Playing the Player | 5sos

○ chapter twenty-eight ○

"Well I don't care what you feel, baby, he broke your heart and that is the only thing that matters." Robin, Cassie's dad said. "First of all, he has to pay me because he broke a contract that he signed for, that are legal rules. Second of all, you are my only daughter and family member and I love you more than I could ever love myself, so I am going to yell at him and tell him that he should be really careful with every step he takes for the upcoming few months." 

"Dad I don't want you to make him hate you. That might make him hate me as well, I don't want him to hate me again." Cassie said while playing with her hands. "I want to try and continue on with my life, start working on my drawings again." Cassie said, staring out of the window.

Cassie had been back in Los Angeles for eight days and she finally had a meeting with her dad. He had been off in Canada for one of his other clients so now was the first possible moment that she could talk about this issue with him face to face. They had talked over the phone but they both felt like it was needed to do these kinds of talks face to face.

She had also spend a lot of time with Ruby and Willow and it had almost felt like her life had gone back to where it was before Luke came in to it to crash it. She still missed him, she still wore his hoodie, and it smelled less like him every day. She really did miss him, she had come to terms with her feelings and realised that she cared so much about him. She realised she didn't actually want to live her life without him, but she think she might have to.

There did not go by a day that she did not think about him. She missed his cuddling every morning and every night, him saying good morning to her every morning after opening the little curtain in front of her bunk. And him saying goodnight and kissing her forehead, then closing the curtain. She also missed him holding her hand when they would get mobbed. He was really comforting and could always calm Cassie down when she would get terrified. Somehow she got mobbed once after she had come back to Los Angeles, and it was the most terrifying experience she's had. It might also have been because she did not have security with her, but it was also because Luke was a type of security for her.

"Cassie?" Robin asked and she looked back up. "Oh sorry," she said. "I just," she took a deep breath and closed her eyes for a second. "I just can't get him out of my head, I miss him every day and I want to be with him." Cassie said, playing with the hem of her hoodie while there were tears coming up again. "Oh darling." Her father said and got up, walking around his desk and giving her a long hug. 

"Why don't you fly to Amsterdam indeed and go work on your art again, you might get some inspiration out of these feelings." Robin said. Cassie nodded. "Good idea, thanks dad." She smiled and gave him another hug.

After saying goodbye, she went back home, packed a suitcase and booked a flight to Amsterdam. She said more goodbye's to her best friends and found herself sitting in a plane not even five hours later. She indeed got very inspired to start sketching and drawing and painting again. She already sketched some of her ideas in her notebook during the flight, and felt much better when she got off the plane.

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"I'm so ready for tonights show!" Calum said, walking in to the dressing room with his hands in the air. They were in Auburn Hills and ready to play after their little break. "I'm thinking about singing this song tonight." Luke said and the other boys looked at him. Michael came over first and stared at the sheets in front of Luke. 

Even though some of the time Luke was still like he used to be, he had been more quiet and stuck in his mind since the things happened with Cassie. "Is it that song you started writing in Australia?" Ashton asked, walking over to Luke and sitting down on the couch next to him. "I think it's ready to be preformed." Luke said, giving them all sheets of what they should play. 

"I think we can do this." Ashton said. "Let's rehearse it this afternoon and see if we're ready." Michael smiled and patted Luke's shoulder. "Maybe we can ask that Angie girl to film it?" Luke asked Ashton. "I think I might send it to Cassie, tell her it's ment for her." Luke said, playing with his hands. "That would be a sweet gesture." Michael said, smiling and patting Luke's shoulder again.

"Let's first see how the rehearsal will go." Calum said, checking the sheets to see how to play it. 

The rehearsal went great, Luke was very confident about playing it that night. His mind was filled with ways that he could send it to Cassie, luckily he still had some time to think about that. He just hoped it all would work out.

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Cassie brushed the last few strokes of red paint on to the paper and then put it away to dry. She wiped off her hands on her jeans, those were here painting jeans so they were already completely covered in paint stains. She started washing her brushes when she got a message.

She opened her phone to see that it was a message from Luke. "You're that somebody." It said, together with a video. Her heart skipped a beat when she read that. Cassie sat down on her dinner table and started looking and listening to the video. It was a video of tour.

"So this is a new song that I wrote in the last few weeks." Luke spoke, standing on stage. "It's called Castaway." He said, a lot of people started cheering. "It's dedicated to a very special somebody, and that somebody will know she's it." Luke said, staring down. Cassie could see him biting his lip slightly in nervousness.

Then they started playing and the lyrics were really great. Luke's voice was also really great, Cassie was really enjoying it. "How'd we drift so far away, from where we left off yesterday, I'm lonely like a castaway." They sung, and Cassie had a few tears rolling down her cheeks again.

She continued listening to the song, her feet moving to the rhythm and her ears focussing on the lyrics. Could Luke have written this song just for Cassie? He said he worked on it the last few weeks, would that mean in Australia, after everything that happened?

The video ended and Cassie sat there for a little longer to think about it, and about what it ment for her and Luke's relationship. She wanted to say something back but she didn't know what. Then she was interrupted by the doorbell ringing, and she was pulled out of her thoughts.

She slowly walked over to the door and opened it, revealing an even bigger surprise. "Oh my god." She said, staring at Luke who was standing right there in front of her. "I can't live without you Cas." Luke started saying. "I'm lonely like a castaway." He said, grinning slightly. Cassie grinned along. "I am so sorry for what happened, but it was before I realised how much I liked you and I will never do anything like that ever again." He started saying.

Cassie had tears streaming down her cheeks by now. "I've missed you so much." She said, grabbing his hands and pulling him inside. She closed the door and gave him one of the tightest hugs she's ever given.

"I love you, Cassie. And I will never let you go every again."

THE END