Dared- a luke hemmings fanfiction

IV.

Luke's POV

My hand starts to lightly shake as I stand in front of her apartment door. I don't get nervous a lot when I'm on dates but it's been a while since I last went on a date. I composed myself and managed to lift my hand up to press the doorbell.

The bell rang and echoed through the halls from the inside of Ella's apartment as I stood there, tapping my foot, getting quite nervous. A few creaks on the floor were heard as someone was clearly walking towards the door to open it for me.

There she stood, wearing a black, blink-182 muscle tee, black jeans, a pair of red converse, and a red flannel that was hugging her waist tightly. She was so beautiful and the whole punk image suited her.

I didn't notice that I had eyed her from head to toe when she called out my name that immediately drew my attention to her puzzled face.

"Hi, Ella," I said, wanting to press my palms against my face in humiliation but just rubbed the back of my neck with one hand instead. "Uh -uhm- You look real beautiful,"

Her cheeks tightened as a light smile appeared on her face. "Thanks! You're not that bad yourself too,"

I chuckled. "So am I going to come in....or are we going to head out to eat already?"

"Uhm...actually I have to wait here for my friend, Carly so that someone will be around in the apartment while we're out." She said in an embarrassed tone. "I -I hope you don't mind,"

"Oh, I don't," I quickly said, then flashed her a cheeky smile.

"Come in then,"

Her apartment was very cozy. There was a snug couch in front of the television screen that was near the kitchen so it was easy to get food on movie nights and I liked that feature very much.

She sat on the couch, leaving space for me to sit beside her, so I awkwardly did.

To break the silence, I weirdly offered to give another pick-up line.

"Hey" I shakingly said. "I have another pick-up line for you,,"

"Okay," she said, lifting and crossing her legs on the couch and facing my direction. I faced her as she intently waited for the pick-up line.

"This better be good,"

"Trust me, it sucks," I said, facing towards her direction.

She nudged my shoulder with her hand and then said, "Go on! Impress me,"

"Sometimes I think I'm glass and you're the floor,"

"Why?" she asked.

"Because I fell for you," There was a silence. Mostly because she was trying to figure out what it meant.

I gulped as I mustered all my courage. Hoping my voice wouldn't crack, I softly added, "but I hope you don't break me,"

Ella's POV

I looked at him. He was looking down at my red converse sneakers as his finger tapped on his lap. It was obvious he was avoiding my eyes. I don't know if my stare scares him or if he just doesn't want to look at me, or both maybe.

"Did you have to research that on google?" I asked with a smile on my face, placing one hand on his leg.

"Is it obvious?" he asked, running his fingers across his hair.

"A little bit," I said, as we both broke into small laughter.

As we waited for Carly, we both slouchily sat on the snug couch, laughing our asses off as we thought of cheesy pick-up lines for each other.

"I wish I was a chair," he said, almost bursting into laughter before he even finished his sentence. "so that you could sit on me,"

"Are you the sun?" I asked. "Because you're so hot,"

"Yep, I suck at this," I added, chuckling.

"You're not as bad as me!" Luke insisted but he was clearly lying because his pick-up lines were cute. Some were even good.

In the middle of all our laughter, the sound of keys clashing against each other filled my ears. I immediately excuse myself from Luke who quickly nodded with a smile yet evidently looked at me as I walked towards the door.

Before I could reach the door, Carly had already opened it with a bunch of chips and sodas.

"Hey, I bought the chips you were asking for our movie night and guess what -there was a sale on dvds at the shop near the grocery store so I bought School of Rock, The Vow, Abou-" she stopped blabbering when her eyes caught a glare of Luke. Her eyes shifted from the chips she had bought, to me, to Luke, and then back to me again.

"Who's he?" she curiously asked with a weird expression on my face.

"He's a friend," I quickly said as she walked towards Luke's direction and started asking him question.

"I'm Carly," she said, reaching out a hand.

"Luke," Luke said, shaking her hand to be polite, I guess.

"Aren't you the one Ella was hanging out with at that club from a few days ago?" she asked and Luke nodded like a child being scolded by his mom.

"So...why are you here?" she continued.

"It's nothing Carly," I butt in. "We were just going to go ou-"

She cut me off. "But we have movie night today, Ella. Or did you forget that last night was cancelled because I had to rush to the mall to buy materials for some world history project?"

"I'm sorry. I -I forgot," I said, biting my lip and scratching my elbow as she stared at me, startled and quite disappointed.

"I could go if you want," Luke suggested, breakig the silence.

"No, you can stay," Carly surprisingly insisted. "Join our movie night!"

Now Carly was smiling and jolly -the usual Carly- and she had now invited Luke for movie night. She's so moody sometimes.

.....

I was in the middle of Luke and Carly as we watched 'The Vow'. Carly was hiding the fact that her eyes were watery and she was already about to cry because of the movie.

"Are you alright, Car?" I asked, concerned yet holding back a chuckle.

"Yeah, I'm fine." She said, wiping a small tear from her eye. "Channing Tatum is just so fucking hot,"

Luke, Carly, and I burst into laughter as she kept on making remarks like these during the whole movie. At the same time, I was slightly shaking half the time because I could feel Luke slowly inch his way closer to me.

A/N:

SORRY THIS WAS SO SHORT AND THE UPDATE TOOK SO LONG!! PLEASE COMMENT BECAUSE I THINK MY STUFF IS SHIT BUT YOURE READING IT SO THANK YOU!! -