ONE SHOTS

Emma and Luke (5SOS)

Emma with Luke:

“Summer ends tomorrow,” I whisper to Luke, we both knew what that meant.

“I don’t want to go,” he whispered back. We were both upset that he had to fly back home to Australia.

“I don’t want you to go either. This was the best summer I’ve had and that’s only because you were here,” I sighed trying not to cry. I wouldn’t let myself cry, not in front of him.

“Hey, it’s going to be okay, we’ll sort something out.” I just sat there shaking my head and looking down at the floor. He lifted my chin trying to make me look him in the eye, but I wouldn’t. I couldn’t let him see how much this was affecting me. If I looked into his eyes I probably would lose it. 

“What if it doesn’t work out?” I whisper even quieter than before.

“Of course this’ll work out,” he kissed my forehead and tried to make me look at him one more time by kneeling in front of me.

“You don’t know that Luke!”

“I do, because no matter how many hours it takes for me to see you and no matter how much I’ll miss being with you, I know that I’ll be able to come and see you again at some point. Whenever I can I’ll be here, whenever somebody says to me ‘hey Luke, you have the next two weeks off’ I’ll be flying over here to see you. I don’t care, okay? You mean more to me than you’ll ever know and I’m not letting you get away from me that easily,” I looked up at him then and a small smile was on his lips, it wasn’t quite reaching his eyes because I knew he was sad about leaving me too but it was still a smile.

“I didn’t realise it would be this hard to say goodbye to you,” I sobbed, burying my face in his chest. He just held me for a few minutes, letting me cry into his t-shirt whilst he soothingly stroked my hair.

“You know it’s not really goodbye,” he said into my hair, kissing my head once again.

“What are you talking about? Of course it’s goodbye, you’re leaving this country and I don’t know when I’ll see you again because you have band stuff to do and I have school,” I said into his chest.

“Technically all of that is true but it doesn’t have to be goodbye if we don’t want it to be. Yes we don’t know how long it'll be until we see each other again but then we know we will see each other again at some point in the near future. We can talk all the time, no matter what I’m doing I’ll always make time for my girl.” I looked at him then, really looked at him. I didn’t look away from his steady gaze and he didn’t look away from mine. I nodded my head gently, a small smile now forming on my lips. He used the back of his hand to wipe away the tears on my face before leaning in ever so slowly. He placed a soft kiss on my lips before pulling away slightly and then kissing me once again.

“What was that for?” I whispered after he had broken the second kiss.

“Just to remind you that I like you, nothing else,” he smiled down at me as I shifted towards him on the bench slightly before he slung his arm around me pulling me even closer.

“Well, for the record, I like you too.”