TRY HARD

Chapter 21

I tell Harlow exactly what happened. She calls up Crystal and the boys as I quickly clean up and grab stuff from closets for Luke and I, like blankets. He knocks on the door as I'm in the bathroom taking off my makeup and putting on some comfy clothes. I walk into the living room to see Luke sitting on the couch with Petunia on a leash. He has Shay on his lap and is introducing them.
"Petunia this is Shay, be nice ok?" He says. Shay giggles when she licks her hand. Luke takes the leash off and she jumps onto the couch and licks Shays head. Shay starts to cry.
"Oh nooooo baby." Petunia cowers on the couch as Luke calms Shay.
"I guess you don't like her licking your head babygirl" I sit beside Luke next to the armrest. He leans on me and smiles slightly.
"I love you" he says.
"I love you too" I say as I cuddle with him.

His head is resting on my hip as we watch a movie while Shay is napping. My fingers danced through his hair like it was nothing. His phone starts to ring and he picks it up to see who it is. It's his mom. He sighs and answers it.
"What?" He says.
"I'm sorry Luke, I was being an ass. I'm happy for you I really am."
"Mom, you told me to hurt her. Hurt my baby. I would never" he gets up and goes into the hallway to keep talking. I sit here and think. He really made it up to me. what he did with his mom. He really is my Prince Charming. I go into Instagram for the first time in a while. I see so many things about Shay.
"She's probably not his. She's probably using him for money cuz she's a broke bitch."
"Such an idiot the child doesn't even look like Luke"
"Luke honestly smarten up she's not worth it and neither is that ugly baby" 
"She's such a slut probably did drugs while pregnant. Probably isn't even his"
"Ya right it's his. You probably cheated not him" I shake my head and get an idea. Luke comes back, he's still on the phone.
"Is it- Are you okay?" He asks. I shake my head and start to cry.
"Can my mom come over to apologize?" He asks. I nod. He hangs up and comes over to me.
"What's wrong?" He asks rubbing my back.
"I'm sorry I'm happy you and your mom made up but I didn't expect these fans to be so harsh. They're saying she's not yours and I'm a slut and gold digging and mounds of other things I don't even wanna repeat." I manage to sob out.
"I'm sorry baby, what can I do to fix it?"
"Honestly. I think I might contact Jada smith. See if I can do a red table talk. And maybe we can get a paternity test to prove it."
"I don't think the test is needed. But I support the red table talk for sure. Put the rumours to rest." He says.
"I agree with Luke" I look to see Harlow carrying Shay downstairs.
"Here Luke" She's passes her to him as I email Jada. I hope I get this. I turn on the tv and listen to the news.
"In big celebrity news something we never saw coming. In the past two years we've seen a band go downhill. Two years ago 5 seconds of summer was on top of it all. They had everything they could have wanted until it was revealed that vocalist and guitarist Luke Hemmings had cheated on his girlfriend. Since then he's been seen looking sorrow and empty. Today was something no one saw coming. He has a one year old daughter with girlfriend Delia. She had her in secret and Luke only found out recently. It seems like the couple has everything together. Or is it all a stunt. The media has been going crazy. Is this real? Or just a stunt? We asked you on Twitter and here are the results. 90% of you say stunt. And I think you're right" I shake my head. My phone buzzes.
"Jada: I want to have you in ASAP! I'm conveniently in Australia right now. Let's set something up call me." I smile and tell Luke I'm going to call her.
"Luke holy f- moly" I say looking at Shay. He laughs. I sit next to him after taking the call.
"When is the meeting?" He asks.
"TOMORROW!" I say kinda of yelling Shay just starts to giggle.
"Mama mama am" she says.
"Oh baby, tomorrow everything will change!" I say picking her up.
"I think we should go out to dinner with everyone!" I say. Luke nods. Petunia is still sleeping on the couch.
"She barely moves!" I say. Luke just laughs. There's a knock on the door. It's Liz.
"I'm so sorry honey. I overreacted. My son is so happy with you and I'm grateful. I can't wait to see my grand baby all grown up. We hug it out and head out to dinner.