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Chapter 6: Luke

Luke was disgusted with himself.

What the hell was he thinking? He couldn't just go around throwing insults at someone so fragile and he knew that, so why did he do it?

Luke leaned against the locked door, listening to her quiet sobs. He had done this. He had hurt another person.

"You really fucked up, Luke." A very familiar voice scolded.

He turned his head to the right, surprised to be met with his little sister.

"How do you know what happened?" Luke sighed, "And watch your language."

Addison ignored his second comment and explained, "The walls are very thin. You're lucky none of the nurses bothered to pull their ass out of bed."

"Shit, Addie what do I do? It was like I wasn't even thinking in there!" Luke exclaimed, rubbing at his tired eyes.

"First of all, watch your language." She smirked and Luke would've laughed but he hated himself too much, "Second, I say you give her time to pull it together. Then you can try to apologize."

"How did you get so wise?" He smiled slightly and pulled her in for a hug.

"How did you and Piper get so comfortable around each other?" Addison laughed and pulled away from Luke's embrace.

"I don't even know, we haven't known each other for that long but I feel like I can talk to her. I'm not ready to give up on her, I've barely gotten to know her." Luke admitted and Addison smiled knowingly.

"Alright come on, Lukey. It looks like you need some rest." The young girl smiled and pulled Luke into her room next door.

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It had been six days since Luke last saw Piper. He was drowning in self hatred at the moment.

Piper had visited Addie multiple times, making sure Luke was gone of course. Luke was tired of it. It was too hard to avoid someone.

Now he was sitting on the floor of his large room, trying to locate Piper. He just needed to apologize.

Phone and address books were spread out around him, but he realized that he didn't even know her last name.

Luke gave up and trotted downstairs to where his mum was baking, "Hey mum."

"Oh Luke, glad you're here. Can you please bring Elena to girl scouts? I need to bake these brownies." Liz asked and Luke groaned. Elena was the ten year old next door. Her parents were divorced and not very caring so Liz often took her to activities.

"Come on Luke, it won't be that bad." Luke's mother patted him on the back, giving him the address and shoving Luke out the door.

He sighed and moped to his car, picking up Elena and driving to the address. Luke made small talk with Elena on the way there and when they pulled up the driveway to the huge house, Luke didn't get out of the car.

"Luke I need an adult to be there with me." Elena scowled, crossing her arms over her flat chest.

"Are you kidding me?" Luke scoffed, his mom didn't tell him that.

"Yes, come on!" Elena pulled Luke out of the car and dragged him inside. Elena was a spoiled brat with parents who always tried to be better than the other.

He frowned as they entered the clean home, looking around at the moms and daughters sitting in a circle. Of course they would be late and disrupt the whole meeting.

"Elena, glad you could make it. Have a seat," The woman who Luke assumed was their 'leader' spoke, "Who's this?"

"This is Luke, my neighbor." She pulled him to the circle and they sat criss-cross on the plush carpet.