Safe Haven

chapter 4

Luke---

Luke had been awake most of the night. Ari conveniently had fallen asleep in his bed. Just a few months ago he couldn't bring himself to find sleep without her next to him, but everything was different now even the way she smelled was foreign to him. She was hot and sticky again him. And it didn't matter how he tried to lay either her knees or her elbows were poking into him. He grabbed his phone just as his 5:30 alarm went off. Part of him was thankful for a reason to get up. The other part of him wanted sleep.

"Lukey where are you going?" Ari

"I gotta get ready for class. Stay as long as you want." He said it as fast as he could and shut the door behind him.

It wasn't tell after him shower that Luke realized how tired he really was. Luckily Mr, Ericson had a coffee pot in his room. Black wasn't normally how Luke preferred his coffee but when your running on no sleep you'll take any form of caffeine.

"Long night? It's only the second day." Mr, Ericson was writing the days leisure points on the board.

"Long night not so school related." Luke

"Women or alcohol?" Mr, Ericson

Luke laughed. "This is a dry campus. Wed never have alcohol here."

"Don't forget I was a Zeta. I know what goes on in that house. If you ever just need a quit bed for the a night just let me no. Your a good kid Luke. I don't wanna see you end up like a lot of the kids I see come throw here."

Luke nodded a quick thank you and took a drink of his coffee. The room was starting to fill up with students. Luke flipped throw the days lesson plan.

Abigail---

Crystal was just coming back in from her shower when Abigail woke up. "Band practice must have really worn you out. Your usually up early."

"Yeah. I'm not much of a night owl. I'm usually in bed pretty early." Abigail

"Guess well have to change that." Michael peeked his head in the door covering his eyes with his hand. " Is everybody dressed?"

"Yeah we're good." Crystal

Michael came in and handed Crystal a cup of coffee.

"Please tell me you brought three of those." Abigail

"Four actually." Ashton fallowed Michael in holding two more cups of coffee. "I wasn't sure how you took it I went French Vanilla., but mines plain extra cream and sugar it you prefer that."

"French vanilla is fine. Thank you." Abigail

"I'll be sure to bring you three tomorrow. Can't have you falling asleep at the show." Ash

Abigail sipped her coffee. "Speaking for tomorrow is it ok if I bring a friend with me. I kind of agreed to a date thing before you guys told me about the show."

"What's a date thing? It's either a date or it isn't" Michael

"Michael." Crystal whispered giving him a stern look.

"No he's fine. This guy asked me on a date, but I'm not sure why I agreed to go, I'm not really in the emotional place to try to start something." Abigail

Everyone looked around at each other not sure what to say.

Ash finally spoke up and broke the awkward silence. "Hey nothing wrong with just having a friend dates. Why don't we go on one tonight. Think of it as a practice date. Wanna grab some tea and muffin after band practice?"

"Yeah that would be nice." Abigail

"Guess that means i'll see you tonight in the garage." Ash

Michael gave Crystal a quick kiss and the boys were out the door. Crystal watched Abigail as she walked around the room like a zombie slowly getting ready for the day. Wondering if she really needed to make it to that first class.