just keep swimming | l.h.

20

I must have fallen asleep for a while because I woke up to loud talking besides me.

I looked over to see Jaime and Larry having a loud conversation.

"Guys, how late is it?" I asked sleepily and Larry threw over his phone. I pressed the home button so it lit up and told me that it was a bit after 4 in the morning.

"Where are the others?" I asked, rubbing my eyes.

"Calum, Michael and the girls are upstairs and Luke and Ashton are sleeping right besides you." Jaime said and smiled as I turned around slightly to see both of the boys sleeping silently.

Suddenly we heard noises from upstairs and our friends came back down.

We had conversations throughout the whole night which actually woke up Ashton eventually but Luke just kept sleeping like a baby.

All the other girls had to leave really early in the morning, leaving me alone with all the boys at just 7am.

After the girls left, I went to the kitchen with Ashton because both of us were really hungry.

"I didn't get the chance to talk to you a lot tonight" Ashton said while we were making sandwiches.

I nodded and asked:"I know, we haven't been talking a lot at all lately, how are you?"

"I'm okay, how are you? How are things with Luke?"

Ashton suddenly looked really sad, so I answered:"Everythings good, but what's bothering you, Ash?"

Ash shook his head sadly and said:"Nothing worth talking about, just some family issues."

I walked closer towards Ashton and stroked his arm.

"I'm always here if you wanna talk, you know that, right?"

"Thank you Bella"

I could practically feel the smile that crept on Ashton's face.

"No worries"

Ashton and I kept hugging for a few seconds until he let go of me and said:"You know what, your boyfriend is really lucky to have you."

"Yes I am"

Luke was standing in the doorframe and he had probably been watching Ashton and me for a while.

"I'm lucky to have Luke too, though" I tried to distract Luke and kissed him on the cheek, but Luke just turned to Ashton and said:"Did you really just try to hit on her, man?"

"No, Luke, listen. I was just telling her that you're a lucky dude, Bella is awesome but she's just a friend to me"

I felt Luke tense up and I knew that this wouldn't end up in a nice way so I quickly stepped out of the kitchen to motion Calum and Michael over incase Luke lost his temper.

As I got back into the kitchen Luke was standing right infront of Ashton, talking to him in a really creepy low voice as Ashton looked scared to death.

"Luke, leave him alone. He didn't do anything"

"Oh shut up, Bella" Luke said and glared at me as I shot him a death glare aswell.

"Dude, what's wrong with you, don't talk to her like that" Michael said to Luke angrily and pulled me back to the doorframe where Calum threw an arm around me and Michael stepped inbetween Luke and Ashton to prevent Luke from going on about Ashton.

"I gotta go" Ashton suddenly said and stormed out of the kitchen.

"Ash, wait" I said just to get a death glare from Luke, who said:"Why don't you just leave with him?" through gritted teeth.

I stepped back into the kitchen and lightly slapped Luke's cheek, not to hurt him though, just to wake that fool up.

"What the hell is wrong with you today?" I hissed at him and ran after Ashton, who was at his car already.

"Ashton, are you really okay to drive?" I asked, I was worried since he had almost none sleep and far too much alcohol last night.

Ashton nodded and Calum appeared in the doorframe.

"Could you give me a ride?" Calum asked and Ashton nodded and motioned him to come over.

"I'm sorry for Luke's behaviour" I assured Ashton and he just laughed and said:"We all know his short temper and it's been a rough night, no need to be sorry"

I smiled. "Drive save"

I backed off and watched them drive away as I went back into Luke's house, where I only found Michael standing in the living room.

"Where is he?" I asked angrily and Michael just said:"Stormed off as I wanted to talk to him. Sorry Bella but I guess you'll have to talk to him alone"

I nodded slowly.

Michael sighed and kissed my forehead lightly. "Good luck with that, Jaime, Larry and I will be waiting down here"

I smiled and went to search for Luke.

I found Luke sitting on his bed and before I could even start talking he said:"Too much alcohol, I know"

"Hell yes, you just screamed at one of your best friends for nothing." I said angrily as I spotted the bottle of pills in his hand.

He saw my glance and held them up "Medication, remember?"

I sighed and walked over to him.

I started messing with his hair as he said:"I know it was dumb, I'm sorry."

"You should tell Ashton" I said softly.

"I will but i'm also sorry for being rude to you"

"It's alright" I said and kissed the top of his head as he scooted over so I could sit down besides him.

"I better tell Ashton that i'm sorry" Luke suddenly said and we both went to the livingroom to get a phone when we suddenly heard a phone ring.

It was Luke's phone and Michael read out the caller ID:"Calum"

Luke nodded and told Michael to pick up for him and just seconds after Michael said "Hello?" his eyes widened in shock and all the color drained from his face.

"What? Where? Are you okay?" Michael asked, looking shocked as hell.

After a few seconds Michael hung up and looked around at each of us confused and scared to death.

"Ashton and Calum got into a car crash."

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A/N: Bet ya'll just expected drama between Luke and Bella right? Weeeell, this is a little bit worse than that I guess?! :D

The next chapters might be a bit emotional, get ready for that shizz

Btw, I decided to only update once (maybe twice) a week because I don't have much more prewritten and I'll be busy with some stuff for a little while so yeaaa dont hate me haha :)

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