Away- A Luke Hemmings Fanfic

Chapter 5

CHAPTER 5:

I stuttered in disbelief, “You-you’re-you—”

He cuts me off. “Yea, I’m Luke. Nice to meet you. What’s your name?”

I try my best to keep my cool. I mean, I’m not gonna pass out, but I think I might pee a little.

“I’m Lucy, Lucy Polo.” I say to him, my voice trying not to shake.

“Well it’s a pleasure to meet you, Lucy Polo. What brings you to this part of town?” Luke asks me, with a small smrik across his face.

“Uh.. well.. my uncle Tad.. he uh lives down the street and I’m visiting for the summer and biceps—I mean uh..” I trail off, my face burning red. I just said bicep! Like what the hell is wrong with me? Lucy, pull it together!

Luke blushes as well, and lets out a small chuckle. “That’s pretty cool. Hey, by the way, thanks.”

I look up at him, confused. Why is he thanking me? Surely it wasn’t for screaming BICEP.

“Um, for what exactly?” I ask him.

“For being the first person who recognized me and didn’t scream ‘YOU’RE LUKE HEMMINGS FROM 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER OMG CAN I HAVE YOUR AUTOGRAPH!!’ It’s really annoying when people do that, so thank you for not blowing my cover from the one place where I feel like I can blend in.”

I begin to blush furiously again. “You’re welcome. Hey listen, if you want, I can go and leave you to your playing.” I say to him.

“No!” He says abruptly. “I mean, you can stay if you want. You’re nice company to have, and like, that’s hard to find nowadays.”

I look down at my phone. It reads 7:53. Shit. Tad is really strict about curfew.

“Listen, Luke, I would really love to stay here with you, but my uncle said I have to be back before 8, so I need to go. It was really nice meeting you, and uh.. good luck on your life, I guess.” I awkwardly get up and begin to turn around.

Luke grabs my arm. “Wait! Lucy, I um.. can I uh.. Can I maybe have your number? I would really like to hang out again and uh yea.” He nervously grabs the back of his neck and does that little lip bite that Annabelle was absolutely crazy about.

“Uh yea here” I give him my number, then look down at my phone. 7:57. I really have to go. “See ya around Luke!”

I start running towards Tad’s house, when I hear behind me,

“It was really nice meeting you!”