Playing the Player | 5sos

○ chapter twenty-six ○

Cassie read the notifications and then looked at Luke, her bottom lip slightly shivering. "No, Cassie, it's not what you think." Luke immediately said as he unbuckled his seatbelt and kneeled down in front of her. "No, please, listen to me." He said, begging to talk. "I-" Cassie started saying, but then she shook her head and held it in her hands. 

"Luke, what the hell?" Ashton said, walking over and staring at Luke. "I honestly have a good explanation." He said sitting down on the ground with his legs crossed. He was not going to sit in his chair and let Cassie ignore him the entire flight.

"I slept with Luke Hemmings while he was dating Cassie Thomas say three different girls." Ashton read from his phone. "How in the world will you ever explain that?" Ashton spoke, trying to not draw attention. Cassie just had her hands in front of her eyes.

"Well we weren't actually dating yet, it was in the beginning, in Las Vegas." Luke started saying. "I was drunk." He said, looking at Cassie with some hope. "Oh now that makes everything alright." She said sarcastically. "You broke your freaking contract, my dad will want you to pay everything back and it's all over." Cassie said, staring at him.

"No he won't it doesn't say in the contract that I couldn't sleep with other girls, that would be really specific." Luke muttered. "It said that you should act like we are in a relationship and that you should not do things that could bring the reliability in danger. These girls just ruined your life, Luke." Cassie said, talking about the three girls that had said that they had slept with him. 

Luke shook his head in frustration, slowly tears started to form. "No, no.." He whispered. "Luke, man, get up." Ashton spoke, but Luke just stayed on the ground where he was. "Cassie this was before I realised how much I actually like you, you have to understand." Luke said, trying to grab her hand but Cassie immediately pulled it back.

"I don't really want to talk to you right now." Cassie said, getting up and walking away with her backpack. "Can we switch places?" She whispered at Ashton, who nodded. "No Cassie please." Luke said, standing up and grabbing her arm. "Let go of me, I need some time." Cassie said, shaking off the arm. 

Slowly Cassie walked over to Ashton's seat, that was opposite of Michael's. "Hey." He whispered, showing her a sympathetic smile. "You alright?" He asked, grabbing her hand. "I'm not sure." She whispered back. "Now I'm going to be stuck in Australia with him, I don't know how to act right now." She said, the first tear started to roll down her cheek. Then she heard her phone again.

"Oh my god it's my dad." She whispered in shock. "The contract is over." She read out. "Oh my god." She held her hand in front of her mouth. "I'm free?" She whispered and Michael just stared at her, his jaw slightly dropped and eyes widened. "I-" Michael started saying. "Cassie are you just going to leave all of this behind?" Michael asked her and Cassie just looked around in frustration. 

"I-I don't know." She said. "I at least don't need to join you guys on tour anymore." She said, not sure if that was a good thing. "But I had so much fun with you being there." Michael said, a little sad. "I had fun too, but I think I need some distance from this entire thing." Cassie said, staring at where Ashton was still standing up.

"I'm going to get on another plane back home, as soon as we land. I don't really want to meet his parents right now. I don't even want to see him right now." Cassie said, letting her head fall back. "Wait, Cas, shouldn't you think about this before you do it. Is this really a dead end?" Michael asked Cassie, who was still looking up. "I think for now it is, indeed a dead end." Cassie said.

"No, Cas." Luke said, he had walked over and heard what she said. "Please." He said, staring at the girl he still could call girlfriend thirty minutes ago. "I really don't want to think about all this right now, I need some time for me, I haven't had that in a while." Cassie said and got up. She brushed with her body past Luke and walked over to the bathroom to freshen up.

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"Thank you for flying with us and hopefully we'll see you soon." The pilot said. Cassie took off her seatbelt and grabbed her bag. "I'm going to see when the next flight to my home is, please don't tell Luke where I went, I don't want him to come after me. Just say I'm in the bathroom or something." Cassie told Michael, who nodded. 

"I know this might sound a little weird, but don't forget that I do care about you, still." Michael said, smiling. He gave Cassie a big hug. "And Luke does too." Michael added. "I know, I just need some time to think." Cassie said and walked out before the other boys could. She turned around one last time and caught a glimpse of Luke. She wasn't sure if he had seen her, but she had seen him.

She walked over to baggage reclaim and waited until she found her suitcase. Michael would stall the boys a bit so Cassie had the time to get there before they did. Luckily she found it pretty fast and walked out before they entered. She put on her sunglasses and pulled up her hood, trying to not be seen by anybody that might recognise her. 

She walked over to the counter and spoke; "I need a ticket to Amsterdam, as fast as possible."