Promises--Hemmings

chapter twenty two

A/N

Hey guys Im up to like 500 reads right now so thanks for that! And also the POV is probaly gonna switch around quite about in this chapter.

Shelby's POV

I looked at Michael.

Michael looked at me.

"No, no freaking way is this happing." Luke said, suprisingly being the first to sorta brake.

"DUDE! Im DATING Your SISTER. AND, Im YOUR BEST FRINKING FRIEND!?" I grabbed onto Lukes sleeve and hugged him, burrying my face in his chest. "Guys this is a prank. Its a damn prank. Right?" I asked and hoped to god I was right.

I mean I was close to Michael, I wouldnt mind being his brother but things werent adding up and I was scarde about what would happen if I found out the truth. I dont know if Id be able to take it.

Luke's POV

"Yeah its all a prank right? It has to be." I said nodding my head.

"But no one not even Luke or my mom knows. No one knows. I mean how?"

Thats where we were stumped again.

"Guys what if this isnt a prank?" Our eyes turned to Ashton whod said nothing for the past few moments. "What do you mean?" Shelby asked.

"I mean, what if you and Michael are brother and sister and you guys do have the same mom and dad?"

Ashton's POV

Life is messed up and crazy and odd. People do ridiculs crap and sometimes they regreate the bad things they did.

Evreyone was silent thinking about his. What if this happend for real?

"I wwouldnt kill myslef." Shelby said. "I'd work it out. Id be okay because you guys are right here with me."

She looked at each of us and we all gave one another a group hug.

No matter what, we were strong. We had all gone through crap and could go through it again. the diffrence between then and now is we are together as friends.

Calum's POV

We sat around together. Just sitting.

"Lets go." I said standing up.

"Where to?" Shelby asked. "The hill?" I asked.

MIchael smiled getting onto what I was saying.

"A lil bit."

"OH MY GOD LUKE!?" Shelby started to smile.

"Yes shel?"

His eyes shined and twinkeled as he looked at his girl. They were the cutest I swear.

"Can I do that standing thing in the back?"

"How about we all take a turn doing that?" Ashton asked.

"Sure. Lets go."

Michael's POV

I looked at my friends. My permante friends that I dont think will ever change.

Calum, Ashton and I sat in the back of a pick up truck while Luke and Shelby were in the front.

Calum, who looked like an asain. Ashton who drew butterflys on his girls wrist and wore braclets on his, Luke who could be funny and seriouse and Shelby, the girl who can be as mad as hell at the world but still put on a smile.

Shelby's POV

The music was turned up and hero/heroin by boys like girls was blaring. There was laughing and talking and happyness.

It was amazing. This vibe I was getting. I loved it.

Sometimes I think if I had grown up with friends I wouldnt have tried to kill myself.

We were out on the open rode now. It was winter but in California its rare for it to even snow.

"Luke Im gonna get out." It was Michael who said it first.

Luke stopped the car and he got out.

Evreyone took a turn.

We drove for ten minutes, someone got out and stood up in the truck bed while we drove along to the hill.

I drove for Luke when it was his turn.

It was like we were all birds doing that. Our hands spread out and our past flying behind us, like we were soaring in the air and all we knew was that we were leaving the past. We all were letting go of something, big or small. We were all human and none of us could ever be perfect. Soicety wants us to be ourselves than they turn thier backs on us and tell us to be all the things that were not and we could never be.

I cant be that girl that is condient with herself 100% I will always feel unwanted and I will never recover from my past. Society wants me to forget my past and be like a Barbie Doll. Ive relized that. I cant make that happen. I am me and thats all I will ever be.

Ashton, Calum, MIchael, and Luke left Australla beacuse they thought thier problems would leave them. But the truth is, the past follows us. You cant let it go or forget it. Its part of you and your past is why you are who you are today.

The past shapes us into who we are. The past teaches lessons that people cant teach you. Some lessons you need to excpreiance first hand and they may apply more to you than you relize. 

The past helped make me stronger. I relized that leaving and hurting myself could never solve problems, it will only make them worse or add more problems to that. I feel like my past has made me stronger and to relize, life isnt perfect. Evreyones personility is diffrent. We sometimes think that were doing good, in our eyes it is for the better. In other peoples eyes its the worst thing ever.

My parents divorsed, not becasue of me, but because of something a bit bigger than that. Mybioligical parents had me a bit too young and they didnt know what to do. But I still dont know the real reason for that one. I do know that they are trying to fix things and patch things up.

Metting Luke had to be fate. Being his friend was a choice and loving is soemthing that I cant control. His past helped him become a more strong and loving person. He knew when I was hurting.

He knew what his past was like. He knew how it all felt and he woldnt be abel to loose someone like that agian. He watched his family shatter and he lost himself too.

I was beging to loose myself but thankfully Luke and I found eachother and hes helping me move on, get better and learn from the past.

Im thankful for my past and the bad things Ive done. They have helped me to be a better me. That way 10, 15 years from now I can help kids not be alone and to be happy.

"Were here." Luke said.

Months ago I wouldnt have dared step foot in a truck with only boys and I would have never stood up in the bed of the truck while it was speeding down the road. But I did.

I never thought I would take Lukes hand and fall in love with him. But I did and I would do it again.