Blue Without You

When will Blue fade?

Ash brought me home right after the walk on the beach. We had a small conversation in the car but he would start staring at me and not respond.

"Ash?" I said snapping in his face. "You're driving remember!" He freaks out and swerves the wheel straight again.

"Oops." He says his face full of fear. He slowly pulls into my driveway and puts in it park.

"Well this was a fine date." I say acting proper.

"'Twas mighty fine, with a mighty fine young lady must add." I giggle and he grabs my hand giving it a squeeze.

"Goodnight Ash." I say giving him a kiss and climbing out of the car.

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At one A.M I was woken up by my phone buzzing hysterically. All the 41 texts and 4 missed calls were from Ash. I picked up my phone and presses call.

"Hello? Do you realize what time it is?" I say grumpily into the phone.

"Yeahh babe I do!" Ash replies in a slur.

"Um weirdo why are you talking like that?" I say siting up in confusion.

"Cuz I love you and wow you are hot I would take you-"

"Are you drunk?" I yell.

"Define drunk." He chuckles and I hear a few hollers from the background. "Wanna come over to my place?" I sigh and agree. I throw on my converse and jump the fence over to his house. I see a small bonfire and him and a couple other people siting around it.

"Baaabbbe!" He says really loud and runs over, giving me a slobbery kiss. I push him away.

"Who are these people?" I say giving him a weird look.

"Cousins and stuffs. Come meet everyone!" I sigh and let him wrap an arm around my waist.

"Maria, Amy, Connor and Luke." Luke? I check his face and realize it's the Luke at the coffee shop.

"We've met before Ash." Luke says with a cocky grin.

"Um really babe? Cuz Luke's a bit needy down there if you know what I mean. " Ash says cackling, then he stumbles over to Connor. I sigh and sit next to Luke.

"Why aren't you drunk?" I say looking over.

"I'm the designated driver." He says putting his thumbs up. "Aren't i cool."

"Safety is cool." I say giggling. I realize it's a bit chilly and rub my arms. "Damn I forgot a jacket."

Luke shuffles off his nice leather jacket and pulls it over me. I pull my arms through and huddle the rest of my body around it.

"Thanks. Ash doesn't really care anymore..." I say staring at my shoes. "I feel like he just kinda stares at me a lot."

It felt weird talking bad about Ash after all he has done, but the fight we had over Trent and I was petty to say the least. I see Luke bite into his lip ring, he's obviously uncomfortable with me talking about Ash.

"I'm sorry." He says finally and pulls me closer to him. I stiffen at his touch but after a while it becomes more comforting and I give in.

"It's not your fault." I say nudging him playfully.

"I know I just feel really protective over you." He says in almost a whisper. Ash jumps up suddenly.

"Luke!" He screams and runs inside. We all look around like 'what just happened?' when he comes running back with his guitar. "babe my gosh you should hear Luke sing." Ash says running back to his seat.

"You didn't tell me you can sing!" I say poking him in the arm. I can see his face flush pink.

"I-I kinda can."

"Kinda?" Ash yells. "You're almost as good as Luke Hemmings!" I giggle and wait for Ash to start strumming.

"Hmm what song babe?" I think through what I want him to sing and one song sticks out.

"Amnesia by 5sos, do you know it?" Luke nods and Ash starts strumming.

I drove by all the places we used to hang out getting wasted,

I dreamt about our last kiss,

How it felt,

The way you tasted,

Luke's voice is almost as angelic as Hemmings, but Luke has more timber to his voice.

I wish that I could wake up with Amnesia,

And forget about these stupid little things,

Like the way it felt to fall asleep next to you,

And the memories I never can escape,

Cuz I'm not fine at all.

Luke looks so pained when he sings this part. When he finishes, we all give him a round of applause and everyone goes back to what they were doing.

"What's her name?" I say tugging my hands into his jacket. Luke's eyes flicker to me but then drop with sadness.

"Emmy." He says putting his head in his hands.

"I'm sorry."

"I hate feeling like this." He says grabbing my hands.

"Ah um I'm sorry." I stutter out. I see a small heart on the inside of his ring finger. "What's that?" I say pointing at it.

"Oh crap." He says covering it.

"Is that like this?" I say pointing to the heart on my cheek.

"Uh huh." He says with terror in his face. We both look over to Ash as he strums another song on the guitar.

"Wait you have a emotion reading talent too?" He nods and pulls up his shirt. I see a small electric green lightning bolt on his side.

"Jealously."