Friends With Benefits (Luke Hemmings AU)

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The following afternoon, I woke up in Soph's familiar bed, smiling at the memories of last night, try not to let the ones of Matty effect me. It's been a month, I need to get over him and start focusing on finals and my friends.

I got out of bed, quietly, not to wake Sophie who looked so peaceful in her sleep, I just couldn't stand to be terrible and wake her up, I'll leave Mikey and Ashton to that.

I walked past the guest room, seeing three boys cuddling and one standing, no towering over the bed, reaching to grab his shirt.

"Lukey!" I whisper-shout.

He looks up, his face flushing automatically at his lack of clothing. It's almost cute how insecure he is, kind of innocent and charming. But then, it's also kind of sad, because he is quiet fit.

"Oh, hey." he says after sliding his shirt over his head, he slides his feet over the hard wood to get to me and tackle me in a hug.

"Let's have a talk over some Nutella, yeah?" I say once he releases me.

He nods, quiffing his hair back up with his fingers as he leads us into Sophie's kitchen.

He grabs the Nutella while I savage the kitchen looking for things to eat it with.

When he sits down, I take the seat next to him draping my shorter legs over his lanky ones.

I notice his eyes are still puffy from sleep, seemingly making his eyes even bluer.

"Aw you're so cute when you first wake up!" I say, ruffling his hair up.

Playfully frowning he fixes his hair, "Shut up," he mumbles, "and start talking."

"You're also a grump!" I joke, poking my finger into chest.

"Ouch!" he jokes back, "Well you're a bully!"

It goes on like that until we some how end up in a tickle fight, but that's usually how our conversations go.

"Mercy! Mercy!" I call, once he has me pinned down on the kitchen floor.

He smiles like he knew this was going to happen all along.

"Asshole." I mutter under my breath.

He gasp, covering his mouth with both hands, "I don't think you thought that threw did you?" he says, starting back up his next tickling attack.

"Seriously, I can't breathe anymore!" I was sweating at this point, Luke still looking good as ever.

"Yeah, and you're sweating on me. It's kinda gross." he says sarcastically, I love my Lukey in these moods.

"Maybe I wouldn't be sweating, if I hadn't had you're fat ass on me for the past ten minutes.

"The only reason I'm not acting upon that is because you already look pathetic enough." sassily this time.

I burst out in laughter, taking my seat next to him again, resting my head against his chest this time.

"How aren't you hungover?" he says through a mouthful of cookies and Nutella.

"I'm a pro, Luke." I say, completely jokingly.

He hums in response, going to grab another cookie and spoonful of Nutella.

"But seriously, lets talk." I feel him shrug his shoulders.

"Well that's kind of what were doing now." sarcastic as ever.

"Shut up, I'm being for real! I feel like I haven't seen you in forever!"

"Well you were blindingly in looovvveee with Matty, but now that you're through with him you can devote all the time you please to me." I look up, to see him smiling like a little boy, down at me.

I shove my face into his abdomen, stifling a laugh, "You're such a dork." in which he shrugs again, "But can I ask you a question?"

"Sure go for it." he says, as I sit up to look at his eyes.

"Lukey," I say cautiously, "don't get embarrassed when I ask you this, okay?" he nodded, not thinking much of it, Luke doesn't think much around food anyhow.

"Have you ever kissed a girl, Luke?" his face flushed, and he set down the cookie he was about to bite off of.

"Uhmm..."

"It's okay, if you haven't Luke. I don't care."

"No, I haven't." he admits, hanging his head down to look at his lap, "Well besides last night."

"Luke, look at me," I said, tilting his chin up with my fingers, "it's alright! A lot of girls find that cute and charming even! Nothing's wrong with that!" I tell him.

"No they don't! " he pouts, "They'd think it's lame. And if anyone found out, they'd think I'm even more of a dork than I already am." he mumbled.

"Oh, honey. No one would think that! Everyone loves you! Everyone wants to be your friend, sweetie!" he shakes his head at that.

"I'm 17, Luna. My first kiss should of happened like ten years ago."

"I think it perfectly acceptable and even respectable!" I said trying to cheer him up, "You know how many girls would line up at your door to be your first kiss, your first everything if they found out!"

He shakes his head at that, letting out a small smile, "Shut up." I take a bit out the cookie Nutella sandwich I made smiling at my accomplishment, "Just don't tell anyone, alright?"

The rest of the day went uneventful, which was just what everyone needed. We sat around in Sophie's house watching Netflix, and hilarious YouTube videos.

Sophie and I even demanded that the boys preform for us, a song by Blink with Sophie and her dad's guitars and her little brothers drum set, which sounded pretty nice for 75% of them being hungover as hell.

"Luke!" I shouted, my cuddle buddy having been missing for the last twenty minutes, "What are you doing?"

I got up, trailing the smell of pizza.

"How the hell do you eat so much?" I asked with a hint of a giggle in my voice.

He shrugged his shoulders, before leading us and his large tray of pizza back to the fortress of pillows we made.

We watched a couple more movies, before Soph and Calum kicked us out saying they wanted 'alone time'. Which probley means they're going to fuck, and we knew they would whether we left fast enough or not, so we all scrabbled out her door as fast we could.

"You guys want to go to the beach tomorrow?" Micheal asked, as he was getting his stuff out of Ashton's trunk.

"Uhm, actually I have a huge test Monday, and I was going to ask Luke to tutor me?" I said, giving Luke my best smile.

Luke laughed, "Sure, I've got nothing better to do. But I will only do so if you bring me a milkshake in return!"

"Then, Mikey and I will go and leave you geezers at home." Ash laughed, waving his goodbyes to Micheal.

I've missed my boys.