but it is for the best. We’re so sorry.’ Luke said half-heartedly. ‘We will try and keep you posted on everything that happens with Fletcher. We love you guys so much. Thank you for everything.’ Michael smiled as all waved to the camera.

‘Well at least we got it over with.’ Luke smiled as we hopped into our shared bed. I snuggled closer to him and tried to enjoy these few minutes we had together.

Tomorrow was the day that everything could change.

Ok so drama is coming up in the next chapter.

And reading back over this I realised how carroty the start sounded so I apologise for this!

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