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Chapter 7

I stare blankly at the text for a minute. I had so many questions going through my mind. Now Luke wanted to talk to me? One minute he was making snarky comments towards me, and the next he's kissing me and asking me to meet him places.

When I break myself from my thoughts I send a text back to him.

I'm assuming this is Luke, but yeah I'll be there.

After I text Luke I throw my phone onto my bed and get ready to meet him. I decided to make myself look a little more presentable than normal. I throw on a little bit more makeup than I usually wear and let my hair flow in its natural state, which was just straight.

When I'm finally ready I go downstairs to tell my dad I'm heading out. I could never let my dad know that I was going to meet a boy on a school night by myself so I told him I had a project at school and needed to go shopping for supplies.

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I arrive at the cafe at 7:00 PM and wait outside of Fiona's cafe. I forgot it closes at 6:00 so I don't know why Luke wanted to meet here. I sit on the bench right outside of the building, scrolling through my phone waiting for Luke's arrival.

About thirty minutes later there is still no sight of Luke. At this point I figure it's just a prank he pulled on me. As I stand up almost ready to walk to my car I see someone walk up from around the corner, nearly giving me a heart attack.

"Oh my god! You scared the shit out of me!" I say breathing fast with my hand on my chest.

"Sorry, didn't mean to do that." He says standing awkwardly with his hand scratching the back of his head.

"Okay, so what are we doing here?" I say with my arms crossed.

"Hey I didn't have to talk to you but I did? So maybe you could not be a bitch?" There is now anger in his eyes.

"I'm the bitch? Are you kidding? Did you just tell me to meet you here to fight with me? God Luke! Just leave me alone! You don't have to like me, but damn just leave me alone!" I can feel tears building up. I can't cry right now. Not here. Why was he doing this?

I couldn't suppress the tears anymore and a small drip escapes my eyes. He notices and suddenly stops before talking again. For what feels like a while, he stands there slowly calming down.

"I-I gotta go." And before I know it, he takes off.

Once again I'm left alone while he runs away. I've had way worse things said to me before, so why am I so emotional when he is the one to say anything to me?

The one person I wanted to talk to most right now was Ashton. Although in order to cry to Ashton, I'd have to tell him what's wrong and I still wasn't ready to do that. So instead I decided to call Michael. I would have called Olivia, but I knew she was on a date with Calum and I couldn't bother her with this.

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Once I get home I am luckily able to sneak past my dad who is in the living room passed out in front of the tv. I never knew why he fell asleep so early. It was only 8:30 and he sleeps as if he was just put into a coma.

When I get upstairs I shut my door quietly and let myself fall onto my bed. I roll over and eventually a tear falls onto my pillow. I couldn't hold back the tears anymore, I let them all flow out of me at once.

I suddenly feel my phone vibrate and I get a text from Ashton.

Hey love, how are you?

If he only knew.

I decided to ignore his text for now. I wanted to talk to him more than anything, I knew he would be there in a heartbeat to comfort me. But I wasn't about to tell him what was going on between Luke and I. So I decide to facetime Michael. I needed at least someone to talk to and I knew Michael would be a good candidate.

Within three rings Michael answers. "Hey Al, whats up?" He says. "You're crying? Tell me what happened." Concern shines through his voice.

I tell Michael everything that happened, barely getting the words out through my sobs. "I just don't know why he's being so mean. And I don't know what I did or why I care so much." I wipe away the tears falling uncontrollably from my eyes.

Michael and I stay up throughout most of the night and I continue to cry to him about everything that happened. I didn't like being this vulnerable, especially in front of people but I couldn't help it. Michael was a good shoulder to cry on as well. He stayed on facetime with my the rest of the night until I fell asleep.

A/N

Hello beautiful people, I hope you all are still enjoying the story. For the next few days I'll be on vacation so I will try to work on some more chapters. But thank you for reading! Don't forget to comment feedback and vote on the chapters you like!!