WAYWARD - L.H

thirty nine

"Luke!" Ashton knocks on my door.

"Yeah?" I pulled my shirt over my head to change into a new plain white one.

"Are you still coming?" He asks, he's wearing his football jersey,

"Today? do I have to?" I whined, "My knuckles are still busted from beating that Dean to shit"

He laughs, "You're the fucking quarter back and we have our games in a month and a half, you can go to practice and watch and listen to the strategy, Coach Malone will fry your head if you don't show up, you've been missing practice, you know what will happen if you dont-"

"Okay, okay, geez you sound like my fucking mother" I scoffs closing the door on his face.

Fucking football. I never wanted this shit anyway, if I didnt had to make a deal with that fucking chancellor then I wouldnt be fucking doing this.

I grabbed my old black duffel and placed all of my shit for football, extra clothes and my football shoes. I know I'm not playing but whatever, I'll just leave it inside my locker.

Its fucking 11 am and the sun is already burning my skin as I make my way to the gym, the walking felt like hours but it was only 15 minutes.

"Took you long enough" Travis teases me. I rolled my eyes at him and left to look for Calum.

My instincts tell me that he's in the showers.

"Ca-Lum!" I sing song as I make my way, dropping my duffel on the floor.

"Cal?" I called again,

"Yeah, what's up?" He walks out of the shower with his hair wet and a towel wrapped around his waist.

"Can you like..cover for me today? my fucking knuckles are still fresh from beating a sexually frustrated fucking addict"

"Yeah, but if you miss one more practice you know what will happen to you" He warns,

"God you and Ashton are alike, you're both like my parents" I scoff and left the shower room,

I was heading back the field to watch the guys warm up when I heard a familiar voice calling me,

"Luke! wait!"

"Pheobe?" I turned around, "What are you doing h-here?" I stuttered,

"Oh I was with Amanda, she asked me to go with her to check on Ashton..I don't know, I was calling for your name the whole time jut you didn't heard me so I followed you but you entered the men's room so I kind of just waited for you outside and-"

"You were waiting for me?" I cut her off,

"Mhmm" She nodded.

"W-why?" I stuttered again,

"I don't know, I guess I just wanted to apologize."

I didn't move.

"Luke, I'm sorry for always pushing you away" She stares at the ground, "We happen to be so different and I'm sick of it. I'm so sorry for everything, I know I've hurted you many times because of my words. I guess we got into the wrong foot, we were not like this before"

Wait, what is she doing? is she fucking serious?

"Well, you can talk?" She exclaims again, still staring on the cold hard cement.

"I d-dont know what to say" Its true I'm speechless,

"Well, let me help" She moves closer. "Let's start from the beginning. Hi I'm Pheobe Scott" She gestures her hand to me to shake it.