santa cruz sand - a cake fanfiction

two • [june gloom]

basically I put some stuff that's kind of relatable to my life in here and some stuff I'm going thru and it's kind of depressing but that's the mood so what can u do
(u take inspiration from it that's what u do)
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  it's about three weeks since the last day of school and Luke can't believe that time moves so goddamn fast. he hates thinking about it because it feels like the more he thinks about it the faster the time goes.

  it doesn't really help either that his friends have sort of been hanging out without him. but it's his own fault, Luke just hasn't been in the mood to hang out...for three weeks.

  he feels like a ghost. it seems like he was just floating above himself and watching as he just lays on bed and tries to forget how much his parents fought and how his mum sleeps in Ben's old bedroom instead of with his dad because "he snores too loud and takes the sheets."

  tries to forget that his mum just isn't the same person she was when Luke was a little boy. tries to forget that he's the only one inside this godforsaken home because his brothers grew up and left him behind.
 
  Luke rolls his blue eyes at the thought of his mother loving the bottle more than she could ever love him in a lifetime. he runs a hand through his hair and scrolls  through his Instagram feed for the thousandth time in the past 10 minutes.

  there's something new though, he notices. he scrolls to refresh and sees a picture of Calum and the girl at the party - Lacey. Luke can tell by the picture that they were in the local mall and he rolled his eyes yet again. something about Calum hanging out without him makes him a little jealous.

  he looks...happy. that's all Luke can ask for. he has her in his lap and his arms are around her waist and she's looking down at him smiling.

  fuck relationships. he scrolls past the picture without liking it.

  Luke decides, despite himself, that he's going to text Michael and ask him if he was busy. usually Michael spent summer as his time to play video games and sleep in till 2 in the afternoon so hopefully he'd be awake and near his phone.

  the blonde gets a response almost immediately that reads "nope. come over."

  he smiles at the text. though he tells himself he likes being alone, deep down he hates it. especially during times where he can't seem to get out of a funk. and this is definitely that time.

  Luke looks around his messy ass room. there are clothes strung out everywhere even though he's been wearing the same clothes that probably smell really bad but he didn't long to find out. his black and white bed sheets are upside down and put on the wrong way and he has about 5 water bottles crowding his bedside table.

  Michael doesn't live too far away and he figure he can just walk if his dad needs his car or already has it. Luke doesn't have any idea if his dad is home because the only time he left his room for the past couple days is for water and, occasionally, snacks.

  he tells himself he'll clean his room later, and focuses on getting ready to go to his friend's house.

Michael didn't specify whether anyone else was at his house at the time and Luke hopes, for his poor heart's sake, that it's just the two of them.

  Luke gets up from his bed and goes to find his dad. it's an easy task because Andy is just sitting in the living room watching TV.

  "do you need the car soon?" Andy jerks his head back to look at where Luke is standing.

  "yeah I'm going to Ben's to drop off some stuff for him to fix something." Andy explains. Luke nods and runs back upstairs.

  he was dressed in a t-shirt and skinny jeans. the day wasn't supposed to be that hot and he didn't sweat that much anyway.