utah || hemmings au {sequel to camp || hemmings au}

nineteen

Luke and I hadn't spoken of what happened since it took place. Maybe that wasn't the best because the situation needed to be discussed. But I wasn't sure what to say about what had happened, and I had a feeling that Luke didn't either. And as always, Audrey didn't suspect anything. She was always so damn oblivious, it both infuriated and relieved me. I felt so guilty, and I wished that she could figure everything out without one of us telling her. But I knew that wasn't going to happen. We tried to act normal around Audrey, not that she would catch on to anything anyways. I think that we did it more for ourselves, trying to avoid the subject all together.

I was walking to first period when someone grabbed my hand from behind. I stopped and turned around to see Luke standing there. He was wearing a blue flannel with a black shirt underneath, and his hair was down.

"What's wrong?" I asked. Luke didn't say anything, instead he pulled me down the hall, in the opposite direction of our class. "Where are we going?"

Before Luke could answer me, we were in a janitor's closet. It wasn't the same one Luke had pulled me into before, but it looked the same, but slightly bigger. Luke flipped the light switch and the light came on, causing me to squint slightly.

"What did you tell Audrey?" Were the first words to come out of Luke's mouth. I stared at him for a second, trying to decipher what exactly he meant.

"I didn't tell Audrey anything." I said slowly, my eyebrows crinkling togther.

"Then how does she know about us?" Luke gestured between him and I with his hand, and my heart felt like it dropped to my stomach. I definitely hadn't told Audrey anything, or anyone for that matter.

"What about us?" I questioned. I wasn't sure if Luke meant what had happened since I moved to Utah, or if he meant everything all together.

"Everything."

"What?" I gasped quietly.

"Yeah, she called me last night crying, saying that she knew we were together New Years Eve night and about us at camp. She kept crying and I kept apologizing. I don't know what to do, Caroline. She won't tell me who told her, she just said that she knows. Eventually she hung up the phone and I tried to call back, but she wouldn't answer. So I texted her and said that she was going to sleep and she had a lot of stuff to think about. She's not at school today and I'm about ninety-nine percent sure she's going to break up with me." Luke ran his hands over his face and sighed.

"Luke, I didn't tell her. Why would I?" I felt like Luke was blaming me, though I knew that I didn't say anything to her. I could never hurt her and tell her something like that, that Luke and I had been lying to her.

"Well, who told her, Caroline?" Luke threw his hands up in the air.

"Why are you acting so upset? I mean, you said you didn't want Audrey." I knew that Luke said he didn't even want his girlfriend. I was upset too, but he was freaking out.

"I don't want her, but I didn't want to hurt her. I care about her, Caroline. I didn't want it to end like this. This was not what I had planned."

"Not what you had planned? You had a plan to break up with Audrey?" I thought it was kind of crazy to come up with a plan to end a relationship. I understood that he didn't want to hurt Audrey by breaking up with her, but sometimes you just have to do things.

"Uh, yeah," Luke mumbled, "But that's not the point. The point is that Audrey knows and she's upset and I don't know what to do."

"Well, who knows? Did you tell anyone at all?"

Luke shrugged and I stared at him stupidly. How could you not know if you told someone something that important? "I know you did, though." Luke pointed and I stared at him quizzically, "You told Calum about New Years Eve and him, Michael, and Ashton already knew about camp."

"You think they told Audrey?"

"I don't know," Luke groaned, obviously frustrated, "Maybe."

"You didn't tell anyone else? You didn't tell anyone else about camp or what happened on New Years?"

Luke looked down at the floor and bit his nails nervously, obviously lost in thought. I stood there and watched him, hoping that he would think of something. I didn't want to think about Calum, Michael, or Ashton telling Audrey. I didn't want to think that our friends would do that, but I had to accept the possibility that they might have.

"Dammit." Luke cursed, dropping his hand and looking up at me, "Dammit, dammit, dammit."

"What is it? Do you know who told?"

Luke rushed out of the closet, without even answering my question. I stood there motionless, my notebook pressed tightly to my chest. I didn't know if Luke had figured out who told, but I prayed to God that it wasn't someone I knew.

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