My very own fairytale (luke hemmings)

32.

Sophie's pov

We were on our way out of the hospital, my dad, Liz, Calum and me, when I saw his messy blond hair appear under the neon light of the hospital's entrance.

As soon as I noticed him, I stopped walking and the tears, that I had manage to keep under control, rolled down my cheeks once again. I turned around, walking in the opposite direction, not knowing where I was going. All I wanted was to be as far away of him possible.

A million thoughts were running through my mind as I tried to catch my breath. How could he dare to come to the hospital after this ? After missing on the worst day of my life ?

"Sophie..." I heard Luke say behind my back. I could hear his footsteps getting closer to me.

"Luke, wait. She doesn't want to..." Calum said, trying to stop Luke from coming up to me. They kept talking for a while, Liz even tried to talk him out of it but Luke walked passed them, not even bothered.

"Sophie, please, wait."

I stopped walking and stood in the middle of the entrance hallway. People were walking past me, weirdly starring at me. I turned around to see Luke, only at inches of me. My heart dropped and I took a step back from him. I looked over Luke's shoulder to see that Calum had walked closer to us, ready to step in.

"Cal, it's okay. You can all go home."

"Sophie, you don't have to." He seemed worried and angry at the same time. Him being mad at Luke was the last thing I wanted. It was an issue between Luke and I.

"Take Liz and my dad home, Cal. Please. I'll join you guys later." I was now starring into Luke's deep blue eyes while I was speaking to Calum. It took a moment before he finally let go and got out of the hospital, along with Liz and my father. Calum gave me one last look before they disappeared in the dark night.

I looked down at my feet, not knowing where to start. I took a deep breath and went to say something, but Luke beat me to it.

"I am sorry, Soph. I should've been there. I wanted to be there. For you." He said, bringing a hand to his face. As I didn't answered, he started walking around, nervous. "I can explain..." He whispered, his voice shaking.

"I don't want to hear it." I simply answered, after a minute.

Luke's eyes rapidly looked up to mine, but they weren't there anymore. I could tell he was panicking, as I slowly made my way towards the exit.

"Sophie, don't do this to me !" He shouted behind me.

Don't do this to me ?! Was he serious ? What was he expecting from me ? That I was going to welcome him back with open arms even if my mother just died in my arms ?!

I almost ran back up to him, because of how angry I was.

"Don't do this to me ?! How can you say that ! I have every rights to walk out on you right now because, well, isn't that what you did to me ? For the past two days ! You totally walked out on us, on my mom, on your mom, on me ! Me, Luke ! You disappeared when I needed you most. You disappeared on the toughest day of my life ! You weren't there to say goodbye ! And you knew my mom only had a couple days left, but still, you had better things to do than to be with the people who needed you ! I needed you, Luke. Me !"

I was crying my eyes out, even if I thought I'd cried them all already. I knew people were starring at me, a nurse even seemed to want to walk up to me. I leaned against the wall, away from the looks and held hands up to my face.

"I fucked up, Soph. I know I fucked up. But if you let me explain, if you just let me..."

"I'm done, Luke." I cut him off. I was too tired for this. "I'm done with you."

"Sophie, stop."

"I don't know who you are anymore ! You're not my bestfriend, you're not the person I used to know. You've changed. And now, I am exhausted. I'm exhausted of this friendship that never seems okay. You and me, it's just not working anymore."

"Stop. Sophie, just stop. We have ups and downs, everybody does !" Luke said, his hands grabbing mines and holding them to his heart. His eyes were glossy and there were tears stain under them.

"We are not supposed to have ups and downs, Luke ! We are not a couple ! A friendship is suppose to be easy, and this, you and me, it's far from easy ! I just can't take it anymore. Today was the last straw, for me. I am tired and I'm done being hurt because of you."

There was a silence between us as we both just stood there, starring at each other. All I wanted was to be crawled up in my bed and cry. Cry of exhaustion, because of my mom's death and because of Luke.

As Luke remained silent, I grabbed my bag and slowly walked towards the exit. The fresh air of the night felt good against my burning skin. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes.

"You can't just walk out on a lifelong friendship. We've been through way too much for you to just leave it all behind and cut me out of your life." Luke said behind me. He sounded angry now. The tears had left his voice.

I turned around to look directly into his eyes.

"I didn't turned my back on you. You did first."

I had nothing else to say to him, so I took my car keys out and walked up to my car, knowing he wouldn't follow me.