Unforgotten

Chapter 5

+Elena's P.O.V+

"Elena wake up," Luke shakes me away causing my eyes to shoot open. 

"Nooo," I groan as he chuckles.

"Sorry but we are here," he tells me as I look out the window to see a big tall building in front of us. I sigh as I get out of the car to stretch. Luke locks the car and grabs my hand as we walk into the building. 

"Hi um I'm here to pick up Micah Sanders," I told the lady at the front desk and she smiled.

"Yes I called you on the phone yesterday, glad to see you made it safely he is just through here," she tells me as she leads me down a long hallway and into a very bright room. My heart shatters at the bruise on my four-year-old brother's face. 

"Micah," I call out as he turns quickly to face me. His eyes well up with tears as he runs and jumps into my arms. Tears stream down my face as he lets out a loud sob. I stand up and hold him close to me as he puts his head in my neck. I turn towards Marley, the caseworker.

"Is there paperwork I need to fill out?" I question her and she nods as she leads me back to her desk. 

"Micah I am going to give you to Luke now, okay?" I question as I whisper into Micah's ear and he nods as I hand him to Luke. Luke smiles at him.

"Hey little dude," he says as Micah smiles. 

"Okay, so this paperwork is basically giving you custody of Micah. There will be a court date to confirm the change of custody which you do not have to attend. I will be there to get any information back to you," she explains and I nod as I began filling out the paperwork. 

"Did you know of the situation when you lived with your parents?" she questioned as I sighed, I knew she would ask this.

"Well, when I lived with my parents five years ago I had experienced some abusive behavior from my father but right before I left I experienced it form my mother as well. I knew she was pregnant I left. About four years ago when I went to visit Micah had just been born but everything seemed okay but I had a feeling I should've taken him when I had the change," I explained and she nodded in understanding. 

"Well he is yours now and I know he will be safe under your guys' care," she says as she looks between Luke and me causing my cheek to heat up. 

"Thank you," I responded as I finished off the paperwork and finalized a couple more things then headed out towards the car. I sighed.

"We need to run to the store quickly to get a car seat," I mumbled as I got into the driver seat and Luke got into the back seat with Micah.

"There should be a Target right up the street," Luke nodded out the window as I pulled out of the parking lot in a search for Target. Luke was right up the street was a Target that we quickly went inside to get a car seat for Micah. Micah would not let go of me the whole time. Luke carried the car seat and a couple snacks and drinks in his hands to the check out while Micah clung to me like a monkey climbing a tree. As we got up to the checkout the checkout lady who's nametag read 'Karen' smiled at us.

"You guys are just a cute little family," she said in aw as she rang up our items. Luke and I's faces turned red as I paid.

"Thank you," I mumbled and smiled at her she Luke grabbed our things.

"Well that was awkward," I told Luke as we got back to the car.

"Yeah, but I mean hey we could pass as a little family," he pointed out as he put the car seat in the car. I shrugged. I guess we could pass as a family. But I still feel weird like Luke just came back into my life yet he's already kissed me. He's already done so much for me and I don't know how to reach. I shake those thoughts out of my head as I put Micah into his car seat. 

"Do you want me to drive?" Luke questions as he hands Micah some snacks and a drink.

"No, I can," I tell him as I go to walk around the car but Luke stops me. He grabs my wrist and spins me around to face him. He pulls me toward him and kisses me passionately. I run my thumb across his cheek as I pull away. 

"Oh my god!" we hear a scream from the distance and we look up only to see a group of six girls staring at us and taking pictures.

"Shit," Luke grumbles, "get in the car," he orders me as we both get in the car. I pull away quickly. Well, now the whole 5 Seconds of Summer fandom is gonna know about us. Great.

*

It's been almost seven hours and Luke has barely said anything to me since we were at Target. 

"Luke," I start but he shakes his head. 

"I don't know what I was thinking," he mumbled as my heart broke.

"What do you mean by that?!" I exclaim quietly trying not to wake up Micah.

"I shouldn't have kissed you like that in public," he said causing me to laugh.

"Really? You regret kissing me because some freaking girls are gonna be sad that they aren't me?" I question him and he shakes his head.

"No, I don't regret it Elena but the whole freaking world is gonna think we are dating," he exclaims causing me to shake my head.

"So what Luke? You are wanting to have something with me, you said it back at my apartment and since you're in the entertainment industry you are going to have to deal with people knowing about us. Whatever we even are," I explain to him as I pass a car.

"I know," he grumbled causing me to sigh.

"You didn't have to come ya know," I told him as I looked at him quickly then back at the road.

"I wanted to," he responded.

"Luke I don't want to be lead on," I tell him as his phone suddenly starts blowing up like crazy. He turns it on and looks at all of his notifications. He groans and throws his phone down at the floor of my car.

"I can't do this," he mumbles causing me to shrug.

"Okay," I whispered and pulled off onto the exit that leads us to Sydney.

"No Elena, I can do us, but I can't do this whole famous thing," he explains but I just shake my head.

"That's what came with you taking that deal. You have to live with that now and if you want us to happen then you can't act like you're giving up. It's not going to work out in the end for either of us," I tell him as I finally pull up to my apartment.

"I know Elena but I don't wanna screw us up this time," he sighs and I nod.

"I know Luke," I tell him as we get out of the car, waking Micah up. Luke grabs Micah out as I lock the car. We head up to my apartment and as I unlock the door Luke's phone starts going off again. Luke lays Micah down on the couch and answers his phone.

"Hello?" he questions the person on the other end, "what?" he exclaims as his voice suddenly becomes panicked, "I'm coming," he says quickly and looks at me, "I, uh, got to go," he says and before I can say anything he leaves. I stand there dumbfounded and I grab my phone looking at a notification that just popped up. A news headline popped up as I opened my phone. 

'Singer/Song Writer Taylor Metz On The Brink Of Death'

I gulp hard recognizing the name. 

Taylor is Luke's most recent ex, and everything seemed very serious between them.

That's why he left.

To go be with her.

I looked at Micah who was sleeping peacefully on the couch.

"It's just you and me buddy," I whisper as I drop my phone to the ground.