Playing the Player | 5sos

○ chapter twenty-seven ○

"She's been in the bathroom for quite some time now, are you sure she's okay?" Luke asked Michael, they had been standing in front of the bathrooms for a while now because apparently Cassie went in there. Michael sighed and looked at Luke.

"I lied, she isn't in the bathroom." He said and Luke widened his eyes. "Well then where is she, I need to talk to her, tell her how much I'm sorry." Luke said, looking around. "Luke, she's gone, mate." Michael said, grabbing his shoulder.

"She went back home." Michael said, sighing. "What?" He said, his eyes getting a little wet. "No!" He said, kicking his suitcase over. "Why?" He said, a tear rolling over his cheek. "Luke, she needed some time." Michael said, trying to calm him down. "No she doesn't she needs to hear my apology!" He yelled and kicked his suitcase again. "Alright, Luke, calm down." Ashton said, now coming over to them as well.

"I can't!" He yelled and started cracking his knuckles. "Time does not mean forever." Calum said, staring at his best friend. "If you give her this time right now she might eventually come back and it'll be alright agin." Ashton said. Luke closed his eyes and nodded. "You guys are right." He said.

"Now, I don't know about you guys but I really missed my mum so let's go to them." Michael said, picking up his stuff and talking towards the exit. They already heard girls talking and slightly screaming, so Luke fixed his clothes and got rid of any tears that were still there. When they walked out the girls started cheering and they immediately saw their parents.

Luke rushed over to his mother and gave her a hug. He started forming tears again, "Oh Luke." Liz said, trying to calm him down. "It's going to be okay." She said, immediately comforting her son. "Tell me what happened when we get home, I think there is more to this story." She said, letting go of the hug but still holding his hands.

"I will, but I first need to call Robin, I think he's going to kill me." He said, Liz furrowed his eyebrows but then walked over to Luke's suitcases. "Let's go home, Luke." She smiled and they walked towards the exit.

"Tell my why you should call Robin." Liz asked once they sat in her car. "Alright, well, me and Cassie first weren't actually dating. It was a year long contract to get rid of my 'bad image' when it comes to girls." Luke groaned, letting his head fall back against the head rest in the car. "Wait, seriously?" Liz asked, furrowing her eyebrows.

"At first Cassie really hated me and I wasn't the biggest fan of her either, but over time I started to like her." Liz made a slight 'aw' sound. "We kind of decided to try it out, and before we got on the plane I actually asked her to be my girlfriend." Luke said, playing with his hands. "Oh that's pretty cute." Liz smiled at the story while she drove out of the garage.

"Well, then when we were on the plane the rumours came out, you've seen them probably." Luke said, getting slightly angry at it again. "Well first of all are they true?" Liz asked, Luke nodded. "Oh god, Luke." She groaned. "But it was when I didn't like her yet. We were still in the contract but I really did not like Cassie at that point." Luke said, getting frustrated.

"Luke you signed a contract, you should've kept your promise to it!" Liz said. "Well I don't know why I did that, I thought the girls wouldn't come for me." Luke groaned at the thought of the girls. "I feel so bad for Cassie. This all happened before I liked her, but now that I do like her I don't want those other girls." Luke said, the thought of Cassie sitting all alone in an airport, sad, maybe even crying, wrecked his heart.

"So Robin will probably make me pay because I broke the contract, when he finds out what I did to his only daughter and family member he'll kill me, so my life is going great." Luke groaned. "It'll be alright." Liz said, patting Luke's knee.

"Go write some music to express your feelings honey, it's what you've always done." She smiled.

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Cassie got on to the airplane again. She was planning on flying to Amsterdam first but then realised she and her dad had to talk, and if she was planning on flying to Amsterdam, it would take her 24 hours to get there from Sydney. She hadn't yet discussed anything with her dad because she was planning on telling him the entire story when she got back.

She adjusted her hoodie, actually Luke's hoodie. Cassie had made him wear it the last night of tour so it would smell like him, and now she had a slight regret for that choice. It smelled so much like Luke, she started missing him. Her eyes forming tears again.

The flight attendant did his usual talk and then the plane flew up in to the sky. Was she running away? Running away from problems? She started asking herself questions. No she was not running away from her problems, she was taking a break and looking at them from a different perspective.

Maybe she was indeed just running away from her problems. She just had two huge problems, and they both had names. One was called Luke and the other was called Feelings.