Nightmares and Fantasies | L.H | supernatural au

Ch. 13

| Ashton's pov|

I don't quite understand what's going on. Calum did tell me the problem with Luke and that Noreen is the cause for it. But that only leaves me wondering: why is she staying with him in the first place. She must not know that the demon is here because of her. And she must not know that he killed her mother, he didn't kill her, it was really his father, no it was an accident but he was apart of it.

It makes no sense to me. Noreen is connected to his nightmare and the reason for him being this way, but he refuses to stay away from her. She's only destroying him.

I continue driving and soon I'm at Luke's house. I get out the car and once I'm at the door I hear faint talking. It must be Noreen and Luke.

"You're just pushing me away for no reason," Noreen says.

"Noreen, you know what's happening to me, it's only for a night. I need to really think about this," Luke replies.

"Fine, I'll go. Only because you want me too,"

There's silence, as there always is at his house and I knock on the door. Noreen greets me and walks out the house -without saying a word to Luke - with a small bag on her shoulder. She must have agreed to stay the night. It reminds me of a wife angry at her husband, but this is way different. She crosses her arms and walks forward. I start walking and get in the car.

"You wanna talk about this?" I ask.

"Somewhere private," she answers.

Noreen doesn't even bother to look at me but I nod anyway. I start driving to my house, I can already tell this isn't going to be fun and there's nine hours until night. We arrive at my house and Noreen gets out first slamming the door. I get out and unlock the front door for her. We sit in my living room and she sighs deeply. I don't pressure her to start talking right away, I just sit back making myself comfortable, I look down at her arm and see it's in a bandage. Did Luke do that to her?

"I'm just upset that I can't be with him all the time. I really like him but he scares me. Everyone thinks he's a monster, before they were wrong, but now they're right," Noreen starts off.

"It started this week; Wednesday Michael was with him, it scared him to death. He hasn't come around since then. Then he told Calum..."

I stop there because I'm afraid I'll tell her what I'm not suppose to. Luke wouldn't want her to know, but I know one day she'll find out.

"I don't want Luke to feel like he's unwanted. That's why I want to stay with him rather than Calum," she says.

I don't reply. Luke has always felt unwanted, even when the boys and I were around. He feels like no one likes him, we always tell him that's a lie. We're like brothers and I wish, one day, he could see that, but he doesn't. I just wonder, does he even feel wanted with Noreen around or will the feeling stay with him forever?

I sigh and Noreen looks at me.

"He will get better? Right?" Noreen says softly.

As long as they are together, no; but I can't tell her that.

"He will," I say but it sounds terrible coming out my mouth.

How could I lie to her? She's been through so much and I can't even tell her the truth. I twiddle my thumbs and I hear footsteps. Must be Michael he was here earlier and I don't remember him leaving. He enters the room and glances at Noreen. She doesn't notices him as she stares at the ground. She smooths back her hair and exhales.

"I don't understand. If Michael was that scared why wasn't I?" Noreen asks.

"Because you force yourself to stay with him so you teach yourself not to be scare, whereas I don't mind being away from Luke for a while," Michael interrupts.