Secrets

Ch. 3

After the weekend, school decided to come back. Great.

On the bright side, I'll see Luke. I really hope he thinks I'm alright, considering the number of "friends" I have, not a lot of people like me. But I'm not sure why...

I walk through the doors with Sarah and head into the cafeteria to meet Michaela.

"Hey, Chaela!" I smile, Sarah following behind me.

"Hey! What's up?" She says cheerily.

"Just really fucking tired. You?" I ask.

"Same same dude."

I turn to Sarah to ask about her hanging out with that kid, but she's gone. where'd she go, I ask myself.

I look around till I see her with a boy I assumed was Henry, I think his name was. It was so cute seeing my sister blush around boys.

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During lunch, I'm startled Michaela whisper-yelling into my ear.

"That's the boy I was telling you about in one of my classes!" she points across the room. "I think he's from Australia. And I also hear he's in a band.."

Wait what? That's Luke. The same boy I've wondered about since the first run in I've had with him.

"Oh yeah I've seen him a couple times." I mutter.

I take a good look. Maybe she doesn't have such bad taste in boys. I smirk at my own thoughts, but broken from them as soon as he sees me.

Great. Now he's heading over here.

"Why is he coming over here?" she asks, surprisingly.

"I'm not exactly sure.." I trail off.

"Hey, Alison, right?" he softly smiles at me.

I return the gesture, "yeah, but you can call me Ali, Luke right?"

"You got it," he winks, "whatcha up to?"

"Oh we're just eating and stuff, you know the usual." Michaela blurts before I can answer myself.

"What is the usual?" he ponders.

"Just ignore her, she doesn't know how to talk to people correctly." I look at her with a huge smirk plastered on my face. I got an angry look from her in return.

The rest of lunch he decided to sit with us at just have casual talk.

"So, Ali, are you doing anything later?" Luke asks, sort of timidly.

"I don't think so, why?" I return with my own question.

"Wanted to see if you could hang out or something?"

I ponder as I put my finger on my chin, thinking of what is to come when I get home.

"Okay, yeah, I'm not doing anything. Where were you thinking?" I question.

"I dunno," he chuckles nervously, "I was hoping you'd have an idea."

Oh. "Well we could go downtown and just walk for a bit or go to the mall. I just like walking places."

"Alright, would it okay if I picked you up?" he lightly laughs.

"Yeah," I smile at him, "how about around 4:30?"

"Sounds like a plan." he shows his teeth through his smile.

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It's 4:15, so Like should be here soon. I'm just wearing some jean shorts, with my Aztec designed crop top. I hope he likes it.

I soon hear a knock on the door. I jump up and walk to open the door an find Luke standing there. He's dressed in his usual black skinny jeans with a white Nirvana shirt.

"Perfect timing." I tease.

"Let's go then?" he curves his lips up a bit.

Why is he so beautiful.

I smile back, "of course."

We decided on going downtown to just walk around and maybe go in some stores.

After parking his car we both hop out, he locks the doors, and we're out walking.

I should've told my sister to come with that Henry boy.

So after we after we start walking I decide to start a conversation.

"So, what do you like doing for fun?" I ask, looking up at him. Holy shit he was tall.

"Uhm, well I like playing guitar and singing..." he trails. "What about you?" he smiles.

"No way me too!" I exclaim. "What do you miss most about Australia?"

He looks completely and utterly sad. "My band, probably..."

Why in the hell is he sad about this?

"You're in a band? That's really cool!" I try to lighten him.

"Yeah, in fact, I had to leave them. I didn't have a choice. I fucked up bad and now I'm here." he says, staring ahead of us.

I wrinkle my eyebrows. What did he do to get sent here?

"I want to ask why, but you absolutely don't have to tell me if you don't want to." I give him a reassuring smile.

"Well, I mean, you'd find out sooner than later.." he says quietly.

"What do you mean?" I ask. "wait, are you hungry? There's a food place over here." I point.

"Sure. I could use something to eat." he smiles.

After we order out food and sit down, he sighs heavily in thought.

"The reason I was sent here was because I started having drinking problems, it was usually just a drink here and there, but then we got invited to parties and stuff.. it just got a little out of hand." He explains.

"Wow, I expected something a lot worse." I shockingly say.

"But, my band, 5 Seconds of Summer is like everything to me. It just really sucks that I'm not able to perform with them for a while."

A wave of confusion comes across my face.

"Okay, let me rephrase. Im in a famous band, but by the looks of your face, word of us hasn't made it's way over here." he chuckles. "Let me show you." He pulls his phone out.

I'm silent the whole time. Not even have I touched my food.

"Here look." He shows me a YouTube video.

It's a music video of a song called She Looks So Perfect. It has him and three other guys. I'm assuming those are his band mates.

"Wow, you guys are really good!" I tell him excitedly.

He laughs at my excitement. "Thanks, Ali." He flashes his smile.

I look at the time and it's past 8:15. "We should probably get going, my mom will wonder why I'm out so late." I lightly chuckle at the thought of my mother and what we thoughts would be on Luke.

He agrees and we head back to my place.

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"Thanks for hanging out with me, it feels nice to be treated like a normal person over here." he chuckles.

"Duh, no problem, we'll hang out again soon, yeah?" I ask.

"Of course!" he exclaims.

"Alright," I smile, "see you at school."

"Yeah, see you." he waves and heads out.

This was a really good day.

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