the promise ➳ hemmings

Part 47- Haleigha's POV

I woke up with the sun shining straight through my window. I rolled over to get up and close the blinds so I could sleep longer, but I rolled into Luke's sleeping body. I smiled for a second at the way he looked. His lips were slightly parted and his eyes fluttered restlessly from some dream he was having. His hair was ruffled and messy and his cheeks were brushed pink.

I leaned down to kiss his forehead, but the memories of last night hit me like a bus. Then, anger grew within me by the second. I wish I could have just been able to kiss him before remembering...

I thought he had left last night, but he had only gone and waited for me to fall asleep so he could sleep next to me like nothing had ever happened.

"Get up!" I shook him and his eyes shot open in horror. "Get up and get out!"

"Oh my god, I fell asleep! I was going to leave before you woke up, but I--"

"Out!" I pointed to the door. "After everything that happened last night and you think you can still sleep with me?"

"Let me explain!" Luke croaked in his very raspy sleepy voice. I shook my head and continued to point towards the door. Obediently, he listened to my command and left without another word, closing the door behind him.

I sat up realizing I was still in my outfit from last night just as Luke had still been in his. My shoes were somewhere back on 6th street along with Luke's phone, and my purse was somewhere on the floor of my apartment.

I listened through the keyhole of my door to see if I could hear if Luke was leaving. Surely I heard the door to my apartment shut, and Luke was gone. With that, I came out of my room and decided I needed some food.

As I made myself breakfast, the news Luke had told me last night kept sneaking its way back into my head as I was trying to forget it, and it only kept making me more and more angry. For a split second I wished my father was home for the weekend so I could have someone, anyone, to cry on about it. But he wasn't and I was all alone now.

I decided I couldn't let my emotions get to me right now. I had finals to focus on at the moment that would continue throughout Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and I needed to study for them. After that, I could relax because it would finally be summer and I would be off to college in fall. Finally, I would be able to leave this town full of horribly wonderful memories with Luke that I wanted nothing more than to forget so I could start a whole new life.

I studied non stop for hours. I could hear my phone vibrating within my purse I had threw on the ground last night, but I didn't bother to get it. I knew it was Luke.

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Each and every day, the struggle to stay away from Luke and just let him go got harder and harder. It was finally Wednesday and I was about to go to my chemistry class and take my last final.

I hadn't seen Luke in four days. He wasn't in the halls at school and I knew he was ditching these last couple days. I was pretty sure he didn't care if he was here to take his finals or not. It wasn't like he cared if he didn't graduate high school. He wasn't planning on going to college either, anyways. He hadn't been since I had met him. But by this time of his senior year he had assumed back then that his band would have taken off by now and became world famous. So much for that, I laughed to myself.

I was finishing up cleaning out my locker so I could hurry off to my last class, when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around.

"Hey Calum!" I beamed happily just glad it wasn't Luke I saw standing behind me.

"Hey," he smiled back and have me a large grin. He was holding a stack of books in his arm as well with a backpack over his shoulder that looked sort of empty.

"What's up?" I asked while closing my locker for the last time. I hoped this wasn't about Luke, but it probably was.

"Well," Calum started, scratching the back of his neck nervously with his free hand. "I was wondering if you knew what's up with Luke. He kind of hasn't been at school for finals and he won't answer any of my, Michael's or Ashton's calls."

"Oh," I laughed nervously. "I don't know, actually."

"What? But you guys do everything together, how could you not know?" Calum's jaw dropped in shock. I didn't exactly feel like telling Cal the whole story of how Luke knocked up some random girl five minutes before we both took our last final of high school.

"I'm sorry, I've just been so busy studying for finals!" I said to cover up his suspicion. I wasn't exactly lying.

"Oh I see, I guess. Well, when you see him again, can you give this to him?" He said taking a piece of paper off the top of his stack of books and handing it to me. "We've been trying to tell him our band got accepted to go on this mini tour as the opening act for this band from Sacramento!"

My eyes widened at the amazing opportunity they had been given, "Er, uh yeah I'll try," I lied as I shoved the paper into one of the folders in my other hand.

"Great, thanks so much! This is gonna be huge!" Calum said with much excitement as we began to walk side by side down the hallway to our classrooms. "Hey, maybe you can come on tour with us, Hal! I know Luke would love that!" He added and my heart sunk in my chest.

I shook my head. "Oh, I don't know, Calum. Luke and I are-"

"Sorry, this is my class. Gotta go!" Calum told me motioning to the room I had taken algebra 2 in with Luke junior year. "Good luck on your last final!"

"You too!" I called back as I watched him disappear into the room full of nervous students. I continued to walk down the hall to my own class as I pulled the paper Cal had given to me out of my folder.

It was a printed copy of an e-mail from some guy named Brian Gale. I'm sure Calum and everyone had gotten calls about the amazing offer, too. But the e-mail just made it official that they were seriously wanted as the opening act for this band.

I scanned the words they had neatly chosen to formally invite 5 Seconds of Summer on their small tour around California. They weren't too largely popular either, but they were more popular than Luke's band that only got gigs on small beaches. However, it was still something and it could possibly lead to even bigger things, who knew.

I smiled for a second feeling extremely happy for the entire band. They were going to become more widely known throughout the state, and that made me very glad for them because they were beginning to achieve their goals.

That was until I remembered Luke's jaw dropping news. He couldn't go on tour if he had a kid... But I wasn't like I was going to be the one to break the news to the band. Luke wasn't my problem anymore and he could tell them himself.

I crumpled up the paper and threw it in the trash as I entered my chemistry room to take my last final before my complete freedom.

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so i told myself I couldn't sleep until I did this double update for you guys

So there it was!!

I'm really excited for what's next btw o.o